Character Designs - Side Scroller

Some concepts I did for a mobile side-scroller game.

More Boards sketches

Another set of boards, just a little looser than my recent style.

Some Animation BTS

I thought I would pop off a screen shot from one of the animated videos I'm currently working on. I'm drawing a lot of the artwork and frames in Photoshop and then controlling them using After Effects. It's great how well the two programs work together. I never really enjoyed the limitations of creating my artwork in Flash, and was always so impressed with the capability of After Effects - so this new workflow continues to really be my weapon of choice for a lot of 2D animation and fx.

More boards...

I'm moving the studio this week - and it's the opposite of a blast. Should be fun when it's done though. Here was another set of boards I did for an on going web series...

Logo Animation

A little swipe animation done in After Effects.

Mo' boards

Here's another storyboard I had whipped up recently for an ongoing project, documentary series.

One Hundredth Post

Apparently it's 100th post time. I wish I could've done something more special, but I've been putting it off and I'm on the road so a quick pencil sketch will do to celebrate. This keeps it kind of O.G. anyways.

So throughout some time, followed by about 99 blog posts and 11,270 visits - here we are. I would've considered myself a mediocre artist at best a couple of years ago when I started this thing, but I feel like I'm at least a bit more serviceable now.

It's funny to think that when I came out of school, I had to eliminate any graffiti related artwork from my portfolio - I was literally losing job opportunities because of it. It's great knowing now that I'm at a stage in my career where I can be more comfortable and choose my own clients. It takes time, but I think anyone can earn the right to make a living without conforming to someone else's narrow minded perspectives...

Ironically last fall I was even hired as a graffiti artist to work on the set of a Reebok commercial.

I want to thank anyone who has stopped by - as well as all the great people I have been fortunate enough to meet along the way. I greatly appreciate all of the interest and support!

Love Letter Animation

This is a 2D animation I had to turn around in a couple of days, thrown together using Photoshop and After Effects. You can see the storyboard I put together for it in my previous post as well.

Animation Storyboard

A board for a new animation I just produced. I didn't feel like breaking it into sheets so it's super-vert.

Sled Character Rehash

After my original sled designs we ended up going with a different style, a little less toony. This sheet gives an idea of the overall transformation I put them through.