Best eavestrougher in the West. Or--central.

My dad owns his own eavestroughing bi'ness back in Winnipeg called "Quality Eavestroughing" - and it surely is! He is a major perfectionist, and is amazing at all he does. So after over 35 years of doing amazing work, he finally got voted best eavestroughing business for 2011! I decided to caricature him and his award for the occasion.

When I showed this to my dad, he laughed for over 5 minutes. His safari hat and signature yellow suspenders made this look just like him! If you knew him, you'd see it :)

Go dad!

"Tah-Dah" - now available on the web!

"Tah-Dah" [2009] from Stacey Chomiak on Vimeo.

Since the film fests have started to die down [although this month "Tah-Dah" was screened in five different locations alone, yahoo!], I thought it was time to put it online. I hope everyone enjoys!

Aloha, a second award for "Tah-Dah"!

I have to agree with a close friend who recently said to me in excitement: "I can't believe how much you have been able to squeeze out of that little film!" Neither can I!

I have just been informed that, "Your film has been chosen to receive the Aloha Accolade Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Honolulu International Film Festival. The Festival will take place April 24th and 25th, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort at Spa."


My film won in the Student Film category, how exciting! I am honored. If only I could figure a way of going to accept the award.....hmmmmm... :)

"Tah-Dah" wins its' first award!

I received some great news today from the folks at the Canada International Film Festival, hosted in Vancouver, BC in March, 2010! Read some of the email below the poster :)


"Congratulations! Your film has been chosen to receive the Royal Reel Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival.

The Festival will take place March 19 - 21, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

Our judges felt that your film was among the very best of the several hundreds of films submitted from over 30 countries around the world and deserving of special recognition. Only a maximum of 10 films per competition category are selected to be honored with this prestigious award.

You are invited to accept your award in person at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival."

Yahoo! I won in the Best Animation category, which is superfab. I'd love to go in person to accept the award... who knows, perhaps I'll find myself around there in March :)

Ox on YouTube

I know I have been SO lax in the posting as of the last few weeks, but it has been NUTSO with finishing at FP, visiting the Peg for a couple weeks, driving back to Oakville, moving AND starting 4th year this week.....PHEW!!

I am beginning work on my film and am getting super pumped, stay tuned for concept jazz to begin to pop up. In the meantime, here is our 3rd year film, The Celestial Ox, now posted on YouTube. Yay!



It is also on Teletoon's site, since we made it as a finalist for the scholarship - yay x 2!

http://www.teletoon.com/scholarship

Onward and upward!

UPDATE: "The Celestial Ox" won Teletoon Viewer's Choice award at the Ottawa Intl Animation Fest! Go team!

Arte Y Pico

I deserve a slap on the wrist.

I have been graciously given a blogger award by my dear and not-so-near-right-now friend Daphne, over at Five Foot Under, entitled the Arte Y Pico blogger award!

And this happened a few weeks ago, and I am supposed to put a pic of the award on my blog and I am now just getting around to it.

No excuses for me! Except to say that this is the first weekend I feel I can finally breathe in this uber-clean East Aurora air and say to myself, hmmm...what shall I plan for today? [It is OH SO nice!]

So without further adeu, I shall heftily thank my pal Daphers and post the award pic. Yay, awards!

Here is the criteria:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her/him the award itself.4. The Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte Y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.5. To show these rules.


And the Nominees are...

1 - Garrett Hanna at his blog here. Garrett is in my year at Sheridan, and is currently doing his internship at Silicon Knights doing concept work. He is unbelievably talented, and I can't stop myself from staring at his work almost every day.

2 - Mark Mayerson at his blog here. Mark was my second year animation teacher, and I admire his blog because it is consistently chalk full of worthy and important animation info, analysis and general interesting topics.

3 - Nate Wragg at his blog here. Nate works at Pixar and I love, love, love, LOVE his style. Constant inspirato flows from this dude!

4 - Chris Steingart at his blog here. I worked with Chris at a previous art dept, and I love his laid-back-ness and love for art, drawing and rock! He inspires me and I love his attitude and his artwork.

5 - Pete Emslie at his blog here. Pete is a generally great guy, amazing artist and terrific teacher to boot! He taught me second year character design, and I always get inspired by his line quality, caricaturing ability and pure sense of fun in his drawings.

Yay for everyone!