Demo reel

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

Enjoy!

Art art art

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

birth of... Redux

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

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