Happy Birthday, Milt Kahl!

I'd hardly know it without Andreas Deja's exhaustive blog, but still.  Here's an affectionate poke at one of the greatest animators who ever lived.

Recent visual blatherings

...albeit exceptionally good ones.

Awaiting death (or dumb comments)

Lobotomy Love

Playing ketchup...

It's within the realm of possibility that I won't return until I finish my film.  So Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too!

Hump-day hijinks

Below: Baby's first Flash animation.

Spoils of the week

Marketing wizards

And thus, Schlitzy the Pickled Pooch was born.

Inked in Sketchbook Pro, slowly but painlessly.

Why justify?

Prepare for nonsense!

Sweet jeebus, what's that in the sidebar?!

Whatever, feel free to look at these first...

All this dumping must be hurting the environment

Hawaii bound

It's true. I'm hittin' Oahu and Maui and comin' back two Thursdays from now. Aloha till then, folks!

(And yes, I did just say Aloha like a touristeriffic white-boy dork.)

Leftovers from the faraway land of Emoticonia!

...I mean, DeviantArt.  I love the place (the space to spread out, anyway), I love the people (the ones I know, anyway), but darn if I don't feel compelled to accent every sentence with 30 pixels that approximate my inflection with varying degrees of success.

Gorilla suit?

I have no justification for this.

Revised the pose at 11-ish 'cause I didn't like it.  For comparison...

Storytime!

It's true, I'm insane. That is how I am able to keep drawing for myself while the rigors of school confront me at every turn. Enjoy a short storyboard of sorts, which illustrates part of a larger yarn I'd like to spin some beautiful day.

Plus a pinup or two.

Yeah, it happens, but at least I am more in the groove for gags than I have been for a year and a half. That's progress!

Drawing myself off a cliff!

Mmm, not quite so bad as all that.  I loosened up tremendously while watching Ignacio sketch a few nights ago.  No stories come of it (though who knows? there's new characters in the bunch), but some fresh gags did.  Thanks, dude.

Here's one final sketch at full page size, taken to color and lighting.  I wonder if I would have saved myself a buttload of time by doing cleanup.  Why not test that on the next one-off (someday)?

It took forever to scan these and I've still got animation to do.  But, man, does it ever feel good to share.

Last burst of sketchy decadence...

...before careening headlong into my senior film. But it'll be a pleasant careen. I think.

One thing I learned: Next time I make oaths that I'll have more stories in the can and amp up my draftsmanship to the maxxxxx, make sure nothin' else is on my plate first. The above doodles weren't exactly "on my plate," and I'm that much closer to not yet finishing my boards as a result.

BUT... do you like 'em?

I'd Rather Kiss A Wookiee, Pt. 2

This is older than dirt (from October 9th, to be exact), but I shoulda shared it about then.

And for my next trick...

My 3D Computer Animation final! I got cozy with the Norman rig (no, not like that) and did my best to show how he'd react to seeing something inside a box. I was surprised how closely I could match Norman's poses to my original drawings.

One more semester gone. On to my senior film with a vengeance! Merry Christmas folks!

Noirtoons

Had so much freakin' fun drawing these, and taught myself how to draw square, dimensional skulls in the process.