Collymotion

Turtle Hooks

2010-10-20T08:06:00.004-04:00

I got a case of L-U-V, you see, I'm like... O-M-G!

!!!FANART!!!

'Cause I'm also a fan.
A quick Cintiq doodle of me in Fish Hooks style I did a while back. I'm only just starting to use Cintiqs so this was fun.

Rubber Hose Redemption

2010-10-07T00:18:00.004-04:00

Doodled this John Marston up at work a couple months ago when I first started playing Red Dead Redemption. I've really been into rubber hose stuff this year too, and just rolled with it.

A return and the Fine Tooning Cover

2010-09-28T21:38:00.005-04:00

Long time no update. My laptop at home was, until recently, completely fried. Now it's only somewhat fried. So I couldn't update art here or anywhere for quite a while. In my absence however I landed my first animation gig (in late May). I've been animating on the new Disney XD show Fish Hooks, which premiered recently. I'll gush more on that later perhaps (because I love the show), but for now I have to play catch up with the blogspot;

This was what we submitted as the cover for Fine Tooning 2010, the book Algonquin's animation program produces each year showcasing graduate work. I was lucky enough to have my idea chosen for the cover, and I worked on it with Carlo Nicoletta, Dan Tozek, and David Noel from my graduating class.

[[I handled the concept & coordination, the 2D characters on the right (except the bird), the BG and Character colouring (AKA "paint", effects.]]

The idea was sort of simple; An allusion to a couple famous wartime photos with classic animation archetype characters. I've always been into war photos and art.

After much toil and drama, the actual version they printed on the cover was edited by the coordinators to add a sepia colour wash and some other slight adjustments to appease the powers that be. But this is the version we submitted (and to be fair, this version was more popular among students anyway). I was going to post the original sketch as well but I'm pressed for time and you can actually see it in a previous update anyway.

More backdated stuff to come (possibly including my actual pages from Fine Tooning, though I dislike them), and then a bunch weiiirrrd doodle newness.

April 2010 Demo Reel

2010-04-29T21:52:00.003-04:00

Like almost everyone else from my class right now, I'm throwing up my first demo reel to the blog. Feelin' a bit grown up.

Some BGs from muh film

2010-04-29T00:48:00.001-04:00

Title says it all. These are smaller and some are slightly different than what's actually in the film, all are watermarked just in case.

Jesse Quick

2010-04-15T22:04:00.001-04:00

Always such a fast girl, always such-a-fast-girl. Are you this involved in everything? Are you this involved with everything?

I just don't really see much fanart of her, but I like the character. Add to that I wanted to draw an established superheroine in a style completely different from comics.

3x2(9YZ)4A

The Speed Force.

Jesse Belle Chambers AKA Liberty Belle AKA Jesse Quick © DC Comics.
The Flash © DC Comics

It's a Collymore on a Plastic Beach

2010-04-05T00:13:00.002-04:00

I'm damn sure they don't know me, but I come in peace.

It's becoming a thing where whenever Gorillaz release a new studio album, I try to draw myself in Jamie Hewlett's style. I love his stuff with the band and Tank Girl and I have a hard time getting around his style.

I remember I was in my first year, second semester of college when Demon Days came out and I tried on the style. Now I'm my last year, second semester and it seems I haven't moved, hah. This one didn't work out as a pure style get, there's a lot of my own ways in there, but I still like it enough. I would probably go and do the lines up right and vector to the style but I really don't have that kind of time right now.

The Economic Hero

2010-04-02T17:11:00.000-04:00

Mobiles only depreciate in value!

And yet there are more sketches

2010-03-22T21:51:00.000-04:00

Sketches and doodles. You know the deal.

Just some sketches

2010-03-15T17:34:00.000-04:00

Ehg.

Sandcastles in the sand

2010-03-07T20:02:00.005-05:00

I've been tight around my blog since I started hedway on my film, which is why I haven't posted much. But I need to get back to regular posting. I changed the look of the blog a TINY bit, and I've got stuff to upload. But for now..

Just a sketch of the main character from my film and Rosie, a character from my friends Cassie and James' film. It's rare that I draw a couple characters from two different styles simultaneously, it was interesting. I only decided I want to name the boy in my film, so I'm still working on a name.

Trickshot Girl

2009-08-19T04:41:00.006-04:00

You remind me of the babe.

A principal character from my Trickshot stuff. Reviving her from 2006.
Back then, I would've had to pay likeness rights.

BFBA #3

2009-07-17T04:00:00.006-04:00

Do you think that you're better, really better than the rest? Realize there's a problem; I know that you can give your best.
Have you ever had a dream, or is life just a trip? A trip without chances, a chance to grow up quick?

Background is manipulated by me, originally from stock.xchng (http://www.sxc.hu)

Bonus! Big Fat Bad Ass sketch that didn't make the cut to be negroed. Errrr, I mean coloured!

BIG
FAT
BAD
ASS
! ! !

Another doodle page

2009-06-11T18:27:00.002-04:00

Warm up doodles, cool down doodles, and quick sketches.

Spider-Man © Marvel Comics, Green Lantern logo © DC Comics

Smoke baby.

