So there's school again.

I know, right? Fun stuff.

So many exciting things this quarter. So tempted to juggle some dangerous things, metaphorical knives and cannonballs. I might.... I might just do it. It just kills me to turn down opportunities. The only problem is that I might be spreading myself too thin.


Anyways, I'm on the brink of finishing the storyboards for Hell Unleashed, and once I've done that, I should have just a wee bit more time to do layouts for another film.

In other news, taking one of the most hardcore classes of yet for me, a little something called Conceptual Illustration. It's going to be an awesome class, I can already tell, and my professor cuts to the chase which is very refreshing. By Tuesday, I will have a crap-ton of environment thumbnails that I will drop off for you guys. It's gonna be biblical.

The story is a spin off of an idea I had come up with last quarter, "The Pans", but with major changes. I've cut out all the stuff that didn't work and I'm moving it to a new corner as something separate (ie. the witches and the hair and the magic) and now I've got a nice, bubbling pot-full of something very different but no less fun.

Mysterious right? I'll spell it out next entry once I've got the thumbs ready for you all.

For now, here's a little experiment I did in photoshop, don't take it too seriously.

Song of Ice and Fire

Kind of maddening how much I hate/love Game of Thrones/Song of Ice an Fire. Still, it's the only thing in recent memory that I've really wanted to do fan art for. (Excluding a few Rise of the Guardians doodles).

That's a small miracle in itself.

But I have to throw myself at something to get past the sheer wall of stress that's been choking the life out of me.

Anyway, here's my recent work:

Some lame compositions that I've been working with.

This is from the 4th thumbnail in the first set and  process:

"The Great Eagle"

And some Game of Thrones fanart of Jon Snow, Ghost, and Ygritte from the second thumb of the second set:

"You know nothing, Jon Snow."

To be sure, there's a ton of other junk and GoT fanart I've been doodling over, but I'm too lazy to rifle through all my folders or scan them.

Sketch-Dump 12/18/12

So I've got some warm up/ stress doodles that have been piling up for the last week. Thought I'd throw 'em together and drop them here for you guys if you're interested in seeing them.

I'm afraid blogger wont load the whole image, so I'll have to redirect you guys to my deviantart where it posts properly: 

Sketch-Dump 12/18/12

I've been reading a lot of the Game of Thrones books, which are surprisingly good. These are my interpretations of them, not the TV show versions. To be honest, I did watch one episode of the show, but was greatly disappointed. It followed the book pretty closely, but lacks the context that makes the books good. 

That's all for now, I have to get back to work. 

Finding time

That is something I'm learning to do.
(Funny enough, it's easier than time management, but nowhere near as helpful.)


Anyway, I've got a couple of things to share. First is progress on the character designs for my Lost Boy project. I'm happy with Wendy, but the other two still need work.

Second is a collab I did with Savannah Mckendree (Scarlet Static) for a 30 Day Challenge she's been doing. We both did lineart then swapped for coloring. She drew the battle-ready Thorin, and I the contented Jack Frost.

In other news, After Effects sucks. 

That's all for now. 

Clean-Up

Okay, so I've been doing a lot of things I'm not sure I can show you guys until they're all done, but I figure a little sneak peak won't hurt too much. (And I feel bad for being so dead).

I just finished the rough boards for a senior film called Hell Unleashed, and now I'll be doing clean up boards. This is one of them, maybe a little "too" clean, but it's just for presentation's sake now.

Hell Unleashed is a 3D short directed by Jesse Schlobohm, and it's looking fantastic so far. I'm very happy to be working on it. But that's all I'm showing you guys.

I've got stuff from several other films I'd love to show you guys, but now isn't the right time. I haven't been able to do much for my Lost Boy project lately, but when I do have more, you'll see it first.

Hit the ground running.

Since I've gotten back, I've been working non-stop. It's a shame that I can't show you guys most of what I'm  up to. A lot of concept work and layouts and so far some super rough storyboards.

Still, somehow, I manage to find about 20 minutes or so a day to noodle around with my Peter Pan short. I've gone through so many designs for the characters, and I'm not yet satisfied with what I have, but this is the direction their going in.

It's hard when you're trying to reinvent the wheel. Peter is leaning more towards the girlish figure he used to be in his theatre days. As far as Wendy and Tinkerbell, I'm not satisfied with their body shapes, so I think I'll be squishing and stretching those quite a bit. Peter isn't safe from that either. Wendy is too tall, and Tinker needs a hair cut.

After these, I've still got Jon, Michael, a young married couple, and a homeless boy to contend with. Looking forward to it though.


I'll be 21 on Saturday, and my exciting birthday adventure will beeeee.... a Lord of the Ring's marathon on the big screen! Twelve glorious hours of nostalgia.

Saw Rise of the Guardians and it was magical, but the 3D at the theater was completely out of focus so I left with one heck of a headache. I think it might be the first thing I do fanart of in years.

Other than that, there's not much else to report. Hope you guys are doing well!

Where I've been lately...

Where I was:

Not to put too fine a point on it, these last few weeks have been terrible so far as my school work is concerned. There is almost nothing that I'm willing to post here right now, not without some heavy editing.

Things got a little tight after I decided to apply for a job... that needed a custom portfolio, especially since it was finals the next week. And then finals themselves were a bit too much to handle. My chances aren't looking great for the job, but I'll know for sure by tomorrow (later today really), and I'll update you guys on that (sooner if I get it, and later if I don't).

Anyway, I spent the weekend getting settled in, though there's still a fair amount of unpacking to take care of. My dad's birthday is tomorrow, and that'll be fun. I got him some cool things, though since one of them is in French, I'm not sure how he'll take it.

I saw Real Steel a few days ago, I can't recommend it enough! I enjoyed it so much more than a lot of movies recently. From just the trailer, I thought it was going to be terrible, but it was a huge surprise.

Where I am:

I'm currently finishing up one of my finals, since it was largely unfinished. It's a storyboard animatic of Bill Cosby and one of his Noah skits. I won't really be able to put the audio version on Youtube since the sound-clip is copyrighted, but I'll see about putting a captioned version up when I'm finished.

Also, I'm working on storyboarding an original sequence based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. I'm not sure about the title at the moment, but it's about Peter finding a lost boy. It's supposed to take place before Peter takes Wendy to Neverland. It should last about two and a half minutes all together, and I'm going to look into getting someone to make a short music track for it.

Other than that, senior films. I got way behind on them during the quarter, the sheer class workload came as a huge surprise. It'll be mostly layouts, background concepts, and I'll be working on clean-up storyboards.

That's about all I have planned for now. My other projects aren't forgotten, they just are more demanding in every respect and I want to get some more manageable projects done before I bother with them. There's almost nothing in my portfolio at the moment, and I'm starting to get concerned.


That about wraps it up. I'll be posting some tentative character designs soon for the Peter Pan shortly, so keep an eye out.

Toodles!