Distraction or Creation?
Sometimes you just get a simple idea in your head that you need get out even if it is a distracting side project simply so that you are not distracted thinking about it and can move on to your “real” project. Sometimes you can just sketch it away in fast variations so that it has ...
Was that on tape?
Sometimes you have a great idea, and then in practice it just doesn’t pan out. I seem to suffer from this quite a bit esp. when animated concepts come into play. This is one of those times as I thought a “Mr. Katz” moving line might add something nice to an otherwise simple animation. While ...
Japanime Character for the Intel Home Server Contest
Recently I was contracted to do a “Zen Warrior” in a Japanime style for the new Intel Home Sever Contest. To be honest I was a bit nervous and excited when I first took on the project as I had never drawn a Japanime character. To add to the worry was the fact that the ...
Leap’n Lizards II
. Just an update on some images from a series I created for a client. The theme was, for the most part, just geckos doing different things, but trying to use only a few colors and stippling (no gradients sans for the sky). There is also a running Gecko, a snowboarding gecko, a female ninja ...
DS Animation Doodles
Recently I had a fairly long flight to the E. Coast which left me plenty of time to do some Animanatee doodles on my DS. Now I’m not really great with the tools, and in flight turbulence doesn’t seem to help either, but it is a fun and semi-productive way to help time pass as ...