New Tank Game we're developing, some concept art!

Nice eh?!

Coupla new Character designs at Huminah Animation

Zombie Kids

Designs for a new game and shorts series we're developing. Shhh.. don't tell anyone!

Huminah Huminah Christmas Party Orange Video

So, we play a game every year during the Huminah Christmas party. Its 'pass the orange under your neck'. We take a small group from the party, split them into two teams and line them up in front of everyone to watch. The object is to move the orange down the line AND back to the start without using your hands. Very funny... favorites in this video I'd say would be Rob & Chris, and the Deanna and Yasser fiasco.

HHA Christmas Dinner 3

I don't know who this girl is but wow she's cute... (ok its my wife)
A coupla of the guys hanging around the pool table enjoying Christmas cheer.
Christmas Dinner with the crew.

Huminah Christmas Party 2010 - 2

Haley wins... 'noise cancelling headphones for sinking the 8 ball'? She wasn't sure what they were, but Dan assures me now she's realized how cool her Bose noise cancelling headphones are. I don't know how we didn't get it but Dan also won the 'Sink the eightball challenege' and won himself an Xbox 360 from Santa's grab bag. Something funny going on when BOTH Dan and his girlfriend win the eightball challenge.
Rob wins a Wii at Pin the tail on the girly doll. (really we had a cute poster of a girl that he pinned the pigtail pretty much exactly on the bullseye) You can tell from this photo that he was a little surprised.
Josh wins iPad! oh wait it was Secret Santa. He kept leaving it behind though all night wherever he went... why were you so absent minded Josh??

Huminah Huminah Christmas Party Photos 2010

What did this guy win?!? Merry Christmas Y!
We all had a great time during our annual Huminah Christmas Party. Good turnout again, buffet turkey dinner with all the fixings. Even enough veggies for our vegan and vegetarian crew. Thankyou to the Alehouse in Halifax for all the great food and beer. (did I say beer?) Funny story about the beer... when we arrived I asked for 12 pitchers of beer for the table. They forgot I think and I pulled a server girl aside and asked for the beer again... then 10 minutes went by and we're starting to eat and no beer yet. I again pulled a girl aside and said (respectfully) 'hey where's our beer?'.
Needless to say, we ended up with 36 pitchers of beer.... Josh said he had a good night but can't remember the tail end of it...

Samurai haircut

Just takin a little off the top.

3D Environment - Modeling, lighting, and compositing

Pretty neat environment our boys put together. Thought to share it.

Flamingo Logo we created (2 of them)

Huminah crew working

Congratulations Team Canada - Sidney Crosby & Don Cherry

Chefs do Battle!

Just some development art for a new cooking show a client asked us to design. (for the intro/title trailer)

Tribute to the King of Pop - Michael Jackson

A tribute to The King Of Pop... - Michael Jackson.
Thankyou to Jason for the nice piece.

Huminah Christmas Party 2008

Wow! What a year this has been! Huminah has been very busy working on a lot of different projects. From "Spaceballs" to "Chloe's Closet", the entire crew has been working exta hard to produce amazing results. This year Huminah has hired a lot of new faces, bringing the total number to 35 artists. Below are the pictures from this years Christmas Party held at the local legion.

Adam explaining the rules for the game...."Pin the pigtail on a cartoon character"

Jaison turned out to be the big winner of the game, and won an Xbox! Lucky guy.

Joe is enjoying the party!

As well as Steve Cassidy!

Matthew having fun.

That, my friends, is the perfect dart throwing pose.

Adam and his wife Ang enjoying some time together after the big party.

BBQ at new studio

Darryl Bisson - Lead animator at his work station. (they cant get up from their desks as the timed leg shackles automatically open up only when the sun goes down and its totally dark out)

For those that are curious, Pizza Fridays has turned into BBQ Fridays... which has kind of turned into as much meat as you can stuff into your belly every day of the week. We've struck a deal with a local butcher who gives us great deals on boxes of fresh Grade E meat. (kidding grade A stuff.. good food) The guys love it. Lunch time you can often see everyone out front sitting quietly enjoying the sun with plates full of steak, burgers and pork ribs. "A dream come true" says Adam Terrio supervising animator and resident butterfly collector.

Two new studio locations + photos

I forgot to mention, we also have a location now fulltime in Los Angeles with producer Sandra Caryl at the helm for us. We'll get some photo's of her and the crew down there up on the blog shortly as well.

Within this post a few shots from the new Halifax studio!

(Yes we have whole building, about 3000 square feet combine this with the studio up the road (old location we have 8000 square feet of raw production power!)

There you also see a picture of Darryl Bisson (lead animator), Yasser Haidar (director) and myself (professional staple remover) discussing I think at the time some animation direction for animated series Space Balls (G4 TV). We JUST finished the work on this show.

Update- Huminah

Well, its been sometime since our last posting. Upon much persistence from Mrs Manku, I'm doing a quick update of things over at Huminah + some photo's.

Huminah Huminah Animation is quite busy. We've just finished season 1 on animated series Speed Racer, we worked with our friends at Collaidascope for both Animation Collective and Lionsgate on this project, and what a project it was! Looks like its a hit on Nickelodeon so far, plenty good ratings! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89zi1z8X3w

We also have started I'm a Dinosaur. A 52 x 2 minute coproduction with our friends in Quebec - Subsequence Entertainment! www.Im-A-Dino.com Soon to be airing on TVO, Knowledge Network, TFO, and SCN, with Monster Distributes distributing the project world wide!
Stay tuned for some storyboard and character designs to be shared on the blog!

BIG NEWS, We now have our own building. We bought a new building located at 40 Pleasant Street. Known as 5 Corners today.. back in the 1800's known as Burtons Hill. The building is an old colonial house converted into a new studio! Fantastic hardwood floors, big rooms with windows everywhere, plenty of fresh air for the artists and located closer to downtown amenities(sp). Pictures to come shortly.

Huminah's First Cintiq!!!

Well, we got it! After a long wait, Huminah just got its first cintiq for the studio, and does it ever look beautiful. Lead character designer/animator Adam Terrio was the first to have it on his desk, and it looks like hes not going to give it up anytime soon.

Huminah Paintball

Ahhhh paintball. Where else can you bond with your close mates and take out your fustration by shooting them all over their body? This years event was a big success, and hopefully will continue each year. By the way, can you guess where Terrio was hit?