Long Time No Duck

HEYA BUTT HEADS! I mean, sorry. Best buds.
I've been so deep in film production I almost forgot I had a blog. So here is a splattering of stuff for you.

Hey look! Using TVPaints crazy system called the stroke animator, I hand animated all this rain. Aint no cycles there. Pretty neat and really quick and easy for what I think are great results.

Here are some drawings.

Aint even gonna explain any of that haha.
HERE ARE SOME AMAZING ANIMATIONS:

Kairos Trailer: This is by some buddies of mine in Paris, former Gobelins students who formed Studio La Cachette. It's like French Ghibli!So unreal. I would looove to see a feature film of this. This is a trailer for a comic believe it or not!


KAIROS Trailer from Studio La Cachette on Vimeo.

New Gobelins short, Myosis. Not crazy about the narrative and themes (a little cliche) but visually? OH BABY!


Umbra: This one is slightly biased as it's my animation mentor Malcolm Sutherland's award winning piece. BUT IT'S SO GOOD.


Umbra (HD - 2010) from Malcolm Sutherland on Vimeo.

Late Night Work Club presents Ghost Stories: This is a collection of beautiful beautiful short films by some really out there unique animators. Take a load off, cos this one runs 40 minutes! BUT WORTH IT.
The most exciting piece of Alex Grigg's short "The Phantom Limb". This guy is the best working Australian Animator in my opinion.


Late Night Work Club presents GHOST STORIES from Late Night Work Club on Vimeo.

OK ALL DONE. HAVE FUN. GTA V midnight launch tonight what's a boy to do?!

art dumping

First a few more RP speed portraits.

Then a tour poster for Bareback Titty Squad who are blowing up right now! Woo.

And for my man Sam some class portraits for Adventure Chorus, a pen and paper system based off our Beast Chorus setting.

Bit o the ol art

HAVE SOME ART

Some goofy art for a project I might start soon.

 Hey look new duck designs for 2013!

Some goofy fan art for Nerd Poker

Some goofy other art!

Hey look, the Duck's composer Austin Wintory as a duck!

My best idea ever!? Dungeons and Dinosaurs.

The Wedding Online Premiere

My graduate film The Wedding has just premiered online through Short of the Week!

They have a really flattering write up/review on it too.

So here the sucker finally is (I finished it like a year ago!)

The Wedding from Simon Cottee on Vimeo.

And also a super all over the place, long and totally out of focus Duck video update that I probably should have never uploaded!


Oh and a new Beast Chorus entry!

Ducks 2013

HEYDUCKS2013 OH MY!
A bit of a dump of junk.
HEY A VIDEO UPDATE FOR THE DUCK


Annnnd I was the illustrator for the 2nd issue of the very cool Brisbane writers journal Stilts. Here are some of the illustrations that I drew like... almost a year ago!

There are more in the issue too!
Annnnd here are my christmas cards for 2012. The last one is for my big sister of course.

ANNNNNND here is an amazing picture I found that I forgot I drew and was wrongfully put into a folder called mess. It should be in a folder called Masterpiece.

I sure like pink hey.

Hey some duck background samples why not

More... pink!?

Oh and we have a bunch of new Beast Chorus entries that you may have missed, they gettin better and better! Here is a little sample of one illustration, but it's the written pieces that my man Samuel Maguire writes that makes it!

Wait a second... that looks very... OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD