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.

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.

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.

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!!




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.

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 ".

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!

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