Back-handed Hoof Slap

A rough line test of the muzzle-sync assignment. Its changed a bit from the storyboard: he no longer grabs the chicken. This makes my life easier since I dont gotta draw 2 characters moving around at the same time, and lets Crunchy the Pig use both his hands to emote.

Lozzi Lessons

After reading Hanna Barbara background painter Art Lozzi's color theory and technique tips on John K's blog I had to try some out for myself. I'll be the first to admit this is about 1000 times more busy than any HB background, I went overboard with the textures when I found out how to make my own brushes in photoshop. But it was a cool experiment, and I cant wait to do more like this.

"HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE!"

Here's the latest stack of drawings! "The Princess Bride" is quite possibly the perfect movie. I would have also loved to have animated the line that came next: "You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass."

Merry Christmas!

Here's some jolly holiday animations for ye! First up is my walk/run assignment:

Wasn't that festive?! And now, more yuletide glee with the expression change assignment:

Wheeee! Happy holidays to you and yours! And speaking of milking machines:


Feliz Navidad, y'all!

Egg Factory

Scrambled or fertilized?

Like, a Reel

YAY! Storytime! Turn your brain off for a sec and watch. This is the leica reel of my storyboard. Its rough drawings and voices for now, and next semester I may be animating some of the dialogue scenes.

Its Really GREEN

You say you want a background painted in the shade of an avacado? WISH GRANTED!

Weight lift and toss assignment

I'd like to go back and make the throw even more delayed, really exaggerate it with more of a whip action. I'm just glad its done.

The Magic Kingdom...IN HELL!!

The drawing of this background was provided to us. We got to come up with a mood and color scheme. The flash of lightning in the final was added digitally.

ker-SPLASH!

Wet...Sack. Heh heh.

Intergalactic Asparagus Tips

Say Hi to Gorejuiceaur! She battles huge japanese monsters with her carbon coated hands! She drill presses them, then feasts on the juices that flow from their huge artichoke-shaped wounds! She's a pistol alright!

Happy Father's Day!

Tell your papa he did alright with seeding you!

Do-it-Yourself Animation Desk

So I'm back in Vegas with nothing proper to draw on. Whats a guy to do? Commission (read: FORCE) his wordworker dad to build him an animation desk! Thankfully he agreed! It actually saved me a bundle, and is a huge step up from my portable one I bought a few years ago for about $300! This one can be angled at different degrees thanks to the little notches in the folding legs. The lighting setup we used uses 2 flourecent bulbs and bruther, IS IT BRIGHT! The most expensive part on it was probabaly center disc itself. $45 worth of translucent white plexiglass bought from a sign shop (its not available at hardware stores, in case anyone was wondering). And I still plan on buying a fancy pants ACME drawing disc once classes start back up, but this will do the trick for the summer for sure. I'm so happy to use this now!

More Pencil Tests

These were our last two animation projects of the semester, an animal walk cycle and a flour sack. We randomly picked objects out of a hat for the sack to interact with, and I got "groucho glasses." COMEDY GOLD!

Yay STORYTIME!

Here's an assignment for storyboard class. We're given a scene from Aesop's fable "The Ant and the Dove." Happy EASTER!