One Friday night 14 years ago, in the studio in Denmark, my friend Christian Kuntz and I decided we were going to animate a hip hop type test. Christian found a song that had a male and female voice and we began animating, no x-sheet, no nothing, just the song on the CD. I had such a great time I stayed that night animating and the next night too. Sunday evening I shot the scene but by then I was alone in the studio and had no one to show it too.
The memories.
It's seems to be playing erratically and out of sync on youtube, so for anyone who, for whatever reason, would like to see it play at the right speed, in sync ( ish ), here is a download link
Fugees Vocab Test
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Misc. Heads
These, like the wolves ( a couple of posts down the page ), are sketches I did in the corners of animation roughs while working on one commercial or another and then inked and painted once the job was over.
The top right corner guy was inspired by the incredible work of the great Albert Dorne.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
can't remember why in the world I did these,, must have had a good reason, though.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Trying Out Something Different,,
Well, different for me at least. I don't usually do this kind of design but I've been playing around with Photoshop and I'm kinda enjoying it.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Straight Ahead Animation 5
More of the pointless animation I apparently can't help doing,, very, very rough this time.
Animated straight ahead on 2s and inbetweened on 1s for no very good reason.
I got the sound at http://www.animationmeat.com/ on their Practice page.
Animated straight ahead on 2s and inbetweened on 1s for no very good reason.
I got the sound at http://www.animationmeat.com/ on their Practice page.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
the Woods of Wisdom development
This is an early development piece. At the time I was having a hard time imagining Tiger as a young boy, I kept wanting to draw him older and more sophisticated and classy with the white glove and everything.
The BG, as you can probably tell, was done by the great Hans Bacher, who was on the project for a few weeks in the beginning.
The BG, as you can probably tell, was done by the great Hans Bacher, who was on the project for a few weeks in the beginning.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Weird Wolves
A couple of months ago I was simultaneously going through a fascination with wolves in clothes and the work of Mike Mignola, it produced these results in the corners of discarded animation roughs.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
More American Dog
If I remember correctly, she is a zombie girl-scout who's been "living" in the Nevada desert since the nuclear testing in the 50's,,
Again,, not my design.
Again,, not my design.
American Dog
I don't think I'll get around to putting these up on the website any time soon,,, so I'm posting them here for now.
they are some examples of my work on American Dog before it got reworked into Bolt. They are not my designs ( I'm not sure who designed them,, exept for the girl, who is Chris Sanderseses's ). I was asked to develop the characters for the 3D artists,,, give them some different poses and attitudes to work from,,, including hundreds of drawings of hands and feet for each character,,, well, maybe not hundreds,, but lots!!
they are some examples of my work on American Dog before it got reworked into Bolt. They are not my designs ( I'm not sure who designed them,, exept for the girl, who is Chris Sanderseses's ). I was asked to develop the characters for the 3D artists,,, give them some different poses and attitudes to work from,,, including hundreds of drawings of hands and feet for each character,,, well, maybe not hundreds,, but lots!!
Friday, October 3, 2008
While we are at it anyway,,,
,,here is someting pointless,,,but, I really like the look of it.
I imagine that he keeps saying " prism " over and over again.
It's a .gif so click on it to see it move.
OH, and by the way, this one is not straight ahead. I'd just figured out how to inbetween in flash and wanted to try it out.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Straight Ahead Animation 4 ( unfinished )
I did this one a coupla months back to the 11 Second Club's Searching for Bobby Fischer dialog.
To animate straight ahead on 2's you have to be patient and calm, especially animating in Flash, and I managed to keep relatively calm until the end, when I suddenly couldn't wait to finish and ended up roughing the last bit out quickly, thinking that I'd get back to it when I had more time,,, it's now 3 months later and I don't think I'll ever finish it,, but,,, if I do, I'll post it here.
To animate straight ahead on 2's you have to be patient and calm, especially animating in Flash, and I managed to keep relatively calm until the end, when I suddenly couldn't wait to finish and ended up roughing the last bit out quickly, thinking that I'd get back to it when I had more time,,, it's now 3 months later and I don't think I'll ever finish it,, but,,, if I do, I'll post it here.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Best book trailer I ever did see!
Jakob Jensen's fantastic book now has its own preview commercial type thing, complete with music orchestrated and performed by the author.
Jakob's book on Amazon
Hey, what do you know! We finally got some " stuff ".
Jakob's book on Amazon
Hey, what do you know! We finally got some " stuff ".
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Missing "Stuff" getting you down ?
We'd like to apologize to those of you who may have come here in search of "Stuff".
In hindsight it was probably premature and optimistic to include "Stuff" in the title. In our defense, we did have every intention of posting "Stuff" in between and around the Flipbooks, we just haven't come across any post-able "Stuff" yet, or indeed determined what "Stuff" is.
I suppose we meant to leave it open, so to speak, in case we want to branch out, or we run out of Flipbooks, or worse, Flipbooks suddenly become unfashionable,, again.
But I'm told the internet is full of "Stuff", so if it is "Stuff" you want, I believe the "next blog>>" option at the top of the page will get you well on your way.
Happy hunting!
the management
In hindsight it was probably premature and optimistic to include "Stuff" in the title. In our defense, we did have every intention of posting "Stuff" in between and around the Flipbooks, we just haven't come across any post-able "Stuff" yet, or indeed determined what "Stuff" is.
I suppose we meant to leave it open, so to speak, in case we want to branch out, or we run out of Flipbooks, or worse, Flipbooks suddenly become unfashionable,, again.
But I'm told the internet is full of "Stuff", so if it is "Stuff" you want, I believe the "next blog>>" option at the top of the page will get you well on your way.
Happy hunting!
the management
Friday, January 11, 2008
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