7.05.2010

Sketches




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Sketches drawn on location and from photographs

7.02.2010

Ethos Pitch

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Animation Concept Team

Character design and storyboard for the "Adventure" commercial pitch to Ethos.

6.14.2010

Elky Way





Web Animation I

This is my first foray into the world of Flash. Thanks to Will Ferrell for doing this collab with me. It was an honor and a privilege.

4.03.2010

Valentines Day Card



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Design that I made for a Valentines Day card.

3.25.2010

Environment Redesign


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Concept Design

We did a copy of an animation background. Then we created our own background in the same style.

3.03.2010

Business Card

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It's my new card! Yeah! Are you excited about this?

3.02.2010

3D Animations







Advanced 3D Animation

Devil Dogs

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Weekly Character Design Blog

"Evil food cart vendor"

2.03.2010

Swamp Creature


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Concept Design

Swamp Creature Design. This nocturnal creature needs to live in a swamp, travel awkwardly on land, fly, and have some sort of glowing element.

1.03.2010

Warcraft Musical Instrument


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Concept Design

Design a musical instrument that would fit into World of Warcraft.

1.02.2010

Stop Motion Experiments








Intro to Stop Motion

A collection of different experiments I did with Stop Motion.

1.01.2010

Wooden Sphere


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Concept Design

Rendering of a Wooden Sphere. That's it. About 4 hours worth of that's it.

12.19.2009

Sword






Intermediate Animation

Final Project and a Reel showing different exercises I did during the quarter.

12.18.2009

Landscape Redesign



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Quick Sketch

Landscape Redesign utilizing photographs for compositional reference.

12.17.2009

Laser Organ




Intro to Visual Effects

Laser Organ made in Maya and Composited with Shake.

In This Tree


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Storyboarding

These are some sample frames of my storyboard for a future project. It goes along with a song that I wrote a while back. Hopefully I can get an animatic up at some point.

12.15.2009

Dog Walk/Run Cycle




Intermediate 2D Animation

Final Project...

12.02.2009

Smog Cutter



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Quick Sketch

Vehicle Redesign. This is my eco-friendly, smog-powered vehicle.

12.01.2009

Manchild




Intermediate 2D

Creepy 4 legged walk cycle.

11.23.2009

Beer Mugs


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Quicksketch

Prop Redesign. I came up with the theme of beer mugs and then went about designing them for Forest Giants, Japanese Frat Houses, and Children.

11.18.2009

Dance Dance Dance!!!




Intermediate 2D

Ted Dancin' !!!

10.17.2009

Introducing the Shiberoo


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Quick Sketch

Animal redesign. Create a new animal following a specific conceptual design process combining reference and multiple stages of thumbnailing/revisions.

10.16.2009

Death of the Flour Sack




Intermediate 2D

Perspective exercise using the old flour sack. I Killed it with the hope that I might not have to ever animate a flour sack again.

10.14.2009

Ink Sketches



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Quick Sketch

Ink sketches of animals, birds, and insects from reference. Ink sketches of a clothed figure from an open studio session.

9.26.2009

Super Clumsy Hero




Intro to 2D

Final Project. It needed to have a character carrying something, walking, and jumping...

9.25.2009

2 Weeks Notice


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"Blood Rainbow over Frog Island"
"Notice to Vacate"

I did these paintings for a group show call "2 weeks notice". We got offered the show with less than 2 weeks to make the art. These are some of the only paintings I have ever done. I really need to learn how to paint.

9.17.2009

Metamorphosis


Motion Broadcast I

Title sequence for a yet-to-be-made film interpretation of Kafka's Metamorphosis.

I was hoping to revisit this and make it better, but it probably won't happen.

Music:
Aphex Twin - Kladfvgbung Micshk

9.15.2009

Fat Boy


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Drawing for Animation

Character #2

Character sheet + Layout...

9.13.2009

Lighting and Texturing


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Lighting and Texturing

UV Unwrap, Texture and Light and pre-modeled garage.