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here are some sneak peaks of some prints i'm giving out for christmas.

this one was just inspired by the winter in chicago,

this one is specifically for friend that is obsessed with disneyland and i love lucy,

and this one is for my nephew (his name is garrett).

happy holidays y'all!

warm up sketch

gifoot

just a quick .gif of a depressed bigfoot i made sometime ago. 

halloweird.

...and this is why i can never dress up as my favorite disney character.

ctn 24 hour animation contest

so on sept. 27 a few friends and i entered the ctn 24 hour animation contest and today we just got word back that we won!

the topic was "what would you do if you had 24 hours left to live?"

this is what we came up with:

"The Last Meal"

i did some animation and the sound design.

warm up

don't mess with bert. he'll eat cha' oatmeal.

moo eow?

on the way home from school tonight around 11ish p.m. i saw this really interesting cat walking across the sidewalk. it was white with black spots on it like a cow. i can only come to the conclusion that this is the spawn of a very open cow and a very willing cat...

aurora shine.

not too sure what made me wanna do this piece...maybe it was because i was watching wall-e and moonshiners the previous night.

shark week!

happy birthday, america

it's america's birthday and despicable me 2 came out yesterday and i am beyond stoked for both.

so here is a gif i made celebrating the two...sort of.

wreck-brothers?

don't know why i did this, but i am a fan of john c. reilly!

audio from stepbrothers...inspired by this scene in wreck it ralph: 

random gif

sherlocked

i'm sure i'm late to the bbc sherlock bandwagon but needless to say i am hooked.

i wonder how sherlock and biblo would be as partners...

stone-ed?

so this past week a new episode of rugburn's "executioner"came out on youtube and i'm pretty stoked about it because i got to board it! you can watch it here now!

i also got to do some animation and some backgrounds.

here are some screen caps of some of the boards:

and a few bgs i did:

and a scene that i animated:

flap material

attempted to draw a flapper today.

based off of this sketch.

flutter pencil test

this is long overdue but thought i'd share anyway. here is a "pencil" test done in flash of the last scene in "flutter." this was probably my favorite scene to animate.

hands

just some random hand studies.

birthday and goodbye

so last weekend was my nephew's first birthday and i got to do a backdrop for people to take pictures in front of. the theme was dr. seuss so i painted a scene from "oh the places you'll go" and added a few truffula trees because it's so iconic to the style.

i had three days to do the painting and during that time i found the hairdryer to be a lifesaver when it came to drying. 

last week also was my last week at titmouse as well, and i gotta say what an experience. i got a lot of hands on experience and learned a ton. while there i jumped around on a couple projects on their youtube channel, rugburn. i worked on executioner mostly, doing some animation, backgrounds, and storyboards as well as majestic loincloth, doing lyric animation. both have really interesting concepts. you can find both on the rugburn channel now.

here is a thank you gif i made to show my gratitude for all titmouse has done for me. 

the animation was done by my director, i just changed the dude to resemble me. 

faces

just some character studies, blocking in random shapes with color and then finding faces in 'em. 

giffin'

so at titmouse today i had a little downtime and made a gif comic.

this is kind of a loose interpretation of what it was like when someone asked me about the progress of the junior film.

animal illustrations

the junior film i worked on entitled, "flutter" is now complete and my junior year is coming to a close for that matter. we all worked super hard and can't wait to see it on the big screen...at our school, at least.

aside from that i also finished up the animal drawing class this semester with three illustrations that we had to do for our final. still a lot i need to develop but i had a blast trying to figure things out.

this one is entitled, "some bear getting mad at some rabbits."

this one is called, "an egret chilling on a hippo."

and lastly, "lions need to find another source of food because the buffalo are peacing out."

thank you. 

dog sketch

my friend was dog sitting this little guy in the computer lab today.

twothousandthirteen

holy smokes! this is my first post in 2013. 

so a couple updates:

i am now an intern at the awesome animation studio that is titmouse and my group junior film is coming along and cannot wait to see its completion (will definitely post some development in the near future).

besides that i am taking my first animal drawing class with the legendary joe weatherly and i must say, i have a long way to go! having said that i'm having a total blast learning and making awesome mistakes to learn from.

 

here are some pages from my sketchbook.

horse muscle study.

horse skeleton study.

bison skeletal studies.

dog gestures.

i kinda digged the dachshund so i threw some color on in photoshop, voila!