jake armstrong

CHANGING BLOG ADDRESS AGAIN!!!

2011-09-05T21:28:00.000-07:00

sorry for the constant blog changing, but i really hate google's integration in everything, so i'm moving to twitter's integration on everything...

GO TO MY TUMBLR BLOG!

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batman finds something

2011-08-25T20:07:00.000-07:00

it is important

a comic

2011-05-23T16:44:00.000-07:00

hey all, here's the comic i made for the fakeheads anthology. it's part 1 of a 3-4 part comic, so it just ends in the middle of the story. sorry if it makes no sense. hope you like!

more ladies

2011-04-23T14:41:00.000-07:00

a screenprint i made a month ago and forgot to upload until now...

flipbooks

2011-04-19T11:00:00.000-07:00

moving doodles. check it out!

http://www.twiflip.net/thisisjakea

ugh dude

2011-04-11T20:30:00.000-07:00

Strange Kid Anthology can be ordered online

2011-04-03T14:17:00.000-07:00

this is an anthology i did an illustration for, the same people who interviewed me last month. All the small pieces in it look really neat, order yours today !

another comic!

2011-04-02T12:19:00.000-07:00

here's a panel from a mini comic i'm currently slaving over. it's going to be screenprinted, and is presenting 1,000 more problems than i had expected. this is hard work!

the fakeheads comic is done!

2011-03-31T11:05:00.000-07:00

it's finally out of the printers and they look pretty great. i silkscreened a dust jacket with 7 of the contributors' drawings. here's that:

and two pages of my comic:

the real covers (by dan pinto):

these things will be sold at the MoCCa comics fest in NYC. this is a really cool place to pick up weird comics and lots of prints. i'll be selling books and prints there along with my buddies. come out!

Saturday April 9th and Sunday April 10th 11am-6pm

At the Lexington Avenue Armory
68 Lexington Ave (Between 25th &26th Streets)
New York City

Advance Tickets:
$10 for one Day
$15 for the weekend

At The Door:
$12 For the Day
$20 for the Weekend

some spots and interviews

2011-03-12T20:34:00.000-08:00

sorry to flood these things out, but this week has been loaded with the online release of three spots i worked on and two interviews.

the first interview I did on a website a while back, but since the website went defunct, it was put up with some new questions at Strange Kid's Club, called Tripping The Intergalactic Fantastic.

Next I did an interview with Asifa East a few days ago that has a picture of me with snow on it.

this is a really beautiful spot i helped my friends at Tiny Invetions do for Ralph Lauren. i did all the cute animal animation pre-watercoloring.

the next two are BBQ ads that will be projected onto buildings at SXSW for free BBQ. they're pretty gross, and were written up on Cartoon Brew. Can you spot which scenes I did?

that's it for now!

prints and posters post

2011-02-23T20:49:00.000-08:00

hey all! here's a roller derby poster i just did for these girls in LA.
next there's a 1-color screenprint version of it, some bits of which were used in the final poster.

and it in LA somewhere (Meltdown Comics? thanks kat morris.)-

and here's the last screenprint i'd made. it was 5 colors: sky blue, teal, orange, black, and straight gloss. you can't see the gloss layer in low or indirect light. but point a camera flash at it and it suddenly gets really spooky for that kid. luckily he's got that ghost sword to protect him.

ok, that's all for now. hope you enjoy!

Short Film of the Week!

2011-02-18T22:25:00.000-08:00

hey! just wanted to let everyone know Alpha-9 was put up on bestforfilm.com as the short film of the week. There's a short interview on it and some pics. check it out!

also, here's a screenprint plan i was working on tonight. this only shows a close-up of three layers to get colors. this print may be a little weird when you see the full thing and all 5 colors. then again, it could not turn out at all! screenprinting is awesome.

model sheet

2011-01-28T11:09:00.000-08:00

for a comic i'm working on. this guy goes crazytown.

cool dude

2011-01-27T10:41:00.000-08:00

i drew this while watching the Bronx Warriors, which has nothing to do with The Warriors and nor does it take place in the bronx.

carl sagan

2011-01-24T11:12:00.000-08:00

is a dreamboat. i'm pretty addicted to Cosmos right now. best tv show EVER.

screenprint for sale!

