Animators and Toys.

I think animators and toys go together. I have never met an animator who does not have some form of toy collection.
Me, I am just a boy in a man’s body. I love toys!
I just started collecting toys. Not to play with, but to put them on display. I had to come [...]

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“Ice Cold Green Juice.”

Earlier, I posted one of my early animation experiments in Flash, “The Shallow Sadist.”
An even much earlier experiment, one that is totally significant that it totally changed my entire career, was this:

I created this animation clip way back in 2003 when I was still trying to figure out how to use [...]

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How I became an Animator Part 4: Animator Interrupted.

In 1999 I was a Clean-Up artist in Fil-Cartoons. Although it seemed that I was settling into this job quite nicely, I still dreamed of the day when I would become a full-fledged animator. That opportunity soon presented itself when in the early months of 2000, Fil-Cartoons conducted a test to select artists for their [...]

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“The Shallow Sadist.”

Because I am usually swamped with professional work, I rarely have time to do any animation with original content. However, there are one or two that I would like to share. One of them is this animation I created sometime in 2003.

Although it is not much to look at [...]

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Another One in the Pocket!

Today’s my last day doing posing work for one of my clients.
Everytime I wrap up a production run, I always feel a mixture of elation and sadness. Elated because I’m done with it. A bit saddened because I will miss doing poses for the character as well miss the regular correspondence with my [...]

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How I became an Animator Part 3: Being a Clean-Up Artist.

In 1999, I took a drawing test as part of my application as “Animator” for Fil-Cartoons (the now defunct animation studio in the Philippines), where some of the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons were made, among others. When I was told that I passed the drawing test, I thought I was on my way to becoming [...]

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Second Year.

Yesterday marked our second year living in Canada. And quite honestly, my first impression when I first saw daylight here was that the roads were immaculate and pothole-free. With fresh memories of the moon-like terrain of some of Manila’s horrid roads, this was quite a welcome relief. Anything to keep my mind [...]

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My Rant.

There are pros and cons working as an independent contractor for an animation studio. Having a non-existent weekend is one negative aspect of it that I sometimes like to rant about. Oh, how I wish this was true: I would be so tired that I would go directly to bed and my scenes [...]

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How I became an Animator Part 2: The Road to Fil-Cartoons.

I had a job working as a designer for my good friend from College. He works as a contractor and he specializes in interior design of specialty shops, boutiques and homes. It was only him as my boss and me as his draftsman. I would spend hours in front of our office [...]

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Burbank Animation

I was video chatting with my Mom about how I started in animation when she told me that I should mention in my blog my brief encounter with Burbank Animation. No, it’s got nothing to do with any animation studio in Burbank, California. In fact, it’s not even in the U.S. at all. [...]

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