More Developements

I recently advanced from animator on The Lucas Bros. Moving Co. to storyboard artist. So, that's totally a thing I hopefully I can talk more about in the future...

Also I made album art and a music video that should be out in a few weeks, but again... secret....

Also i'm on Ello now for whatever reason...

Otherwise, have some art I haven't posted here yet:

Reptile Alien Invasion for Ghostshrimp

"Pop it off, pop it out, save some for later."

Recent Developments

Hey there, I don't update this as often as I'd like but here's what I've been up to:

Most recently I created a new identity for Chris Roberts' music pseudonym, Orca Life:

I drew this in pencil first, inked it with a brush pen, and then edited it in Photoshop. The stages can be seen on my Tumblr.

Before that, I laid out the artwork for Rachel Thomasin's new album out on Otherworldly Mystics. Rachel provided the base artwork herself, but I was responsible for the layout and copy for the cover/interior as well as the labels on the tapes and the color choices.

And lastly, some GIFs from a series I'm calling Animals In Shirts; if I'm lucky they'll have me reboot Shirt Tales...

  

I have more projects in the works but that's all there is to show for now.

Tumblr Radar

Much to my shock, no pun intended, I woke up to find out my latest frog GIF got on the Tumblr Radar. And then my follower amount doubled in half a day!

Feels weird, man...

East, West and All the Rest

I don't update this site as often as I should, especially because I still view this as my main 'website'.

Anyways, this past March I drove cross-country from New Jersey to Los Angeles to work at Animation Domination High-Def after working from home for a month. I'm currently animating on an as of yet unannounced series, so I'll be sure to actually post when that happens because I'm very proud of the work I've done on it.

From January through March I was also a judge for the Northwest Animation Festival in Portland, Oregon. Transmission screened there last year on the opening night alongside Disney's Paperman; a fact I still can't believe myself. Transmission, by the way, now has over 46,200 views on Vimeo...

Those things, on top of my work at Otherworldly Mystics and another part time job, have kept me very busy for the last few months; not to mention I'm still getting settled in LA. So with that, I'll leave you with some frog GIFs I recently made, where I experiment with styles for a possible project:


Should be able to update you soon ;;)

Transmission

After a year and over 15 festivals and a few awards nominations (including Semi-finalist at the Student Academy Awards), Transmission is finally online for all to see.

Food of the Future

I have a new loop over at LoopDeLoop! Please go check it out there and give it a good rating! Thanks!
It’ll be playing in both Melbourne, Australia and a super fancy fun-party in LA on June 30th!
Made this in Flash in a couple days, recorded the voice over via the Mac's built-in text-to-speech and adjusted it in GarageBand.

Universal Monster Loop

A loop animation of Universal Studios' Monsters, in chronological order, created for LoopDeLoop's December/January theme, Hollywood, which you can go and vote on RIGHT NOW!

   

In order: Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Bride, The Wolfman, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Thing.

If Vimeo isn't good enough for you, you can also check out the video in full HD on YouTube, or in GIF form on my Tumblr.

Transmission Comes to Brooklyn

This weekend is the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival in Brooklyn. Transmission will have its first North American festival screening there this Sunday at 7:15 PM. To commemorate the occasion, here is a set of animated GIFs I've made to give you a sneak peak:

Stay tuned for more screening news! And remember, tapes are still available if you can't make it to a screening!

History

Here's a sneak peek at a new short short film I'm making:

I made it in a day.

And you can vote for it on LoopDeLoop up until tomorrow!

Transmission Character Design

Some gradual concept art for my film, Transmission, dating all the way back to July 20th, 2010.

(center: near-final character designs)
(bottom right: screenshot from the final film)

More on when/where you can watch Transmission coming soon!

Rabbits at Play

First animation I've done since finishing Transmission in April. And please, head on over to Loop De Loop, and vote 5 stars, as this is for the June theme: PLAY! ... and about half a week left to vote.

More new things to come....

Transmission

This is a gif from my thesis film, Transmission.

It's about the four-eyed creature you see above, Quad-Clops, and his dog, 2D, after they find a radio in the barren post-apocalyptic wasteland that is their home, and their journey to find new life.

The short film was completely hand-animated by me in Flash over the course of six months, though I've been developing the story for a couple years. Music for the film was recorded by Chris Roberts, and we're working on putting it out on an extremely limited edition set of tapes through Otherworldly Mystics if anyone's interested.

The film will be premiering at SVA's Dusty Film Festival on May 7th at the SVA Theater on 333 W23rd St in New York City, and after that I'm going to look into submitting it to festivals before putting it publicly online. But I may find a way to make it available to those that really want to see it.

Stay tuned!

Pac-Man 400/800

Been meaning to make this for awhile, it's my tribute to one of my most favorite, weird box arts: Pac-Man for Atari 400/800.

There needs to be more of this version of Pac-Man.

Mr. Fishman

For LoopDeLoop's July Theme: Monsters. Go score it!

Quite honestly this is first thing I've animated all summer, which isn't a good thing hahaha. I started and finished this today, which took around 5 hours. At least it got me back in the groove of drawing with a tablet and ready to start digitally boarding my thesis. But I still have a couple other projects in the pipeline that needs finishing soon.