2009-06-08T16:24:00.002-04:00

This experiment did not turn out the way I wanted it to at all, really. But I don't totally hate it.

Some Croûton stuff

2009-06-03T18:58:00.004-04:00

Some designs of Croûton (le bébé-pain blablabla), for a game.

Curt Teuthis rotation

2009-04-26T22:59:00.004-04:00

Character Rotation for design.

Pilot of the flying ship, Curt.

And a BIT of the thumbnail work that went along with making it. :/

The Angelfish Flyer

2009-02-03T21:19:00.009-05:00

Flying ship design;

And some of the thumbs I went through for it;

BFBA #2

2009-01-04T18:50:00.004-05:00

Hello out there can anybody hear me? Here I am, here I am! I know my ego will cheer me.
I'm five steps from insane, one line from your girl. I'm one hit away from destroying the whole world.

BIG
FAT
BAD
ASS
! ! !

Veronica doodles

2009-01-04T16:49:00.001-05:00

Some sketchy doodles of a character from my Trickshot stuff. I want to do a pinup of her sometime.

Veronica Valentine (Wavelength).

Mikero And Son Promo

2009-01-02T02:27:00.004-05:00

Welcome to the Family

This is a promo for a comic project I was gonna do on MMM in the fall. Didn't happen. I planned out about eight out of the ten short comics, though, and have them all listed in my sketchbook along with reminders of what goes on in them so I won't forget. I just don't have to time to art this, even though I really like it.

BFBA #1

2008-11-19T16:50:00.003-05:00

Try your best to make it matter, tattoo it in the clouds above you.
Nail it down with jealous bones, 'til it goes like a feather off on it's own.

BIG
FAT
BAD
ASS
! ! !

Mikero BND

2008-11-18T20:08:00.005-05:00

It's a groovy night and I can show you how to use it.

Based off a killer Nightwing image.
Buildings are a composite city I made from stock images of actual cities, all from sxc.hu

Mittens And Crumplehorn

2008-10-15T20:24:00.005-04:00

Mittens And Crumplehorn («click) Is a book I did for a friend (the writer)'s birthday this summer. And now, courtesy of my friend Alec Robbins, it's been put into Flash for all to see! (AND READ!)

Written by Jessica Bergeron
Illustrated by Mike Collymore (me!)

See a slighty bigger version of the actual cover here.

preventerWATER design

2008-08-15T23:53:00.003-04:00

Design of my character in a Preventers comic jam on MMM.

I plan to shade this and add a proper background later (and in a bit higher res), but I've no idea when I'll find the time for that. So for now, and for purposes of the jam, here's preventerWATER.

Stuffed animal sketches

2008-08-15T23:42:00.003-04:00

Sketches I did that may or may not appear on picture frames from some company.

Cagetoon

2008-06-07T05:12:00.003-04:00

So a while back I was having a crap art day and couldn't get any of my ideas down so I decided to just draw an existing character. I started going with War Machine but realized that if I was going to draw Rhodey I'd better just wait and do my existing War Machine image idea, so I just went with a favourite and doodled Cage.

After a bit of it I was on a roll so I didn't get up or do anything else until I finished the sketch. For whatever reason, I just love the style this came out in, so I had to add a splash of colour.

Luke Cage © Marvel Comics

Tough Love

2008-06-01T23:15:00.004-04:00

http://www.furnation.com/Mikero/Collymore_M_Final.mov

My final for second year second semester Computers. The audio is taken from Talladega Nights (The Ballad of Ricky Bobby).

I can't upload it to Youtube or BlogSpot or anything because it always screws up the audio and timing. Trying to convert it has only turned up worse results.

Caricatures

2008-04-26T01:10:00.002-04:00

A caricature assignment for my design final in second year animation. If you can't tell it's Eugene Levy without me saying so, then I didn't do a good job. Also, a self caricature.

The Pilot

2008-04-05T01:35:00.005-04:00

The pilot that flies the ship that flies through the pan. Character rotation, skeletal rotation, and muscle study.

The Ship

2008-04-05T01:22:00.006-04:00

The ship that flies through the pan. Here are some of the many thumbnails I did (green), and two angles of the rough final ship design (red).

The Pan

2008-04-02T00:16:00.002-04:00

Second year, second semester assignment for design. A to D panning background.

You're missing about an inch, half-inch from the bottom but scanning that would have been hellular even though it'd help it look better. It's really annoying to scan such a thing as you have to do it in parts and the pan paper moves around and all this crap and then you have to match it up in Photoshop and get rid of seams and crap, I think I did an OK job of that considering how crap it scanned.

Jessica's 2007 Christmas gift

2008-01-29T23:57:00.004-05:00

Overdue Christmas present :-)

December 2007~January 2008

Animation Year II - SII - CompAssign I - Lip Sync

2008-01-24T01:03:00.000-05:00

January 2008 lip sync assignment in Toon Boom Harmony (flash).

