A guy walks into a bar and says Ouch

Perspective

2011-05-23T11:56:00.000-07:00

From my Drawing from Imagination Class this semester... enjoy

This one is based on the "Mirror Mirror on the wall" scene from Sleeping Beauty... I chose to give it a western theme.

I don't have a scan of the final yet, that will come later...

Paint...

2011-05-18T18:38:00.000-07:00

Gouache painting I did of my brother for my color theory class... I was going to include all the prelim stuff (thumbnails, value study, color roughs) to show the entire process, but I didn't scan the rest of it yet. Maybe I'll update this sometime in the future. Enjoy

Music Video

2011-04-06T11:18:00.000-07:00

Check out this music video I designed and animated for an artist up here in the Bay, Blake Schaefer. I'd suggest watching it on youtube because blogspot cuts of the right side of the video for some reason...

then check out his website http://www.blakeschaefer.com/ You can download this and a couple other songs from the same album off the site

3D Animation!

2010-12-21T10:41:00.000-08:00

So I modeled, textured, rigged (with a little help from my roommate, Richie) and animated this extremely short piece of animation for my Maya 1 class my first semester of grad school.

Batman beats up a joker

2010-12-08T21:49:00.000-08:00

An Illustration I'm working on to hopefully be a shirt design....

Oscar Fuentes

2010-10-10T19:36:00.000-07:00

A character I created a few years ago... These drawings are from a couple months ago. He has no arms.

Demo reel

2010-07-13T12:16:00.000-07:00

Figured I should post my reel somewhere, and what better place than here... so here goes.

The numbers in the corner are for the shot breakdown.
1: Kenny's World (from the film King of the Underground)
2: Yew Moon
3: Birth of the Universe
4: Hair Day
5: Littlest Knight (in its entirety)

Little Knight

2010-07-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

So the original purpose of this blog was to show the progress of my Littlest Knight animation. Then my computer crashed and it got put on hold... Fast forward to two years later and here we are again.

I did this animation for the First Annual Capstone Senior Animation Showcase at Cal State LA. the entire thing was stroyboarded and animated in about a week and a half. I'm going to continue working on this (more color, painted backgrounds, expanded story and animation, etc.) to get it more like the original concept, but as it is I like it.

This version doesn't have sound. Jim Ovelmen (a professor of mine) did the sound for it when it played at the show, and I don't have that version.

Same girl... almost

2010-04-24T11:34:00.000-07:00

So I downloaded some photoshop brushes and was looking at a tutorial, and thought I would try something out. Spent a couple hours blending the colors , and I like how it came out (although next time I think I need to go darker with the shadows)

On the plus side I adjusted the colors a bit to look better on my laptop screen (and hopefully on every other screen too)

Two posts in one month.... What?

2010-03-19T23:18:00.000-07:00

So I drew this on my new Cintiq tablet (well new to me, I bought it used). I just wanted to mess around a bit with color. And in drawing it I realized I do not draw females nearly enough... I just draw dudes all the time. Hopefully that will change... here is to gender equality.
and I just realized this looks ten times better on my tablet screen than on my laptop screen... I have to remedy that sometime in the future.

2010-03-09T20:56:00.000-08:00

So the first image is for an animation project I'm working on now. The second one was just something I had wanted to do for a while. I really need to scan some more pictures... Later

2010

2010-01-23T17:10:00.000-08:00

A new decade... Got some good things going on right now, working on some animation projects for people, about to start substitute teaching. Only more good things can come. And some art, an old sketch that I threw some quick colors on... enjoy.

Pink is not the new black

2009-12-12T22:38:00.000-08:00

Started doing these little paintings... I'm going to be giving some of them as gifts for Christmas.

Enjoy!

Art art art

2009-12-07T21:07:00.000-08:00

I realize I have not updated the blog in a while. It does not mean I have not been making art...

birth of... Redux

2009-06-26T23:50:00.001-07:00

So I worked on this animation a bit more... it is still only the first half of a much bigger thing. I will try to finish it this summer, along with my capstone. Speaking of capstone, that project is almost done. I just have to finalize a few scenes, clean up some of the animation, and work on the sound. I'll post some of that a bit later.

On another note, I'M GOING TO PARIS IN TWO DAYS!!!!! I will be taking some animation classes there for a few weeks and I am very excited.

Waiting for the bus

2009-05-10T21:18:00.000-07:00

Here is another scene from the short... Main character waiting for the bus to work.

Hair Growth

2009-04-18T18:18:00.000-07:00

This is the scene where the main character first starts growing hair. More to come soon.

Birth of the Universe

2009-02-19T14:51:00.001-08:00

This is the first part of an abstract animation I'm working on...

Hair Day

2009-01-29T17:56:00.000-08:00

So Here are some concept/storyboard panels for the new project I am working on. The title right now is Hair Day but it will most likely change ...

This last one is was some more character work on a breakup story that I am now no longer doing.

Happy New Year

2009-01-01T22:28:00.000-08:00

Hopefully this new year will bring many new opportunities and experiences. To start things off on an positive note, here are some random drawings and concept sketches for the short I'm making in place of The Littlest Knight...

These first two actually have nothing to do with the short. A week before Christmas I found a sketchbook with brown paper at Borders. I've been looking for one for four or five years. To make a not so long story even shorter, merry Christmas to me.

And here are the concept sketches.

Animations

2008-12-12T13:20:00.000-08:00

So Here are a couple of animations I did a while back. I just put them online about a month ago. The second one it missing the music track so it feels a little dull and empty... Oh well. The were done at roughly the same time. Spent about six weeks on the first and three or four on the second...

Technicolor Upchuck

2008-10-28T03:02:00.001-07:00

Threw some colors on a sketch... I have a whole series of sketches with this barfing mouse. I may post some other ones sometime.

Space the Final Frontier

2008-10-18T20:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a work in progress I've been messing with off and on for a while. I'm not the greatest colorest when it comes to photoshop, but practice makes perfect right...

Tiger

2008-10-09T00:44:00.000-07:00

Well here is an illustration I recently did for someone who didn't use it. Oh well, that's the way things go...

In other news my laptop still does not work but on the plus side I have Toon Boom on my desktop now so I can get back to doing animation.

Chris Sanders is Awesome

2008-08-18T22:34:00.000-07:00

He really is. This was inspired by his work (and if you haven't tried it you should because it is really fun to do)

Computer Problems Yeah!

2008-08-18T22:29:00.000-07:00

So my laptop isn't cutting on as of yesterday so it looks like I may have lost my storyboard and some animation. On the plus side some of the animation was going to be redone and Tony should still have my boards so I'll send him an e-mail in a couple days If I can't get it started. Until then here is a picture of me...

A Horse is a horse of course

2008-06-30T12:55:00.000-07:00

Is has been over a month since I posted last. Well no excuses, here is a horse run I did for the opening scene. I still have to finish the knight, and add a few more details to the horse...

Style Frame

2008-05-24T23:47:00.000-07:00

So this was the first piece of visual development I did for the short (before I the backgrounds posted before). It was to get a feel for how I wanted the "final look" to be.

2008-05-13T12:19:00.000-07:00

TO kick things off here are a couple of backgrounds for "The littlest Knight". The first will probably be redone/reworked and the second is near complete...

My New Blog

2008-05-13T11:58:00.000-07:00

So I just created a blog for the first time ever. It will be primarily to mark the progress of the short animation I'm doing titled "The Littlest Knight" about a little knight.

That's it for now, I'll try to update regularly.

Later