Fantastic News!

I'm coming back!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I weren't at work right now, I'd be running around screaming with extreme glee, lol. I can't wait to see everyone again! =D =D =D

Mogmas!

I was really inspired by these retro posters and decided to try to create one of my own. It's not as graphic as I wanted it to be but I'm still fairly satisfied with it.

Good and Bad

More Girls

This evening produced some really nice drawings! =D

Girls Drawin' Girls

I want in! =( Hopefully the group wont be full by the time I return to sunny CA.

Going Graphic!

What started off as a bunch of scribbled lines during a failed attempt to brainstorm ideas for a sonic gif evolved into this. I'm quite happy with it since I've never done anything this graphic before. Now, if only I could do stuff like this at will lol. As always, Cookie belongs to my friend Fyuvix.

Years End

Here's to another year of making movie magic!!!

Life Drawing

I did some life drawings to try to counter the anger I feel at being too sick to go to work today.

New Work

Mr. Popper's Penguins was released on dvd yesterday, which means I can post my work from the show! =D

Ice Age Trailer

Awesome news, part 2 of Scrat's Continental Crack-up has been released! Check it out:


The shot of noodley Scrat swimming over to the acorn is fantastic!!!! =D

Wrapping Up

Well, today was my last day at Rhythm & Hues. It's sad to leave friends behind but I'm confident I'll see everyone again in the future. The industry is small and people are always running into each other. Now it's just a matter of packing up the rest of my things and heading over to NY to begin my next adventure. =D

Work In Progress

Learning

After spending over three hours yesterday attempting to ink and paint my drawing of Robert, one of my friend's offered to help. We discovered that you can show two desktops at once via skype (which was awesome) and she showed me how to properly ink in Sai Painter. Not only was it super fun, it was also a great earning experience. I feel like that enforces the importance of speaking to/sharing with other artists since you never know what you'll find out! =D

Catching Up

Hey guys,
It's been a while since my last post and have a few things to share. My time at iAnimate is coming to an end in the next week or so. I'd like to continue on to workshop 4, but it'll have to be at a later date. If we're going to do any OT on Alvin, it should be starting soon and there's no way I'd be able to work on my assignments while doing 12's. So I'm going to take this term off rather than risking not being able to get anything done from overtime and hope to return for their next semester. In the meantime, I want to polish/finish up my workshop 3 assignments. My second one is much closer to being done than my first since it's shorter. I'll see if I can post that one once it's done.

In other news, a new trailer has been released for Alvin 3. I don't have any work in it this time. The shots I have aren't on the cruise ship side of things. =P



In other, other news, I'll be heading back to the east coast in the fall to work on this awesome movie!

Becoming An Animator

Over the years, I've received multiple emails/notes asking for various levels of advice on becoming an animator/getting into the industry. I've answered this questions as best I can, considering that I've only been animating professionally since the fall of 2009. I found an article on cgtalk.com that was put together by someone working in the games industry who has over 25 years of experience. I think it would be very helpful for anyone who's interested in becoming an animator to read it and replace "game design/er" with "animation/animator". I think it will answer a lot of questions while also giving MUCH better advice than I ever could.

Career's in "perfect land": http://www.sloperama.com/advice/lesson55.htm

Words of Wisdom: http://www.sloperama.com/advice/lesson47.htm

Do A Barrel Roll!

Cats

Hey guys,
I was looking through some of my Claire Wendling books last week and got inspired to draw some cats. Jubilee was thanked for being such a gracious model with hugs, kisses and treats, lol. Anyway, one of these days I'll be able to draw their heads correctly. I don't feel like I have a solid understanding of the structure beneath all of that fur. When I have more time, I'll do some serious skull studies to help remedy that.

Mr. Popper's Penguins Review

The LA Times gave Popper's a nice review! Here's a bit from the article: "But the-impossible-to-upstage stars are the penguins, a combination of real Gentoos specially trained for the film and some computer-generated counterparts. The special effects gurus blend the two seamlessly, making it easy to believe there was no digital wizardry involved, which is perhaps the niftiest trick of all."

It sounds like people are unable to tell the difference between the real and cg penguins which is a huge honor in vfx. Congrats to everyone who worked on the show! =D

Pokemon!

New Stuff!

Hey guys,
Rhythm & Hues has a new website that went live today. It's really cool and has reels for the studio's various departments. I think the website team did a fantastic job, the new site is much better than the old one and gives a better idea of the kinds of work the studio does. Feel free to check it out here: Rhythm & Hues

They've also released more trailers for Mr. Popper's Penguins! =D

Penguins!

Hey guys,
Sorry for the lack of posts! I was expecting to show the progress of my iAnimate work but they've asked us to keep things under wraps. I do have something to show though. There's a new trailer for Mr. Popper's Penguins and part of one of my shots is in it! It's the two penguins shot towards the end where one is farting in a blue tub. =D



In other news, this is the end of my first week on Alvin 3 and I'm having a ton of fun! I'm really enjoying this show so far. I've been lucky enough to get the shots that I wanted and am working on a consecutive sequence of them which is awesome! I feel like I should get some really nice pieces for my reel from this show. =D

Color!

Caricatured Life Drawing

I saw this woman while walking over to the NG cafe. I found her proportions amusing and used Brett Bean's method to remember enough of her to be able to do this drawing when I got back to my desk. I'm rather pleased with this drawing and feel like it's a peek of things to come.