New Demo Reel

just a new demo reel that is going to be sent out about... hopefully find a job.

Awe Inspiring

Friday afternoon, i went to check out what was new at ConceptArt.org and to my surprise, Andrew Jones was having a live stream lecture about Beauty on saturday from 1-5pm. well i couldnt miss this. so i paid the $95 fee and when the time came i popped on as well as 23 others from around the world to hear what Andrew had to say and show. He talked about beauty is can be the essence and focus in a piece of art. and after an hour of talk, throwing questions around and watching his slide show, the audience get to see Andrew's creative proses. and i must say, just from him using only premade shapes and Corel Painter, he sure developed a whole new style in the digital art world. i really admire this guy and find my self inspired by him. really glad i got to see his lecture.

check out some of his work @ http://androidjones.viewbook.com/

Some New Characters

some characters that i starting to adore. really love the style of them. may do more with them later.

Don't Feed the Animals

this was a stop motion animation that i done at MCAD for my Independent Study. really love how it came out, may do more with them but with foam latex. the clay versions here got all busted up and kept cracking and such. so i'll have to remake them.

Small Illustrations

here are the finished illustrations/character concepts that i whipped up in photoshop. these were from early random sketches that i done.

...sketches....

just some sketches that i done at spyhouse.

More Thumbnail Samples

here are some more little thumbnail sketchs from Andrew Jones's Demo. really like how these patch came out. i am starting to notice that adding a little bit of color can change the feel of them and how they can look.

Andrew Jones Thumbnail Demo

been playing around with an idea/style that Andrew Jones once lectured on. i bought his Massive Black downloadable video and picked up some interesting things from it. so i done some ideas/sketches based off of this. how it works is basically you use -just- the 2d aspect of zbrush, exporting it into painter, adding on some more shapes and so on and then into photoshop were you copy the layer and then flip it. the idea of doing this is that it is suppose to train your mind and your eyes in to picking out what you see. some people see characters, architecture, robots, monsters, vehicles, or armor/clothes. lets see what you see from these.

(note) some are just simple 180 flips cause you can literally have about 50 different versions of 2 of the same shapes cause once you move it, it doesnt look the same any more and you may be able to see something different than before.

A Quick Still Life

Nothing much to add to it. Took me about an hour and 20mins. Did this as an exercise for someone that is Mentoring me via ConceptArt.org. The image is a lil poor cause i couldn't scan it due to the size of the paper, so had to take a picture of it.

More Drawings

Some more stuff i had done.

Just some Sketches

i never really posted my sketches that i have in my sketchbook so gonna be posting some here. some of these sketches i ~may~ touch them up some and do some quick coloring to them. some of these are modified versions of pre-existing characters other are just ideas or concepts for certain classes.

ANIMATION! WOOT!

heres some other animatons that i have done while @ MCAD

this Video is a Internship with Motown Records. had to do a snippet/shot animation for it.


this was my final for digital illustration. had to make a short animation for it and i went over :)

I'll Miss You...

I know it has been a while since my last post, haven't really been all that productive. Last week on~ Tuesday I believe, I revived an email from my mom stating that she had put my dog Lacey down. Yeah it sucks and all that and I'll miss her but at the same time i understand why she did it. A) She was getting weak from laying around so much and not being productive her self. B) From that, she was having health issues. C) Walks with her kept getting shorter and shorter. D) I been away from home for soo~ long with school and now work and living in Minneapolis that I got detached from her so the news of my mom putter her down didn't have much of an impact on me. She was a sweety and enjoyed spending time with her and giving her attention and she all ways loved to cuddle. So yeah, I'll miss her.

Finished

well, finally finished my animation. again, this was a collaboration with Cristobal Jofre Hoffmann. i done all the animating and he done all the background work. this animation WAS originally of a bigger animation but~ due to the amount of time i had, i was lucky enough to get this minute and some seconds done with this one semester. there are some shots in it that i am still iffy on and there are some shots that i like that i can use for my demo reel. it was a two person team effort and really enjoyed Cristobal working on this project with me. got his digital painting skills up and improved with the backgrounds he done. but yeah, hope you all like it.

My Senior Show is now Up

yay! my space is all done!... with the exception of having doing minor lil touch ups but i'll do that tomorrow. really happy with how the space turned out. but yeah, cant wait to see what people have to say.

A Few Good Things...

WEEEE! i love getting packages in the mail! i know ive ordered them but it's like a surprise! its like having a friend that knows exactly what u want... that kind of feeling, but ya... i got my in the mail today! YAY! they're not the best in that there are some errors of centering, text size etc etc but thats due on my side of it. never really made business cards before. over all i think it came out nicely. the other package that i got today was a Spawn: Pocher figure that i had bought with my refund check from taxes. waiting on two more toys that i bought as well that were uber awesome.

other then that, a friend of mine and my self ~may~ have found a place. its not THE best/greatest, but it is reasonable in that its a lil grungy. over all its fairly reasonable and pretty close to skool since my friend is only a sophomore this year. im sure with 2 artists living together that we can spice the place up some to make it more appealing.

WEE!

Future Planing

i tend to suck at it. im in the middle of looking for a place to live some where near by campus. i have a job on campus over the summer so that's covered, just need a place to live now. looking for a studio or a cheap one bed room apartment. it's not easy.. kinda annoying but it has to be done. if worse comes to worse, i'll end up moving back home which really isn't too bad cause i could do freelance work/internship from home and work on my own stuff to improve on. the only thing i would be missing is all the cool stuff here in Minneapolis and job opportunities. there's lots of art stuff i would like to do for my self but i really need a break after school is over. so we'll see what will happen... would like to stay here.

other then that, i designed some business card for me. really like how it turned out. designed my banner after i made the business card.

Loring Park Screening!

Last month, Professional Practice announced that they are accepting MCAD student films to show at the Loring Park in Minneapolis here with coffee by Dunn Bros. my three films that i submitted all made it in. my Giraffes, Clowns and best of yet my SEXY COW will be shown there. i sooooo cant wait for it cause my Sexy Cow gets the most mixed emotions. some love it, some hate it in a good way, some dont know how to react to it.



Since i been talking about my final animation project here at school, i have never really posted up a little trailer or a teaser. sooo here is a little snipet of the animation. this is actually one of the shots that i DID like. i animated, inked and colored Franko, background was done by Christobal.

Franko is copyright protected by Christobal Jofre.

Just a thought....

i recently watched Spawn on DVD from 1997. i remembered when i was a kid, how awesome that movie was and i was actually a lil scared. but now i'm 12 years later since it had been released... i think it's time for an updated version of Spawn. we got better writers, better equipment, animation, etc etc, i think its time to have an updated one that will be so much better. so yeah....

Awe inspiring

Dont you just hate it when you see such awesome and amazing artist that makes you jealous yet the same time inspired to try harder? Or maybe even leaving you saying "Awww i wish that was me~!"? well that happened to me today. Two weeks ago i had place an order for a video of Andrew Jones and recently got it today. It's basically of him showing you how he works and such and it is just awesome and inspiring. would like to apply that to my own stuff but of course i cant with school and all. But with spring break coming i may be able to squeeze it in some where... yea. such awesome and pretty stuff /cry