So close!

To something awesome. Something animated!

 

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Animation Practice

For my work, I got to animate a short scene of a car blowing up. I spent a disproportional amount of time on it.

NYC + DC Moleskine

Just got back from an awesome two week trip to the east coast. It's hot as shit over there, but still quite enjoyable (especially NYC, where I hadn't been before).

Airporters @ SFO- The beginning of my journey!

People in NYC look different from anywhere I've ever been. Everybody there is a caricature, I swear. You get a sense that everybody is 'somebody' (even the thuggier residents).

Faces on the metro. One man was selling his book of anthologized Facebook updates, entitled "Don't Beat Your Children or They'll End Up Like Me."

What.

Mawfuckah had staples in his head. 'Nuff said.

 

I saw a sleeping Jabba The Hutt on the train.

Unfinished sketch of the view from our apt in east village.

Security guard and hip girl chilling @ Museum of Natural History.

I love drawing street artists. Found this guy in Times Square.

I actually paid this fellow $5 to draw my portrait, because his drawings looked decent (turned out they weren't). He was mightily confused when I whipped out my pencil and started drawing him back!

Adorable little kid feeding pigeons in some random park.

It was sweet and sad actually. Sweet because it was such an innocent scene, sad because I'm pretty sure those pigeons were his only friends.

I wish I had spent more time trying to capture his expressions of terror and wonder as small children chased his flock of pigeons around the park.

Even the dirtiest of hobos wear hip, sexy red shoes in NYC.

One of said pigeon-chasers.

It's true what they say about people from New Jersey.

In D.C. there was less to draw. Our tour of the monuments and whatnot was pretty fast, and I didn't have time to really plop down and draw them. So instead I regressed to just drawing random people from my head.

My relatives had an adorable little dog named Jessie. It would play fetch all over the house, and you'd have to try to wrestle 'boney' out of her mouth by shaking her back and forth. I'm pretty sure I gave this poor dog brain damage.

Calm down girl in red, I wasn't checking you out. I was just drawing your expressive mug. BWI airport.

In general, I felt much safer drawing strangers on the East coast. As in, I would occasionally receive puzzled or dirty looks, but I rarely got the 'YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE STABBED' eyes that are seen in Oakland so often.

Hope you guys enjoyed looking!

3 WEEKS TILL CALARTS :OOO

Studies 'O Color

I've set a goal for myself to do a color study every day. I try not to get bogged down in detail, and fail consistently, but I'm failing less and less!

In other news, I'm off to the east coast in two days - so to my eleven (11!) followers, I'm afraid you guys will just have to find some other way to spend your time besides constantly refreshing my blog every five seconds. I know, I know. It will be rough for both of us.

[/sarcasm]

And finally, I've been busting my ass of animating a short film for this crazy Bio-Med company that I'm working for this summer. I can't show anything in it's entirety yet, but check some concept art:

That's right. Exploding cars.

I'm so gonna get fired.

Animashuns

All part of a larger but still very small project- eventually, these will be composited in After Effects with some liveaction footage for hopefully humorous result. Oh and yeah, that sound was recorded by yours truly. Audacity is sweet!

GET ME OOOOUT OF HERE

I had the privilege of going on a tour at Pixar this morning. As always, the place is a paradise. It's especially striking compared to Dreamworks/PDI, which I was lucky enough to see last week - Pixar is sunny and the faces are cheery, while Dreamworks was a bit darker, more corporate, and everybody looked like they were cold.

While the art at both studios was obviously amazing, I couldn't help but gawk at the Toy Story 3 color keys by Daisuke Tsutsumi.

 

The cafeteria at Dreamworks beats Pixar's handily. Seriously - my tour was only like 20 minutes, and I spent a good hour eating the cafeteria, and I have no regrets.

All in all, both looked like ridiculously fun places to work. Although, SURPRISE CONCLUSION: Pixar is totally awesome.

Figuredrawings + Photoshoop

A week ago I was sitting around and I had this crazy thought:
"OH MY GOD I HAVEN'T BEEN TO FIGUREDRAWING IN SEVEN MONTHS"
So last week, I went! They have awesome cats there. Next time I go, I'm going to pay my twelve bucks just to draw those damn cats.