sketch

'In which we betray out gender'

(from Gabby's Playhouse)


here's a strip that's been making the rounds.

click image for the whole thing...

Jen Wang interview

Geek: Studio Tours - MTV Shows

Brenda Chapman not directing 'Brave'

Brenda Chapman not directing 'Brave'.
The comments point out some problems present in US feature animation.
(and the public's/fan's view of it)
worth looking at.

sketches (and stuff)

in the past few weeks I've 're-discovered' that I like drawing/painting/comics etc.
Possibly more than I do animating. Yeah...more than likely.
So I'll be doing (spending most of my time with) that more.
And producing more finished stuff.

Also...I've decided to spend the next year learning a trade.
(and working on 'spacegirl')

awesome. :D

awesome doesn't describe it. ('!!!' prt7)

...just some YouTube lectures. ('!!!' prt6)

(nothing serious.)


MIT lectures

UCBerkeley lectures

shinya kimura ('!!!' prt5)

shinya kimura @ chabott engineering from Henrik Hansen on Vimeo.

Mike Rowe on 'work'

sketch

richard tillman

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sketch

ROBOT ('!!!' prt4)

boiler room

the missing suitcase/ power to the people

Japan's Animation Industry article (and some movies)

(...or US, or Canada, or etc...)

Animation: Outsourcing is slowly erasing Japan's anime industry

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Picked these up a couple days ago:
In The Loop
Pandorum
Moon

Happy Here and Now
Fires Within
A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die
Jump Tomorrow
El Cortez
Shaolin vs. Ninja/Wu Tang/Lama/Tai Chi


The first three I've seen. The others I've never heard of.
I figured '...why not?...where's the fun in watching movies you've seen before?'
That and the chance to get some film/character study.

A couple I wanted to pick up but didn't:
Punch Drunk Love
Brick Lane

Both with great performances.
Next time I suppose.

sketch

menace walk cycle test

...just some dancing. ('!!!' pt3)

ok...now this makes me feel out of shape. =D

hertzfeldt at work ('!!!' prt 2)

ok...this made me feel a little lazy.

!!!

smooches

i suppose i should go ahead and flesh this out.

a bunch of sketches put together

testing/playing around in flipbook.

'...she SAW the kid RAM this into his FATHER!!!'

sketch of the day

3 Things You should consider when getting into art

there are a few ideas that i'm questioning...but the focus here is on commercial/entertainment art/drawing.

'you must go on!...you have to go on!...'

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Tennessee No Evil
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

sketch of the day

Life of Brian

I've heard of this...but never got around to it.
guess i've got time now. :D

Maybe I'll check out some other movies as well.

sketch

big smile

colors aren't perfect...but i'll deal with them.

and update of previous image.

edit:

the hair's not working here. There are either too many or too little lines shown...making it seem like the hair is unsure about what state it's in. (rear vs front/top) It's not what I intended so I'm doing the hair over.

edit edit: ok. The hair's a little refined. I suppose I'm ok with it. cropped a little. slight color change.

ok. time to do some animating.

ED-209

tennis players....

in SLOW MOTION!

WATCH IT!

desert shooter sketch

i want to do something with this character.

why do you want to animate? (with 'life update')

I've decided to apply to I-Animate.net for the next semster/class/thingy.

I've decided to hold off on starting the 'spacegirl' comic/graphic novel right now.
I'll keep working at refining the first story. But right now...I think I need to focus on 3d animation. (iow: I need to focus on getting a job animating)
(EDIT: i'm not sure about this. )


I think I've decided on Huntsville as my place of residence for the next year and a half.

Working on drawings now...I'll update later in the day.

edit:
I was on the 11secondclub forums earlier and i saw a thread marked 'why do you animate?'
or something to that degree. This is my (shortened) response. I could (and kind of wanted to) expand this
to include the people i've met, the things, i've learned, etc etc. But I don't think that would
qualify as an animation-related response. That would be more of a 'how did you get to this point in your life? What have you learned so far?'' kind of response.

Here was what I posted:

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This is more of a ramble. I tried to put only the most important stuff in here. 


I was influenced more by comics than animation.
I've 'always' watched animation but never really thought of it as something i wanted to do.
Loved stuff from Jones, Avery, Freleng, but never thought about why.
I liked to draw and comics seemed to touch on things that animation didn't. (sci-fi, drama, etc)
So it was comics...then animation. Or maybe comics, live-action, then animation.

One of my turning points happened when I saw Akira when i was...about 9.
I'd never seen anything like it before. I was used to animation being silly slapstick stuff (which is awesome)
but never saw anything like what i was seeing other than in live action or in comic books.
(both having limitations of what could be done).

Left high school. Wanted to go to art school to study comics. Couldn't afford it. So I studied Mech engineering for about 2 years. Switched to graphic design (because i wanted to draw more) and tried to bring my love of comics into that.


