The Fantastic Forkes

Art blog of Cody Forkes, Animator at Pipeline Studios. @montyp

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Korok stickers!

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A Zelda print from last year!

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My favourite prints I made for Comic Con. A tryptic, with each piece based on one of the original Star Wars movies.  I spent a lot of time on these ones and had a lot of fun slipping in references throughout each one.

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A Star Wars themed print for Comic Con. 

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Another Pokemon print done for Comiccon. Pokemon GO!

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Some Pokemon/Avatar prints I made for comiccon. I also made them as stickers!

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It's been six months today; I think it's time to finally put my Sheridan Animation thesis film out there! Thanks to Liam Gallagher for providing all of the music, and everyone who supported me and/or allowed me to use their faces and characters in this film.

"I See What You're Saying"

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3D Animation - Zombie

This is just a quick bit of Animation using Sony's zombie rig. I just needed a 100-frame animation for a rendering assignment so I put this together pretty quickly the other night. I haven't really animated in 3D for about two years, so it was surprising how easy it was to get back into it. I hope to get into some more involved 3D pieces after the thesis film is completed!

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Lip Sync Here's another short animation test from a while back. Audio clip is from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.

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Samurai I'm 1/4 of the way done my last year at Sheridan, the year I spend working on my thesis film! Which means I haven't been working on much other art lately. But, here's a short piece I worked on a while back to keep the blog alive.

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Mort Here it is at last, our Third Year Group Film, Mort. This was the product of a lot of work and lot of learning this year by our group. I'll post my production work in the coming weeks.

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Is there anywhere to view the Mort animated film? I saw it at Sheridan during the 3rd year viewing and thought it was amazing. Just wanting to watch it again :)

Hey, thanks for the interest! Glad you liked the film. Unfortunately we won't be putting it online immediately because we're looking into the possibility of submitting it to a few animation festivals. When we do upload it though, it'll certainly be announced here, along with some unreleased (pre)production art, so keep an eye out!

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Mort - Layout I've been a bit slow on updates lately and will continue to be until the end of the semester. Everything I'm working on at this point is for Mort and it's tough to find things to post that aren't spoilers. For now here's my fourth and final(ish) layout for the film.

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Mort - Character Lineup

Here's the final character lineup for Mort! I cleaned up this lineup and did the colours.

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Life Drawing - Characters

An assignment for our costumed life drawing this semester was to take one pose for four of the costumes and turn them into character design pieces. They had to look like they came from the same production. I was focused on film work at the time so I went for a fairly simple graphic approach.

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Life Drawing - Year Three, Semester Two, Part 1

Costumed life drawings this semester! Really enjoying it. It lends itself a lot more to personality and story in the poses, both on my end drawing, and on the model's end posing. See a whole lot of drawings here.

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Space Race - 24 Hour Film

Last week was Reading Week at Sheridan, a time when they try to organize the 24 Hour Film event. The objective is to create an entire film from scratch within the span of 24 hours. To that end I created Space Race, from 11 AM Thursday to 11 AM Friday. It's stressful and limiting, but a cool feeling to see something come together completely to quickly. It's definitely got some pacing issues and animation limitations, but for one day's work I like how it turned out.