concepts...

random marker sketches

Channel Frederator spotlight

By some rare twist of fate I've been honored this week as an artist spotlight on Channel Frederator. Music videos "Dee" and "Nothing Personal", with shorts "Manning" and "Under the Noodle" are presented with painful-for-me-to-watch clips of myself mumbling in-between. Watch if you can...

Dee

Music video for Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts...

Gumms

A new short film called Gumms...

next video screen grabs

sketch

next video

coming soon...

art muppets...

Muppet Rawk 2 show at the Ouch My Eye Gallery in downtown Seattle starting this Sat. night at 8. Crazy roster of artists exhibiting. I'll have a piece in there if I can get the picture to the gallery in time.

cf heist + random shots

Summer Heist got some much-needed love this past week at Channel Frederator. Make sure you check out CF's podcasts, past and present. Plus, some random screen grabs of sorts below...

sketch

esurance

One of those Esurance commericals flashed on TV tonight and in the middle of it I suddenly realized that I had worked on the piece. Last year I was lucky enough to be asked to do charactor layouts for the following spot for Ghostbot. Fun stuff...

cf and gumms

I've had the honor of twice recently getting some work included in the famed podcasts of the studio known as Channel Frederator. Death by Dying late last year and this week Take Me is grouped alongside some fun shorts. If you haven't checked out their podcasts before you have several days' worth of animation brilliance waiting ahead for ya in their archives.

A short of mine called "Gumms" should be wrapped up soon. Working on a music video for Daniel G. Harmann. And trying to wrap up a longer film that I started early last year. Yellow days...

See You On the Other Side

Music video for the band Liquid Now.

See You On the Other Side

animation work-in-progress 2

If anyone around here is still into Perplex City, I recently found out that they released Season 2 Wave 2 last month. Currently available at Firebox. Good times...

animation work-in-progress

Screen grabs from current animation projects...

sketches

Some quickie sketches...

silliness

I helped Bob Cesca of Camp Chaos with a short animation project called Unga Bunga Banana. This is the first of five episodes called "Cheese Pants." Strange, wacky stuff...

Unga Bunga Banana - Cheese Pants

Drawings 2 comic

Allen Freeman recently pulled together a sequel to the Drawings sketchbook that was put out in 2005. 60 color pages much like before. To order go here and click through to the 'Store' section. The first Drawings is also still available on the site. As long as you're there also check out Allen's super fun Slambang Anthology comics.

Northwest Film Forum Local Sightings

Just a quick mention that 'Black Hole of Negativity' and 'Summer Heist' are part of the Northwest Film Forum, Local Sightings fest this year and are showing tonight at 9pm, in Seattle. Good times...

Take Me - music video

A new music video for the Portland, OR band Weight of Atlas.

Take Me - Weight of Atlas

sketchy sketchbookness

music video stills

Here are some more stills for the music video that I'm working on. Silly stuff...

more zombie concepts

marker sketches

some recent sketches...

current projects

Here are some screen grabs of current animation projects. A couple music videos and a few personal film projects are in there. Plus a couple zombie concepts. Silly stuff...

Summer Heist

New music video for the Seattle band Denelian.

Summer Heist - Denelian

video

Finally, something somewhat worthy of an update. I'm close to finishing a new music video for the Seattle band Denelian. Hopefully in the next week I'll have the video up and streaming.

markering

Some quick marker dashing...

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Hey, tomorrow (Sat) at Ouch My Eye gallery in Seattle is the Saturday Morning Cartoons Show. I was able to slip into the lineup just a week before the opening so my pieces were desperate attempts to say the least. The one with all the heads were supposed to represent a Saturday morning lineup during the Spring '82 season. Not sure how I felt about that one so I churned out the Thundarr piece as a backup. Thanks again to Lawrence for the last minute participation. Pretty crazy representation of talent involved. Show starts at 8. Good excuse to go downtown if anything...

character study

A bunch of character sketches for a short film that was also scrapped. A lot of the plot details from this one was once again pulled into my current project.

random keyframes

A few keyframes for another underdeveloped animation project.

self portraits

Here are a couple self portraits that I did to accompany an article or interview or something. Sheesh...

flash animation

This is the first minute of a 3 minute Flash animation that I worked on last summer. Again, it never got the final polish that it needed, nor music and sound effects, so it remains a broken, silent rough animation. This was in collaboration with Jonathan Stroh, who occassionally helps me with my own projects. I posted a few concepts for this piece last July.

