Monkey Slam!

I recently watched Nacho Libre and found a flash tower defense game that was pretty fun. This is the result of my brain afterwards.

It's a Putty Tat!

Here is something I whipped up for more painting practice.

I'm dead

A friend of mine, Kyle, and I have started doing some compositing tests for a project we will be shooting in November and here are a couple of them.

#1: A shot in the face




#2: A crazy anomaly

Farmers' Mums

So here are the thumbnails to a new piece I am working on. The next step will be to shoot some video reference to help the performance. The audio comes from the movie "Hot Fuzz".
The Idea I got was to have a guy playing a video game, cleary annoyed by the two guys harassing him. In the film they are in a bar and there are some games in the background, and that's how I got the Idea.

What is going on?

OK, so I need to start working on this thing again. I have lots of time on my hands as of late, getting laid off will do that to you, but it has been nice to have time to work on what I want to work on.

So a buddy from work and some other friends from school have started production on a short film called "A Night In" you can check out the progress at http://www.anightinblog.blogspot.com. This hopefully will be a nice enough portfolio piece to get some attention around here.

I have taken the liberty to start sketching and painting a little more in Photoshop, I really have to strive to get the images in my head to translate in any format and practice makes perfect so here was something I started with

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it doesn't really make sense but it is a start right?

I also had time to enter the 11SecondClub this month and got a whopping 4.31 star score, which is up a star from last time, so I guess that shows progress. The other top animations were nothing short of amazing, so I have to practice a LOT harder if I want to win. Here it is