Moonshot!

Hey!  So, I posted this a while back, along side some other fun space images:

Well, here it is colored!  Got a bit carried away :)  And there's definitely a lens flare in there.

This project definitely showed me that I'll need a new Wacom soon.  I've got a pretty old 3" x 4" Graphire3... it turns out it's pretty horrible at inking.  I had to use Illustrator's Live Trace feature to create outlines from my base scan.  It's definitely a cool feature with a ton of control, but of course, it's just not the same as pencil-in-hand.  Or, rather, stylus in hand...

Cheers!

AM week 3! Second Pass!

AAAaaaand week three brings us to a second pass, or "blocking plus" on Sailor Stewie!  Still working on character, but the primary emphasis of this semester is body mechanics.  Not too happy with the end, but changed up the grabbing of the cannonball a bit, and added a cartoon-scramble, which I'm fairly happy with...

Enjoy!

AM Class 3 Week 2!

Well here we are at week 2 of class 3 at AnimationMentor!  So excited to be back in AM after my leave of absence in Norway and Latvia!

Here is my blocking pass for my first shot of this semester, Sailor Stewie loads a cannon!  Now time to get back to work...

A quick little sketch...

So I took a semester off from AnimationMentor with all my travels this summer, and there's only four and a half weeks left until my Advanced Body Mechanics class!

So as such, I'll be doing various sketches such as this one to get warmed up and keep on practicing!

2011 Animation Reel

Animation Mentor Class 2 vids!

Here is a collection of the assignments from class 2 at Animation Mentor!

Final Assignment: A Ninja Heist!

...and the animated thumbnail sketches!

Some of my Photography!

So I have this awesome **film camera** called the Diana Mini that I picked up a bit ago.  It lets you take multiple exposures and general messing-around-awesomeness.  It gets some suprising results!

Greetings from Skjolden, Norway!

Hey y'all! Just figured I'd drop a quick post before I head out to Riga, Latvia with my Navigator buds! We leave tomorrow morning taking planes, trains and automobiles! No net connections out there, so here's a couple pics and a quick lil sketch of my Latvian friend Arturus!

 

I'm the guy on the far right with the messy hair :D