Priest - First Look

ET had a little first look at Priest, the project we're currently working on at Tippett Studio. No peeks at the creatures yet of course ;P

Here's the link:
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00031317.html

Drawaholic 01: January - Hoofed Animals

the first step, in a year-long twelve step program. over yonder, on the newly-started blog called "Hi. My name is.. and I am a drawaholic" we've got a year long animal theme going -- a different type of animal each month, and a different animal within that month's type, each week. for example january's theme is hoofed animals, february's is primates and so on.. the GOAL is to get people to do at least one drawing, sketch, doodle, painting, WHATEVER.. a week.

god knows i've been trying to get myself to draw as often as i used to, for a couple years now, with little success. so here's hoping :P



January - Hoofed Animals

week 2: Cattle
week 3: Giraffes
week 4: Zebras

this month only had three weeks' worth, due to getting a late start after the holidays.

these are all sketches, though i WANT to take one from each month and fully flesh it out, color and all.

Cats & Dogs 2 - Trailer

this has been out for a month or so now, the trailer for the first movie i worked on:

Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

i even have a shot in the trailer! after kitty (the evil, hairless beauty) steps out of the puppy costume, she then steps to the camera and pulls out a grappling gun - meeeooooowww. :)

not quite an oscar-worthy film (sooooooaked in sarcasm, slathered - can you even move, weighed down by all that sarcasm? no. you can't.) but i had an incredible experience working on this movie, and have met so many amazingly talented people - i can't even begin to tell you how much i've learned and grown over the last year, slaving over these animals..

Jess' Christmas

I did this for Jess as a Christmas gift -- Her and her two Ragdoll (yes that is actually a legitimate breed) cats, Jasper and Shilo(h?).

:)

Tippett Secret Santa

So the tradition @ Tippett Studio, is that eveyrone that participates in secret santa, has to make their gift. You draw someone's name, with a bit of info on the person, and you have to make them a gift! no store-bought gifts, and NO I.O.U.s!!! Some of the past gifts that I've been shown over the year have been INCREDIBLE! So I felt obligated of course to take part in the awesome seasonal activity.

I luckily got the name of someone that I knew, one of my leads from Cats & Dogs -- Mike Brunet. Brunet is a raging-Canadian with a lack of hair and a massive jaw line, and a ridiculously talented animator.

I of course fell to my default for secret santa: round #1; illustrating. I did a full size 27"x40" movie poster, inspired a little by some old serial adventure and james bond posters.

I also pulled a bit of a prank on Brunet at the Tippett Christmas party (where the gifts were handed out). He has had a tough time receiving gifts in the past, half of the time receiving I.O.U.s or lame store bought things (the two BIG NO-NOs). But the good ones that he's had, are REEEAAALLLY GOOD. So not only did I HAVE to finish, it had to be something big, and worthy. After ensuring that I had the real gift finished and ready to go, I got him a decoy gift, to make him THINK he was getting an I.O.U. before getting his real gift. This of course is funniest to the people that know him -- success! I'll include video of the gift giving for the people that didn't get a chance to see it in person.

Purrcasso 2009

This was my entry for the Percasso Charity Gallery for the Berkeley East-Bay Humane Society. I didn't get around to taking it where I wanted, but it still turned out, and it sold for a good bit over the asking price -- so I can't complain :P

In this piece is my dog Harvington-Reginald "Short Stuff" Wallbanger (or Harvey; the corgi in the fez) and my friend Steve's dog Totoro (or Pig-Pug; the pug in the monocle).

Tony's Zombie Party

Catching up on a few posts.. I was asked to do an illustration of Tony and Adrienne for their AMAZING zombie-birthday bash. incredible evening. They used the illustration to create the invites and such for the party-

Xavier: Renegade Angel on DVD

FRITTATA! they are finally releasing xavier on dvd--seasons 1 and 2 together. i had a blast working on this with the guys at cinematico, and will definitely remember it forever--snakehand and all.

*shudders*








here's a link to pre-order on amazon:
HOLY SHIT, CLICK ME!

Wheeler

came back from dailies the other day and found an awesome little sketch of myself taped to one of my monitors. ends up one of the leads (geoff wheeler) used his ninja powers to bang out a doodle of yours truely. i told him i'd get him back and this is what i managed -

hopefully this will continue in to an all out caricature war!

23 - the end of a year

another birthday gone; this year held a lot for me (year and a half technically, let's just consider it my entire 23rd year and the months leading up to it) i also had a lot of expectations jumping in, 23 itself has always had a bit of it's own significance for me. i am anything but disappointed and there is so much to look back on; a few less than good--there are still some things weighing on the back of my mind, but most occurrences have been beyond great, and life-altering; and i am astounded to see what has unfolded since the beginning of 08. pretty much every aspect of my life has been altered and pushed into a new direction whether it be large or small; and what else can you ask for, other than to grow and to change? i've come a long way, and i have a lot of great memories, and though there are a few unresolved matters, i think everything is moving in the right direction. regardless, i'm sad to see my 23rd year gone for good. but i'm also feeling more than ready to take on 24, so let's do this thing. moving on. next song.

post script - perhaps it's finally time to get my 23 inked once and for all. time to hit the drawing board.

Monster'N .03

three doodles in three weeks.. that's a record for my recent pencil-pacing. third go @ the monster'n blog. this week's inspiration was the star nosed mole, which is already pretty fucked up looking to begin with. and then there's a little badger and leopard gecko thrown in the mix.

Monster'N .02

next serving of monster'n. this character is from the same little story as the previous. next one 'll be something unrelated, inspired by some weird ass aminals.

Monster'N .01

so a few of the peeps at tippett contribute to a little blog called monster'n, which is basically an excuse for people to get together and draw monsters and other messed up shit! how can you beat that?! anywho, i finally whipped up a submission. i'm not going to bother with back story on the subjects, but i'll post the doodles up here, since my posts have been running dry as usual.. so hopefully, if i can force myself to do maybe one of these a week, it'll allow me to keep my drawing chops in shape (a little at least) and perhaps remedy the lack of activity here.

¡Estupendo, gigante, aventura de Cinematico!

In light of leaving Cinematico, I wanted to draw up some kind of "thank you/farewell for now" piece for the three head-honchos; Brittnell Anderson, Gustavo "Goose" Manriquez and Marco Bertoldo. And if you've been to the studio, you know that there is a shared affinity for old school/foreign movie posters.

Like I said, I've really enjoyed my time at Cinematico, and have learned so much (work-wise and not) from these guys. Hope they like the poster, and I'm sure we'll be working on even more offensiveness later down the road!

Tippett Ahoy

So I was officially offered a position as an animator at Tippett Studio this morning and I couldn't be more excited! I've had a blast at Cinematico over the past.. almost 2 years, wow.. and will always have a special place in my bosoms (yes, both of them) for those guys; but I'm finally taking that first leap into film and cannot WAIT to get started!

March 2nd can't get here soon enough!

here's a link to their site if you're not familier: http://www.tippett.com/