new banner

Time for a new banner! No, it's not a Planet of the Apes blog. I just decided to use my ape pics as the theme.

screen shot, long shot, three shot

The top pic was something that I posted before from this project. It shows how rough the storyboard was, and how the board was done before any character designs were made. So instead of two male angels in the board, we now have a male and female. In the new pic on the bottom, the horse has been added to the shot. The animation in this scene is completed, the only thing that I might still do to it is play with background, or not.

Angel/Devil

She has a line of dialog where she talks about 'conflict' so to emphasize the dialog I have her briefly become Devilish before snapping back to her usual angelic self.

Angel heads

This character has really grown on me. Her voice acting is outstanding.

great voice acting

I am animating an 11 minute short film written by Ken Edwards. The script is great, which is why I took on this project. And if a funny script wasn't enough, the voice acting is superb, just listen to the voice acting by Steve Rimpici. He plays multiple parts in this film; in the scene here, he plays St. Peter.

wipe

One of my favorite tricks to use in animation is the wipe. If you need a quick action and don't have many inbetweens to work with, a wipe is always a good way to go. I used to do an exercise where I would watch cartoons frame by frame on the old VCR, just to see how they did the wipes. One of my favorite shows for good wipes was Tiny Toons, they were pretty extreme with some of their wipes. Here's a wipe I used on a project I am working on.

sketchy dudes

This is probably the oldest pic that used to be on website. And now it's here on my blog.

laying down on the job

A couple more old life drawings.

chef

Another old pic that used to be on my website. I got rid of the website, so I'm posting some of my work that used to be on the site here on my blog.  It's all really old work, but some of it is still worth posting, like this friendly guy ready to share his transparent sausage.

Fini

That's the last of my life drawing that used to be on my website.

Oliver Domenchini

My friend Oliver. This is one caricature I had to bring over from my now defunct website, because it captures Oliver so well.

hips

More genuflecting.

stare

I had a difficult time drawing her. Her name is Sarah, she is a beautiful life drawing model, and in this pose she was staring right at me the whole time.

pole 2

This model was drawing with us, just another artist, until one week she decided to cross over from life drawer to life drawing model. Gutsy.

pole

I like the simplicity of the lines in this one.