Callie Excursion

The other day I took Callie to play fetch down the road in a nearby field. Lately she has been taking a big interest in the tennis ball, so I try to encourage it as much as I can. Although the field that we went to isn't all that big, it's big enough that we never use even close to the whole field.... not with the way I throw the ball anyways. 

Frankie poses

I haven't posted alot lately, but thats partly cause I'm just so danged busy. Below is my last Drawergeeks Jr submission, the theme was Frankenstein. You can find the site here http://drawergeeksjr.blogspot.com/

Below is are recent poses for 3D animation, the one directly below was uncomfortable. I tried to make it real subtle, the yellow guy is slightly uncomfortable about the photo situation.
The one below is for scared. Feel free to click on any of these images for a bigger version.

Lately

The picture below is the most recent theme for Drawergeeks Jr, Where the Wild Things Are. I drew it with an ink brush and then scanned it in to add some texture.

This next picture is a comic for my schools news paper.
And the next three are poses done in 3D. These are assignments for my 3D animation class. The theme for the one directly below is love.
And the theme for the las two is confident... I enjoy lighting them a whole lot. I love to enclude cools and warms, and sometimes high key verses low key. I think the lighting in the two below effect the mood of the pose, even though the pose is exactly the same in both. The magic of Lighting.

Pioneer festival

Today was the Huntington Pioneer Festival. This is a time where people dress up in old time clothes and sell things such as fresh produce, local honey, and antiques. Below are some pictures.

The picture above and below are of a honey bee hive. I thought it was pretty interesting.

There are some classic cars and gourds.
And this last picture was just for fun, I liked the solid glass apple. This may seem weird, but I thought all the reflections and refractions were pretty cool.
And below are some photos I took of my two pets. 
I love all the warms and Callies long cool shadow.

3D mania

Its been while since Ive posted... but hopefully I'll be able to post pretty regularly now. Below is a rendering from my Little Guy film I am working on. As of now I have tuned up/reanimated the first and second scene and redone the lighting. I think it's improving, we will see when it's all done I guess.

The next three images are just some poses that I took time to light and stuff.


Click on the images for some better view.

Cat N' Dog

Here is Charlie the cat with Colleen the woman... aren't they adorable?

And here I am with a Great Dane!! Colleen and I are pretty sure that as soon as we are able to we are gonna get a Great Dane. Great Dane puppies have the biggest feet, he was very clumsy and tripped over his feet all the time. His name was Samson. 

Little Guy-A New Hope

Below are some images from my 3D environments final fall of 2008. This was possibly one of the most involved pieces I have ever done. The film is 45 seconds long, I did it in just one semester. I was able to do this much animation because I chose a style that I could manage fairly quickly. At the end of the semester I had all the animation done and rendered it out and did alot of image editing in after effects... then I got to watch it for the first time. I was very disappointed with it and didn't watch it again until the end of the spring semester when my professor wanted it in the showcase. After watching it I realized that there was alot of good stuff there. 

So all of this is to say that I have decided to revisit the film this next year. My goal is to fine tune some of the animation, and redo a few of the shots and slow down the pace a bit so it communicates more clearly. I want to get it remastered before I graduate so it can be in my reel.

The film is about a little space guy that is traveling the universe on a meteor and he spots earth
He decides that he wants to visit this planet

and this is where he ends up

I am planning on uploading this film in progress soon...