Paul Halasa

2012

2012-02-03T15:42:00.000-08:00

Despite the lack of artistic updates last year I am going to try to make better use of this blog in 2012.

Giant & Ninja

2011-10-30T15:52:00.000-07:00

Just a render test with some simple lighting.

A couple of things

2011-10-24T12:59:00.000-07:00

Haven't updated in a while, so here are some screen shots from my demo reel of random cool rigs I animated.

Film Trailer

2011-04-25T18:37:00.000-07:00

A trailer for my fourth year film. Music taken from the album Power by Boys Noize in this trailer. Actual film has a great score done by the talented Dylan Freed!

2011-03-26T19:35:00.000-07:00

Here is a scene from my movie, its a makeshift tape recorder. I painted this thing all in Photoshop and then touched it up in after effects for color correction and lighting.

Creature Roar Animation

2011-03-12T15:57:00.000-08:00

This was probably inspired by the game Dead Space. Gave this guy some static movements and twitches along with a shiver as he roars for flavor.

This rig was created by Justin Kirk.

Blah

2011-03-08T20:00:00.001-08:00

All film and no play makes Paul a dull boy.

Film Concept Art

2011-02-21T12:15:00.000-08:00

Here is a cool sniper rifle I created for my film. This design is loosely based off the Barrett M82A1 rifle, this whole drawing was done in Photoshop.

Film Background #33

2011-01-06T16:48:00.000-08:00

Did this a while ago, but check out the progress of my film.

Strelok, production art

2010-11-13T07:59:00.000-08:00

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So the title of my fourth year film is Strelok, meaning "shooter" in Russian. Here is a rough layout and also some production art from my film.

Island In The Sun

2010-09-15T18:33:00.001-07:00

This is what is fun about art, you can just create your own world or in this case, paradise.

Here is a wallpaper version, it is 1600x900 so you may have to scale it, blogger won't let me upload at a higher resolution, anyway enjoy :)

4th Year

2010-09-13T10:57:00.000-07:00

I am working on my 4th year film at Sheridan and here is some concept work. It is a very story heavy film inspired by Beksinski, Tarkovsky, Akira and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.

Alien Tree

2010-08-02T16:07:00.000-07:00

Playing StarCraft II gave me a bunch of inspiration for sci-fi structures and planets. I kinda made this up as I went along in Photoshop with various texture brushes ... if you look closely there is a little space man looking for the tree of life or something.

Scraps

2010-08-01T18:55:00.000-07:00

Some unfinished backgrounds that I started, not much.

Doug Stanhope

2010-07-04T13:57:00.000-07:00

I'va been listening to Doug Stanhope's s stand up for a while and wanted to painted a caricature of the guy. I'm going to send it to him and see what he thinks. If you never heard of him look up some clips on youtube but that won't do him justice, listen to an album.

Update: I got to meet Doug Stanhope here in Halifax before his show, he was having a cigarette outside and I shyly approached him and started a conversation. After a few jokes back and forth about Halifax I told him I was the guy that did the painted caricature and he said he liked it and thought it was cool. I told him hes one of my heroes then he had to go into the club. He killed it that night at the club and I had a dopey grin on the whole time.

French me

2010-07-03T14:47:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait although this is what I would look like if I was French or maybe painted by a Frenchmen.

Cave Troll

2010-06-13T19:11:00.000-07:00

Just felt like painting something from scratch while I was waiting for my roommate. This took about an hour in PS.

Finally got a desk

2010-06-05T14:53:00.001-07:00

Got a computer desk for my room so I can digi paint here in Halifax. This city is great, I love it.

New Sniper

2010-05-18T17:49:00.000-07:00

I started a sketch at lunch, to get back into pencil drawing because I find this helps my digital painting draftsmanship in the long run, at least for me if I paint this now, I have a stronger design to work from than just straight ahead painting a character concept. I tweaked the sketch with the burn and dodge tool to bring out the line quality and shading.

In the grand scheme of things, next year is 4th year and I want to have a portfolio ready for the video game industry, tho the portfolio will be 3D character animation driven, I want to back it up with design.

WWII Soldier sketch

2010-05-15T19:34:00.000-07:00

A texture portrait of a soldier, I wanted to do a study of a face so I used a photograph as reference.

Little bit of sketches

2010-05-12T16:20:00.000-07:00

Here are some doodles, one is an unfinished UPA style background, a lion speed paint and another is a cool cave man guy.

Third Year Film Backgroundss

2010-04-17T19:32:00.000-07:00

This layout was drawn by the fantastic Mr. Chris, I did the underneath it, this layout was the most fun to paint.

