A Little Late for Halloween

These are some quick character sketches I did for a storyboarding project last month. The story centers around the little witch with the frog. Couldn't figure out what age to pin her at. I think keeping her younger worked better for the story in the end.

How to Train Your Dragon and Such

Can't wait!

monday warm down

tuesday's witch warm-up

Eyes on the prize, right?

15 minutes

Speed paint of Robyn while watching the extras of Children of Men. Brilliant film.

Those are my blanketed knees in the foreground.

Coconut Queen

A game I worked on for iWin came out in August. It is called Coconut Queen and you can and should check it out here. Here are some development screens for the cutscenes.






*EDIT: There is an interview with the Producer and Creator at this site - http://www.gamezebo.com/features/special-editorials/behind-game-coconut-queen.

100!!

Ninety Nine

Variations on a few characters I wanted to fill a pirate ship with.

Ninety Eight

Part 2.

Ninety Seven

Making a card for my friends who just brought a baby girl into this world.


This is the outside of the card. I'll post the inside when I finish it.

Ninety Six

My wife and I have been watching a lot of Naruto and Naruto Sihppudden during these long summer nights. I can't believe the wonders of Hulu. We are about 280 episodes in and counting...

Ninety Five

And a few more coming...

Ninety Four

Revisiting with some help from friends. I'll have 6 more later today.

Ninety Three

My wife and I received a couch from our good friends. It is great! We've needed one for a while now.



Here's the thank you card we made for them.

Ninety-Two

Robyn tells me to update. So I'll update with a sketch of her. Colors didn't reproduce too well...

Ninety One

In progress layout...

Ninety

Tried to use some of those last sketches to draw over and make the gestures fit a character.


Catch my error? We'll say that she can hold the sword using either hand.

Eighty Nine

Bunny and Courtney put together a program today for the Animation/Illustration students to watch or participate in stage combat and theatrical dueling. It was lead by instructor Chris DuVall. Learned some great ideas today like "the illusion of violence" and of course, telling a story withing your fight sequence. When stage fighting, actors must make eye contact, make a preparatory move, evade, attack, and recover. These steps add to the safety of the actors and serve to hold up the illusion for the audience.

Straight lines = Attack, Bends = Defensive

Here are some of my quick gestures from the session.

Eighty Eight

Eighty Seven

My parents bought Wii Fit.


Robyn and my dad.

Eighty Six

Just in time for the 70th Anniversary of Disney's Pinocchio, here is a post that has nothing to do with that film.

The Butler from Aristocats. Looks like Milt Kahl's lovely work, but don't quote me.

Eighty Five

Work in Progress...


This was my blocking pass on a test involving a thieving monkey.



And here it is when I took it to curves after.

Eighty Four

All of my lunch breaks are going to end with me being hungry, but satisfied with finding new animation clips. Here are some good ones I found this week.

Aquarion key frame animation by Ryo-Chimo

More work by Norio Matsumoto (Unsure of the Movie Title)
*EDIT: The series is Real Drive.

Eighty Three

Been animating again this week. A few inspirational clips I've found over the break:

"Making of" Reel for After the Rain by Manuel Tanon

Animated scenes by Norio Matsumoto

Great Pushed Fight Scene