Life Drawings

I was able to make it to life drawing today! It felt great to draw again, but man am I rusty. >_<

New Tangled Trailers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys,
It looks like they've released two new Tangled trailers! I seriously cannot wait for this movie! It looks gorgeous and the animation is unbelievable! It was such an honor to be a part of the Tangled crew and to work on such a wonderful film. Everyone at Disney is super talented and it shows. I hope everyone who's had a hand in Tangled is proud of what they've all accomplished.






I really hope this film does well and I'm eagerly awaiting what's next from Disney. =D

Character Development

Hey guys,
I'm working on developing the leader of DaeDae's gang for use with my friend's Pompfiction characters. He's supposed to be misleadingly old and frail, but that isn't coming across in this drawing. I also want all the members (except for LaQuandae) to sport dreadlocks. Something about the dreads will determine the rank within the gang. I haven't decided if its the length, decorations, coloring or some combination of the two.

Scene Kid

My friend and I were laughing at scene kids yesterday and thought it would be fun to draw our characters as such. Here's my contribution to the madness. All of my colors are washed out for some reason though and I dont know why. =(



Off topic, I saw Scott Pilgrim last night and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go see it!

Life Drawings

Hey guys,
I went to my first model session at Rhythm&Hues on Wed. I was pleasantly surprised to see Karl Gnass as the instructor. I knew he taught at Disney and Dreamworks but he apparently teaches at R&H as well. That's quite awesome as he's a great teacher and an amazing draftsman. Here are some of my drawings from this week's session.

What's This?

It looks like I have an IMDB page! =D

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4011271/

Sketch Dump

Sketch dump of drawings done during today's zoo trip and my visit to the Norton Simon museum a few days ago.

New Job!

Hey guys,
I have awesome news! I've accepted an offer from Rhythm & Hues and will be starting at my new job on Monday! I'm really excited about experiencing another studio and meeting more animators. Plus, this is my first job as a full on character animator! Rhythm & Hues also allows the artists to bring their dogs to work every day, how cool is that?! I wish I could bring my cat in too but I don't think that would end well lol.

Drawings From Today

After going out to lunch and watching Despicable Me with my friends/fellow fixers I returned home to do some life drawing. I started out doing full figure work and decided that I would benefit from doing some chest studies after making the horrible drawing #3. I broke out Atlas of Human Anatomy For The Artist and The Human Figure to do some research before starting. I've noticed that I was having trouble finding where the sternum ends and the bottom sides of the ribcage on some of the models. Reading a section from those two books was really helpful. With practice, I should be able to draw an acceptable torso now that I have a better idea of where my landmarks are.

After my pages of life drawing, I figured it would be fun to do another LaQuandae drawing as well. These are posted in the order they were drawn.

Rusty

Wow, I'm clearly out of practice with life drawing. I now know what I'll be doing after I wake up.

Dae Dae Development

After another fun round of LaQuandae and Cookie OC with my friend Bri, I decided to do some more Dae Dae drawings. I need to work on his full body proportions, facial expressions and making a simplified/cartoony version of him for OC-ing. Lol, despite that none of these fall into any of those categories.

Photos

Hey guys,
Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been REALLY busy in crunch time for the past few months. I'm free now and am looking for work. Now I have time to draw again and update my blog more regularly. In the meantime, enjoy these crew pictures that were taking while working at Disney. =D

Tangled Animation Crew





Tangled Fix Animation Crew

More Straight Ahead

After all of my talk about not animating straight ahead yesterday, guess what I ended up doing today. Lol, this time it wasn't as bad since the action I was trying to capture was more familiar. I decided to make a quick trip to the store after the drawing of the deer turning. It seems like that was a mistake since all of the ones after that don't make much sense. I had fun doing this one and would like to do it again (and finish) properly. I think the straight ahead pass captures a bit of the energy/feeling that I wanted though so it was a somewhat success in that aspect.

Why I Never Animate 100% Straight Ahead

Hey guys,
I got my traditional animation lightbox and a new disc in the mail the other day! I'm really excited about finally being able to work in 2d at home. I tried it out for a couple of hours this evening and its working great! This crazy straight ahead animation test is what I ended up with. Lol, its a great example of why I dont work completely straight ahead. I haven't gotten to the point where I can just sit down and coherently animate something without planning everything out first and starting off pose to pose.

Tomorrow I'd like to start on a real 2d test. I'm stuck between animating Bambi prancing around in a circle, some kind of flying creature or a dog going through an agility course obstacle. So far, I'm leaning towards the first one. It sound extremely challenging and its a variation on an assignment that Andreas suggested during our meeting.

More Development Drawings

Man, having a character really makes me want to just sit and draw all day. It's awesome to feel that way again! I feel like I lost that somewhere in high school. Anyway, I'm working on figuring out the structure of his face since I seem to have trouble drawing him from a few different angles. Hopefully the skull drawing will help. I also need to figure out a permanent pattern for his markings.

Less Realistic "Dae Dae"

Sorry guys, I just had to make up for last nights off model drawing lol.