random

lost animation

Here are some sketches and stills for another animation that I worked on a couple years ago but it never got the final polish that it needed so it now languishes somewhere unseen.

scrapped short

Another group of drawings for a short film that I didn't complete. A lot of the ideas from this one are in my current project.

kiraz

Some blatant Kiraz doodles.

marker sketches

Some marker ruffs.

lost city

Here are some more Perplex City illustrations, mostly unused only because the game ended before the release of the last couple of card sets.

nothing personal again

Some unused drawings for that music video I did late last year, "It's Nothing Personal, We've All Got to Eat."

various character sketches

Early versions of character/concept designs...

virtual hooters

Concepts for a Hooter girl in a video game. Not the proudest moment in my career.

sketchbook pages

creature concept

Some sketches for a 3D creature concept.

IG-88: The Dancing Robot grabs

I was asked to make screen grabs of each of the characters from my IG-88 film last year for a magazine and here they are. Still not sure how I feel about the movie itself. I did it in a month and a lot of compromising was involved, but, fun to draw the characters one last time I guess. I had to look up some of their names and this is when I learned that "Walrus Man" is now called "Ponda Baba." I mostly stuck with the action figure names that I remembered 'em by...

Imperial Officer and General Motti

The Great Zorback (Holo Gymnast from Holiday Special)

Walrus Man

Gamorrean Guard and Rancor

Snaggletooth, IG-88 and Ignus

Star Destroyer Commander and Snowtrooper

Torture Droid (drawn by Jonathan Stroh) and Guest

Jawa and Gamorrean Guard

Lobot

Probot and B'omarr Monk Droid

Mouse Robot and Gamorrean Guard's foot

R2D2 and Ignus' legs

Ignus

Dengar, IG-88, Boba Fett, Bossk, Zuckuss, 4-Lom and Officers

Imperial Gunner

Boba Fett, Gamorrean Guard and Imperial Spy

Fat Dancer (sorry, that's the name given in the 'Jedi' credits)

Krelman (from Holiday Special) and Death Squad Commander

IG-88

Imperial Commander and Dengar

Stormtroopers and Imperial Officer

Imperial Guest

FX-7

Gamorrean Guard

Wuher, IG-88 and Hammerhead

Jefferson Starship (Holo Band from Holiday Special)

Emperor's Royal Guard, Admiral Ozzel, Officer and Stormtrooper

Imperial Guest and Stormtrooper

Stormtrooper and Imperial Officer

Emperor with Imperial Guests

Boba Fett

Bossk, Zuckuss and 4-Lom

Darth Vader

Dengar

The Emperor

2-1B

Admiral Ackbar

Cantina Creatures

Wuher

If you haven't seen the short film you can view it on AtomFilms

here.

pitch

A couple sketches for an animation show pitch made by some friends last year. A chance to have fun with some action scenes. These particular drawings were part of a cut scene.

blue and sloppy

Some blue and black pencil sketches...

marker females

Some marker drawings. I think I posted a couple of these on my previous blog sometime in 2006.

grocery store short animation

These are some keyframe drawings for a short animation that took place in a grocery store. For some reason I just stopped and moved on to another idea, never wrapping up this one.

To be honest, I can't remember what these 'hanging kid' images truly involved, but I believe it was a flashback the bag boy kept having that involved hanging on monkey bars.

The ending occurred when this guy pressed the button. Can't reveal what it was in case I decide to go back to the story.

Bag boy helping a customer I suppose.

A dejected bag boy. I worked in a number of grocery stores when I was a teenager so I was looking forward to depicting depressed kids performing grocery duties. The one thing that slowed the project down I believe were all of the backgrounds with hundreds of products on shelves.

I hate to admit it but this character was probably leaning towards a self-portrait. Here he's driving, grasping a car's steering wheel. The wheel and most of his torso would have been obscured by the dashboard and rain and fog on the windshield.

Character running across the parking lot with the camera underneath him.

