Sketching the white whale.

Some animation.

2012-03-03T23:42:00.001-08:00

Animation Starting

2012-02-07T11:53:00.001-08:00

BOUNCE

2012-01-27T14:56:00.000-08:00

Probably best viewed here: http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=fQrtbi4APUM

Rig Test

2012-01-27T11:58:00.000-08:00

Testing my Rigging.

Testing color.

2012-01-20T11:20:00.001-08:00

What does everyone think?

Ahh!

2012-01-19T21:56:00.001-08:00

Nuclear?!

2011-12-15T14:23:00.000-08:00

A test I did for my last assignment in CG animation III Still rough. And I need to do the Lip sync still.Winter is coming. Did you bring your coat?

One model done!

2011-12-12T18:55:00.001-08:00

End of Semester Walk

2011-12-11T20:38:00.001-08:00

Walking. Thought this might be interesting to see how far I've come in a semester. Eyes are weird because of looping.

48 Hour Film

2011-11-13T12:02:00.001-08:00

Finished

2011-11-10T14:12:00.001-08:00

Finished it. Not entirely happy, but learned a lot. Going on things should be much better.

Coming togetherS

2011-11-07T18:43:00.000-08:00

Somethings from the past month.Top is the model for my character.Coming together.

Work In Progress

2011-10-20T14:57:00.000-07:00

Should be finished soon.

Animation

2011-10-03T00:11:00.000-07:00

Its already October! Heres my first animation test of the year. I feel I may have inbetweened too quickly, and my timing is a little janky. But otherwise I'm pretty proud of this. Its the first time I think I've fully understood what I was doing while animating. Only took me about 8 years.

Progress

2011-09-29T15:40:00.001-07:00

Glitches

2011-09-26T13:23:00.001-07:00

Here we goooo.

2011-09-24T23:59:00.001-07:00

Let modeling begin.

Character Design

2011-09-23T15:49:00.000-07:00

We had to design ourselves for Phil Rydna's Character Design class.

Walk Cycles

2011-09-22T15:29:00.000-07:00

Been practicing my walks before sinking my teeth into CG again.

Animation

2010-03-20T02:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1268854707

ANIMATION.

2010-02-20T21:40:00.001-08:00

One background.

2010-02-20T15:29:00.001-08:00

One background to rule them all,
One background to find them,
One background to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them.

Painting

2010-02-06T00:13:00.000-08:00

Painting I did for Sarah. This picture is of poor quality.... It looks much better in person.

Rad How To.

2010-01-31T16:01:00.000-08:00

Just found this via Steve Macleod's blog. Its CRAZY helpful. All sorts of drawings tips. I had to share.

http://radhowto.blogspot.com/

More Fun With Ink....

2010-01-12T00:32:00.000-08:00

CalArts is staring back soon. Film tiiiiiimmmmeeee..... I'm excited.

Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor...

2010-01-07T22:58:00.000-08:00

Aaaaaaaaannnd I'm done.

2009-12-17T15:17:00.000-08:00

Boo!

2009-12-15T13:50:00.001-08:00

Progresssss....

2009-12-13T02:30:00.000-08:00

The Little Island

2009-12-11T12:39:00.000-08:00

Richard Williams early work. I really like this film.

Dooooodle

2009-12-02T16:00:00.000-08:00

More film development.

2009-11-30T17:29:00.000-08:00

More development of my film idea.

Bluuuuue Jay.

2009-11-30T16:10:00.000-08:00

A blue jay. I'm a blue today.

CG?!

2009-11-29T12:48:00.000-08:00

My first foray into computer animation and modeling! Its a chicken, yes.

Disneyland sketches!

2009-11-28T18:37:00.000-08:00

Some sketches that I did from my families annual trip to Disneyland!

Booooreeddd....

2009-11-15T18:25:00.000-08:00

Waiting to use the sound computers

I slept on my neck funny.

2009-11-15T12:57:00.001-08:00

48 hour film progress

2009-11-14T12:06:00.000-08:00

48 HOUR FIIILLLM.

2009-11-14T06:48:00.000-08:00

I'M WORKING ON IT RIGHT NOW. I'M REALLY TIRED. BUT I'M ON AN ANIMATION HIGH! WOOOOOO!

Tim Burton!

2009-11-13T22:22:00.000-08:00

Another doodle! Wooo!

Doodle!

2009-11-13T21:58:00.001-08:00

Testing some photoshop skillz.

Rainy day.

2009-11-13T16:56:00.000-08:00

Perspective homework! Stairs and reflections. I love rainy days. It rained a little yesterday. Sprinkled really. I'm hoping for more.

Visual Development

2009-11-12T15:42:00.000-08:00

Some visual development on my film idea.

More Figure drawings

2009-11-07T12:33:00.000-08:00

I need to get more personal stuff on here....

Figure Drawings

2009-10-28T18:23:00.000-07:00

Art dump of my figure drawings for the past two weeks.

