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european and indochinese magpies

Red panda, bat, some guy, smew(a bird with cool hair and cool name..), lorikeets, otters, NZ short-tailed bat, and.. some dags. The one in brown is my sooky little pup, Phoebe.

ARKive - Chinese giant salamander video - Andrias davidianus - 06

not the lovecraft monster

dhole! flash tiger! some things! and a markhor!


Have a great day!!!!!!!

horses? horses.

On the weekend I found this super cheap book of good stock horse photos, so I've been trying to figure them out! Next weekend I'm going looking for some live horses to draw! I don't know anybody who owns one(do you perhaps?), so I suppose I'll head out to the local equestrian club, and hit up some road-side paddocks out Brookfield way!



And because they're great, here are some things by Théodore Géricault and Rosa Bonheur! I love those big Shires and Pecherons.

PHEW

Semester one of third year complete, we're now into our 'holiday'! Really it's just a few weeks when we're excused from classes in order to get down to actually making our films, but hey, we need that!

In the first week of holiday I got the chance to work on an educational film about intensive farming - which involved designing a character and 2 minutes of lipsync. Time cuts and misunderstandings made it a pretty stressful experience, but I got a lot out of the project! (Not least the lipsync practise, which I definitely needed..) And the client was very happy, which is always good!!

I am taking a break now before starting film work - up top is a bird I drew today to relax. He's drinking a turkish coffee. His eyebrows grow naturally into fist shapes.


..You know that feeling you get upon finishing a project that, knowing what you NOW know, you could've completed the same project in a smaller timeframe and to a higher quality?

It's a bit disheartening when you're looking back on something, with no time left to change it, wishing you'd done it better -
BUT -
I suppose it's actually a very positive thing, because it means you're learning!!

So!

If I ever DON'T feel like that, THEN I'll start to freak out!

uni hohohohohoh uni

add a dab of lavender to milk; leave town with an orange, then pretend you're laughing at it!

In-progress stuff for our producing subject! We're pitching a television show for 8 to 13-year-olds set 70 years after the events of The Island of Doctor Moreau!