some spots and interviews

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!

See what I've been up to all year!

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

so here's some really old stuff

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!

screenshot

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!

I updated my demo reel

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

the power of rainbows

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.