2010-11-23T15:09:00.000-08:00

hey guys, i've been figuring out how to screenprint recently with the lovely people at post expose in brooklyn, and i just finished a 13x19 4-color print. i made an edition of 40, which i'm selling if anyone's interested, for $30 (+$10 shipping, unless you're in the nyc area). also, there are about 20 more prints that are less than perfect for less $$. to make it confusing, i used 3 different papers to test it out. my favorite is the beige, but all of them turned out really awesome.

email me if you're interested and we can set up some kind of paypal thing and i'll get it sent out to you. thanks!

See what I've been up to all year!

2010-11-09T11:40:00.000-08:00

I finally updated my demo reel to show the last modge-podge year and a half of work I've been up to. This is just the animation and direction work, unfortunately there's none of the storyboarding work here. The song is from the Black lips. Enjoy!

Jake Armstrong—Demo Reel, Nov 2010 from jake armstrong on Vimeo.

Reel Breakdown:

Clip 1 (0:07) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 2 (0:10) —"Yo Gabba Gabba: Seymour the Skateboard"—Director; 2009
Clip 3 (0:21) —"Dante's Inferno"—Animator; 2009
Clip 4 (0:25) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 5 (0:30) —"Untitled"—Director; 2007
Clip 6 (0:33) —"Untitled"—Director; 2008
Clip 7 (0:37) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 8 (0:40) —"Yo Gabba Gabba: Seymour the Skateboard"—Director; 2009
Clip 9 (0:33) —"Untitled"—Director; 2008
Clip 10 (0:52) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 11 (0:33) —"Untitled"—Director; 2008
Clip 12 (0:55) —"Yo Gabba Gabba: Seymour the Skateboard"—Director; 2009
Clip 13 (0:57) —Music Video: "ZZZPenchant;" Artist: Rafter—Art Director/Animator; 2007
Clip 14 (1:02) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 15 (1:05) —"Untitled"—Director; 2007
Clip 16 (1:08) —"Untitled"—Director; 2008
Clip 17 (1:12) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 18 (1:13) —"Untitled"—Director; 2008
Clip 19 (1:21) —"Dante's Inferno"—Animator; 2009
Clip 20 (1:26) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 21 (1:28) —"Dante's Inferno"—Animator; 2009
Clip 22 (1:33) —"Yo Gabba Gabba: Seymour the Skateboard"—Director; 2009
Clip 23 (1:40) —"Untitled"—Director; 2008
Clip 24 (1:45) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009
Clip 25 (1:53) —"Untitled"—Director; 2007
Clip 24 (1:56) —"The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!"—Director; 2009

kids are the best audience ever

2010-10-27T06:42:00.000-07:00

My Film was recently screened in A small Festival in La Roche Sur Yon, France, and apparently the Children's Jury there decided to write me a letter telling me how much they liked my film. This is so cool dude, adults would never do this!

Dear Mister Amstrong,

we really loved your movie. When we were told that it was your first movie, we were really impressed : it looked really good! The movie is really funny, we all loved the idea of saying that the monster could be really nice! We were really moved when it was alone with all the bodies of the space invadors he would have loved to play longer with!

We really hope that you will make another movie because this one was great, and we are already looking forward to watch it!

Sincerely,

La Roche Sur Yon's Child Jury

Original Message:

Cher Monsieur Amstrong,

nous vous écrivons pour vous dire que nous avons adoré votre film. Lorsqu'on nous a dit que c'était votre premier film, nous avons vraiment été très impressionné : il était vraiment très bien réussi! Ce film est extrêmement drôle, nous avons tous aimé cette idée d'un monstre qui serait en réalité très gentil! Nous avons été très émus lorsqu'il était seul sur la montagne des cadavres des spationautes avec qui il aurait tant voulu pouvoir jouer!

Nous espérons que vous aller faire d'autres films parce que celui-là était génial et nous sommes

pressés de le regarder!

Cordialement,

Le Jury Adolescent du Festival International du Film de La Roche Sur Yon

dude with sword

2010-09-12T21:50:00.000-07:00

i decided to mix it up and post a guy with a sword. i don't think i'd done that before.

finally colored...

2010-08-22T20:44:00.000-07:00

i drew this one in may, finally inked it in june, and have been dicking around with the color ever since. i feel that it's either as good as it can get or just needs to be done, but either way i'm pretty happy with it i think. it was done across two pages of a 3x5 sketchbook. let me know what you think!

talking to myself

2010-08-10T20:51:00.000-07:00

this was taken from a sketchook in january. i kinda felt like i was drawing the same thing, characters lackadaisically standing and doing nothing, so i started drawing them telling me what i'm doing wrong, hoping it could help me try to expand a bit. unfortunately other characters would answer with silly excuses.

