Nathan Dickey

Demo Reel

2010-04-28T09:53:00.001-07:00

Here is my reel thus far- need to touch up some 3d animations at some point to assist, it is a little one sided for now.

The Landscaper as of April 25

2010-04-25T17:28:00.000-07:00

The Landscaper from Nathan Dickey on Vimeo.

Cartoon of friend

2010-03-03T23:51:00.000-08:00

Here is a cartoon I did of a friend of mine- I dont have reference pics to show, but I am pretty happy with it

I drew it in flipbook actually (which is what I am doing my film in) then touched it up in photoshop

Grandparents Dog

2010-01-07T21:26:00.000-08:00

I did this painting on my Tablet Laptop over the holidays, It is my Grandparents dog, She dog was just sitting there posing for most of it which I was happy about, (Animals tend to never sit still)

Bodyworlds - Life drawing

2009-11-27T21:30:00.000-08:00

Today I went to Bodyworlds with some friends, it was pretty fun as I actually brought sketching materials with me. The last time I went (about 3 or 4 years ago) they were a little more strict with the drawing part that I didn't even bother, but wished I had-

If you haven't gone before it is worth seeing, some pretty crazy and interesting things to be seen there- As for the drawings themselves, I don't pretend that they are fully accurate- It's been awhile since my anatomy classes lol.

I also included a Life drawing I did in class today, all done on 11X17 paper.. going to give that a try for now instead of newsprint.

Gorilla Warfare Final Film

2009-08-12T18:57:00.001-07:00

Here is our final third year film, enjoy

Music and sound effects in this version done generously by DB Audio in toronto www.dbaudio.ca

Gorilla Warfare

2009-08-12T17:28:00.000-07:00

Shortly I will post our final film! until then,

This is a breakdown of a run "cycle" used in the film and the context in which it was placed.
It isnt really supposed to be a loop and in the actual film it goes by in 1 second partially obscured by a tree.

Here is my character design for "Archer" the main gorilla in the film, I made a sculpt of it early on in development and then made minor changes digitally as the character model changed.

Gorilla Warfare Dump

2009-08-12T17:00:00.000-07:00

Well we put so much work into our third year film.. and I have all these pictures on my computer so I may as well share some of them.

Here are stills from three of my scenes:

(The layout in the first was painted by Elton Lo, and the third was painted by Alexis Theroux)

Retirement Caricature

2009-08-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

A long serving worker at the Kingston Cogeneration Power Plant (which I have been working at landscaping during my summer days) is retiring so I did this Caricature of him as part of a scrapbook being put together as a fairwell.

Random Stop Mo Fun

2009-02-17T22:50:00.000-08:00

Here are two stop motion tests I did today for fun- they are so short though that it might be annoying playing in this little window.. they are also on youtube- the characters are a little critter I made last semester, and the punisher sporting a new garb :)

3D Animation "Thinking Character"

2008-12-19T21:04:00.000-08:00

Here is my first attempt at character animation in maya, it is actually pretty fun once you get past the initial stage of not knowing anything about the program.. I find the lip sync especially fun, but that could be because Mike Watters did an excellent job in rigging this character- I did the voice also. In hind site I wish I altered the proportions of the model to appear more Elderly.

Gorilla Warfare

2008-12-18T05:35:00.000-08:00

I haven't really posted anything regarding our current third year group film "Gorilla Warfare" as we are trying to keep most of it hidden until it is solid. I figured I would show my design for the main character at least, and a sketch I did involving the five main gorillas, two of which are kind of hidden. (their designs have been flushed out since there, but the overall shapes are the same.) The film so far has been great to work on, we had a rough start involving changing the story entirely about twice a week.. having group meetings so long that we had two meals in its duration. Other then that I would say that we have an awesome group, lots of talent in various areas and most people are excited about the film and strive to make it good. This has been the best year so far - even when sitting at school at 6 o clock in the morning dead tired working on assignments (having not left since the previous morning) and placing my hand in a cast when not in use (not really though) I look around and think to myself "This is awesome! here we are making a film, drawing.. hopefully someday for a living. I think a lot of it is the fact that I am not alone in my suffering, people that I have spent the past 2 or 3 years getting to know are with me also during those times. Last year I would get to almost a depressed state when unable to complete assignments to my perfectionist satisfaction..but now for the most part I am able to accept that it is the reality of the business and do the best I can in the time given. I learned a lot in doing this last assignment "Action Analysis" which I will post in a couple weeks when I am back at the school. It is a great one as it takes us from the early stages of development to a "Final product" that is, cleaned, coloured and composited. It was also only 5 seconds.. so this group film is gonna be a lot of work haha

Some Life Drawings/sketches

2008-12-16T09:14:00.000-08:00

Howdy, just cleaning up my computer getting ready for a new semester...and portfolio time- here are some sketches from earlier this year.

Scrooge Reformed

2008-11-23T08:43:00.000-08:00

Hey, figured I would post this- tis my take on Scrooge from a Christmas Carol after he has "changed his ways" -he is so irresistibly pleasant is he not?

