blue balls blues

wow - so its been along time since my last post. here is some of the stuff i've been working on. i was lucky enough to collab with the guys over at T2 to bring these old balls to life. big thanks to adam buritsch for setting me up with this gig. my contribution to the project was puppet and set fabrication and some puppeteering. check it out!

04.06.12

illo for my next animation study. hope to have the completed animation posted later this week.

02.22.12

"makin friends ain't easy" a quick character study i recently finished in after effects. expect to see more appearances from these little guys in the future.

learned a lot about using the puppet tool, graph editor and after effects in general in the process of this project. didn't use it for this one, but it was brought to my attention from a friend recently that i should check out the DuIK Tool inverse kinematics script for Afx. it basically brings the principles of 3D rigging into the world of Afx. i'm usually the last to hear about these kinds of things, but if your not familiar with it, i would highly recommend it for any kind of character based animation in Afx.

01.10.12

pencil and digital on paper, 8.5 x 11''.
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som quick character pose studies for my short film project. i'm still working out all of the character traits and attributes. really trying to develop a strong implicit characterization. i've also been working a lot in 3D to iron out the basic technicalities before i really start production. should be posting som of the tests in the near future.

11.21.11

pencil and digital on paper, 8.5 x 11".
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some of the earlier concept art for my short. the direction has since changed, but retains a similar feeling.

11.20.11

pencil on paper, 8.5 x 11".
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here are two storyboard panels from the short that i am currently workin on. still a lot of revision and technicalities to work out, but i'm chippin away at it every chance i get.

11.08.11

ballpoint pen on paper, 7 x 5.5".
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wow, i've really been neglecting the blog.

06.06.11

pencil and digital on paper, 1440 x 878px.
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so its been awhile since my last post, well life happened. i'm going to attempt to be more consistent from here on out. recently i've been putting together a concept design portfolio, here are a few samples. these two panels are from my current short animation project.