Pictures by Liam Hill

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2010-04-27T19:50:00.000-07:00

hungry beast

2010-04-18T00:10:00.000-07:00

Here is some artwork I did for the Hungry Beast viewer submission competition thing. You can watch the finished thing here. We won!

crackle

2009-02-01T01:25:00.001-08:00

pop

2009-01-31T19:32:00.001-08:00

This seems like it should have a caption similar to "Congratulations, you've retired!"...

dorks and dorkettes

2009-01-19T02:28:00.000-08:00

sfsdfsd

2009-01-05T05:57:00.001-08:00

New showreel

2008-11-14T19:41:00.000-08:00

rough demo reel

2008-07-04T22:11:00.000-07:00

this is some of the stuff i've done at uni so far, thrown together kinda dodgily.

been a while...

2008-07-04T22:09:00.000-07:00

A man in a pea pod.

2008-03-21T20:32:00.001-07:00

Grandma's Lake

2008-02-11T02:10:00.000-08:00

musical treats

2008-02-09T01:20:00.000-08:00

Holy crap, another update, i must be flurking crazy.

2008-02-08T00:18:00.000-08:00

The Death of Hamburger George:

That actor guy, I don't know his name... It kinda looks like him I guess:

And who else but Doc Brown. Ah what a character he is:

the death of a thousand pencils

2008-02-06T20:35:00.000-08:00

Dougal and Howard part 1

2008-02-05T22:34:00.000-08:00

Ha, look at this... I found this silly script I wrote a year and a half or so ago, about two over-the-hill detectives in the 1940s faced with the prospect of being fired. It made me laugh upon reading it again, so I drew the first page into a comic for fun... Just dodgily. I think I'll do the rest though. Hehe.

warmth of the sun

2008-02-05T19:50:00.000-08:00

Okay, well I HAVE been doing stuff, I've started a number of different pics, but they are not ready for posting. So here is some random crap instead, for the sake of updating.

some more watercolours

2008-02-02T23:35:00.000-08:00

I just did these ones then, with pencils. But I took a couple of pencils and ground the lead off with a sharpener onto a container lid, instead of using the actual pencils. I think I like that way more, although next time I won't use a transparent lid to mix my colours on...

The mountains from Grandma's veranda. I started this up at her place, just putting the basic shapes in with the pencils, and decided to add detail and water just before.

And a purple farmer.

Grandma's Shed

2008-02-01T00:28:00.000-08:00

I spent a few days at my grandmas, and stole her watercolour paints for a bit to try them. I painted her shed, with her super old awesome tractor that sounds awesome and still works fine. I'm quite proud of it, despite its amateur air, since it's my first REAL watercolour painting.

Also, 'plod' is a funny word. I intend to use it more often.

a swan

2008-01-28T01:11:00.000-08:00

wide open spaces

2008-01-27T19:46:00.000-08:00

Wedged Portal Surfer with Stomach Troll

2008-01-27T04:36:00.000-08:00

potato groove

2008-01-26T18:43:00.000-08:00

Hmm yes.

dorky animator humour

2008-01-25T18:38:00.001-08:00

And a caricature of my uni lecturers

Super Fantastic Colour Chaos!!!@!#!@#

2008-01-09T06:53:00.000-08:00

Well i decided to do a silly watercolour of Brian, using bright block colours. It's technically pretty awful, but if you stand back far enough it actually looks kinda cool!

Observe:

More Wilson

2008-01-07T04:48:00.001-08:00

2 more drawings of Brian. He has an interesting mouth.

Smile!

2008-01-05T23:49:00.000-08:00

Well my guitar finally has 6 strings again, so I've been getting back into The Beach Boys to learn some more of those wonderful progressions. I watched 'Beautiful Dreamer' for the tenth time today, the doco about Brian the making of SMiLE, so I did some sketches of him. There is an old boney Brian, a stretch faced Brian, and a slightly more accurate Brian. The only one I'm really happy with is the profile of him as an old man. Anywho, I think my next watercolour adventure will have something to do with Brian Wilson.

Surf's Up!

Pig Dog Men

2008-01-05T23:28:00.000-08:00

I wanted to paint a fat old man face, and it somehow morphed into a dog face with a man mouth and pig ears. Then I did a different coloured skinny transvestite pig dog man to balance it out.

