You Want the Moon Mary?

Just some scribbles from some pose work. Jimmy Stewart is awesome!

The Floor is Hot Lava!

Might add some more to this one later.

Respect the "Turn Only" Lane!

How I feel when this happens:

Connected

Made using:

Photoshop CS4
After Effects CS5

Next Five # 2 - Photo Bomb

Here's the original photo I found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/revenge/6720111501/

And here's the story I created from it:

Sam & Max - Freelance Zombie Hunters

A little piece I did for Telltale's cinematic art test.

And It's Finished!

Illustrations done in Photoshop CS4
Animated using After Effects CS5

Enjoy!

Current Project

Been doing some freelance work lately, so here's a shot of a project I'm currently working on.

Clicky clicky to get a better look!

Next Five #1 - Birds

New game I learned about--basically you grab a picture off of the internet and tell what happens next using five frames.

The original image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuvvy/6459908021/lightbox/

Character Sketches

Toying around with the idea of getting together a team to work on an animated film, so here's a bit of pre-production: some character sketches!

Tom

Adeline (Tom's daughter)

"Sand Castle"

This is a story about a boy who defends his sand castle from the rising tide.

When I started this, it was only supposed to be 10 frames or so, but when I got started more ideas just kept coming. By the end of it, the story was 60 frames!

This was an interesting project because I was trying to focus on speed and keeping loose with all of my drawings. I don't have a Cintiq anymore so these were drawn on a tiny Wacom Bamboo Tablet. It's a cute little guy, but it definitely makes it more difficult to keep your drawing nice and loose. C'est la vie!

Click on the pictures to see larger versions.

Collectible

I worked as a prop modeler on this animated short, which was finished in just 15 weeks.

Second Take on Tom Elowitz

Here's my second take on the character Tom Elowitz from the story that I'm writing. Overall, I'm liking this design over the first.

In the first design, Tom was too clean-cut looking. I was using Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as reference, but it didn't seem to fit. For this design, I used Stan Laurel and Roger Radcliffe (101 Dalmations) as reference.

Latest Sketches - Preston Blair's Dog

Ethereal Cinematic Final Render (Scratch Voice)

Yep, about four weeks of work total. Lots and lots of Photoshop and After Effects.

I was pleased as punch to finish this part. Now, I have to do the rest!

Rough Ethereal Cinematic Footage

Some rough footage of the cinematic I'm making for Ethereal.

I painted all of the assets in Photoshop CS4, and I'm using After Effects CS4 to comp/animate.

The Lamp and the Firefly Animatic

Remember that animated film I was working on? Well Ethereal has been keeping me busy, so I haven’t had much time to work on it, but I was able to finish an animatic.

And despite what you might think, I didn’t get the idea from Pixar’s Luxo Jr. I actually found the inspiration for this while I at home over the summer. I was watching television when I noticed a firefly dancing outside of our window in the light of one of our table lamps. I thought this was kind of cute, so I decided to write a story about it.

With that said, I did watch Luxo Jr. a few times to study a bit some of the movement ;)

In case you wanted to download the boards you can click here.