Amiibo story

My roommate Gabe Del Valle is seriously talented.  But he has a serious problem.

Amiibo by mikepelensky

A Little Hitch

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present my short film from Laguna College of Art & Design, A Little Hitch.


A LITTLE HITCH from Mike Pelensky on Vimeo.

Clobbermon- Rock and Rumble All Nite

Story time!

©2014 Mike Pelensky, except Pokemon Red & Blue music © Nintendo.

Lump

I confess, I have caught Tumblr fever.  I always feel more comfortable with simpler, more intuitive interfaces, and a network of users who is always posting gleefully stupid jokes.

Actually, I caught Tumblr fever in November, and I didn't tell you blog readers.  WHAT KIND OF PERSON AM I??  Sob.

Come visit me over there and you'll see doodles like these with alarming frequency!

Not to mention some occasional shtick!  (There's more to the story below...)

Frog Bros. in A Clod's Ransom!

Siddown, kids.  I wanna tell you a story.

The Legend of Zelda: The Movie!

Been a while, hasn't it?  Whoof.

I'm keeping busy with storyboard projects -- especially a big fat animatic starring two of my marquee jerks characters.  I hope you'll see that soon!  In the meantime, looka this brain fart that happened one sleepless night.



Isn't he heroic?

Attack of the 50-Foot Hero

Worked on this film with 13 other awesome artists for three crazy months.  It's finally public.  Check it out!

Attack of the 50-Foot Hero: Story Audition

Last summer, I participated in Laguna College of Art & Design's first master class, in which 15 artists took a film from concept to color in 12 weeks.  We didn't have the design of the monster pinned down in the second week, but we were (understandably) more concerned with getting the story to work right out of the gate.  All 15 of us boarded a ton of radically different stories from the same premise -- "lil' monster wants to save a city, not destroy it" -- and, soon afterwards, Frankensteined the final story from the bits we liked in everyone's pitches.

The final, team-penned story was much cleverer than my individual pitch (that's usually how stories go), and Sierra Lewis' and Trent Correy's work on the monster's design was head and shoulders above my version.  Still, the boards I did were an enjoyable adventure.  I thought I'd share them now that the lid has been off the film for some time.