Pangea: United We Divide

So I have this idea for a story.  Tribes of cavemen roamed Pangea with early, wacky dinosaurs and other flukes of nature.  The tribes hated each other, and could be united by only one thing: their common hatred. Each tribe chooses its champion and the champions are given the task of finding a way to divide the landmass so the tribes can live in peace.

Here's a conceptual image for characters of a particular tribe...the one that becomes South America.

Witch

Here's a witch painting from my last semester of school...

Demons

And to keep my blog from being too girly from that last post here are some very quick black and white beat boards I did for a local guy awhile back.  While they may look like they could be sequential they all represented different scenes.

Disney Princesses

So I'm a follower of the Avalanche Software Blog.  Last fall there was a series of Disney Princesses they painted, and I did this one just to see if I could.  They have recently revived the princess theme but I think with a bit of a twist, so I figured I'd post my painting, too.

The Spanish Mermaid

I have some new work! To see my updated portfolio, visit my portfolio blog.

Dream

Just woke up from a dream, started fiddling with my phone, and found
Autodesk Sketchbook. I am absolutely certain it stomps on other
sketching and painting programs for the iPhone. Very intuitive and
sleek. Thanks, Autodesk, for making the free version uber useful!

Where Clouds Play - Redone

I was not happy with the first draft so I went at it again. While I think there is a distinct improvement I'm not really sure how I feel about the piece. I can't decide whether it's over done or not...

New Avatar

In honor of nothing in particular I have changed my avatar from my famous mullet picture. I received many many requests from women to change the picture (it was too scary I think), and I did quite a while ago on Facebook, but I wanted something more artsy here. So I painted this.

Jenna Kimble's Flying Monkey

I did a CD cover about a month ago that featured this flying monkey.

The Girl Without Hands

Along with not posting for a few months, I've written a short story entitled The Girl Without Hands. The idea was to take a story that could only be told in animation and develop it into a book of production-worthy concept artwork. In this case, the concept that made the film impossible in live action was a main character without hands--audience's shrink at the thought. But it's not impossible in animation! Here is a preview of a few of the pictures I've done in the last month, with many more to come. I just want people start seeing what I see in the story.

Color images are concept and black & white are story boards with lighting values. I haven't quite decided the aspect ratio of the film.

I plan on publishing the book, including the short story and (hopefully) 100 pages of concept art, in the future, when I think the artwork is to a point that it can get me a job.

This is probably all you will see me post on the subject for awhile.

Joe Olson's Snow Monster

Value by me. Line art by Joe Olson.

Caveman Update

Nicolai the caveman is the world's first genius. This is the most recent color study of what the commercial will probably look like. We are going for happy, pleasant, cartoony, and most of all: MARKETABLE.

I'm concerned there might be too much purple in the shadows...maybe too saturated? We are trying to get Nic to pop out of, but at the same time fit into, his sunny, desert environment.

If you are media savvy please let me know if this is similar to something you've seen before. Thanks!

Speedpaints

So one of the things I learned from the 100 new blogs I visited this weekend is that a lot of people speedpaint and they're really good at it. So I figured I'd give it a shot.

Fairy - 1 hr
Old man -1 hr
Indian girl -30min
cottage -30min

New Painting

Hi ya'll. Did a new painting the last few days. It's a redo from a couple months ago. I never liked the first one. I think this one might be my best to date.

New Record!

So I painted 6 paintings in 20 hours for Ryan's project due this past Tuesday. I had them all designed except for one, the building in the snow, so it went pretty fast...you'll notice that one painting is missing and that's because it's not worth posting.

This Week's Armadillo Design

Up all night again. That makes 3 times in 8 days...not a record but I'm getting close to it.

New Armadillo Design

I was up all night Sunday (again) finishing a new design so Pixar could critique it. I got a lot of great feedback and look forward to pumping out a new version this weekend.

The Girl Without Hands

I have written up a synopsis of a book I would like to write entitled The Girl Without Hands.

These are the characters.

Armadillo - Senior Short 2008

So we've been designing armadillos for our senior short. This is mine.