Evolution of the Thomasaurus

Year of the Dragon

2012-01-29T20:35:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!

2012-01-19T20:07:00.000-08:00

late night sketch from last night that I kinda dug

con drawings

2012-01-03T22:18:00.000-08:00

A few months ago I participated in FanExpo here in Toronto, selling some prints in the Artist Alley. Here are a couple of them... a light take on some DC universe folks.

robits

2011-12-13T20:53:00.001-08:00

some robits for ya

astroman

2011-11-09T22:05:00.000-08:00

oh hello, here is a sketch before bed. good night!

off to the woods

2011-09-02T10:03:00.000-07:00

Whew! Post-convention exhaustion left me without much energy for updates... so to recharge I'm going to retreat to the wilds of northern Ontario for the weekend. When I return I shall post an update about the work featured at FanExpo and maybe some new sketches! Savvy?

A big thanks to those who came to my table at the con! It was great meeting new artists and getting to kick it with old friends. The response to the calendar was awesome too, so on behalf on the Seasonal Beauties crew, thank you for the kind words!

FANEXPO and Seasonal Beauties

2011-08-24T20:24:00.000-07:00

I'll be at this weekend's FanExpo convention here in Toronto! From August 25-28th, I'll be selling prints and doing original sketches of things, and taking commissions!

ALSO!

The past couple months myself and and about a dozen friends from school banded together to help the sexy girl calendar deficit!

2012: Seasonal Beauties

14 pages, printed on 8.5" x 11" fine cardstock featuring sexy and cute girls in their natural Canadian habitat, from the minds of artists working in the Toronto animation industry! The calendar will initially be available at FanExpo, and then we will taking orders afterwards!

Find me at table A155, or you can also pick up the calendar at Braden Poirier's table, A84!

haha, oh joker you clown

2011-07-12T21:44:00.000-07:00

bit of an experiment with vectors

people without clothes

2011-06-19T21:23:00.000-07:00

I've had the pleasure of taking lifedrawing classes with Brian Hladin, a teacher I studied under back in college, in his Toronto studio. Here's some of the stuff I've been drawing!

Still shaking the dust off, need to get better with structure/proportions...

forever grappling

2011-05-14T20:51:00.001-07:00

still grapplin'

2011-04-07T18:36:00.000-07:00

picking away at it, when I get the time.. doing a clean line now

grapplin'

2011-03-21T21:12:00.001-07:00

Trying to get the most out of my tablet before it keels over..I want to take this sketch further, leaving it here to make sure I finish it. Left fellow's face seems weird to me...

winter

2011-03-08T20:44:00.000-08:00

its march, but winter still clings (some fun with pixels)

demoreel

2011-02-02T20:57:00.000-08:00

it is for watching.

dr sketchys

2011-01-23T09:56:00.000-08:00

Some recent-ish dr.sketchys drawings of girls wearing little clothing, and one non-dr.sketchys wearing no clothes at all

daydreaming

2011-01-13T15:14:00.000-08:00

FILM!

2010-11-30T17:58:00.000-08:00

Graduate Film: Taranu from Ben Thomas on Vimeo.

Here's the short film I finished in April for my final year at Sheridan! Maybe I'll make a post about its production in the future... until then, enjoy!

FILM COMPLETE!

2010-04-30T14:09:00.000-07:00

Taranu, and my final year at Sheridan, is now finished! If you want to see some of the development work I did for it, please point your cursor to my portfolio site. I'm now open for freelance or full-time employment opportunities, if you're interested in viewing the film please send me an email and I can send you the link.

I'll probably expand on this post, but I want to quickly say how happy I've been to have the opportunity to meet so many awesome and creative people here at Sheridan. These past 4 years have changed me for the better and all of you had a part in it. Big thanks for being so inspiring and supportive this entire time, and motivating me to get off my ass and work! I hope I get to work with some of you in the future, cheers to the next 4 years!

-bt

coming soon

2010-04-24T15:19:00.000-07:00

busy times, my film is done and I'm wrapping up my final year at Sheridan... much larger post to follow!

-b

busy busy

2009-12-13T07:16:00.000-08:00

Another silly hiatus from me... the 2nd last term of my college career is almost done! In the next little while I'm going to be posting development work and the animatic for my final film. Stay tuned!

I went to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Here's a sample of what I saw!

an update? IMPOSSIBLE!!

2009-05-12T19:41:00.000-07:00

A much needed update! I'm through my 3rd year at Sheridan, and I've relocated to Charlottetown, PEI for a few months for an internship with Trapeze Animation! Looking forward to a summer full of working, life sketching and planning my own film for next year. Now onto the work, which is mostly what I've been up to the past few months, but I wanna start with older stuff.

Fishy John is grumpy because he lost both of his legs trying to nab a shark for dinner. Cheer up Fishy John!

Turnaround for my Little Prometheus project

mock production still for fun

Aaaand now some stuff I did for an animated short I worked with several other people at Sheridan this year, (tentatively?) called Just Desserts. I focused on the color and background development of the film. Layouts on paper, digitally painted in photoshop.

Layout by Kyu-Bum Lee

Layout by Christopher Thompson

I had far too much fun doing this one

That's it for now!

2008-12-15T12:03:00.000-08:00

Another school term has gone by! I've been mostly busy with the group film, but here is a nearly complete scene from my half minute action analysis storyreel. I need to re-do the reel, so that will be up soon. It's really nice to finally compose an entire animated scene, rather than just pencil tests. I'll be working on my coop portfolio for most of this month, so expect to see more work coming up soon!

a teaser

2008-11-28T16:01:00.000-08:00

something of what's to come

don quixote

2008-10-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

School's started, and I've been busy with work for a few large scale projects, thus the bloggy absence. Here's an illustration I did for my literature class, about my interpretation of an event that occurs in the classic novel Don Quixote.

I return!

2008-04-16T17:13:00.000-07:00

So... uh, haven't updated in many months... school kinda took over my life. Fear not! Only a little bit left to go. As a reward for your patience, here's a sample of the new work I'll be putting up in the next few weeks. This is a painted layout for scene that actually got scrapped for my leica reel project for 2nd term Story class, thanks goes out to Michael Hitchcox for a lot of help tying this piece together. Photoshop on graphite drawing.

sack just can't get a break

2007-09-27T20:00:00.000-07:00

Just completed my first animation assignment for 2nd year, the wave boat sack! It was tough working with multiple levels but I think I've gained some knowledge on syncing objects together.

Welcome

2007-09-03T18:21:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog! It'll mostly serve as a means of recording my progress as an artist while I figure out how to make a real website, so I'll be posting an assortment of stuff from sketches to finished work. Comment and critiques are welcome!

To start things off here's something I did for my friend's DnD rogue character