Old Flash Files

This is one of the first flash things I did. It was done in 2002 while I was working on something called Lil Pimp. Once again sorry for the fuzz on the beginning. If anyone knows why this is happening whenever I upload to YouTube please tell me, it's really harshing my mellow man.



Here's a B.G. done in flash for a pitch I did a couple of years ago. It was for a show I want to do called "Doomsday High, school for super villains". I'm still pitching this one around town as well.

Jessie

Here she is! My girl! My little Jessie, she is now about 2 weeks old. Isn't she a sweetpea?

At 9 pounds 6 ounces she was a big girl! Sorry mommie! On her second day she was already lifting her head up to get a look at her mother! Not failing to thrive I'd say.

And here's all of my progeny to date. They are sleeping for now, but soon they will awaken and the world will know it's MASTERS!






On a less momentous note here is some more stuff from that previously mentioned UNNAMED project!

This is a guy that's been nixxed as far as I know. He was designed by Carey Yost, and drawn by Marc Colangelo. As before I just did the coloring.


When I first started on the show I was given free reign and was allowed to build some set miniatures for the production. This place is called the Haunted Palace. The building is made out of foamcore and paper. The stop lights are made of coffee stirrers, plastic drink straws and paper.


Here's a better look at the stop lights.

I put everything together with hot glue.

Here are a couple of preproduction paintings I did for the show. I'm so sorry that it hasn't seen the light of day yet. The crew on it, that Doug Lawrence got together, was amazing; Lynne Naylor, Chris Reccardi, Chris Battle, Chris Mitchel, Craig Kellman, Miles Thompson, Justin Thompson, Jim Smith, Bob Jaques, Bill Wray, just to name a few! This thing should have been out years ago.

This one's about 5 inches tall by 3 and a half inches wide


Small marker comps


The flash from my camera destroyed this one.


A thumbnail done in acrylic inks

Thanks for waiting, but as you can see things have been hectic around here.

p.s. does hectic refer to hecate? I would love some etymological info on that if anyone can share.

Wabbits! Wabbits! Where are they all comin fwum?

Here's a couple of pages of rabbits done for a friends bar a while back. The place was gonna be called "the wild hare" obviously. I guess it actually was called the wild hare, for a few months there, but now it's gone, bummer. All that's left of the place are these little guys.



And these guys too.

another sketch book post

This stuff is from years ago. I can only hope I've gotten a bit better since then. some one once told me that you can't get any better after the age of thirty, how depressing. In my own life I,ve improved immeasureably since turning thirty, only now am I finally feeling I can draw at all, or have any level of skill.

2 scenes + a new painting

(Fri May 17th)
For some reason the only way I could get a new pic up on Blogger was to edit a previously existing post, so that's what I did, cuse I'm a dooer not a waiter. This little picture is a study for the robot and girl paintings I am doing. I did it in my sketch book with acrylic inks. I tried to get it out as fast as I could. I'll try and fix it when I can get to the final.




Here are a couple of scenes strung together. This is still rough timing. I'm primarily creating new assets right now, but every once in a while I have to pick at a scene, and push it along a little further.



p.s. Sorry for the crap on the front of this one, but I don't have time to mess with YouTube for hours trying to fix it. For some reason this scene hates YouTube no matter what type of file I render it out in.

conglomeration

Here's an image I put together from some odds and ends in my project files.

Hello, is any body still out there?

Sorry for the lack of posts, but Iv'e started working full time again, and preparing for the arrival of our new daughter. The skies have cleared for the evening though, so here's some new stuff for you...



First here's a new BG for the cartoon.




And here's some color I did for a project that must remain nameless, the great drawings were done by my friend Mark Colangelo who hates computers.

This character isn't even used in the show any more anyway.




This guy didn't stay in the picture either



He also didn't die.


By the way a Big Happy Birthday goes out to my mom today.

Falling

Here's the scene from one of the stills in the last post. I can't seem to get a clean version out of YouTube so I'm just leaving the electric green fuzz on the front of this one. I've been exporting and re-exporting versions of this test for days and up loading them. This is as clean as I've gotten it. This is as clean as I'm going to get it.

new stills from "the darklings" short

ufo

Sorry for the lack of posting this week. I'm in the middle of some home renewal. I'm painting, hanging, sanding, installing etc. Here's a ufo pic i took while working at the new Film Roman building. I didn't use photo shop with this pic I just took a picture of what was in front of me.

The Great Trocantor and the Marker Monsters

Here is the Great Trocantor he is made of many things; old magazine clippings and tape, markers pencils and glue.
Kneel before him and whimper for he is the god of refuse. the intercessor for the cast off. His hoards are multiplying, and you are their food.



and these are his marker monsters.

Flash Experiment #555 (Goldfrappe)

This is another abstract music video thing I did a while ago. It uses the same geometric sort of pieces that the one of my wife used, only more extensively. To make the objects I went to places where flash breaks down like the "soften fill edges" function. The "shape tween" function was used for some of the movement to see how it would morph some of the more complex shapes. My computer had a nervous breakdown doing some of this stuff. I was really into this band Goldfrappe at the time. While working on this I read that the band were heroin addicts and that made it's way into the movie a little. I think I put that stuff in there mostly for shock value, and edgyness... what a loser. I should have put some skate boards and guitars in there too... oh yeah and some cool sunglasses, a cigarette, a pair of dice and a zippo lighter. I could have used some music by Bruce Willis's band "the Accelerators" instead of Goldfrappe as well, and my journey to the dark side would have been complete. The quality of this copy is attrocious, sorry for that. I'm trying to find a better version of it, but It may have been lost. If I find it though I'll repost it.

Oh yeah, and my pretty wife makes another quick appearance as well.

ROBOTS! GIRLS!

these are the first couple of paintings for the monkey house show.

Pen Pals

This is a painting about two boys who were pen pals. One is named Jack Parsons and the other is Verner Von Braun. One went on to help start Jet Propulsion laboratory and in his off hours became head of Aleister Crowleys occult lodge the Ordo Temlpi Orientis. Rocket scientist by day satanic sorcerer at night. The other became one of the heads of Hitler's rocketry program. He used slave labor from concentration camps that he worked to death in order to do his furer's bidding . He went on to head up the American space program after the war. Without these two men, a nazi and a satanist, America would never have gone to the moon. I thought they deserved a painting.

Wasting Buffalo like the Pale Face.

Banishment

This is a painting I sold last month at the Monkey House Toy Store, on silverlake blvd. I'm gonna have my own show there in Jan.08. It was gonna be this June, but that is the month our baby girl is supposed to be born so I pushed the date back. I may still be a little ambitious about getting a whole show painted by next year. anyway, I will start posting the progress on the paintings for the Jan. show here. Thishere painting though is called "Banishment".

Who loves ya baby?

Jared's Back, and he want's you to know that THIS is how he likes to dress.


...and unfortunately here's how his Dad likes to dress him at home.



He is gonna be so stoked when his Mommy starts dressing him again

Another ghost story

Here's a one page comic. Another report from the Great Ghost Wars. This one is called "The annointing of the sacrifice"

I'm Back...

Sorry for the lag in posting, but the time has come for me to be getting a real job. I was working on a test for a T.V. show I am hoping to get on. I also got on a roll animating on my short, so between the pencil and the stylus I kinda disappeared down the work hole. Here are a painting and a sketch book page though.





More girls, these are roughs for a painting I never did.

















...and ant thugs, this painting is called "the victory of time over science".

Edgar Episode 2

At long last, the second part of Edgar and the Voyagers...