Also this layout's foreground was penciled by Mr. Chris.

So yeah this year was quite the experience. I learned a lot about the group dynamic and about layout painting. The film's layout style was developed by me and Leon, whom, if you liked my stuff you should definitely see his because I was learning from him. Third year has helped me get friendlier with Adobe and has prepared me for 4th year where I will make a very layout heavy and dark film.

Dishboy

2010-03-27T09:43:00.000-07:00

This is a character from my group's third year film, Dee did this awesome sketch and I just painted him. We all joked about how funny he would look in real life. :)

Colour fun

2010-03-19T20:28:00.000-07:00

Painting the majority of the day with Leon, makes you want to paint more.

Firefall

2010-03-15T19:51:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the really cool place, Horsetail Firefall in California, google it! The real place doesn't really have lava but I thought it would be neat if it was a lava fall coming out of the top.

walk in clouds

2010-02-24T13:05:00.000-08:00

Started as a sky study, then I finished it with some trees and a couple, I know its cheesy but it was fun to do.

Film Layout

2010-02-21T23:00:00.000-08:00

Did this as an example painted layout for my group film. There is going to be a character in the distance and a bowl dropping in the foreground.

Modern Ninja Design

2010-02-07T17:08:00.000-08:00

I wanted to do some video game concept art, I came up with a stealthy ninja type character. This was a fun materials painting exercise, everything was painted from scratch in Photoshop. The silenced guns are based off of real weapons that are still used today. :D

Mr. Fox

2010-02-04T16:49:00.000-08:00

Alex decided that I should finish this painting so I cleaned it up and rendered it a little more. Mr. Fox might be waiting for his date, I don't know he was in a hurry.

Modern Ninja

2010-01-28T19:57:00.000-08:00

Some video game concept art I am working on in photoshop, here is a part of it.

Kitchen Door

2010-01-27T19:18:00.000-08:00

A test background I painted for my third year film.

Golden Landscape

2010-01-19T20:58:00.000-08:00

No paintings in a while, I thought I'd get warmed up again, I looked at some artists I admire for inspiration and this just came out.

3D Robot Animation

2010-01-18T15:50:00.000-08:00

A short animation I did with Ali Tezel's rig Spiderbot. The animation, lighting, sounds and set were done by me. The light post I found online somewhere but it was free to use.

Life Drawing

2010-01-18T14:58:00.001-08:00

This is new, life drawing, I haven't ever posted this on the blog because I'm never really interested myself looking at other people's life drawings, but when life drawing and water colour collide then we're talking because the results are visually more rich.

3D Animation

2010-01-08T19:37:00.001-08:00

Here are two clips of my 3D animation work all done in Maya 2010. I had a lot of fun making these and are really eager to get into a career of 3D animation. For my detail on this particular video go to the youtube page and read the youtube video description.

Action Analysis

2010-01-05T18:12:00.000-08:00

My completed action analysis assignment for the 3rd year first semester. Here you can see this guerrilla man escaping the lab in which he was created by ripping off a heavy door and throwing it across the room. I had fun doing the sound design and animating this character, too bad I only had time for this short clip I think it would make a neat film if there were was some drama and fight scenes.

StopMo

2010-01-03T15:29:00.000-08:00

A little bit of stop motion animation I did, there is a smash in there and a walk with some acting.

Mr. Fox in the Snow

2009-12-22T22:56:00.000-08:00

Action Analysis

2009-12-16T19:59:00.001-08:00

Layout for my action analysis assignment, its a man who transforms into half gorilla super human and rips off the door and throws it to escape. Should be posted soon after clean up and coloring is done. I am animating it straight into flipbook on a cintiq and its at the same quality if not better than pencil animation. Although it sometimes takes a few tries to get pencil quality line vitality.

Sniper Android

2009-12-04T20:20:00.000-08:00

I drew a sketch in English class and then developed it more at home, looked pretty cool so I took it into photoshop and now I have this post-apocalyptic sniping android that probably shoots escaping things after the fall out. I didn't give him a scope cause hes a robot and probably has crazy telescope eyes.

Che

2009-11-29T16:30:00.000-08:00

My rendition of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary done completely in Photoshop CS4 with a hard brush with a few suggestions from my girlfriend Alex.

Character Sketches

2009-11-19T19:53:00.000-08:00

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More Film Stuff

2009-11-08T17:05:00.001-08:00

Noto's Girl

2009-10-30T15:43:00.000-07:00

Something I'm working on as a study, I did the face separately and the hair on another layer cause hair is harder to paint and I don't want to be erasing the face. I'll update this as it goes, I think I'll paint a guy in there too.

