Production has officially begun...

I am off of work this week and so technically I'm on vacation... Of course anyone who has two children under the age of two, as I do, knows that is a physical impossibility =]

It is pretty great to spend this time with my children and my wife, and I'm loving it...

I'm also starting the first part of what will be an incredible journey this year. And that's my New Years resolution to begin production on my first short film =]

I was browsing through the latest CGSociety news letter the other day and came across an awesome interview with a talented artist by the name of Paul Yan... I read his interview, and then I checked out his site. It's a really cool site that documents the entire production of his short film EGGHUNT... http://www.paul-yan.com/egghunt/main.html

I emailed him to thank him for inspiring me to finally get off my butt and get to making a short film of my own... He responded with a very encouraging email, as well as, a link to a book I purchased that is proving to be invaluable...














I have finally come up with a story that I feel will be solid and fun and just finished typing up the first draft of the script. I'm going to sit on it till tomorrow and see if I still like it... so anyway that is what's going on, and I will continue to keep you guys updated...

Lots of updating...

going on here, I did a few more sketches that are very close to a new direction, I'm going...

I'm very frustrated right now with myself, I can't seem to decide between a few story ideas I have for my short film project... On one hand I want to create a very hearfelt piece that may touch people, but I also find humor in some strange places, and I feel like with the heartfelt piece I'm trying really hard, but with the comedy, it comes pretty easy and I have a ton of ideas that make me laugh when I think of them. The problem with those ideas is, probably only a few people would get them, and everyone else would probably be repulsed... so that's my dilemma...

Oh well, I'm having fun with the art side of things for all the ideas, and at least those are feeding my drawing appetite...

That's what's going on with the kid sketches... the other rough painting concepts are for film ideas... enjoy, and check out the new artists sites I added to my inspiration section... They are really awesome, and keep me very excited about art on a daily basis...

Thanks...

Wow!!!!! A couple of people have actually stopped by...Thanks is all I can say, if I can provide an ounce of the inspiration you provide me with on a daily basis, then I'm very happy for that =]

Here's a quick color concept I did earlier today...

head studies part deux...

I think I did about 160 of these, but it didn't even seem like it...fun stuff...

more head studies =]

I'll have more of these tomorrow...

head first pass...

I got the first pass for "Gunther's" head done, that's what I'm calling him for now, it may or may not stick =]

My process is usually to get a quick first draft done, with solid geo where needed for targets and such, then go in and refine the shapes until it's what I want...

Anyway, as always, comments and critiques are welcome...