Saturday Shorts #1

Its been such a long while since i've posted anything but, my life is starting to take on some semblence of a schedule, and blogging happens to be a part of that new schedule, so to make a long story short, prepare to be seeing alot more of me on here.
With that said im starting a new weekly post called Saturday Shorts (not the most inventive title i know) but i Love <3 Animation, that much is clear and i though id share some of the shorts i really enjoyed during the week. So Look out for it every Saturday.
Lets Start

WILL by  Eusong Lee

Really enjoyed this short, poignant and heartbreaking, this actually pulled at my heart strings abit.

Jack Nicoleson by  Mitsuyuki ISHIBASHI 


This video was just way too much fun, and the song is hella catchy, great lil story as well.

Perfume- Desktop Disco


This is awesome and i can see it being applied to an Augmented Reality app..hmm maybe it is :P

SWELTER by Jacob Streilein

The Art Direction and Story is this is fantastic, the story reminds me abit  of The Road

That's all folks til next week

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2012 Futurespective

"YOU DON'T PUT TWO BRICKS DOWN AND EXPECT A HOUSE TO BE DONE" 

Having conversation with a friend of mine and this nugget of inspiration came up, which pretty much sums up how i feel about 2012.

I've been contemplating writing this blog post since the beginning of the year, and its not so much about procrastinating,...ok maybe it has but as i dug alil deeper and sometimes the hardest thing we have to do is well...DO.

And not only DO but keep doing, the hardest part for any project is starting, and our biggest keep back is fear and self doubt, and always waiting for the right moment, which frankly doesn't exist. So im looking to 2012 as the year i make mistakes lol

The year i push forward my art

The year i grow this awesome company i'm with

Oh! if you didn't know LAB206 Celebrated a year.
One Great Year of growing and learning and experimenting, and i couldn't be more prouder of the guys and gals at the lab, its been an awesome expereince so far and if its any indication of how my year started its gonna be one hell of a ride for 2012.

SO HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS (despite i'm like 17 days in january)

Tardy tardy

I've been very delinquent with regards to updating my blog, and i must apologize.

Been busy with a million and one things.

One good thing is......I've been working on new art YAY..this is short post as i cant actually think of anything to write.

When i get some more time i'll fill you in on some of the projects thats keeping me away from this thing.

In the meantime check out my new arts.

Its based on an idea i had from watching GAME OF THRONES which is EPIC..lol

My First but not Last Animation Film

I titled this post because if you've ever done animation and completed one project you can begin to realize how daunting tackling another short can be. Its an amazing feeling putting something out there that you have such a connection with and the thing is with my film i didn't realize that i did.
I wrote the story, watered it down abit to what it finally became and thought that was that, i finished my film graduated and my life as an animator began. I didn't realize that what i put down on screen would be some from of Catharsis. I purged myself of some feelings in that piece that i didn't even know i had to the point where every time i see the film i get an emotional reaction out of it, and it's not simply the fact that i finished it ( pats self on back) it's more than that.

The things we do sometimes when were not aware of it, makes me think about the fact that we can only deal with something when we are absolutely read to deal with it.

Hope you enjoy it, it certainly isn't the last film from me, but it definitely means alot.

UN.TITLE.D from Rene Holder on Vimeo.

My Life til now

Sometimes we lose sight of our goals, as we get older they change and grow for the better or the worse, when you're a kid you wanna be a doctor, lawyer etc. Funnily enough I've always wanted to be an artist or in the arts, I've always known that THIS what I'm doin or working towards doing right now is what I wanted to do, maybe not exactly ( can't rememeber that far back, lol) but I know it's in the general area. Funny enough I can't remember when I made the decision, any of my decisions that lead me up to this point, it seems more like a gradual progression that a calculated growth.

As a kid I liked to draw and I liked cartoons as do most kids, saw akria when I was like 12 on sci fi, and then I was like hell yes, I love animation and from then on I've immersed myself in the art form I consider to be japanese animation, started drawing and conceptualisng ideas and worlds based on the premise that I knew at that age, then I saw james hackett's work in vox magazine and a light came on in my head telling me that I don't need to leave this country to pursue what I wanna do, at the time I was pursuing a field in graphics, forgoing school work and only focusing on that single minded pursuit.

Went to the first Animae Caribe a couple years later in 2002 and a ray of hope of actually pursuing animation in trinidad was becoming a reality which was only realized 7 years later at UTT by the hard work of Camille Abrahams,( love this woman :p)

During the program, yea there was ups and downs but I think it really helped me to narrow my focus and made me realize the person that I am and have to be, being around like minded people that shared your passions is such a driving force and I will never regret meeting them, and now we working towards building a company with our passions being the driving force.

As much as this was a diarrhea of the mind looking back I don't think I ever made a concious decision to do anything in my life, I always felt like this is what I have to do, (thanks god for having supportive parents ) and that's why I feel so strongly about certain things. This is not something I picked up, this is a passion for me, a life and I intend to pursue it hard without looking back.