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A little late... hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Short Film

Work In Progress

Here's a small clip for my animated film that I'm trying to finish from the classes I took at Animation Mentor. I've set a deadline for myself to take one shot from blocking to animation each week. Some shots are further along then others so there's a chance I might be able to finish sooner then I'm hoping. So far I've been sticking to the deadlines so if I continue on the same track I could finish the animation by the first week of January.

Throughout this process I've learned so much. Recently I've re-learned how important it is to have others look at your work. When you're telling a story for an audience I think it's generally a good idea to have a small audience look at it from time to time before you settle on your ideas. If you go through the entire process without feedback it could very well fall flat where you yourself intended something to resonate... possibly your entire message. That would totally suck! But making mistakes and learning from them is a part of growing so I think it's very important to show others your work, mistakes and all.

On another note, it's also good to be confident in the choices you've made that you feel strengthen your story. Sometimes it's more important to push along and finish without second guessing yourself and your choices. But like Shawn Kelly mentioned in one of the lectures, if 3 people make the same comment about your work, you should seriously consider taking their advice.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone!

Thanks for stopping by.

Mr. Monkey

This is how I feel when I don't know what I want to draw...

Smurf sketches

Playing around with some Smurf designs.

Graduation AM

Woohoo! Our graduation ceremony for Animation Mentor is in January.

Night Cap

This week I attempted a piece for the ten second club but didn't make it by the deadline... I was a day late. Ah well... the reason behind tackling this piece was to take a step away from my short film to refresh. I've been looking at the same characters and ideas for so long I needed a small breath of fresh air. I'm going to refine and clean this piece up a little bit more then I'm back off to my film.

Edit: Ha ha! I tried submitting it anyway and it went through... hopefully it'll still be accepted? We'll see.

Wrestling

Something I sketched up while eating pizza at my sister's house last night. This big guy has no sense of balance...

And this little guy has no sense at all... poor guy.

Scarecrow

Last topic before finishing Animation Mentor was scarecrow come to life. Since this is the last week before I finish AM, I won't have anymore access to the student forums... but there will be an alumni forum for graduates. Woohoo! ;) There's also a great weekly sketch blog called Outsider Art Club. If you wanna' get in with some talented guys, I recommend contributing if you've got the time. Some nice inspiration from that spot.

Give me an AM!

AM Weekly Sketch was Cheerleader this week.

Happy Anniversary Jasmin!

Yesterday was my one year wedding anniversary! So we threw a barbecue and invited a few people to celebrate. We had a ton of fun so thanks for comin' and spendin' some time with us of ya' did. Next time we'll use a propaine grill (which our landlord just mentioned that they had in the garage that they don't mind us using... great, huh!?)... so next time we won't have anyone's hands burst into flames from picking up the loose grill rack that kept falling into the charcoal. Heh! He's alright though. :) ... it sure didn't effect his bag-tossing in 'cornhole'.

Anyway, here's the anniversary card that I drew for Jasmin.

It hasn't even felt like it's been a year. It felt like we were planning for the wedding just a few days ago.

Jasmin really liked the pencil version of the sketch so I decided to post that up as well. Sorry I didn't draw the feet... I was actually thinking of cutting us off above the knees but I was actually happy with how her legs ended up so I kept them in the frame.

Sketch theme this week was to design some mariachis so I drew these guys up before I went to sleep. Could have probably varied things up a bit... especially the curly 'bigote' under his nose. Also could have played with different sizes for the hat. Maybe some tiny ones... was fun sketching these caballeros though.

This is a pretty late one... this was for the sketch thread last week on the Animation Mentor forums. The theme was garbage man and Jasmin gave me a nice idea to incorporate the 'One man's junk is another man's treasure' idea. I don't know who'd throw away a perfectly good ink marker anyway... who WOULDN'T treasure that??? ;P

Thanks fer stoppin' by!

Memory

Takin' a little break for a small sketch. :)