Animation Year II - SI - FinalAssignment - Space Run

2008-01-24T01:01:00.001-05:00

December 2007 semester final for Animation.
(Speaceship animation provided by the school)

Animation YII - SI - SBoard Assignment IV - X-Men U Fight

2008-01-24T00:58:00.000-05:00

A December 2007 Storyboarding Assignment.

Indo 2.0

2007-11-12T20:28:00.000-05:00

(AKA Type-2 Indobetes)

Indo. She grew up. She filled out.

All new, all grown-up, all Rock n' Roll attitude and a few small design changes for an old Rockman character I only drew and sprited a bit. She is/was totally popular in spite of my not drawing her much anyway, so there!

Since I never really said so before, she is, naturally, a central character from my old Saviors Of Mikeropia deal that never happened but is on my mind at times. I imagine she's quite a bit more badass than before, but she's still a hope based robot. She has "hope" and "faith" powers. It's hard to explain. It's not really a religion thing but certain symbols get the idea across, kthx. The only other info you need to know is that her series code is GUN-019 (No I'm not enough of a loser to make my fan characters created by/related to other characters. She is not a DRN series, nerd. And no, not GUN as in kiss kiss bang bang. GUN stands for something.)

I don't really do the whole fan character thing anymore, but it's been nearly three years since her... Are drawings and or robots born? Whatever, Indo deserved something fresh.

-Rockman/Megaman is the shit and is a Capcom property.
-Indo is all me.

Made with; HB pencil in sketchbook, Photoshop CS on an iBook G4.

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Animation Year II - SI - Assignment IV - Papyrus Run Cycle

2007-11-12T20:25:00.000-05:00

Fourth assignment for my first semester of my second year in Animation at Algonquin College.

Papyrus run cycle. It's... fast.

I'll put up my Goofy midterm another time, the ending goes up wrong on YouTube, so I'll re-export it at the lab and then re-upload it.

Animation Year II - Semester I - Storyboarding Assignment III

2007-10-23T23:43:00.000-04:00

Leica reel of our in storyboarding class, two-person dialogue of Mickey and Goofy. The sound was recorded and provided by the school.

Animation Year II - Semester I - Assignment I and II

2007-10-23T23:39:00.000-04:00

ASGN 01 Jump rope.

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ASGN02 Goofy Head rotation

Wash

2007-10-23T23:35:00.000-04:00

My new/fifteenth DeviantART ID.

Lebel Ladies' Weekend 2007 Monkey Logo

2007-10-23T23:25:00.000-04:00

A monkey logo/emblem/thinger that I designed for my mother's annuel Ladies' getaway.

Life Drawing Spring 2007 final

2007-09-10T21:47:00.000-04:00

LD final stuff.

Spring '07 Sketches

2007-09-10T21:32:00.000-04:00

Design Sketchbook 'Ongoing' stuff from Spring 2007.

Sketch themes

2007-09-10T21:24:00.000-04:00

Stuff I did on the sketch theme blog this summer. Cowpeople-Merpeople and Vampiric Primates.

Dog Jump

2007-05-08T21:56:00.000-04:00

Dog jump assignment. More stuff later...

Old Stuff

2007-01-15T23:16:00.000-05:00

It's the time again where I'm changing sketchbooks and crap, so I had a couple sketchbooks that had a lot left to scan. So here is a bulk shot of art to start the new year a little more fresh. This bulk stuff will happen all the time, so don't complain.

OLD STUFF.
This stuff is ridiculously old. Some of it dates back to the past summer. (I cannot for the life of me get this post to code correctly, I have spent like an hour and a half on it and it's not working. Sorry, but I had to take out all descriptions just to get this to work, UHF!)

2006-12-14T01:48:00.000-05:00

Animation Year I - First Semester Final

My final for Animation class, AKA the 'Box Fold'.

Some sketches.

2006-11-22T23:26:00.000-05:00

I. Love. My. Turtle.

Veronica WIP

2006-11-22T23:22:00.000-05:00

Designing a character; Work In Progress.

Comments & Crit?

Life drawing midterm.

2006-11-22T23:18:00.000-05:00

Cast, skull, partial skeleton. Junk.

Bunch of doodles

2006-11-22T22:51:00.000-05:00

Crap doodles.

Animation I Assignments

2006-10-31T19:52:00.000-05:00

EDIT NOVEMBER 22nd, 2006.

Yeah. I'm going to start posting the videos of my assignments.

Assignment I - Pendulum I

Assignment II - Bouncing Ball I

Assignment III - Bouncing Ball II (Antic)

Assignment IV - Blade Of Grass

Assignment V - Arm Point

Exercise - Log Saw

More comin'.

BREAKOUT!

2006-10-09T01:18:00.000-04:00

So this is my first Blogspot post type deal.

Right, so I also have a DeviantART account which I update all the time; http://mikero.deviantart.com/

And I have a crap site that I haven't updated in a couple years here; http://mikero.cjb.net/

I also have LiveJournal, Facebook and hi5 account because people keep telling me to get that kind of stuff. I refuse to get a myspace, thanks.

I'll post some art or whatever in the next post. The quality of art on blogspot is way above my level, obviously, but I'll put my stuff up anyway.

For now, stay frosty.