OLD FANGS by Adrien Merigeau

2010-08-04T12:07:00.001-07:00

this is easily my favorite cartoon i've seen this year, and now that it's online i feel everyone should see it as well. it was produced at Cartoon Saloon, a really incredible studio in Ireland.

Rooftop Films on Kickstarter

2010-07-30T14:18:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, a screening I was in recently and one of the coolest film screening setups I've seen in NYC is currently raising money on Kickstarter to keep their amazing program open year-round. This includes cool new locations, including an abandoned subway tunnel. The donation page is only up for 5 more days, and if you donate $30 or more, you get a "Best Of" DVD with my film on it. Sounds like something that would be really awesome and you should do if you love watching amazing films in picturesque locations for cheaper than a movie ticket in NYC and Brooklyn. I wouldn't ask you unless it were an amazing opportunity.

And here's a screen-cap from what I'm working on right now. Enjoy!

too many barbarian guys

2010-07-07T07:28:00.000-07:00

here's a barbarian lady

(once again, I updated my blog address. please update your links!)

another barbarian and a new blog address!

2010-07-07T00:19:00.000-07:00

hope this doesn't get too confusing me changing up the web address, but i made jakehatesyou when i thought nobody would visit it. now people seem to visit a good deal and i get a sour face from them every time they see the address, so i thought i'd go for something a little more simple and not possibly mistakenly mean. please update your links!

and to celebrate, a sketchbook page of a barbarian with a bob haircut. hope you enjoy.

quick drawing

2010-07-06T00:07:00.000-07:00

here's a flash doodle, this one is of a barbarian. i honestly can't believe it's been over a month since the last post. lately i've traveled to a few festivals and seen lots of really great and inspiring cartoons, and it's only made me draw more and more. i have no reason not to be scanning sketchbook pages. hopefully i'll fill up to my promises and put some of those up.

hey check out my brother's new website!

2010-05-20T20:10:00.000-07:00

he does some really crazy sculpture. shit creeps me out, but is totally awesome.

http://www.jessearmstrongart.com/

IF YOU'RE IN NY MAY 28th

2010-05-19T22:32:00.000-07:00

Please come to the rooftop films screening on a rooftop in the Lower East Side. My film's playing there along with the Dark Toons program, Friday the 28th. Doors at 8, music, screening at 9, and free drinks after. I'd recommend picking up an advance ticket for ten bones. I hope to see you there!

Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School
LOWER EAST SIDE
350 GRAND ST., NEW YORK, NY 10002

walk cycle...

2010-04-28T21:47:00.000-07:00

in january and february, i had a flash document that was kind of my digital sketchbook that i'd pull up whenever bored and at my computer. it's full of half-done animations and doodles, and here's one of them.

on a side-note, i REALLY need to calibrate my cintiq. that looks so washed out!

it's been a while

2010-04-28T17:18:00.000-07:00

here's my second attempt at painting with ink. the only thing that i really don't like about it is that the dude ended up looking a lot less serious, and more regal than anything. and i don't really care much for regal looks. but here it is, it still looks okay to me the next day.

also i'm going to try to post more, promise. i have a lot of stuff backed up from the prior months that i'm going to put up intermittently.

interview!

2010-04-01T03:15:00.000-07:00

there's interview on cartoon funland called Tripping the Intergalactic Fantastic with yours truly. it's short, but check it out if you've got a few minutes to kill!

it also should be posted on strange kids club, but isn't up quite yet...

I got a new brush pen

2010-02-02T20:19:00.000-08:00

that makes drawing fun.

bored bored bored bored bored

2010-01-17T00:38:00.001-08:00

man, it's been over a month since the last post. here's a really hairy blue person to help say i'm sorry.

if you're in seattle on the 5th

2009-12-01T14:47:00.000-08:00

my film is playing at the 2D or Not 2D animation festival on Dec 5th, probably around 4:40. It'll be up with some other cool films by friends of mine, like Chris Perry's Incident at Tower 37 and Elliot Cowan's The Thing in the Distance. i won't be able to be there, but check it out if you're around, guaranteed to be a good time!

sorry, i don't have any drawings to post. hopefully i can remedy that soon with a bunch of new stuff.

