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Morning Clouds Above AV

oil painting
9x12in oil on panel

I drove up to the ranch yesterday morning and just as I got to Alexander Valley the rain began to thin. The Light was marbled and beautiful so I pulled over below lake Elizabeth to paint. Worried about another downpour, I set up under the back door of my little hatch back car but it was all for not because the weather only improved. It was another gorgeous morning in Alexander Valley and I was happy to be back home once again. I didn’t even mind when the neighbor’s security guard stopped to interrogate me about trespassing.

oil painting
9x12in oil on panel
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Draw faster

Sterling looking out the office window
looking out over Burnaby

We just started drawing… In the beginning I rushed in and overdrew everything. I would walk into a pitch and have ten panels of boards. The directors of the movie, Donavan Cook and Norton Virgien, showed me the ropes and tossed out everything but the key drawings. Donavan would fold over and pin so many of my boars that the panels would look white. It was trial by fire and I quickly began to get the hang of storyboarding as we raced to put up the feature. I learned more in two months than three years of grad school at USC Animation. The original story team consisted of Kirk Hanson, Mike Bell, Francis Glebas, Andrei Svislotski, Vitaly Shafirov and myself. I am indebted to them all for showing me the ropes. Here are some pix I took as we moved into a partially built Vanguard studio in Burnaby B.C.

  • editingl on Space Chimps
    the Editor
  • story artist
    He’s a hugger
  • storyboard artists
    Boarding on Space Chimps
  • master storyboard artist
    Kirk
  • parking lot pic
    how exciting… the parking lot
  • Vitaly Shafirov storyboarding on Space Chimps
    storyboarding on Space Chimps
  • Vitaly Shafirov storyboarding on Space Chimps
    ehh
  • master storyboard artist Francis Glebas
    moving into the new office
  • Mike Bell storyboard artist
    working on Space Chimps
  • office
    lots to do
  • empty
    waiting for our desks
  • late night
    around the office
  • Directing Space Chimps
    Directing Space Chimps
  • twelve cameras
    Vitaly Shafirov makes cameras
  • the great
    hypnotic
  • Kirk Hanson master storyboard artist
    storyboarding away
  • moving into the office
    Setting up the office. Vanguard animation studios in Burnaby BC, Canada
  • Elizabeth Pellatt
    Flying into work
  • Mike Bell Storboard Artist
    drama
  • Sterling looking out the office window
    looking out over Burnaby
  • window
    board board artists
  • office
    boards to pin
  • Eric Lake in the editorial department
    Eric
  • pinning boards
    pinning boards
  • the new Vanguard office
    taking a break from setting up the new Vanguard office