Huminah Huminah Animation

Minh Wings Shot 4 Shot - November!

2011-12-13T11:54:00.004-04:00

Minh becomes the first honourary member of our Shot 4 Shot of the month club within the Hammertown Huminah team!

Every month we will review the best of the best shots from our team animating on Nick Jr's Bubble Guppies season 2. The winner will recieve a gift card to the LCBO.

Congratulations Minh! (he does look happy doesn't he!)

Yasser & Josh reviewing some Mike The Knight Scenes

2011-09-22T00:14:00.002-03:00

Josh & Yasser reviewing some Mike The Knight Scenes. A Hit Entertainment and Nelvana series we've been working on.

Bearing Blasters Scientist designs

2011-09-16T14:05:00.004-03:00

Some designs for one of our UI characters from Bearing Blasters iPhone/iPad game in development.

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

2011-05-31T11:36:00.000-03:00

Nice eh?!

Coupla new Character designs at Huminah Animation

2011-03-25T10:40:00.001-03:00

Zombie Kids

2011-02-24T17:13:00.004-04:00

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

Huminah Huminah Christmas Party Orange Video

2010-12-22T16:32:00.003-04:00

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

2010-12-22T16:27:00.001-04:00

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

2010-12-22T15:49:00.004-04:00

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

2010-12-22T15:33:00.005-04:00

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

2010-12-10T11:01:00.002-04:00

Just takin a little off the top.

3D Environment - Modeling, lighting, and compositing

2010-11-17T14:28:00.002-04:00

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

Flamingo Logo we created (2 of them)

2010-11-17T13:01:00.002-04:00

Huminah crew working

2010-05-27T17:30:00.004-03:00

Congratulations Team Canada - Sidney Crosby & Don Cherry

2010-03-03T16:20:00.003-04:00

Chefs do Battle!

2009-09-08T12:55:00.004-03:00

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

2009-07-24T11:30:00.003-03:00

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

Huminah Christmas Party 2008

2009-01-10T20:09:00.009-04:00

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

2008-08-06T23:07:00.003-03:00

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

2008-08-06T22:57:00.005-03:00

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

2008-08-06T22:04:00.002-03:00

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!!!

2008-01-25T11:37:00.000-04:00

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

2007-10-03T10:05:00.000-03:00

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?

Beach Blanket Huminah

2007-08-30T08:51:00.000-03:00

So what do huminah animators and artists do when they work 10 hour days, 7 days a week? They go to the beach....and play UFC in the sand.

The Many Faces at Huminah Huminah Animation

2007-08-29T14:53:00.001-03:00

Christmas party pics 2006

2007-02-13T00:09:00.000-04:00

Pay special attention to the weigner brothers. I think it was some foam they found on the ground. Dont Jason and Irene pose like super models?? They should call Maxim magazine!

Christmas 2006 Gifts

2007-02-13T00:03:00.000-04:00

Christmas Gifts from Secret Santa 2006

2007-02-12T23:54:00.000-04:00

Gifts from the Secret Santa give-away, and two shots of Willy and Roach fighting with a stuffed Batman Toy. I think Batman won. Steff got a Yo yo for Christmas, YAY!, and as you can see Willy found himself in the glory of Roach's jealosy with the Ferar Roche chocolates he was given.

Piniata at Christmas Party 2006

2007-02-12T23:42:00.000-04:00

Steve Cassidy swinging at the Piniata missing it. I would keep lifting the rope so he'd keep missing it. Things got crazy when Jonvon pulled his pants down.

Huminah Huminah Christmas Party

2007-02-12T23:30:00.000-04:00

Finally got some time to post up the Christmas Party Pics. We hosted it at the studio as you can see. It was a complete and total success. A successful year in business, and great way to wrap the year up, celebrate Christ's Birthday with a group of friends and coworkers. Everyone had a full belly, and a great time. Thanks to all who participated. ***Special thanks to Angela, Paige, and Catheleen for preparing and catering the meal.*** More pictures to follow.

Nov 9 - 2006 more pics

2006-11-09T22:21:00.000-04:00

Our BG supervisor Ian, and myself hit the airways and headed out to Vancouver BC for a few days.
Unfortunatly we had to drive from Halifax to Moncton to catch the flight because (someone) not naming any names tried to save a few bucks on the flight. The (someone) didnt check the flight times and we ended up having to leave Halifax for Moncton at 2am.

Anyhow.. here's Ian posing next to quite an amazing poster we saw posted on the wall of a underground parking lot in Vancouver.

Next picture... we stayed at the Howard Johnson Hotel on Granville, and because we wanted a nice window view, we also got the nice neon sign view. Reminds me of the red neon chicken sign from Seinfeld.