I found this on a door at Cartoon Network

2009-11-15T14:10:00.001-08:00

there must have been some mistake, but i won't say anything if you don't.

back to nyc

2009-11-08T21:23:00.000-08:00

the seat next to me on the airplane was empty, so i was setting down books, comics, and drawings in it. the guy across the aisle had to stare at me with a sour face for a long time when i drew this. maybe he liked it and had one of those always-sour-faces. i think that's it because this shit is cute. it's like those 60's puppy-dog drawings

makes me think of this. i didn't draw this piece of work, though i wish i had...

i'm good at travelling

2009-11-07T22:49:00.000-08:00

i went to cordoba and madrid in spain last week to go to the Animacor festival. i stayed with some friends of a friend in madrid for a few days and then drank like a person who does not need sleep very much in cordoba. probably the most fun i've had in a really long time. people there are SO cool. what they don't know is i will come back and stay on their couches very soon again.

this is me in madrid, jetlagged and wandering around galleries after drinking too many cafe solos and eating way too much jamon. i also learned the power of the long siesta to replace the fact my body wouldn't let me sleep during the night.

trying to draw again

2009-10-27T22:51:00.000-07:00

it's been 3 weeks since i finished my last big freelance projects. this is the first thing out of my electronic pencil.

Apparently it's been done before

2009-10-25T23:27:00.000-07:00

Robert Silverberg has an acute taste for good monikers.

i'm kind of a big deal

2009-10-12T00:20:00.001-07:00

so i'm going to ottawa in a couple days and i decided that i needed to represent a little professional-like, so i made a business card. i got the idea from a friend of mine who made these awesome sewing kits with her name rubber-stamped on them. she pointed me to a little store in the east village that only makes stamps, and i got an image made from a drawing i did at 5am one night. not cheap, but indispensable since now i can take any cool paper i find and make it into a business card. i kind of want to make like a ton of different designs and stamp them on everything. i'm like worth a million dollars now. check it out!

More screenings!

2009-09-12T12:40:00.001-07:00

hey guys, sorry for the inactivity, i've been totally swamped on projects lately that i've completely neglected this blog. please check out:

http://www.dantesinferno.com/
http://yogabbagabba.com/

:for awesomeness.

anyways, the short film i made has been getting into some festivals and doing pretty well! i won the bloody cow award (awesome, right?) at muuuvi fest in romania, and best animation on bornholm island, denmark, at bornshorts. i'm way stoked and way mad i could not have afforded either of those far off locales.

there's more! if you're around, here's some festivals that are in the works!

KLIK!, sept 17th -20th in amsterdam. this is honetly the coolest lineup of films ever in the history of the world. i would not lie to you.

FANTASTIC FEST, sept 24-oct 1st at the alamo draft house in austin, tx. i'm pissed i can't go to this. if you're in texas, you're crazy if you don't spend at least a day at this.

ANIMADRID, in madrid, spain from sept 24th to oct 2nd. i won't be at this so please enjoy some empanadas and movies there for me.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL, sept 30th-oct 4th in woodstock, ny. i'll be there looking at some natury stuff.

CONEY ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL, Oct 2nd-4th in my current town of living! come out and we can eat corn dogs together!

OTTAWA ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Oct 14th-18th in sunny canadia. show up there and we can grab some poutine together. that sounds dirty, but it's cheese curds and gravy over fries. canadians are weird.

HORROR AND SCI-FI FEST, oct 15th -18th, in tempe, az. if you go you can crash at my brother's place with his girlfriend and dogs. he's cool, he'll like you.

GRANADA INTERNATIONAL YOUNG FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL, oct 24th-31st in, you guessed it, granada, spain! i don't know too much about this one because the website doesn't have much english on it, but still way stoked!

anyway, that's all for now! hope you can go to one of these, they're all really way cool. here's a picture i did of a skateboard boy flying off a ramp:

some screenings!

2009-07-19T18:34:00.000-07:00

If you're in Brooklyn or Manhattan this weekend, check out "Alpha-9!" screening at some really awesome animation festivals!

Fri, July 24th, 8pm — Pat Smith's CARTOONS FROM HELL in Manhattan at the 92YTribeca Screening Room! This is a culmination of lots of really professional animators, and is a guaranteed good time. Tickets are ten bones.
Tickets and info here.