Stop Motion Test

2008-10-16T16:40:00.001-07:00

Hey all, here is a little stop motion test I did today in Stop Motion class. Practice for an up comming weight lift (or smash) assignment. It's kind of nice at the end of the day to play around with the puppets and just experiment without wasting paper! haha

WALL-E

2008-07-05T19:48:00.001-07:00

Can you guess what movie I Saw last night? -- thats right, after a long night at canadian tire it was WALL-E that I viewed and what a piece of excellence it was too. I gotta say, I am quite happy with the movies that have come out this summer, with Indiana Jones, Iron Man, Kung Foo Panda(also awesome), Wall-E, Hancock (which rocked until the last half..) etc. (havent seen them all yet)

Here are some skecthes I did, mostly from memory and one picture- I love his pop-up eyebrows haha

Cousin Char

2008-06-21T19:46:00.000-07:00

Here is a caricature I did of my cousin during a camping trip- The one being the original I drew on the island, and the other is a clean-up version with some shading (not too thrilled with the shading part but its on a separate layer anyway so I can remove it from the clean line if I so choose.)

if you notice.. he had his braces remove a couple days after I did the drawing, so when I cleaned it up I erased them lol.

Crosby

2008-06-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

Here is an attempt at a Sydney Crosby caricature.

Mr Tallon

2008-05-01T20:13:00.000-07:00

I visited my old highschool the other day, they have a new wing which includes a media room and a green screen.. so I (naturally) had to take a look. I had brought some paper and a clipboard along so I ended up drawing one of the Teachers. This is Mr Tallon

Some Sketches

2008-04-25T23:03:00.001-07:00

Here are some sketches which have absolutely nothing to do with eachother.. the caricatures are a mix of cafe drawings and characters in movie clips we drew during Emslie's class. The tonal is a thumbnail sketch I drew down at the harbour (oakville) and the third is RoboCop, this relates to a post I made on http://summer-of-george.blogspot.com/ I decided to watch the original Robocop as I had never scene it all the way through, or if I did.. I didn't recall any of it..

Beak and Muzzle Rough Animations

2008-04-22T22:11:00.000-07:00

Here are my rough Beak and Muzzle animations (second semester of second year) the muzzle audio is me, and the beak animation has audio from School of Rock (Jack Black)

The muzzle animation had an audio track before it where the beak character trips over the bucket of water and is apologizing to the Janitor (I was originally going to animate the two in the same shot) I ended up doing a separate beak character due to time constraints.

Zoo Drawings

2008-03-14T00:20:00.000-07:00

My week at Myrtle Beach is coming to a close, it has been nice to get away for a bit... it is far to easy to get caught up in the day to day stress of school. Although I can't ignore work completely.. since I will be missing the trip to the Toronto zoo I figured I would seek out a place here.. so here are some clippings from my sketchbook of some of those drawings

Music For Kicks

2008-02-15T22:54:00.000-08:00

Hey all-- I figured I may aswell post a link to my "acid planet" site here aswell so you can listen to some of the "music" I have made, I have to say I havent had time to do much recently, but I will be making some for the leica hopefully in a "medieval style" should be interesting. But yeah this site includes some of my veeerry early stuff which is a tad painfull but as you get up to the top it improves somewhat.. nice to see the progression though I guess- A lot of this stuff sounds like it could be "game music" or something, anyway enjoy! (or Loathe entirely) either one is fine---> http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=288633&T=2282

King Edgar Reassuring Leonidas

2008-02-15T22:02:00.000-08:00

Here is my human lip sync, Its "King Edgar the feared talking to Leonidas the bear.
This and other Animations are also on youtube ---> http://www.youtube.com/user/Yakusoku1

King and his 'Bear' Leonidas

2008-02-10T21:57:00.000-08:00

Here is the character(s) for my second year "Leica Reel" the rest I will add later

The first image is basically just getting a rough idea of colours of the king and bear specifically- The close up has everything in full colour... as the chair should look more like wood... not stone

Cafe and Char drawings

2007-10-20T23:24:00.000-07:00

Tis finally reading week! So here are some Sketches of people I know and a page of cafe drawings, etc

Happy Waving Guy

2007-09-11T20:29:00.000-07:00

happy waving guy, drawn and coloured in photoshop

Random Sketches

2007-09-01T19:07:00.000-07:00

As I have failed to post anything as of late, here are some random sketches done just before and during the summer

Me

2007-04-24T20:06:00.000-07:00

Here is an attempt at a characature self portrait, my hair hasnt gotten quite that bad...yet..

Guy

2007-04-23T15:19:00.000-07:00

Here is digital painting I did last night, I may try a few more like this

Rough Bear Char

2007-04-07T23:48:00.000-07:00

Some rough designs for a Bear Character, will do full body later- I kind of like where this is going so I might actually animate it at some point

one more Drawing

2007-03-18T00:13:00.000-07:00

Here is one more life drawing
..Fudged the hand and such a bit but oh well

Life Drawings

2007-03-18T00:09:00.000-07:00

Here are a few of my life drawings (sorry about the quality)

Kitchen Rough

2007-03-16T22:27:00.000-07:00

Here is a rough and cleanup for a
layout assignment- (kitchen)

Studies

2007-03-16T21:45:00.000-07:00

Here are some random studies of the beast I did before animating the rotation, etc

There are a few that are based off the movie (you can probably spot them)- The rest are from my head. I drew more/different details then I notice Glen Keane drew when he animated.. worked for me, just took longer then was necessary

More Feet

2007-03-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

Beast head rotation

2007-03-15T12:39:00.000-07:00

Here is the link to my Beast Rotation/lip sync/Expression change
4 of us chose him this year... thats crazy. He is such a great character though-

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3337537913550775782

Hands

2007-03-15T05:01:00.000-07:00

Here are hands I did for that same assignment

1st year Foot Drawings

2007-03-15T04:57:00.000-07:00

These are a few of the quick foot drawings I did for a drawing portfolio