Update Nov 9/2006

2006-11-09T22:13:00.000-04:00

So I've got some time to finally update the blog. Not as many fun outings this past month, everyones been too busy working, AND I had my wisdom tooth out (ouch). Although we are doing life-drawing now once a week, and flash animation classes twice a week. So if your reading this, live the Halifax area, and want to increase your post-graduate animation skills in flash... call the studio come on in. Tuesday and Thursday nights.

Enough talk.. pictures.. Below Adam T's showing up to work grumpy and wet after he forgot his umbrella at home during a quick downpour. Animators are so picky, its just water Adam!

Marshmellow Fridays

2006-09-25T21:23:00.000-03:00

I dont know how Breakfast Fridays turned into Marshmellow Fridays. (probably because they closed the greasy spoon down the road, and we're too busy to go out for breakfast on Fridays now) After pizza and pop, we had a contest to see who could stuff the most marshmellows in their mouth and still say the # of mellow's they had stuffed in there.

All I know is, I was up to ... 8? when Jonvon ran into the room, grabbed 23 of them out of the bag and stuffed them all in his mouth in a matter of 10 seconds.

Lets just say it got ugly folks. Yes, 'James Dean' - aka Willy got grossed out and puked up his mellows into the nearby garbage can.

Best Caricature

2006-09-25T21:10:00.000-03:00

In following FK's fantastic idea of doing an animation olympics, we kinda copied it and we're doing mini-events every week. ie.) Two weeks ago was the best Caricature contest. Steve C. won! Beside him you can see what Dave Mac looks like through Steve's eyes. *and he's showing off his nifty prize: A nifty 1 gig thumbdrive! (he looks different with no beard eh folks?)
I'll post the other caricatures when I get a chance to scan them all in. (with Ians help ;)

Next contest is best Halloween layout design, and also the best 2 minute short. The best 2 minute short picked will be produced by Huminah Huminah, and the creator gets to direct it!

Estrogen patches and ovarian cysts Oh My!

2006-09-21T11:37:00.000-03:00

The building we work in used to be an old medical clinic, so there are crazy things that have been left behind, old needles, Ovarian cyst jars, and of all things a wack of estrogen patches. We stuck a few estrogen patches onto Ian, and now he just sniffles uncontrollably at his desk. Or maybe its just the revisions...?
I dont know what those same patches did to Gord, but I think it was a bad idea from the looks of it.

Hair, hair, long beautiful animators hair...

2006-09-21T11:08:00.000-03:00

Yes, you too could have hair like this if you drink the water at Huminah Huminah. Something in the old medical clinic's pipes seems to promote hair growth!

Xbox's?! Whoa Christmas comes early.

2006-09-16T13:04:00.000-03:00

Do you think these two could smile anymore? Its a good thing Jons hands are visable and in plain sight, he's showing entirely too much affection for this toy.

p.s. - His attitude was totally different once we played Fight Night and i beat him in every match. He was ready to throw the controller and system out the window. What he didnt know (at the time) is that the reason I was winning was my fighters had higher chin, and heart stamina. (less likely to be knocked out) Alas, now he knows and my winning days are over.
Enjoy Ian and Jon!

Pizza Fridays

2006-09-16T12:58:00.000-03:00

I think i missed the sign 'Don't feed the animators'.

Below, you'll see Gord and Willy enjoying a drink and some food from Pizza Fridays at the studio. A good way to treat the crew, and put food in their bellies. I think they've gotten sick of the hotdogs everyday. I dont get requests to fill the fridge with them anymore.

Improv at HH in the pit!

2006-09-14T00:52:00.000-03:00

Improv at the studio on Friday at Lunch, worked out to be a blast. Fantastic idea to help artists work on their sillyness and posing. I think below Steve was supposed to be a run-way model. sexy..

Huminah Huminah Animation Blog Intro

2006-08-18T23:12:00.000-03:00

Heelloo Dollies... So, here we are. Rising up out of some dirty ol' sand. A Huminah Huminah Animation Blog. Special thanks goes to a good friend of ours, and very talented animator David Michaud (now over at Fatkat Animation) for suggesting we set this thing up. He said it'd be a good idea to keep people informed on the good word here at the studio!

We understand that many people may question what goes on behind those big brick walls surrounding the Huminah Huminah Animation studio.... They may ask themselves.. Are they actually working inside that big studio? Are there really circus elephants, blue flamingos and flying hellfish in there? Hrmm..and do their water fountains really flow with crisp cold root beer?

Well we will try to keep everyone thats really curious on the Huminah Empire on the up and up.

Thanks, and good night!
'Hard Work'n... Good Look'n Animation' - Mimmy 2006

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