Monday, October 31, 2005

Card Sketches...

My wife and I spent all day Saturday at car dealerships looking to by a new family truckster...

It was tedious and I was hungry, but I did get a chance to swipe buisness cards and do some sketches =]

























Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Remote...

Monday, October 24, 2005

Finished Bunny...

Man, I feel so good right now, I finished my were rabbit bunny sculpt this weekend and I have received quite the warm welcome at work =]

So here we go, I wish you guys could see it in person, the pictures don't do it justice...

I also have to thank my lovely wife, because I was having a rough time with this guy thursday night and was ready to trash him and start over, She painted him for me and it really made me glad I didn't chunk him, Thanks honey, your AWESOME...

Anyway enjoy, I had a blast doing this and I can't wait to do another...















































Tuesday, October 18, 2005

On other fronts...

Okay, so I told you in an earlier post I was determined to read more, and not just calvin and hobbes, but actually read... So to that end I am currently reading not one but TWO books...

Whoa momma, somebody stop me...

By the way, here is a neat sketch I did at work just now in like a minute, but for some reason it came out awesome...

















Anyway, back to what I was saying before the ADHD took over... yes... so the two books I'm reading are actually quite interesting, the first is one I'd reccomend to everybody, religious or not, and that is "The secret to staying in love" by John Powell.

This book is about loving yourself, and how if you can't or don't do that, you will never be able to truly love your neighbor, so I'm reading it, and trying to apply it to my own life, and so that is the first book...

The second book, is about Nietzsche and it's written by a pair of writers and is also a very good read with humor and everything, it's called, "What Nietzsche Really said" and it's written by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins... You can get both books off of Amazon and they are both pretty cheap...

I'm also excited because we have finally finished our first trailer for an animated feature I'm currently working on titled "AntBully" and it's attached to the new Harry Potter film, so anyone who sees Harry Potter will see some of my professional work...

I have never really talked about what it is that I do specifically so basically, I work for the only feature film animation studio in Dallas, and we make computer animated films right now... I am a character modeler, and my job is to take the 2D concept art and basically sculpt it in the computer, then I generate all the targets for the facial expressions that the animators will use for there performance and I give all of that in a file to the articulation artists who create a character the animators can move around in the computer... It sounds like you'd have to be smart to do it, but really you just need to be really anal retentive, which I am, so there you go...

And this blog is sort of my way of trying to get away from all that technical stuff in my professional life and just have fun with art, instead of looking at it as work all the time.

And I think that's all for now, I have finally come up with an idea for COLD, for some reason not alot comes to mind when I hear that word, except for penguins, but I wanted to stick with the theme I currently have going, mainly cus I like to draw boys and there dogs...

Anyway, that is all for now, kind of random I know, but I just felt like posting...

Monday, October 17, 2005

My Were Rabbit Sculpt pt.1...

Cool, so I decided I wanted to create a maquette of one of these cute little rabbits after seeing the Wallace and Gromit, Curse of the Were-Rabbit movie...

















I was up until about 2 this morning totally rockin on my version. Aside from some clean up, and installation of the proper eyes and teeth, this little guy is almost ready for the oven...

Friday, October 14, 2005

Fun with Post-its...

Well, I finished alot of stuff this week, and came up with a couple of really cool ideas for short films, my upcoming posts will likely include concept work I do for those ideas...

I'll also be posting my ideas for Illustration Friday, so until then, have a great weekend...

Thursday, October 13, 2005

LOST pt. 2...

as promised earlier, my other ideas for LOST...














LOST...

Okay, so here is one of the 3 ideas I same up with for Lost, I'm painting the other one now, and there is one more that I'll probably just post the sketch of, I'd like to color it, but one of the designs I came up with gave me a really good idea for a short so I'll likely be busy figuring out a script and stuff for that for the next couple of weeks... anyway, I give you LOST...

Friday, October 07, 2005

Float...

Okay, so this is my first attempt at doing an illo for Illustration Friday, overall I'm pleased with the results, I can think of a few things I wanted to change, but my abilities in photoshop are lacking...

Anyway, it is great fun, and I'm starting on ideas for Lost so until next friday here ya go...