Then I saw The Incredibles.
Like Akira, it showed me what could be done with animation. But it took it up a notch...there was real acting. Real emotion. Real...everything. I think that was the first movie that I saw in a theater more than once and the first movie i took the time to analyze. After that, I decided that I wanted to storyboard for animation. Animation seemed really tedious and boring. I looked (without knowing where to look) for info about how storyboard and started drawing all the time everyday. At this time I started watching and analyzing movies and shows that were more drama/romance/acting-focused.

Graduated college with the idea:
'OK dammit. This is it! Time to go learn what I've been wanting to learn! I'm going to art school to learn animation!'

Didn't really start to love animating until last year. My reaction: 'holy crap!....I can make drawings move the way I want them to! I can build my own worlds! I'm a god!'
I still get that excited when animating. I don't think that will change. 


I've found that I can (most of the time) express myself...my ideas better visually. Through a loose drawing, a painting, whatever. Sometimes the idea comes through a rough drawing and it's enough...but sometimes it's limited. Where the basic idea is there...but to really push it through...you have to have several images to show it. Comics can do that...but sometimes that's not enough. Animation allows me to fine tune and get the idea to a point where....well...i get full control of a character. I can put little things in the face. I can have some things speed up and slow down and have those changes show something that people can identify with.  Where they say: 'hey! yeah! I know what that feels like!' (Like the Incredibles did with me) And sometimes, like other methods, animation may not be the best method to show an idea.

I don't always consider myself an animator. Animating is something I CAN DO. It's something I want to master. It's something I want to do for a living. Most importantly, it's a way I want to express myself. It's a way I want to use to communicate. To show people ideas in a way that they've never seen before.
That's why I want to animate.

hm.

got up this morning and decided to do this.
i think it turned out ok. =)

here's some music.

Relax.

I was mulling over some things. Punching some numbers. Making plans. Etc etc.
Instead of being  (=| ) and discouraged....I pulled this album out.

Some things have changed a little from my original plans.
(i suppose that's expected.  =D )
 But I think things will be alright.
Time to work on 'spacegirl'.

So...I didn't get around to finishing Spidey...BUT....I did sketch up and color a version of Black Widow.
I suppose that's some kind of progress.

side: Spider-man 640 was...well...a bit of a let down. To paraphrase someone else...
'who supervises Quesada??' Not just for writing...but artwork as well.
Some of that stuff is embarrassing.
I kind of feel like I wasted my money....not completely...
but I felt like I could have waited a couple weeks for this.
Paolo Rivera...again...doing his thing. I liked his stuff from the last issue better but
the stuff in this issue is nice. It's what you would expect from him.
(why the hell was he not put on the ENTIRE book???)



anyway...next week.
here's a black widow idea/sketch/whathaveyou...

spidey

This is what I'll be working on next.
I haven't drawn or thought about drawing Mr. Parker in a while. (blasphemy!)
Figured 'why not now?'

Here's one idea i want to flesh out.

On the same topic....Amazing Spider-man #640 is released tomorrow...if you're interested.
(of course you are)
Paolo Rivera is the (amazing....haaaa) artist for the book.
If nothing else....take a look at the book for his artwork (pencils, inks, colors)....
or take a look at his blog. :D  here----->  Paolo Rivera

some stuff

I've been stuck on drawing women for the past...i don't know....four months?
My loose drawings have tended to look better than my finished (if it can be called that) stuff.
I'm debating whether that's a good or a bad thing in terms of getting freelance work.

Anyway...
'finished' presentable stuff from the last few months.

and a walk cycle that needs to be worked on.

wow.

I haven't updated this blog in a while...it's been like a year?

well...
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to continue. :D

Before I start...I will say that I have new (and improved) artwork to show.
(well...if you haven't seen it through facebook...or in my other blog)
I don't know if I'll go through the trouble of posting everything I've done so far (in the past year) here.

Maybe I'll post new stuff starting now or something.
(I'm finishing something up today...so look for that if you're interested)

I look at my earlier stuff here and think 'wow...that's kind of embarrassing'.


But to sum up the past year...and a half...



I have completely moved (meaning...all of my stuff has moved) from San Francisco to Montgomery Alabama after being in SF for about a year and a half.
I plan to stay in Montgomery or in Huntsville while I'm here.

I saw and met several artists in person while I was there.


I'm still taking classes at Academy of Art University...because I have to (more on that later).

I have new artwork. (whoo!)
But no new site showing that work (awww.)
Working on it though! (yeah!)

'Spacegirl' is (really) in the works in comic form. (really this time?)

I've seen a bunch of movies. (yeah)

Read a bunch of books.

And I'll be posting more. (I suppose that's good too...depending who you are :D )

I'll now have more time to travel. (yay!)



I think that's it for right now. :|