Super Metroid Fan Art

2009-10-28T13:17:00.000-07:00

For fun I did a fan art of Super Metroid after finishing it again recently. The line work is by pen and the colour is done in water colours, the bg and some effects are done in photoshop.

Daft Girl Edit

2009-10-22T12:42:00.000-07:00

Following some suggestions on ConceptArt.org, I fixed up this piece, made her more feminine and fixed some issues with feet, also added a little more color to the body. CA is a great place for advice and critiques.

Restaurant Thumbnail Concept

2009-10-18T23:17:00.001-07:00

Restaurant concept for my third year film, just an arrangement of interior elements. Its kinda like building a set.

Kitchen Layout Thumbnail

2009-10-15T22:48:00.001-07:00

Daft Punk

2009-10-12T19:07:00.000-07:00

Some Daft Punk fan art done in entirely photoshop cs4. Maybe next time I can do one harder, better, faster, stronger.

My new band

2009-10-10T21:02:00.000-07:00

Me and my girlfriend are starting a band, this is our costume design so far, what do you think?

Film BG Concept

2009-10-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

A background concept I did for my group film. I used basically one brush and one texture brush for the whole thing.

Sand Creature with Tamer

2009-09-19T16:45:00.000-07:00

Photo

2009-09-18T11:37:00.001-07:00

This is a cool picture of me that my roommate Bianca took, I like how film noir I look. Theres more on me and my roommate sean's blog.

wrenchman

2009-09-12T12:03:00.000-07:00

This was a bigger photoshop piece but it turned out being too flat, here is the better part of it

Cowboy

2009-08-31T15:19:00.000-07:00

This whole drawing was done in photoshop, from drawing to the light colouring. I could have shaded and rendered the cowboy more, maybe I'll come back to it.

Baby Cheetah

2009-08-26T14:08:00.001-07:00

Done like the tiger below,

Justice

2009-08-21T11:55:00.000-07:00

An ink and digital fanart I guess, there's a bit of exaggeration in there especially with the droopy eyes haha

The Game

2009-08-16T14:48:00.000-07:00

you know your having an uninspiring day when you paint spartans, on a side note i came back to this to touch it up and finish it

Vamp

2009-08-15T15:49:00.001-07:00

Tiger

2009-08-03T18:28:00.001-07:00

I drew the tiger with a ink using a quill pen and then scanned it and painted over it digitally.

Mike Tyson

2009-08-03T14:31:00.001-07:00

The 1995 movie Tyson inspired me to do this anatomy/rendering study of Mike Tyson. Bunch of hours.

Hitman

2009-06-29T13:49:00.001-07:00

Tanned girl painting

2009-05-27T12:02:00.000-07:00

I want to get more into digital painting so I just started painting with a blank canvas and out comes a sexy girl. No reference used, couple hours.

Some Animation

2009-04-30T10:31:00.000-07:00

Here is my fat cop character walking over a panning background, the background was drawn by hand and painted digitally. Also I have my flour sack riding some waves, I did some sound design on it so enjoy the ambient sound effects.

Layout and a painting, oy

2009-04-30T10:19:00.000-07:00

Layout concepts for my story, we have the hero's home at the top, a pan where the character in a boat goes down the stream and finds a wounded soldier and also a rope bridge on the road to the castle. The painting was done in Photoshop CS.

Sketch

2009-04-30T08:53:00.001-07:00

A girl and a Chernobyl soldier. "Get out of here stalker." lol

Sketches from Sketchbook

2009-04-30T08:38:00.001-07:00

These are a bunch of sketches and caricatures I did of people throughout the year, most of these were drawn from life or film, as for the case of Nosferatu, I did not see him in real life, unfortunately.

Medieval Charactr Designs

2009-03-23T17:54:00.000-07:00

These are some character designs that are based off the medieval world. There is the hero character, the villain, a love interest and a pet that is also a comedic relief. You can read tiny character bios at the top, all the names are based off Norse mythology, cool eh?

Castlevania Painting

2009-02-23T17:08:00.000-08:00

This took me a lot longer than it should have but I did get a bunch out of it. I spent quite a bit of time learning photoshop and viewing other artists' work. This was completely done in photoshop, from the drawing to final colouring.I need to play with photoshop more, this is a start I guess.

Gouache Painting

2009-01-31T10:52:00.000-08:00

Here is a forest study I did in Gouache, its from last year and I finally got around to scanning it. The version in the middle is what it looks like on the illustration board, the other two versions I just messed around in photoshop.

CG

2009-01-20T16:14:00.000-08:00

A cg thumbnail, its sci-fi, oooo

Expression Change Assignment

2009-01-20T16:04:00.000-08:00

Here is a painter waiting at a bus and he notices what appears to be an attractive woman. This is based off a friend of mine named Steve.

