It's been a while!

 School is fully on now, so my apologies for the lack of posting! I'll try to get on every couple of weeks at least to throw an update in here. I update my Tumblr sometimes with sketchy things, so if you'd like to check it out, go on over here!

These are some sketches of what I'm thinking will be my final animation at CCAD! I'm pretty excited about where things are headed.

Working, working, working!

 I`ve been hard at work on Strange Musician things! Working on some kinks with the video, and hoping to get that up as soon as possible! I'm so excited about everything. The new semester at CCAD  is about to start, and I think I have my schedule set up in a way that all of my classes will benefit this project! Above is a finished background concept - keyword concept. In the end they should be a bit neater than that, and hopefully a tad more compelling. I drew Jacob in for scale. This is my first time seeing what looks like a final shot of the film, so it's pretty exciting for me! 

This is my friend Nick's character, Izzy (Check out Nick's gallery - he is AMAZING). I drew up a bunch of my friends' characters for fun yesterday. I had planned on doing them as little Christmas presents, but time issues worked against me! Anyway, you can view the rest of them over at my Tumblr, if you'd like.

Some old folks!

And by old I mean, they've been around for a while. These are some characters I've had since I was 15 or 16, and I finally put them through a redesign using my current style. I'm pretty happy with how they are :) They have a pretty big story that I may or may not be turning into a webcomic - depending on a feeeew things I have pending!

I am hard at work at Strange Musician concepting. I now have a website, Facebook, Twitter AND Tumblr for it. The TSM Kickstarter will be up in about a week (Filming tomorrow, then editing and making some last minute touches on the page before getting it up)! Super excited (and a little nervous~) about everything!

I hope you all had a GREAT holiday, and have a wonderful new year! :D

Fireflies

Just a quick post to show I'm alive~ Just one more week of this semester. Almost done, almost done, almost doooooone. Then I'll get back to posting a lot! I'm doing a lot of editing and stuff on old projects, so I don't have a WHOLE lot of new to show. I've been doing little things like this to keep my hand warm, though. :)


I hope you're all doing well!

You just gestured to all of me!

I was watching How To Train Your Dragon the other day, and this just kind of came out.

I'm posting here as a break from storyboarding - man I am on a roll! My first rough animatic for The Strange Musician will be COMPLETE by about 2pm today, I think. I'm very excited to get this pass out, after that it's just editing and editing of it, then final concepts, backgrounds, and onto final animation! It feels amazing seeing something I've put so much time and thought into beginning to breathe.

Someone is a little bored. 

More TSM !

Working on getting some backgrounds figured out! Thought I'd play around with graphite powder and try to get a different feel than usual. I want to test out maaany different styles in terms of background to make sure I go with one that suits the feel of the story. I wound up drawing and doctoring up The Strange Musician himself!

I am working on storyboards this week. Things are happening!

TSM Update!

Did a lot of work on The Strange Musician today. Really tightening down some concepts and also thumbnailed out the whole story! Looking forward to cranking down on storyboards and the animatic over this next week. Pretty excited to say that I'll have the full animatic more or less done by next week. After that, it'll just be story revisions and then in time onto final concepts, backgrounds and then animation!

I hope you're all doing well - and for those in school, please stay sane during finals. :)


Til next time~