gesture

An old life drawing gesture.

migrant

Yet another piece from my old website, migrating to the blog.

watercolor Nirvana

Kurt Cobain in watercolor. I did this years ago, this is another piece that used to be on my old website. I was inspired to paint something using 2 colors, blue and orange. I like how blue and orange play against each other. I was also listening to Nirvana when I got this blue/orange inspiration, and this is the result.

old dock worker

I have abandoned my website. I let it expire, it is no more, gone, vanished, KAPUTT. From now on it's just my blogs. I find blogs much easier to update. My website has been static for years, yet my blog is regularly updated.  I am going to post some stuff that used to be on my website to this blog, only the better stuff, as most of it was old and not worth posting here. This is one of my pieces that is worth posting here. It's my favorite portrait ever did.

splash

This is another scene I worked on for Ugly Americans. It was so nice to work on frame by frame, hand drawn, traditional animation (albeit digital), rather than that tweened puppet animation you see a lot of these days. The show turned out fantastic, looks great.

an unfinished scene

< This is one of the scenes I animated on a Comedy Central series called "Ugly Americans", produced by Cuppa Coffee. There were some changes made to this shot, this is one of my earlier versions, not 100 percent completed, as you see by the lack of movement in the body of the demon on the second shot with the tail. There were also some blood splatters in the final version.

Yawn

A little something I did for Sardine Productions early this year. Haven't posted in a while, been crazy busy working on a show called Ugly Americans, the best show I have ever worked on.

bird poop

So excited!!!!!

A few weeks ago I finally bought a Cintiq. I have been wanting one desperately for a long time, and I finally bit the bullet and got one. I had to purchase it for a gig I wanted. I got the Cintiq, I got the gig. I am working on a show called Ugly Americans. The production keeps me very busy so I haven't had much time to fool around with the Cintiq on my own stuff. So I finally got around to doing this sketch tonight with my new piece of equipment. As for Ugly Americans, all I can say is this; Finally, after a long career in animation, I know what it is like to work on a show that I am actually a fan of myself. I have often wondered this; what would it be like to work on Sponge Bob, or Flap Jack, or Fosters, or the Venture Bros, or any other show that I really like. Now I know, it feels every bit as good as I thought. Anyway, check out Ugly Americans on Comedy Central on TV and you can also watch full episodes on Comedy Central's website.

Old Kung Fu Master

My girlfriend and I came up with an idea for a great little animated short, it is a spoof of 'The Five Deadly Venoms." This is the the first rough of the Old Kung Fu Master. This short is going to be an educational piece to teach kids. No, it's not going to teach them how to 'climb walls' like the Lizard, or have 'iron skin' like the Toad. It is going to teach them a grammar lesson.

T-Rex walk

Normally I would bob the head up and down, but because this is part of a pan and the T-Rex will also move his mouth during a lip sync as he walks, I decided to keep his head stationary.

brontosaurus walk cycle

Elephant and giraffe walk cycle

Here's a little walk cycle I did for Sardine Productions. It's part of a short I animated for them. It is based on Mordillo, a comic strip artist and animator that was very popular in the 70's and 80's.

Vader's costume

Here's Vader with his Guyver costume.

VADER TIME!

A couple quick rough drawings. PAPA SHANGO on the left. BIG VAN VADER on the right. VADER was definitely one of my all time favorites. He was scary!