UPDATE 7/27/11: You can see the MONSTERS wrap-up post at LoopdeLoop, which my work is visible in the top photo (or just look below).

Another Tattoo

(while this frame is my drawing, it's just a traceback/inbetween of someone else's equally hard work...)

Glad I can finally post this, the music video for Weird Al's "Another Tattoo," from his new ALbum, Alpocalypse, which had I worked on in the fall during my internship at Augenblick Studios:


I only did two shots, the zoom in on Ronald Reagan (pictured is one of my frames) and the zoom in on the goat skull/laser removal; which, while they go by in split seconds actually took a whole work day because they're so detailed and I had to work zoomed in at like 800%. Regardless, working on this was a weird dream fulfillment for my inner child, as I was a big Weird Al fan in my single digit years. And in a way, I enjoyed working on those two shots more than I did working on Ugly Americans... Hope you enjoy it!

Speaking of which, Ugly Americans Season 2 starts next week! I didn't animate much like I did last season, but I did clean up on quite a few backgrounds. So, look for that! Otherwise, I have a couple little projects in the pipeline, which I'll let you see as they come... but my day job has had me swamped, I think I'm going to ask for less hours so I can actually do art things/thesis boards.

Beeper.

This is my 3rd year final film from SVA. It's about a neglectful hospital staff. I waited a couple months before posting this online so that I could hear back from a couple festivals; I didn't make the cut, so now here it is:


The film assignment called for at most, a 1.5 minute short. I couldn't think of anything short (as I've had thesis on the mind for some time now) so I asked Matt if I could use an absurd idea we had come up with last year during class; hence why he received a writer's credit.

Along with the animatic, the film took about a month to make, with my other classes/finals added into that work time. It was done from start to finish completely in Flash, and I reused some parts of the animatic to save time.

My only gripe about the film is that a few sound effects repeat, which was a strange After Effects error that kept occurring, even when I redid the entire voice track twice, and lost patience come the 3rd time. But it's behind me now and is what it is, I've been too enveloped in my thesis film for this film to bother me. I can just say I've learned from the experience, and I'll make sure not to have the errors occur when it comes to compositing my thesis.

Enjoy the film, and share it with your friends!

Demo Reel!

I finally made myself a Demo Reel!


Demo Reel Breakdown:

0:03 - "Building Toss" - Nov. 2010 - Exchange Exercise - Flash

0:08 - "Weight Walk" - Oct. 2010 - Walk Exercise - Flash

0:12 - "The Imposter" - Feb. 2011 - Lip Sync Exercise - Flash

0:22 - "Rotoscope Blues" - March 2010 - Rotoscope Exercise - Flash

0:27 - "Ugly Americans" Season 1 - Sept. - Nov. 2010 - Augenblick Studios Internship - Flash

0:38 - "Far Out: Bugman" - April 2010 - Sophomore Film - Flash/After Effects

1:10 - "Unnatural History" - Dec. 2009 - Digital Compositing Final - Flash/Digital Film

1:21 - "Trip-Nip, Sit" - Oct. 2010 - Sitting Exercise - Flash

1:29 - "Sewper Mutant vs. Black Dynamite" - Dec. 2010 - Emotion Exercise - Flash

1:38 - "Fly Fishing" - Dec. 2010 - Fishing Exercise - Flash

1:47 - "Hard Dog Life" - March 2011 - Lip Sync Exercise - Flash

Audio: Yūzō Kayama - "Black Sand Beach"

Note that this is the first time I've uploaded anything from my FAR OUT project, let alone the film, online. Despite this, I still will not be posting any more from the protect at the moment. Also, this is the first time I've gotten to post some of my scenes from Ugly Americans Season 1! I'm still at Augenblick, but I can't post the unaired stuff for obvious reasons.

Hard Dog Life

This is what I've been up to the last few weeks. I attempted to do something dramatic for a change, and even tried a different color pallet for once. Oh, and it's full body as well(granted the bottom doesn't move), but yeah that's a change too.

The audio is from a failed 1990's pilot called, Poochinski:


Sooooo gooooooood.

The Imposter

I finished this a couple days ago, but as said, I waited till after the in-class critique to post it:


This was supposed to just be a ten word dialogue assignment... but we were given way too much time for it, so I put it on 1s and basically just made a thirteen second short film.

To be honest though, in the nearly five week period we were given, I really only worked for about a week's time... just spread over four weeks...

The voice audio is from RedLetterMedia's Star Wars Episode II review. The rest of the audio I did.

You can also watch this on my YouTube or in .swf form on deviantART.

One Last Pat

If my From the Vault post about him didn't make it clear, I don't really like Pat. And to be quite honest with you, while drawing this piece to commemorate the posting of the film I found myself getting fed up...

But, I did try something new! The background was my first attempt at lineless in Flash, using a method my friends Matt Marblo and Polly Guo have used on a few animations and illustrations recently. But yeah, I have no intention of ever drawing Pat again after this... see you later old friend!

UPDATE FROM A COUPLE MONTHS LATER: I REALLY HATE THIS...