of Woven Wood

I've been away for a while but I haven't been idle! (my poor negleted blog xoxo - all better?)
So what exactly have I been up to? Well, last year I was one of the winners of the 'Illustrators of the Future' contest, and this April I was flown to LA for the award ceremony and book release. I got to meet lots of wonderfully talented people; my fellow illustrator winners: Paul Pederson, Carly Trowbridge, Hunter Bonyun, Mago Huang, Fiona Meng, Greg Opalinski, Jay Richards, John Haverty, Pat R Steiner, Rhiannon Taylor, and of course the judges who mentored us during the week: Val Lakey Lindahn, Ron Lindahn, Stephen Hickman, Cliff Neilsen, Robert Castillo, Stephan Martiniere - just to name a few.

The story I illustrated in the Anthology is called 
'Of Woven Wood' - by Marie Croke

I made an animation from the image - which can be seen here below. I hope to have a version with the intended soundtrack up as soon as I can secure the correct license to use the music.
 

 

day Twentyfive

To play the calendar through from day one or to leave a comment, see the post below
 

This interactive December calendar countdown to Christmas featuring Zoe and Dante is a work in progress and may not always be up in time or bug free, but if it's not working please check in later and hopefully we'll have sorted it out. 

The advent calendar is part of a collaboration I'm doing with a fun gal from New York called Wei. Eventually it will be polished up to a rosy shine - But seeing as that may not be until spring, and melting snow tends to make Santa’s festive attire smell of wet wool and cinnamon (a romantic notion in theory but a bit of a turnoff as you prance through the daffodils) I’ve decided to the advent calendar as it is now. 

If your device doesn’t support flash I’ve created vimeo videos of each animation. To watch these videos please follow this link to where I’ve collected them all for easier viewing.

Again - to play the flash version calendar through from day one, follow this link.

day One

WARNING - CONTAINS SOUND

to start - find and press 'ONE'
 

If your device doesn’t support flash I’ve also included videos of each animation. To watch the video animations from older days please follow this link to ‘A very Zoe and Dante Christmas’

trees and clouds

I’m working on a little movie, and I thought it might be fun to share some of the set components I’ve drawn so far - We’ve got your average fluffy clouds, snowy trees and some tree sweaters including birds.

hum - I see that a small penguin paperclip snuck in while I was documenting the sets. He stems from a box of penguins I bought in Tokyo, and he is so cute I don’t have the heart to oust him.

slightly speedy sketchbook peek

speeded up flip through of my 2011 sketchbook project sketchbook

I’ve been busy as bees! This is great for me, not so much for my little blog. I’ve been doodling over at boy in a bear suit, but it’s not the same. I thought I best idle the time here by sharing more of my 2011 sketchbook for the sketchbook project. It’s a bit speeded up as it was too long. On the upside I kind of like the old super 8 feel where things go just a smidge too fast. Enjoy.
 

dirigibles and submersubles TWO

It’s February and officially the Year of the Rabbit! Trust me, Zoe and Dante are not letting this one slide by unnoticed. Zoe first insisted that we should celebrate every day this year like it's their birthday... but when I argued that it would make her out to be in her mid 300s by the end of the year she decided that one birthday a year was just fine.

 

Here's the second of three peeks into the making of my Sketchbook for the sketchbook project 2011 - I hope you like it.

dirigibles and submersibles ONE

I'm so excited about this sketchbook for the 2010 sketchbook project. And it almost goes without saying that Zoe and Dante are in on the adventure. So please, enjoy the first sneak peak.

one banana and a movie

I just finished a new Dante short, which is now posted over on Zoe and Dantes blog - I hope you take the time to go have a peek. The animation is hand drawn on drafting paper, poked at digitally and then assembled in ‘movie maker’. I’m really happy with this one, but of course I’ve got lots of new ideas to make the next one even better. Hugs, Emily

busy as a Christmas bee

I've been doing a lot this month, which honestly is great. My absolute latest is a new Zoe and Dante movie - well just Dante really - anyhow, it can be viewed here and over on Dantes blog, along with a few other movies. If you haven’t been over there yet go have a peek at my cheeky little bunnies - quick! Quick!

 

On an extra note - it’s snowing, which has resulted in me bouncing around the apartment all day, trying to resist going outside and bombarding strangers with snowballs!

happy Halloween!

I made a movie

I’ve been so busy with about a million little projects keeping me from getting anything posted - silly girl!

Anyhow I hope to show most of what I’ve been up to soon - starting now with Dantes film debut!

The movie is 21 seconds long and consists of over 60 individually hand drawn stills, digitally colored and assembled in a rudimentary movie maker - old school, and sooo much fun! I will have to do more movies I am afraid, and get a bit more savy in the process perhaps?

I made it for my sidebar just above my followers as a part of my plans to revamp ye olde blog, but I'm posting it here as well - hope you like it.