Drawings from Melbourne

Hey guys, thanks for the suggestions on the last piece!! I've been messing around with them, hopefully I'll finish it soon.
I spent the weekend in melbourne. It was lovely. These are just are couple of studies I did while there. Hope you are all well.


Love,

Alex

PS almost forgot to mention- We are all very excited this week as The Cat Piano won the AFI (australian film institute) award for best short animation. You can see an interview with one of our extremely talented directors, Ari Gibson, after excepting the award. Its at about a minute 20 seconds...he might have had a few shandies... Congrats to the whole team!

Space Ranger Explorer

Heya blog,

A quick sketch based on something I'd like to make some time...maybe in 3d, im not sure.
Also the Academy Awards announced some very exciting news on the weekend.

Love
A.

Cat Piano Hits the Internetssss

Heya blog,

You can now officially stop bootlegging your copies of the Cat Piano and start watching the Hi Fidelity Official version on Vimeo.



If you arent familiar with the kids who worked on it, please check out the blogs of fellow cat kids Makoto Koji, Benni "D" Drake, Jason Pamment, Leath Mattner, and of course the People's Republic of Animation website.

Work has been pretty much consuming every waking moment for the last month so I havent got much new work to share with you. soo I thought I'd share some of the things that have been inspiring me lately (just to make sure this blog keeps kicking yo.)

Music Vid for NewZealand badboys of punk/indie/pop- The Mint Chicks

Animal Collective. My newest musical obsession. These guys have released what is easily one of my favourite albums of the year- Merriweather Post Pavilion. Its been on loop on my stereo for the last month or so.

An unofficial music video for super tight band Grizzly Bear, created by Gabe Askew



A simply wonderful short student film by Lois Van Baarie


Off the Planet cool Video Created for Drawing Black Chalks by NitroCorpz


Also music related, a great double album I picked up this weekend- Dark Was the Night. Completely amazing, crammed with some of the most interesting american artists around at the moment. Listen to a few tracks HERE. And the official website-HERE

not enuff for you? check out yayayeveryday for a stream of uberwicked inspiration.
Last and unfortunately least is a little doodle i did tonight. Inspired by the Australian super kids Dappeled Cities

talksoon

A.

Fantasitic News

I thought I'd Write a quick post about the great news we got last week. The Cat Piano has been accepted into official competion in Annecy. We are all very excited. Congratulations team!

More drawings soon!

Shhakke

Heya blog,

This is a little sketch i did a while ago, but only just scanned and coloured this morning.

In other news, our film -The Cat Piano won audience choice award for best short at the Adelaide Film Festival. We were very excited. Animated shorts are often over looked at Film Festivals so we were very proud that it picked up the honour, especially on its first festival entry.

Here is the recently released teaser.


The Cat Piano - trailer from PRA on Vimeo.

Check out the HD version on Vimeo.

In other news, Im about to head back up to Brisbane, after my stay here at PRA in Adelaide.It has been great, and Im looking forward to working with these extremely talented individuals again soon.
Big love Blog

Alex

ScribleScableSketches

Heya blog. Sorry i havent posted for a little while. Ive been busy with CatPiano. haha it feels very strange to be a 2d animator, but its such a rewarding job. Unfortunately because ive been so busy i havent got much time for drawing, except for moleskine studies, which i cant do even if im exhausted. these are just a couple from the last week or two. Hopefully i'll be able to post a few more soon :)

Oh and Ed posted these drawings on the Cat Piano Blog a couple of days ago so i assume they are fine to share. They are some sketches i sent PRA just before i arrived to show that I'd been practicing. You can see the whole set on their blog, along with some example animation Ari did. He's an animation machine!

News and animation

Some cool news. Ive been asked to work on a great film called Cat Piano. Its being made by some talented kids down in Adelaide studio's People's Republic of Animation, a studio that I have been excited by for a long time. The film is a 2d short animated film, directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson, and stars one of Australia's most influential musicians and writers, Nick Cave, as narrator.
I'll reframe from posting anything CP related unless i have permission. In the mean time check out the sporadically updated blog (theres a new link on the the sidebar).

K, beside that, I have had some helpful suggestions about the last animation post. So Ive reworked it. The most obvious change is at the end, but hopefully the many little tweaks throughout make it feel a little healthier

Stairs Revamp 1 from Alex Grigg on Vimeo.

all the best