Sun, July 26th, 4:30pm and 9:15pm — Animation Block Party in Brooklyn at BAMcinématek! This is a 3-day BK animation festival, with cool stuff all days, so come out for all the events! This screening is $11 online and I heard that it could very easily sell out.
Tickets and info here.

Also if you're in the Woodstock area the first weekend in October, you should swing by! My film just got accepted there!

And, if you're in the Transylvania area over the weekend of the 31st of July (Lazarea Judetul Hargita, Romania), stop into the Muuuvi Festival for a weekend of music and my film thrown in somewhere in there.

Anyways, that's it for now! Here's a drawing I did with some bright colors that I'm beginning to find very hard to look at.

so here's some really old stuff

2009-07-15T20:21:00.000-07:00

I was looking at a friend's website today and saw a lot of the drawings we developed for a pitch he was working on last year posted up all over the place. It's been about a year since we completed them, and assuming now it'll never be picked up, I'd like to share the things I drew for it.

The show was called "Carnies" and, you guessed it, involved a bunch of carnival freaks and the havoc they wreak in and out of their traveling circus. I could only locate the clean ones from his site, and the rough ones were just things I found from an old hard drive, and were more the working sketches, that may have not even made it until the end. In a couple, you can see the progression of the characters.

Anyways, this is my house-cleaning. Hope you like!

¡La cosa terrible de Alpha-9!

2009-07-09T13:00:00.000-07:00

so maybe i'm being a bit vein, but i've been floored recently that i've seen so many people linking to my film and blog over the last month. while drawn.ca and motionographer.com were both so amazing as to put it up on their sites, some of my favorite links are the weirdest ones:

my film was pirated on a chinese site, complete with watermarking and advertisements! also, here it is en espanol! and the coolest one ever, i was just going through WJC's blog and found he'd drawn my spaceman. waaaaay awesome. if it was my birthday i'd consider it the best birthday present ever.

anyways, thanks so much for everyone watching! if you find any more weird links, let me know!

some sketches

2009-07-09T12:53:00.000-07:00

hey sorry for the break. i can't believe it's been a whole month since the last post! anyways, i'm playing around with ideas for a comic right now and some of these are some beginning thoughts. more hopefully to follow!

my thesis is finally online!

2009-06-06T08:44:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been a month since my last post. It's been pretty crazy what with graduating, family visiting, and moving that I haven't had any time to do any actual drawing. I need to get back in the swing of things now.

But until then, my thesis film, The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! is now on Cartoon Brew for hopefully everyone to see! Hope you enjoy.

In the spirit of the thesis that's totally over, here are the beginning designs and super rough ideas of backgrounds before I started laying out and animating. They don't even look like the same characters to me now after they've changed through animating. Thanks to everyone who's seen it so far!

brand new demo reel

2009-05-04T20:45:00.000-07:00

this is my time while at SVA. enjoy!

Jake Armstrong Demo Reel May 2009 from jake armstrong on Vimeo.

breakdown

Clip 1 (:04) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 2 (:08) —Second year film-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2007
Clip 3 (:11) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 4 (:20) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2008
Clip 5 (:27) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 6 (:34) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2007
Clip 7 (:38) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 8 (:42) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, After Effects; 2008
Clip 9 (:49) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 10 (:54) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, After Effects; 2007
Clip 11 (:57) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 12 (:59) —Second year film-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2007
Clip 13 (1:02) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, After Effects; 2008
Clip 14 (1:08) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, After Effects; 2008
Clip 15 (1:17) —Second year film-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2007
Clip 16 (1:20) —School project-SVA; Flash; 2008
Clip 17 (1:23) —Personal test; Flash; 2008
Clip 18 (1:25) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 19 (1:27) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, After Effects; 2008
Clip 20 (1:28) —Second year film-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2007
Clip 21 (1:30) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 22 (1:35) — School project-SVA; Hand drawn, After Effects; 2007
Clip 23 (1:39) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 24 (1:40) —“Superjail!” Internship (cleanup and inbetween); Flash; Augenblick Studios 20008
Clip 25 (1:58) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 26 (2:00) —Second year film-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2007
Clip 27 (2:06) —School project-SVA; Hand drawn, After Effects; 2008
Clip 28 (2:11) —“The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!” Thesis Film; Flash, After Effects; 2009
Clip 29 (2:16) — Second year film-SVA; Hand drawn, Photoshop, After Effects; 2007

SVA DUSTY film festival

2009-05-04T05:54:00.000-07:00

just to let anyone know that may be in new york this week, the SVA animation thesis screenings are this thursday the 7th, with my thesis playing roughly nine-ish. it's at the sva theatre, playing from 7pm-11pm. that's 4 hours of cartoons for free. pretty amazing if you ask me. hope to see you there.

the sva theatre
333 w 23rd st,
ny ny 10011

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!