I'm messing around with watercolours again

2008-01-03T20:25:00.000-08:00

This one was done with pencils. It's some kind of long-necked upper-class man beast turning out of curiosity in a forest or something. Perhaps another man beast has caught his attention.

Squigly dee

2007-12-31T21:39:00.000-08:00

I got new pencils - here's a drawing!
It's this guy, whoever he is:

An early watercolour attempt, I think I was about 10 :)

2007-12-05T00:22:00.000-08:00

Elephant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-12-04T02:58:00.000-08:00

Squish Face

2007-12-04T02:53:00.001-08:00

Step Inside Love

2007-12-04T02:48:00.000-08:00

Step inside love, let me find you a place
where the cares of the day will be carried away
by the smile on your face
we are together now and forever
come my way
step inside love and stay.

You look tired love, let me turn down the light
come in out of the cold, rest your head on my shoulder
and kiss me tonight
i'll always be here whenever you need me
night or day
step inside love and stay.

If you leave me, say you'll see me again
cause i know in my heart that we never will part
and i'll miss you til then
we are together now and forever
come what may
step inside love and stay.

They're probly drinkin' coffee, and smokin' big cigars

2007-12-04T00:13:00.000-08:00

Horror Days

2007-11-24T21:52:00.001-08:00

Yippee

2007-11-24T21:25:00.001-08:00

Other random crap

2007-06-18T23:22:00.001-07:00

Concept Art stuff

2007-06-18T23:01:00.001-07:00

15 Second Cycle planning....

2007-06-18T22:59:00.001-07:00

Some of my life drawing sketches....

2007-06-18T22:50:00.001-07:00

Week 4 - Layouts and stuff

2007-03-26T00:57:00.000-07:00

Well, this week Mark went through the basics of breaking down a storyboard for layouts. I'm pretty sure he went through the same kind of thing last year, because alot of it sounded familiar. It's pretty straight forward, I thought, and probably because I remember it from the subject last semester. Oh yeah, and I can't wait to use Antics! If we do... It looks pretty cool... Remember 3D Movie Maker? That was the best program ever, and antics looks kind of the same except with a frame rate higher than 3........ So yeah, I really want to mess around in that. We're also reading a script that we need to breakdown and storyboard part of... I actually haven't read any of it yet, I'll do it tonight I swear!!!

Oh, and for another subject we made flash characters... I suck at drawing in flash, but I guess they turned out OK... I'll make a post with like all of my work soon...

Later!

Week 3

2007-03-14T21:00:00.000-07:00

Ok, I still haven't scanned my stuff, but I will!

This week we looked at script breakdowns and storyboarding. I found it a bit annoying really to apply the different colours to the script, but I guess it DOES help in the long run. Maybe I was in a bad mood when I was doing it, I dunno. I like reading screenplays though, and trying to visualise all the possibilities of how things can be done. I especially like reading screenplays of movies I've seen and really liked, particularly when the directer isn't the writer, and just seeing the director has made crazy interpretations or added really cool elements.

I like storyboarding as well. I've done a fair bit of storyboarding in another course, but it was more focusing on how to storyboard rather than what shots work and what shots dont. So I love inventing shots for screenplays, I just enjoy messing around with all the different angles and compositions that can be applied until one jumps out. Then I like going through the storyboard and like "playing" the movie in my head - imagination rocks!.....................

But anyway yeah, I did some storyboarding for a screenplay we got in class, and I'll post them as soon as I can! Promise!

Bye!

Weeks 1 & 2

2007-03-07T18:41:00.000-08:00

Ah, first blog entry, so many emotions, how to word them...

The first 2 weeks of pre-production for animation have gone. So far it's my favourite subject, and I can't wait to start the assignment. It helps that Mark is an awesome lecturer/tutor, but the content of the subject just looks reall cool.

I liked the first little piece of 'work' we had to do - the Inn design. It's hard to find good information on Inn's from the era in the story, but I think I found enough. It was good as just a re-introduction to composition and perspective. I really like creating good compositions, and just messing around with what works and what doesn't. I'd ipload the Inn but I don't have scanner and I have the worst internet in the world. Maybe I'll scan and upload some stuff when I'm at uni next.

For now, though, it's goodbye.