Drawrrrings

Drawing for my brother Nick's birthday :)

Ape themed sketch Tuesday at Moonbot Studios! 

Drawn for http://www.centerforgreatapes.org/ They are a pretty great place, check them out. 

And a terrible Ariel for http://terribleariel.tumblr.com/

Thesis!!

So we have finally released our senior thesis film online! :D

I co-created this film with fellow Ringling students Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham.

:)

Dia de los Muertos from Whoo Kazoo on Vimeo.

The film was created around the concept of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. It's a holiday that is often misunderstood in American culture. The holiday is about celebrating the lives of lost love ones, instead of mourning them. Which happens to be the message our little Nina needs to learn :)

From preproduction and storyboards to final rendering, the film took a little less than a year and a half to create. We used Autodesk Maya, Pixar's Renderman, Nuke, and Photoshop, mainly. 

Our wonderful musical score was created by Corey Wallace, and our great sound effects by Mauricio D'Orey. 

We were only able to hire such talented professionals because of the wonderful contributions made to our Kickstarter fund. So thank you everyone who helped!!

Cat run sketch

Floppy cat quick run cycle. :3 

Things things things!

I've been pretty busy as of late! I've been working on small freelance projects, and also trying to learn new programs! I also recently decided that I really enjoyed the scripting/TD type work I did at Ringling, and that in order to be able to better peruse that area properly I need a computer science degree! So, I'm going to start working on that!(Not to say that I am not still looking for work; I plan to pursue this degree no matter where my career takes me. Yay for night classes!) 

Here are a few things I've worked on recently.

A birthday dillo for Lindsey :D

So, this is an unfinished project I was working on for a local Catholic school/church. The project ended up being scrapped so I never really finished  They wanted to see what I had done, for compensation purposes, so I did a quick slap together composite. The flowers and shrubs are paint effects. I modeled everything else, and lit it in Mental Ray(first time using it!) 

Ideally, I would have liked to do a lot more work on this. The textures were never finished(Uhg, don't look at that slapped on stone ground!) and also there were still some modeling things to be done and lighting.. and compositing. Haha, I was rushing to finish those benches the night before. I had grand plans of making them more fancy. Oh well, it was good practice!

The project was to create a walkway to the front of the school and have a seating area featuring the old bell that used to hang in the bell tower. So you can see the pic of the bell that I used for reference, and a second pic to match the stone and brick that is in the back of the building.

Bear and Girl

An illustration I've been working on for the past few days. 

Boo

A kickstarter prize drawing for my brother :p

Done with brush pen and gel pens

Dia de los Muertos!

Art from my collaborative thesis "Dia de los Muertos"!

These top two drawings are more recent and were done for our kickstarter

And look! Pre-Pre-Production work!

These two drawings were done junior year at Ringling when we were first developing the very core of our story! It changed A LOT from these drawings to the final story. (and a good thing too!)      

                                              

And for fun, here is a still from the film! This is from a shot that gave me a lot of trouble. Rendering it took 10(ish) computers running all 16 of their cores to get it to not crash! God bless the Ringling IT for helping me set that up!

The animation of the shot belongs to Lindsey St. Pierre and the layout was done by Ashley Graham. Lighting, compositing, set dressing and a huge portion of the prop creation and texturing were done by me. The upperworld in our film is sort of my baby. I poured countless all nighters into it to try to get it just right! It was fun and painful all at once! :D

And while we still can't upload the entire film yet because of festival regulations, here is a teaser clip

https://vimeo.com/68088529

Also, our film had the wonderful honor of receiving the Gold at the Student Academy Awards for 2013! 

Warm up sketch. Another from reddit. 

Some arts. The top and bottom image are based on photographs from reddit. 

Monster

Birthdays!

Two of my brothers had birthdays in the past couple of weeks (one's is today! Happy Birthday John!!) so.. birthday art!

Reddit sketch

I like going on r/redditgetsdrawn when I'm bored. It's a subreddit where people post photos asking to have them drawn. I had an hour today open so I decided to do one.

I'm currently in the throws of finishing my thesis film so I don't get a lot of time to do personal work.

Only 1 more month until thesis is due tho! If you want a sneak peak, my team and I have a kickstarter  going to help with the cost of the music composition
 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146101675/music-for-day-of-the-dead-animated-film

Render Help Tutorial

Hey guys I created a tutorial for Ringling students concerning Renderman's radiosity pass and how to optimize render times with it. 

PDF of backface culling tutorial

Hope it helps

Redditart

Some reddit art. There is a subreddit where people post pictures for artists to draw(usually they add a story to make people want to draw their image more)

drawrings

Las one is a request I made for someone :)