2009-04-10T20:50:00.000-07:00

almost done! it's weird when 8 months of straight work and worry all slowly wind to a stop. it's kind of a pre-post-partum thing, where you stop thinking "all i need is rest" and start thinking, "okay, what next?"

until i can figure that out, i made some postcards for my thesis (of which the screening is may 7th i think). i'm really a child when things come in the mail for me, especially something printed. i'm so eagerly waiting that i just keep hitting refresh on the ups page, even though i know when it'll arrive.

if you want one, find me in the Digi lab, comment, or email, and i'll be sure to get one to you, no matter how far. i got 500 so i want to get them out, i can't stand to see unused printed things!

Thesizing the demons

2009-03-28T19:55:00.000-07:00

this is right before the monster gets hit in the face with a laser. kind of like a dog chasing an oncoming car.

luckily, i can't really draw

2009-03-04T21:51:00.000-08:00

here are some screenshots for my thesis. i'm putting these particular images up because these were some of the most unmistakably bad inbetweens in the current section of my thesis in production. regardless of how unreadable they are as for what's actually going on, they all made me very happy that they made it into my film. bad drawings really are so much more ambiguous and fun than good drawings ever could be.

(as a sidenote, the fourth drawing isn't even mine, it's by the wonderfully talented kat, who's doing her own brand of great bad drawings in my thesis. with her helping, it's going to be sooooo good. i'm way excited.)

mini failures and mini successes

2009-02-12T22:58:00.000-08:00

So here's a couple pictures relating to the prior post about making a sign for a comics section that was supposed to wrap around a wall. In the end, I did get to make the sign, which I thought turned out pretty well, aside from the easter-egg colors that ended up coming out when I tried to paint with wet acrylics on foam core. I felt that it didn't work, so posted with it is what I would have done had I planned better. Next time!

On the upside, I got to ink it with a sumi brush. That stuff is so much fun to play with!

screenshot

2009-02-10T08:01:00.001-08:00

Here's what I'm choosing as the screen shot for the Dusty's book, thought this might be a good time to finally start putting some thesis stuff up. I think this is final color, but I'll probably use some textures. This still feels too bare for me.

I've done about 6 months on my thesis so far, and have a frightening two months left. It's time for some prayers...

Hope you like!

Phoenix airport

2009-02-10T07:48:00.000-08:00

If you can't tell, I'm really trying to post a lot more lately to keep myself working on different things. That's why I'm trying to work with color and textures in more recent pictures, which I'll try to post more of soon. I'm somewhat new to textures these days, so if this is too much, let me know! This one was when I was waiting for a plane in the Phoenix airport for 3 hours, because of inclement weather in Denver. Seems like every time I travel I get stuck somewhere, but I'm getting used to pulling out my sketchbook at these times, and kind of starting to enjoy this forced people-drawing time.

finally back to work

2009-01-13T22:43:00.000-08:00

after three weeks of not being able to work on thesis (plus a really good excuse to be lazy and catch up on my smash brothers), i finally went back to work this week and now get to devote all of my time to thesis. don't get me wrong, i love working on this stuff, but this was me on monday: totally exhausted because i woke before 11am.

air travel

2009-01-02T19:07:00.000-08:00

this made 6 hours stuck in the airport worth it.

and to stay with the air theme, this was on a plane to london. woohoo!

kill a man for a good book

2008-12-13T22:49:00.000-08:00

here's a new post with a drawing i did last month. it was supposed to be a giant sign for my library, but got denied for possibly a few small reasons. i cleaned it up before presenting it, but i'm overall really happy with how it turned out as an illustration, so i don't really mind it doesn't get to be 4 feet tall. enjoy!

I updated my demo reel

2008-11-07T06:20:00.000-08:00

So now there's two minutes of non-sequitur segments!

