A Dog is Ignoring You on Television

Our little animated poem was on TV last night - on CBC - on a program called CBC download. Available on the CBC Download website .

Plein Air - Baby Island

Another tortured Plein Air painting. Pen & Watercolour.

Get Your A@@ to Mars

I updated my website with my new photography series entitled GET YOUR A@@ TO MARS. My brother made this cool astronaut costume for Halloween so I got determined to do this Mars inspired photoshoot. I spent months scouting the perfect location. It ended up being this construction site in Bayer's Lake (Halifax). 

See more from the series on my website here.

Here is a production shot.

Still Life Studies

Black & white studies - Acrylic on paper.

A Dog Is Ignoring You from the Passenger Seat of a Parked Car

Written, Narrated, Directed, & Music by Anne-Renée Dumont
Storyboards, Animation, & Designs by Mirco Chen
Supa-Dawg Designed by Scott MacDonald
Backgrounds & Hand Drawn Type by Anne-Renée Dumont

Huge thank you to Mirco and Scott for being awesome and for making it come to life!

A Dog Is Ignoring You is premiering at the Atlantic Film Festival 2012, CBC Atlantic Shorts Gala on Tuesday, September 18 at 7 PM at Park Lane in Halifax.

Watch it bigger here

A Dog Is Ignoring You - Production Notes

I'm no audio engineer but I did try to record some decent audio. I bought one of these semi high quality USB microphones to record the narration and the guitar in my apartment. It just plugs into your USB port. I also got a mic stand and a pop filter. Then I got into multiple fights with the software/hardware until something eventually sounded acceptable.

Unfortunately, I broke the mic stand and now my setup is an advertisement for duct tape. (See after shot).

Working on the watercolour backgrounds and the ink lettering. I had nowhere to sit for quite some time.

The Crew: Scott, me, Mirco.

THANK YOU to anyone coming out to see this at the festival tonight and thanks to the festival for letting it happen.

Mahone Bay (Plein Air)

Did some plein air painting in Mahone Bay. Pen & watercolour on watercolour paper.

Computer Arts Magazine

My latest showreel got featured in the April 2012 issue of Computer Arts Magazine. It's on the cover disk that comes with the magazine in the section "showreels and shorts". You can see the thumbnail of my "purple guys" on the square cover.



Thanks to Computer Arts Magazine for featuring my work!

The paragraph writeup is a little misleading though. I don't currently work at Collideascope (not since 2010) and I think the avatars they are talking about are the Mystery Hunters ones and they weren't actually designed by me (They were designed by Mirco).

As far as the Mystery Hunters work goes, I tried to show the parts I worked on, the screen designs, interactivity, some production art. Together, my boss and I designed all the mini games and the adventures, which was rare and fun, and that part with the avatar that you see in my showreel of the avatar running from ghosts is part of an opening sequence that I put together to entice the user to wanna play the 33 mini games + 13 adventures.

We had a talented group of artists and animators for that Mystery Hunters project that I was fortunate enough to work with, that included Mirco Chen, Matt Jaeschke, Reuben H., Nathaniel Heath, and Paul Sarrazin. Those guys rule.

You can watch my showreel here

Long Hair, Athletic Socks

I drew some skateboarders from the 70s. Those Dogtown kids from California had style, man.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turties

I may have gone a little overboard trying to make the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cuter.  These were done with Conte, Graphite Crayon, and Soft Pastel on Coloured Paper. This set is comprised of four seperate drawings.

 My brothers were watching the movie and I hadn't seen it. Until then, I never knew the premise.

 

A bachelor rat adopts four baby turtles and raises them??? That's pretty adorable actually.

                               Angry Splinter, Calm Splinter.

 

 This sketch of Splinter was found carved into the sewer wall. 

I think he did it himself. __ OBEY __

In this version, Splinter knows he's the best though. 

Watercolour and Graphite Crayon on Fabriano Artist Paper. 30 "x 22 ".

Knights of the round table. Ninjas of the Rectangular paper. Here Splinter is pretending they are all equals. Ink, Graphite Crayon and Watercolour on Fabriano Artist Paper. 30" x 22 ". Splinter and his boys.

Tumblr Thingie

I'm observing a moment of silence for the blog, in particular, mine. Apparently it is dead. So I've disguised my blog as a tumblr account to appeal to the young folk. From what I gather, Tumblr is a place where young people gain popularity mainly through re-posting other people's original hard work. I hope the internet doesn't come up with anything new, as my brain has reached its capacity for username and password storage and retrieval.

Anyway, my tumblr thing will contain my art and photography updates I guess. (Even though I do that on my website already).

People I Know

It's Mirco!


It's Scott!

Hand drawn with Graphite Crayon & finished digitally. Graphite crayons rule. Wear those suckers down a bit and they give this beautiful thick scratchy line. The kind of thick scratchy line dreams are made of.

Pre-Shrunk 2012

I have two pieces hanging in the Pre-Shrunk 2012 show at Argyle Fine Art until Feb 16, 2012. "Girl with Turban" in white conte on black paper.




They are really tiny! They are also for sale through the Gallery.

New Website

I have one of these now. www.annereneedumont.com

Check out 4ormat if you're interested in a portfolio site. The first month is free.

Demo Reel 2011

I made a demo reel for some of my Motion Graphics work as well as some of the Interactive pieces I've worked on over the years. Watch here at a better size.

Can't Keep Johnny Down

Do you like screenshots? I do.











I made a silly music video. They Might Be Giants were having a contest in July to make a video for their new song "Can't Keep Johnny Down". John Hodgeman was the guest judge. Those circumstances were much too perfect to just ignore. So I present to you an animated version of my floating head "worried".
You can watch it here ok?

As a side note, how come nobody ever talks about how difficult it is to get a decent looking .mov export out of flash? Why do none of the video sites accept swfs? 2011, you astound me with your limitations in technology.

EP Cover Design

Here is an EP cover design I made for a lovely young musician who produces some quality You Tube performances.

Little Swimmer

Little Swimmer likes to get her ankles wet, but only while wearing water socks. The rocks are sharp and the mud is squishy. It feels so weird.

Made in Illustrator.

Taxi Driver

A few drawings I did while watching Taxi Driver recently. I didn't draw Deniro's mohawk because he only has it for such a short amount of time onscreen. I like how young the actors are in this movie. Drawn with a sharpie pen.

Pépère (Version 2)

Graphite and white conte on coloured paper. 12" x 14".

Class of 9092

Weepy. 14" x 18". Acrylic on canvas.


Worried. 16" x 20". Acrylic on canvas.


Angry. 14" x 18". Acrylic on canvas.

I can't stop making these floating heads. I think they are from the future. But possibly from the distant past.

Sometimes He Just Can't Remember Certain Words

"Hurt". 16" x 20". Acrylic on Canvas. For a while I was trying to remember what the background reminded me of. Now I know. It's moon mist ice cream.

Mircs

Ink and acrylic. 30 x 22 inches.

Facebook Me

Hand drawn & digital.

Red Rabbit

Ink and watercolor on paper.

Guitar Guru

These oil paintings are part of a series of cubist inspired figurative pieces I'm slowly working on. It started with this one that I did in art school, "Guitar Holding A Man" (shown above). I realized making this one (below) that I hate working on a canvas that's completely square.


These paintings have been lying around my apartment for the last year and a half unfinished. This weekend I decided to finish them up once and for all.