Another Short and Rough Animation

Here's another quick one... this time I've taken it further and added a simple background and some color. These will be continually refined until they're longer and complete an actual gag or story.



These are 2D animations drawn frame by frame in the 'straight ahead' style... so they're probably the most basic form of animation. I think it's really the place where everyone starts animating from... animating in the traditional style I think offers a more natural movement than does animation in Flash... err... at least once you attain a level of proficiency.

Very Short and Rough Animations

I've been busy learning how to animate... which is a paradigm shift from illustration and conceptual work or comic book pencils. It's like comic book pencils on steroids. Great. Just what I needed. Nothing like working for eight hours to realize that you've produced 5 seconds of rough animation. GAH!!!



These are just rough pencil tests to get my head around adding motion and life to the drawings. Let me know what you think!

Tibetan monk - study in gouache

Here's a quick paint I did in gouache on canvas paper. Painting in gouache is one of the more unforgiving mediums to work in. Blink... and it's dry. It forces you to hit the ground running and be decisive when making strokes... not that I'm at that point just yet.

Paint test

A quicky paint test on a character for a current project.

Boy holds fish

Something random. Busy penciling on other projects so not much time to fill the sketchbook at the moment.

Ritualized Violence

Here's a short clip of me what doing what I do when I'm not sketching.



That and $3.50 gets you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

Nice dog... lame owner

This was a great big dog that slobbered his way up to me recently. One of those dogs that makes you feel good about the day. I think the breed is called a Newfoundland. The dog was just a big 'ol pleasant dog... the owner however was snotty, self important piece of work. Classic study in contrasts. I'd have sketched the sour faced owner too... but when she saw me sketching her dog she threw a dirty look my way and stormed off with her dog. How did a nice dog like that get an idiot for an owner?