By the way, this is a lot of posts in a day. Hope you like.

this is me working on thesis

2008-11-06T22:29:00.000-08:00

not really. but this girl is fun to draw right now.

and in case you're wondering, no, she'll never stop.

this girl

2008-11-06T22:14:00.000-08:00

is kinda being a brat

waiting for someone to take this computer away from me.

2008-11-04T16:21:00.000-08:00

Thesis makes me like this.

2008-09-05T10:42:00.000-07:00

some downtime at the Land of Letters. Here's a spaceman wearing goggles.

thesis pt 1

2008-08-08T09:39:00.000-07:00

some concept playing around waiting to animate on this piece.

(apparently this is best viewed in firefox...)

i've had trouble with this, so if it doesn't work, go here

a doodle

2008-06-20T12:08:00.000-07:00

a short break from superjail!

go figure? (pt. 2)

2008-06-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

As promised, here's the second half of the post 2 prior. Once again it's just the ones I enjoyed over the last year for once reason or another. Plus, it's good to finally get the stack of 18x24 paper off of my coffee table.

where's the blood???

2008-06-12T22:16:00.000-07:00

So this is the cute post. I've been reading a lot of 'indie' comics lately, and have been getting pretty absorbed in thick lines and somewhat sentimental subjects, and honestly I really like drawing them. It's silly, yeah, and it's definitely no naked chicks covered in blood firing guns, but this is still pretty neat.

The first one is a design I did for a bookmark for my work. I don't know yet if the design is picked, but I like the picture, so it was worth it regardless. And the other is a doodle I did at the studio today in between jobs, pretty sappy. Trying different styles. Anyways, I'm going to play zelda now.

go figure! (pt 1)

2008-05-26T12:20:00.000-07:00

so i'm finally not being so lazy and decided to put up some figure drawings. these are kind of scattered throughout the last year, and by no means are all of them, just some of the ones i liked or kept. there's a ton more that i still need to shoot, but i have to wait for some decent light to come in through my window because i don't feel like climbing up to my rooftop to take pictures. these are the small ones that fit in my scanner. more will (should) follow!

some layouts.

2008-01-16T19:08:00.000-08:00

here are some backgrounds and pans i worked on recently. i thought they'd be a good thing to show, i kinda like em. hope you do too. the big one at the top is a giant multi-angled pan from space into a space station on a rocky planet. so if you were looking at those orange rectangles completely befuddled(or black in the case of the other pictures), they are just borders of the tv screen. but of course you already knew that. the last two are also pans, and if you were looking at the one with the mountains wondering why it looks so symmetrically flipped, it's because it is. i created that one as a hook-up pan so the character can walk through a mountainous hell pretty much as long as people will watch. they are all of varying done-ness and though i have rich plans to make them beautiful digital paintings, they might just stay as pencil. oh well...

2007-11-11T15:37:00.000-08:00

sooo....here's another post! it's a short piece of a character closing a door. i think everything works except a feeling of weight, which i'm sure i can get soon enough on something in the future. well, that's all. hope you like!

it didn't mess up this time.

2007-07-18T23:28:00.000-07:00

i decided to do a rough practice. it's actually a re-animation of something i did a while ago but lost when my computer crashed and i hadn't saved. well, here it is now, pretty much the same thing, unbearably short.

oh yeah, and another

2007-04-30T14:06:00.000-07:00

here's apparently a cute monkey i made last night for a digicomp final. it doesn't feel finished, but aside from adding some crappy sound, i don't know what else to do. if you think of something, let me know. click on the text anywhere.

kids running scared

2007-04-30T14:01:00.000-07:00

hey whoever reads this (mom), i got my updated demo reel up. check it out. it's only two days old and is already out-of-date. woohoo.

the power of rainbows

2007-03-19T14:51:00.000-07:00

Here's a flash animation I did for my DigiComp class. The perameter is to have a button that animates, so Click on the skull to play. Enjoy. I know I did.

v-day drawring

2007-03-15T20:06:00.000-07:00

for my roomate for a valentines gift. overall the color wasn't the best choice, but i might be getting this messy 50's-60's style working...

fish in pants kinda make me giggle

2007-03-15T12:44:00.000-07:00

Hey there. My first real post, here's just some designs that i'll animate in flash, obviously of a barbarian and a fish wearing pants. Flash seems to lend itself to an overtly simple design (at least when I use it), that I'm not too happy with. If and when I fix it, i'll post, or, you know, whatever.