An assignment for my perspective class.

2009-10-05T10:01:00.000-07:00

GAH. I wanted to post another one but its missing. I'm going to guess deleted by accident. I'll have to scan the one I printed when I get a change.

More stuff to come.

HAI GUYS!

2009-05-12T08:08:00.000-07:00

Sooooo..... Its been awhile.

A long while. But anyway.

Exciting news: I'm going to California Institute of the Arts next fall for Character Animation! Class of 2013! Woooooooooo!

I'm excited and terrified at that same time! And I'm so ready for next year to start up and me to get working on a film and learnin' me to animate and such.

This is some animation from my Animation 201 class:

I needed to post something here right? I'll have more for whoever reads this coming up.

Left Handed Figure Drawing!

2009-02-19T21:12:00.000-08:00

FIGURE DRAWING?! WITH MY LEFT HAND?! MADNESS?! THIS! IS! SPARTA!

Its been awhile...

2009-02-17T22:59:00.000-08:00

IT'S DONE! OH MY GOD IT'S DONE!

2008-12-26T21:00:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas y'all!

Today I took it upon myself to finish my portfolio. And I did. I'm quite relieved.

I just realized these are in the wrong order... To view from the beginning go to the bottom and proceed upwards.

These are from Thursday.

2008-11-21T16:33:00.000-08:00

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"We've got war, recession, and bad morgage loans!"

2008-11-18T23:50:00.000-08:00

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A couple I've liked.

2008-11-14T15:25:00.001-08:00

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Finger lickin' chikin'

2008-11-05T23:27:00.000-08:00

S'more from terday.

2008-10-23T16:14:00.000-07:00

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Fig'r drawlin' 2

2008-10-22T21:24:00.000-07:00

I really liked these ones.

3/3

2008-10-13T20:10:00.000-07:00

Some Hi-Res pictures from my camera. This is stuff I'm considering for my portfolio. Some repeats but you can all deal with that.

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2/3

2008-10-13T20:07:00.000-07:00

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Portfolio Stuff.

2008-10-13T19:51:00.000-07:00

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Characature Day.

2008-10-10T22:00:00.001-07:00

Again sorry for the quality. Working on some batteries. Real soon. Yup.

Excuse me, Figure Drawings.

2008-10-08T22:11:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the low resolution, they're cell phone pictures. I need to buy some batteries for my camera.

Fig'r drawlin'

2008-10-05T01:31:00.000-07:00

2008-09-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

Check out 0:46.

Stuck in a rut.

2008-09-07T09:22:00.000-07:00

Yes I'm still very much alive. And very happily now located in Valencia. I finished a sketchbook in the first week I was down here and am now very happy with how I'm drawing. However, two days ago, I was drawing and it all looked like crap. I couldn't figure out why.

When someone pointed out to me (Prez if you know him first year CalArts) that I circle all the joints and the head which kind of makes every drawing cookie cutter. Taking his advice, I started drawing shapes I saw for the quick gesture and not circles.

I personally am much happier with my artwork now that I'm out of that rut.

Doug TenNapel.

2008-08-14T15:23:00.000-07:00

A Caricature I did of Doug TenNapel. You can check out his blog to the right.

Anyone?

2008-08-13T18:09:00.001-07:00

Anyone struggling to get to figure drawing sessions? Well I recently discovered this little website.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/

3-D Models nude of everything (including skin!) posing in positions humans can actually get into from any angle you wish.

Its no substitute for figure drawing, but I just filled 20 pages of my sketchbook thanks to it.

Moosecrabjellyfish

2008-08-09T03:45:00.000-07:00

A quick digital painting done with love.

AHHHHHH?!

2008-07-19T23:35:00.000-07:00

I NEED TO GO DRAW.

LIKE NOW.

WHO'S WITH ME!

Nightmarish Construction Workers.

2008-07-02T14:04:00.001-07:00

I've been told this is the latest CHADES.

Lets hope its true.

Please ignore the video.

2008-04-29T21:12:00.000-07:00

I heard a song today. I really liked it. My friend lent me the CD. I listen to it probably three more times, then I went on You Tube and found the music video. I'm sorry to say it is animated horridly in flash with bland generic character designs that made me want to vomit. However, I did love the backgrounds.

I warn you, this video is not appropriate for all ages.

Without further ado, the great song A Little Piece of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold.

I've got some animation to upload on this blog, I'll get it and a couple more sketches up sometime this week.

Rejected.

2008-03-28T07:46:00.000-07:00

CHADES CHALLENGE.

2008-03-14T08:20:00.000-07:00

My first foray into the CHADES challenge.

A sad totem.

A lack of posts...

2008-03-06T20:17:00.000-08:00

A lack of posts have occured due to a series of events beyond my control.

1) My computer crashed.

2) It's crunch time in the studio to make our personal films.

3) Senior year is crazy.

So I'll try to scan some of my recent drawings in the studio.

Its acceptance letter time! I'll post here with my news as it comes.

