Merry Christmas

abstract speedys

from yesterday. as if anyone needed a reminder that I don't even know how to paint :(

drumroll please

The much anticipated by all end-of-the-year post. Please note a distinct amount of sarcasm in the previous sentence. I will make another post in a bit on my thoughts about the rather strange semester I just had...anyway, enjoy, leave comments, and happy holidays to you all :)

it's a little dark, but that's how I like my film (and my coffee)

on a lighter note, my TA class's dance collab, I'll take it down if anybody doesn't want it up 

and finally, just my clip:

everybody probably knows by now, but there's a little easter egg in there...

aight, have fun kids

RacerWarrior

thanks to Audrey for the name haha

testing... testing... still super glitchy :(

The Thief

our final animatic of the semester, here's some visdev stuff for it

hehe, look at his butt 3

I've been looking at a lot of Mignola lately :D

Meet Maurice

I'm gonna be animating him for the next month or so.

werd.

Stuffs

                                                 invention            &           observation

&  study

some animatics from Concept Development: 

also, I want to do something with this:

you are the beautiful distress of mathematics

I said for you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit

and give you lightning and thunder as a dowry

I would make the sky shit all of its stars like rain

and I would clasp the constellations across your waist

and I will make the heavens your keep

-Mos Def

ImagineFX Rising Stars Competition

the Sphinx

the Slumbering Tyrant

Pink

the Encounter

the Last Defiance of Hirobe

the Beast

the Encounter

View Large :)

Sam Bosma / Coloring Linework Tutorial

Sam Bosma came to town, and what a neat guy he is, and he really loves to draw!

In case anybody missed his demo on how to separate linework to then color it, here goes!

Step 1, scan your drawing

Step 2, clean up your linework with the Level adjuster. This is easier when you're not using ballpoint or crosshatching, but it still works

 

Step 3, convert your image to grayscale mode (Image > Mode > Grayscale)

Step 4, now go to Channels, select the Gray Channel, then invert your selection (Shift+Alt+Command+I), copy, and paste. It will automatically paste your linework on a new Layer.

Step 5, make a new White Layer so you have your linework on one layer and your background on a different Layer

Step 6, on the linework layer, click the the little box next to lock, which will lock the transparency, so now you can only color inside the lines!

Step 7, convert back to RGB (Image > Mode > RGB, do not flatten when prompted) and have a color fiesta! And remember, you can even add a gradient to your linework layer, and it will only affect the line!

Wooo!!!!

Magique Jacques: 100th Post!

Hey guys, this is my 100th post! Holy cow! Cool! Shmowzow! Here's Jacques :D

He does magic!

Wow!

Robo-Dragon-Wizard-Speedpaint

This was one of those take-a-bunch-of-random-photos-overlay-and-distort-them-and-make-something-out-of-it speedpaints, inspired by Theo's demo. Probs like an hour and a half. 

PINK

Hey guys, sorry I haven't posted in a while. This year so far has been...interesting.

Anyways, maybe you're tired of this one but it's done now (save for the final tweeks I'll make when I receive feedback). Unfortunately, the Cintiq messed up my levels and despite my best efforts the darks became black and some of the colors got blown out. I did my best to tweek it and I think this is pretty close o how I want it to look.

Cheers :)

EDIT 10/08/12

Process Gifs

Surf's Up

Mary Jane

the Beast

Knights of the Turntable

Surf's Up

I wish...

Pink

Tonight I did a 1 hour speedpaint with my good buddy Evan. The theme was, you guessed it, "pink".

It was really nice to paint again, I've just been doing Maya for the past few weeks...

-__________-

what do I do?

DIPSAY is back in session

100+ people showed up, it was awesome!

69

in honor of my 69 followers, keep it real homies

Illest of Ill Poster 2012

I'm embarassed to say that I spent about 3x as much time on the type than on the drawing but here it is, hope y'all like! 

Yay :)

run kitty run

Yo tell dat story

What do you guys think? Feedback welcome. For the record it is supposed to be a tonal drawing with little or no color that clearly tells a story all in one image. Also, for some reason, the image gets really red under certain screen settings, not sure how to fix that...

In other news, my illest poster is getting printed (what?) so that's fun haha. Real talk check out the other shirts/posters here. Wren McDonald's is sooooo gooood.

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