Hasbros

I am selling these prints as part of the Hasbros Group Show (on until Nov 20, 2013) based on 80's television and toy properties. Available through the Dart Gallery. 12" x 18", $25. Print has a metallic sheen not visible in photo. Edition of 20.

Serge

Serge
Written, Directed and Narrated by Anne-Renée Dumont
Animation & Storyboards by Mirco Chen
Character Designs by Scott MacDonald
Additional Banjo and Sound Effects by André Dumont
Backgrounds by Anne-Renée Dumont

A New Collaboration.

All the characters in Serge were designed by Scott MacDonald. He rules. Check out his work. More of his original character sketches below.

Serge just wants to eat his toast in peace.

Serge contemplating the archaic beauty of a flower.

Serge learns about the security that can be found in numbers.

Serge entertains a laboured sigh.

Unpleasantness.

How is anyone supposed to know the answer to anything?

Mirco Chen did the animation. He rules too. Check out his work.

Serge is playing at the Atlantic Film Festival tonight Tuesday September 17, 2013 along with a program of other locally animated shorts.

Backgrounds

Some backgrounds I designed for an collaborative project in the works.

Fox in the Snow

Fox in the Snow, Oil on Wood Panel, 11" x 14". Here is a painting I did for the Art for Wildlife show that takes place this week in Musquodoboit Harbour at the Tourist Trap August 19 - Sept 1 2013. Part of the proceeds go to Hope for Wildlife,  a super organization in Seaforth, Nova Scotia that rehabilitates injured and orphaned wildlife with the goal to release them back into the wild. 

The show's poster, not made by me.

AFF Outdoor Film Fest

Indie meets Indy. Honoured to have my short film A Dog is Ignoring You From the Passenger Seat of a Parked Car play before Raiders of the Lost Ark last weekend at Al Fresco Film Fest (Now officially called Atlantic Film Fest's Outdoor Film Experience) as part of CBC summer shorts. Tomorrow night is JAWS at the Summer of Spielberg. Go out and see a movie on the Halifax waterfront.

The Boxcutter

"THE BOXCUTTER", Oil on Canvas, 28" x 32", 2013. This portrait of my brother spent 3 years in the concept phase. The concept being laziness.

The Ramones Posters

The Ramones, Version 1, Gouache on paper, 11" x 14".

The Ramones, Version 2, Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 16".

The Ramones, Version 3, Acrylic on Grungy Piece of Masonite, 12" x 16".

Do you wanna dance?

*These posters are not official

Life Drawing

Drawings from another life drawing session.

Life Drawing

Charcoal on newsprint. I only like to draw peoples' backs for some reason.

Pre-Shrunk 2013

Long Range I, Oil on Board.  

One of my pieces for the Pre-Shrunk 2013 group show at Argyle Fine Art. Based on some photos I took of the Long Range Mountains just outside Port-Aux-Basques, NL.

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.