New Sketchbook.

2008-02-06T09:30:00.000-08:00

I finished a sketchbook. Now I have a cool little small sketchbook I got from my friend when he went to Italy. Its leather with the virtuitain man on the front. I'm rather happy with it. Other than the fact that it has little leather tassels on it. Here are too little reduced size sketchbook pages.

Guy in a hoodie. Prisma marker and pen.

A poorly rendered Mr. Sullivan! Pen.

Burton on Burton.

2008-01-17T20:51:00.000-08:00

Anyone not draw in an insanley long time and come out of it a little better. I did alot of observation while on 'break.' I think its helped overall. It was kind of nice, it relieved all this pressure I felt about HAVING to draw a certain way.

I've also been intimidated, other artists are so much better than me. Why can't I draw like that? I came to a conclusion, I'm me. I can't draw like anyone else I can draw like me. All these sparks were created after I read Burton on Burton, Tim Burtons semi-autobiography conducted through interviews. In one passage Burton says:

I remember going through art school, and you've got to take life drawing, and it was a real struggle. Instead of encouraging you to express yourself and draw like you did when you were a child, they start going by the rules of society. They say, 'No. No. You can't draw like this. You have to draw like this.' And I remember one day I was so frustrated - because I love drawing, but I'm actually not that good at it. But one day something clicked in my brain. I was sitting and sketching and thought, 'Fuck it, I don't care if I can draw or not. I feel like doing it.' And I swear to God, from one second to the next I had a freedom which I hadn't had before.

I guess I kind of had that moment. By the way, Burton on Burton is a GREAT book for Tim Burton fans.

Anyway heres some results.

Of pencils and layouts.

2007-12-22T08:55:00.000-08:00

Its been awhile since I promised dailies. And I haven't really been all that busy. Awkward...

Anyway.

Every once in awhile I do a pencil sketch that makes me think I should work with pencil more often. This is one of them.

These are background layouts for my film. Which I now have to get back to working on.

Whew!

2007-12-03T18:33:00.000-08:00

CalArts will accept my portfolio for the preferred deadline!

I'm gonna try for daily on these posts. I'm trying something different by slowing down my drawings a bit, adding more detail etc. I'm liking the results.

Well shit...

2007-12-02T22:19:00.000-08:00

FedEx has proved itself incompetent.

My portfolio DID NOT get mailed off because and I quote:

"We forgot to pick up the package."

Well... Thats that.

2007-11-30T09:13:00.000-08:00

I applied for CalArts, I sent in my application and portfolio for Overnight mail to Valencia.

I'll have a little more time to update this blog now. Expect more drawings to comment on soon.

I've been drawing a lot.

2007-11-08T23:56:00.000-08:00

The title kind of says it all. I finished a sketchbook a few days ago and boy, let me tell you I love that sense of accomplishment. It screams: "Oy, I've been drawing a lot."

Drying out watercolor marker and Graphic Micron.

Drying out watercolor marker and Graphic Micron.

Twin Sided Sharpie.

Highlighter, Drying Red Sharpie, Twin Sided Sharpie.

Comments, as always, are appreciated.

Gesture Sketch

2007-10-30T13:20:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch gesture sketch I did while I was at theatre.

Fine Black Sharpie
Ultra Fine Blue Sharpie

Feel free to comment.

Batman Goes Shopping

2007-08-20T20:14:00.001-07:00

Even Batman needs toilet paper and milk.

A horse is a horse of course.

2007-08-15T03:26:00.000-07:00

A horse!

Just a quick observational sketch of the Horse next door.

The Throughly Modern Bat.

2007-08-11T23:14:00.000-07:00

(Thumbnail size, click for full version.)

THE BATMAN! Whom I'm currently obsessed with. Best superhero ever. Period.

I actually did do some life drawing but this was far more intresting than anything else I drew today. I drew some people whom were at Wal-Mart and then a few at the musical I went to go see, which gives this post its name, Throughly Modern Milly. It wasn't that great, but it was slightly amusing, and I knew a bunch of people who were in the play so it was fun seeing them.

I don't intend on being this regular with my posts in the future, but two days in a row is pretty lucky. So be content. Enjoy it while it lasts.

(Edit: I've suddenly realized that I published the only two posts in my blog on the same day. So Its not two days in a row but two in one day. Lucky you.)

Welcome!

2007-08-11T00:41:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog of doom. This will mostly be about letting people see my awesome (Ha ha ha ha ha... ha... ha... ha... yes.) artwork.

CSSSA's done. I'm sad, I miss my CalArts. But I am coming back, even if I have to wait a few years to get there, I'll be back. I've decided without a doubt that its where I want to go to continue my education.

The simple cowboy above is a quick drawing to get this started or I'll never get this done. (This being the first post) I'll post more life drawing and such once I have some I didn't do at CSSSA. Which will be... tommorow, hopefully I'll scan them.

Alright.

Thats about it.

Thanks for reading.