Walk Run Animation

2009-01-20T16:01:00.001-08:00

A fat cop and a lean detective race for a donut.

Storyboarding Leica Reel

2009-01-20T15:51:00.000-08:00

My leica reel from storyboarding class. The track is Justice - Genesis and I mixed the track a bit and also added sound effects to it. I think it turned out cool.Also doublt click the video cause this blog cuts part of the side off

Characters

2009-01-20T15:27:00.001-08:00

Here is my roommate Sean and my girlfriend Alex as cartoon characters with various expressions. I think they turned out well because if you know these people then you might have even caught them in these poses. Hmm, although Sean never gets mad like that, I had to fudge that one. Surprisingly, Alex's hair does stand up tho.

A Fox

2009-01-08T15:40:00.000-08:00

I painted a fox for fun in painter X, didn't take too long. I looked at some pictures of foxes on flickr, a great place for references :D

Muscle guy from sketchbook

2008-12-16T12:32:00.000-08:00

Abercrombie & Fitch models came in handy for drawing muscles, this was done in my sketchbook with a blue colerase.

Drawing one hand is good enough, its boring drawing two /sigh

Birdman

2008-09-11T20:09:00.000-07:00

Something dark I came up with in photoshop.

Unfinished Sketch

2008-09-11T12:41:00.000-07:00

I drew Brian Molko from the band Placebo, I looked at a picture for this.

Flour Sack Animation

2008-05-19T14:44:00.000-07:00

So I animated a flour sack, this was the final first year animation project. We all had the same character but had different objects for the flour sack to interact with. The object I chose from the list was a turtle. Here you see what happens when a flour sack aggravates a turtle on his way to a party.

Flim Noir Studies

2008-05-19T14:31:00.000-07:00

This is a study from the comic M by Jon J. Muth.

My own original film noir painting, its painted with gouache and inked with pen. Theres a bunch of details and jokes in the picture, I actually looked up references for the cat clock. I am still looking to actually purchase a cat clock, with the moving eyes and tail.

Below is a high res version, check it

Little graffiti

2008-03-30T12:04:00.000-07:00

These are quick paintings done with the graffiti application on Facebook. I picked out some of the better ones I did for people.

Raccoon Walk

2008-03-25T18:24:00.000-07:00

Heres a raccoon walk I did. These guys are stretchy and sneaky. It took me a while getting his mask and face down along with the moving rings on his tail.

Pink Panther now coloured.

2008-03-25T18:16:00.000-07:00

I rotoscoped the guy and gave him a nice bright background.

Quick paint

2008-03-25T18:12:00.000-07:00

I did this in a few minutes, a little colour portrait of this guy Johnny from my class.

Scar Head Rotation

2008-02-20T19:01:00.000-08:00

I rotated the head of Scar from The Lion King, then I made him roll his eyes and say meow in a posh manner. This was a fun assignment. :D

The Pink Panther walking.

2008-02-20T18:47:00.000-08:00

A walk cycle assignment I did using the Pink Panther character, my panther is carefree.

When I Found the Knife

2008-02-20T18:46:00.001-08:00

A sketch I did for fun with indigo blue pencil.

Car Ruin Forest Layout

2008-02-20T18:44:00.001-08:00

Those are chairs taken from the car. This is just the UL/OL layer.

Animation Title

2008-02-20T18:41:00.000-08:00

This is a quick animation title I put together for first year animation assignments.

2007-12-07T10:58:00.001-08:00

This is a skull study I did for drawing class along with other bones. I drew these views from a physical reference. They were done in my sketch book with a brown and black pencil.

Faces

2007-12-07T01:40:00.000-08:00

I inked some people from my class, from the top left theres Eddie, Levi and Jo. The girl is not a person in my class.

Rough Sky CG

2007-12-06T00:00:00.000-08:00

A background I started painting just for fun. Its a work in progress, I still need to touch up the sky and water, plus add the characters. This is it so far, I had a nice time painting fluffy clouds.

When I am finished I will post it agian.

2007-12-04T20:10:00.000-08:00

Character Expressions

2007-12-04T19:27:00.000-08:00

Here is a character I made for character design class. He is supposed to be a bandit kid in the future named Twist. Alas, this is just his head so you cannot get an idea of his whole personality but here are some facial expressions he might make.

The start of something.

2007-09-07T13:39:00.000-07:00

This is the first year of BAA Animation at Sheridan College for me so I hope to record my artistic progress on this digital medium, blogging.

Yay for joining everyone!