Tippett Bound

back at good ol' Tippett Studio, helping with some summer-wolf-wrangling on the new Twilight film! :)

Pirates Opening Weekend

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is out! it was a fun and challenging experience working on the mermaids for Capn' Sparrow's new adventure! it's a fun ride if you get the chance to see it..

here's the latest trailer-

Priest Opening Weekend

Priest came out this weekend! we worked on this at Tippett Studio about a year ago. some fun creature action! here's the trailer (featuring a lot of Tippett work in the first half):

Drawaholic: Cinco de Mayo

still playing catch-up on the DRAWAHOLICS blog. cinco de mayo!

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Drawaholic: Musical Inspiration - Beatles

i've been falling a little behind on the DRAWAHOLICS blog, but i'm starting to play catch up now. here's my musical inspiration. i was originally going to redo the Let it Be album cover in the fashion of Gorillaz' Demon Days, but ended up just turning in to a profile line up ;P

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American Carny (Drawaholic: Carnies)

so i actually wrangled up some time to paint up last week's carny sketch for the DRAWAHOLICS blog. it's been a good long while since i've attempted to go this extensive with the painting. it feels good to get my digital brush wet again ;P - i decided to keep it black and white, give it a more era-appropriate feel (and man is it nice only worrying about tone and not having to deal with that whole, COLOR thing, haha)

i definitely won't be taking all the submissions this far, but hopefully i can keep it up with a few of 'em..

oh and yes, this was based on the classic painting American Gothic

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Official Mermaid Concept Art

a few weeks ago Entertainment Weekly released some concept art for one of the mermaids in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Here's the scan of Syrena from the magazine. These mermaids have been incredibly fun and challenging to work on, and I can't wait to see everything finished and on the big screen!

Drawaholic: My Pet Monster v.2

i'm pretty surprised that i was able to find the time, or even motivation, to get it colored up this week - but i did it! so here's my same pet monster with a lil' color treatment! off to a good start this week.

(don't worry mullins, your designs are still on the way, i promise)

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Drawaholic: My Pet Monster

yaaaaaay! the DRAWAHOLICS blog is back up and slowly gaining speed again - the first topic this time around was 'my pet monster'

on a side note, i doodled this up on my new toy - the asus eee slate ep121 - first tablet to have a legitimate wacom digitizer (to my knowledge)! it.is.soooo.nice :3

check it out here:
http://promos.asus.com/US/ASUS_EeeSlate/index.htm

Brad Bird's Acceptance Speech

..for the Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement @ the Annie Awards. haha.. be sure to watch through the second half!
I'm actually really excited to see where he takes the impossible mission.

Pirates Super Bowl Spot

the new trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Kitty Galore earns a VES Nomination!

Tippett's work on Kitty Galore for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore earned a nomination in the Visual Effects Society for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture. I'm so happy that they're able to acknowledge the great work done by the studio on this character (regardless of the film's overall reception)! Way to go!

one of my shots ^ :D

ILM

first day at ILM! i'm incredibly excited and nervous at the same time. and while a large part of me is very sad to leave Tippett, i'm very much looking forward to this new experience!

employee #274110

one of my supervisors from Tippett, Jim Brown (AWESOME animator, and just a super-swell guy), did me the honor of including me in his awesome 'drawing a day' series on his blog:

click me, right here!!

he made a resolution for 2010 to do a drawing every single day of the year, and he actually finished it! not something many people can say! check. it. out.

Tippett Secret Santa 2010

this year my victim for secret santa wasn't quite as easy to approach (the fact that i did not know him personally, like last year, meant that i probably shouldn't poke fun at his cultural heritage or physical attributes). and the only detail that i was able to get a firm grasp on was their self-proclaimed status of "geek for philosophy"; hence, socrates and philosoraptor.