A quick drawing of random groceries, supposedly moving down the conveyor belt to be bagged. I didn't try too hard on these guys, choosing to be obvious rather than too detailed.

dumping

Every year or so I eventually get around to organizing the pile of artwork in my office's closet. It's all basically stacked up and boxed away so I can forget about it and concentrate on what needs to be done at the moment. This time around I also scanned a bunch of it in for self-promotional reasons. I thought it'd be fun to show some of the rougher stuff, which I usually never get to show but I tend to favor over the more polished final versions. A lot of my past work I can't show only because it's property of the clients involved, but I should be able to post some of the sketchier pieces and concepts which ended up far removed from the final product. Not to mention artwork for dead projects. So here are a few drawings that I thought came out decent enough to throw up on blogger here...

BLVD show

This Friday from 6-10 is the opening of a new group show at BLVD Gallery in Seattle. The theme is Good vs. Evil and here's the lineup with my own pieces posted below. I'm sure it'd be a wise investment buying any one of these artist's works while they're still somewhat affordable:

Jamie Burton, Rick Garland, Todd Lovering, Memo Diaz, Jason Zayas, Rich Miller, Rich Werner, Karin Madan, Anton Bogaty, Bryan Mandronico, Charlie Lagrecca, Augie Pagan, Son Duong, Lawrence Ruelos, Brandon Graham, Martin Ontiveros, Tom Dougherty, Tim Swope, Bart Kaufman, Paul Whitehead, Joe Kresoja, Scott Wiener, James Ma, Rick Klu, Randy Briley, Kevin Neireiter, Dev Madan, Gene Blakefield, Mike Haney, Aaron Mckinney

sketch page

'nother head

head sketches

sad ghost

Something for the season.

storyboard thumbs

Some thumbnails/storyboards for my current project.

sketchy people

super roughs

Some scary sketchbook roughs...

It's Nothing Personal, We've All Got to Eat

Music video for Denelian.

Local Sightings 10

Hey, tonight this year's Local Sightings at Northwest Film Forum kicks off, which is a pretty nice venue for filmmakers up here. My little film "Manning" is part of a program called 'Strange Neighbors' tonight at 11. Last year had some pretty crazy pieces shown and with films called "Jack the Vomiter" in the lineup I'm sure cinema will be pushed to its bounderies once again. Unfortunately I might be too sick to be there myself, which is pretty disappointing since it means I won't be able to visit my favorite Capitol Hill bar, the Barca Lounge, and sample Captain and Cokes. Nice and dark there at night.

music video

I'm currently about two weeks away from wrapping up a music video for Denelian. Here are a few early screen grabs. Should be an interesting experiment...

A Black Hole of Negativity

The latest "Tales of Mankind" episode A Black Hole of Negativity is up. Thanks again to Ollie Glatzer and Jonathan Stroh for the help. Hopefully in about a month I'll have a music video that I've been consumed with completed. If interested, there's a silly interview

here.

more negativity

A few more screen grabs from 'Black Hole of Negativity', part 5 of 'Tales of Mankind.' Hoping to have the film up by early September. The sunset image is by Jonathan Stroh.

unseen perplex city

A couple unused perplex city illustrations...

bare chewie

At one point Chewie sheds his fur for some reason. Pretty obvious why this got axed from the video.

female jawa

Rough stuff, man...

slim jabba

When I made that IG-88 Star Wars film thing a few months ago, I wound up leaving out a bunch of ideas and characters only because I couldn't finish all of it by the deadline. For some reason I thought a super skinny Jabba would have been fun but I just couldn't animate his scenes in time. He came out looking a little strange anyway and I'm sure I've seen someone portray a skinny Jabba elsewhere. At the last second I threw one of those X-Wing belt buckle's on him only 'cause I remember having one of those when I was a kid. Fun to obtain but wasn't really drawn to wear it. Just sat and clanked around in my sock drawer for years. I have about 20 other bad ideas that didn't make the film so I'll try to get those up too. Good times...

animatic sketches

Here are some rough storyboards lifted from the first animatic for the aformentioned vector piece.

p city sketch

Not sure if this drawing was used for Perplex City or not. I did literally hundreds of illustrations for the ARG but never really knew what was used or not.

Vector animation stills

Here are a couple stills from an animation that I got to do a few months ago with animator Jonathan Stroh. Hopefully I'll be able to show the short film somewhere soon. I hadn't gotten to do a true all-vector animation in quite a while so it was pretty fun to jump back into it wholeheartedly for this one.

Start

Here are a couple grabs from my next film "A Black Hole of Negativity." Silly stuff...