old sketchbook

i was digging around some old sketchbooks. these are from '09 or '10.

CSU summer arts

as the fall semester is creeping up really fast, the highlight of summer for me definitely was going to the CSU summer arts program in CSUMB. in two weeks we were to create a character and animate a 15 to 30 second performance with it. i came up with a bum.

here is the development behind my piece called, "bum Appétit."

character sketches

live action reference

animatic

final piece

birthday sketch

today is my friend emman's 26th birthday and being the broke and poor college student that i am i drew him with his hero, fred armisen. emman is going to school for writing so i thought that this would be a fun scenario to draw. happy birthday, buddy!

it's shark week, duh!

thirty second figure drawing

when asking random strangers to pose nude for you doesn't work, there's always websites like http://www.lovecastle.org/draw/ that i can rely on. not too sure what she's smelling.

sketch dump!

some from my little green book...

and a doodle page that was supposed to be for notes during dave burgess' lecture at csumb...

amination!

so i am sorry to this blog for not giving it any tlc in the past two months. i just got back from the "understanding your character for animation" at the csu summer arts program at csumb and i must say it was an amazing two weeks of animation boot camp. met a lot of amazing and talented artists who are also very rad dudes. the workshop entailed acting on stage with masks, filming reference, and of course, late night animating. i will most likely write a more in depth post about the process as well as the finished animation in the near future, but for now i leave you with a really random dialogue test that i did for my sophomore animation class taken from the  11 second club.