Spring 2009 Animation Reel

Bumping my demo reel up top for anyone visiting from Ottawa.
Please feel free to contact me with your comments, I'm open to any suggestions too.

I had a wonderful time at OIAF this year. I met a lot of new and interesting people, found some restaurants that I should have found years ago, and above all I got to see my film premiered! More than anything though, this years festival has really inspired me to push myself hard again--just seeing what so many artists are capable of. I know I've got that somewhere in me, I've just got to put it to work. I'm planning on doing some more lengthy and more difficult pencil tests soon, anything creative at this point sounds like heaven.

The Busy Semester

This semester has been quite a busy one, seems right for the last hurrah though. Well, here's a giant chunk of what I've been working on aside from my senior film: a concept project that re-associates all the players involved in WWII to a dirtier version of the Sci-fi genre into a story based loosely on the events of the war. Here are all of the sketches that I have scanned in so far (there's just a few left unscanned) and even one that I put into digital paint. The goal for the project in the class is to leave with a full pitch-book for the project, and that is exactly my intent. So enjoy the mass imagery you've been missing out on while I was away!
Also, I included a quick little space-painting that I doodled up during class.

Long time no see

So I've been gone since July, sorry about the disappearance, but life does tend to happen, and updating my websites has fallen a bit to the wayside. Lately though I have been getting some good work done with animations, and what you see here is a cheetah run test for our final project in animation tech II, finished two weeks early so that I could have time to make another, and maybe some fun cycles of other things before time runs out this semester. Hope you enjoy it.

Commission: Sequoia

Here is my recent commissioned piece for Kat of her Unavisi character Sequoia. Now I have gone and set the bar higher for myself... and with something made for someone else entirely. Looks fantastic with the black background, and I hope you enjoy this as much as the commissioner did.

June Photos

Here's a sampling of the best of my photography for this month. Catch a pattern? Yeah, it seems like whenever I took pictures of the sky, I'd get a few that looked pretty good, besides, there's not much else to look at on a long drive to Indiana from Detroit. I hope you enjoy them.

A Tribute, and a Life's Work

So I found out that Sunday evening George Carlin, a comedy hero and source of provocative thought had died. In memoriam I decided to do a little sketch of him, in appreciation for how he has affected my method of looking at the world, though I don't think I'll ever be anywhere near as pessimistic as him, I do think about weird things like why we drive on parkways and park on driveways.
Also, today I made what is probably my Magnum Opus of puns. I don't know if I can get any stupider with these, but here it is. "This is not Humerous"
...and it probably isn't.

Ramsey

The ram frog.
Y'know, they've got bullfrogs, but why not ram frogs? And what if rams and frogs actually bred to make them? This is me toying around to the point that if you saw it you'd say "what has science done!?" and then you'd probably just pat him on the head, and laugh as he and his kin headbutt in midair and flop around after landing. Fun times. Hope you enjoy him, just another one of my creature experiments.