Jogging

Just working out my storytelling muscles. This story was inspired by Lewis Trondeim.

Batman

Mr. Bruce Wayne is angry.

Bill Watterson hands

Bill Watterson is an amazing artist. I love how he draws hands. They are so simple and even gestural but they never feel rushed.

Beast

Dr. Henry McCoy my favor blue haird scientist acrobat.

Colossus

Skin of metal, mountains of muscles, and a cool Russian accent. What isn't there to like about the Colossus?

Wolverine

Now that working on my demo reel isn't so urgent I've taken some time to do some drawing with the only goal of making me smile. I find drawing of any kind really enjoyable and fun. Life drawing, gesture drawing to improve my eye for animation and the occasional commissioned art piece are times I always look forward too. But sometimes I like to escape through my pencil and draw whatever makes me smile.

Wolverine was my favorite Xmen hands down when I was in Junior High and Highschool. I collected his comic religiously from issues in the early 70s, through the loss of his adamantium, and into the Age of Apocalypse. But due to the events that caused him to go feral and a regretable and misguided beliefe that comics were only for kids I stopped collecting. Thankfully I came to my senses although I haven't purchased an issue of Wolverine since. I miss those days.

Zombies!

Sean is at it again.

Brain Farts: Victor

Brain Farts: Stuart

Brain Farts: Quimby

Brain Farts: Iggy

Brain Farts: Gregory

Brain Farts: Herbin

Brain Farts: Coop and Skippy

Brain Farts: Brian

This Brain Fart is not named after me or my Dad. Mike just thought he looked like a Brian.

Slinky

When's the last time you pulled out one of these little beauties to play with? Slinky obstacle course on my desk at work, current course operator in this picture is Mike "the pod 3 Emperor".

Brain Farts: Blithe

Brain Farts: Samuel

I know some people are thinking "huh"?

Part of the reason I draw these guys is an exercise in creativity and design. I try to make each Brain Fart different from the next. Another reason is to have something to decorate the walls of the cubicle with. I don't have anything against the typical toys that decorate your average animators desk. I have those too. But these Brain Farts are something that is uniquely mine and fun. I think it adds to the creative atmosphere more than a toy you can buy at Toys R Us because it is so different and stupid.

Another explanation for the Brain Farts is they are fun to draw!

Brain Farts: Grimbold

Brain Farts

Every day for the last couple of weeks at Speakeasy I've been sketching out one of these little globs and bits of muck with faces on them on a post it note. I then give them to Mike who promptly names them. Here is the first one I drew. More are on there way.

Lack Of Posting

Sorry for the silence people. I've spent the last month or so running around like a crazy man getting my demo reel ready. Now that it is done, I should return to a more regular posting schedule.

My July 2009 Demo Reel

Reel Breakdown

Museum Chaos – Personal project – Rig provided by Animation Mentor.

Gusher’s Balloons – Animation completed at a quota of 30 seconds per week. – DXD Kansas City, MO

Gusher’s Question – Animation completed at a quota of 30 seconds per week. - DXD Kansas City, MO

Gusher’s Problem – Animation completed at a quota of 30 seconds per week. – DXD Kansas City, MO

Shot from Alumni Ball Bounce short. – Animation – Rigs provided by Animation Mentor. A collaborative project completed after graduation.

6-02-09: It came from the fridge!

Speakeasy South Parkerized

Sean (formerly intern Sean and now junior generalist Sean) created the entire Speakeasy staff as South Park characters. Can you guess which one is me?

5-23-09: Black Out

The other day we had a Speakeasy production meeting at the Jolly Trolly. After a few of us stuck around and took advantage of the Speakeasy credit card left behind and did some extra drinking, eating and chatting. We eventually got a hold of the kids menu's and crayons and had some fun doing a bunch of collabrotive drawings. Later we got the bright idea to join in the Jolly Trolly's kareoke night. Being animators we had to figure out a way to take it to the next level. We went back to the studio grabbed our Muppet What Nots and performed the kareoke with the muppets. Lefty (my muppet) and the gang sang two Queen songs, Don't Stop Me Now and Bohemian Rapsody. The unexpecting patrons of the Trolly got a pretty good kick out of it. We definately got everyone's attention. People were taking pictures, laughing and starring with puzzled looks on there faces. It was a ton of fun.

5-7-09 Spring's Arrival part 2

Boston Pictures

5-4-09 Spring's Arrival

Extra Random Pictures

Lefty and a friend.


Jerrod, Lisa, and I at the Mid Atlantic Crossfit Regional Qualifiers.

4-18-09 King of the Toasters

4-11-09: A Stop On The Freedom Trail

I'm A Robot II

4-10-09: The Urban Jungle

* Obviously this is just a beginners guide to surviving the urban jungle.

4-09-09

4-4: Hello Mr Pukie

Guerrilla Fitness was a lot of fun. It was different seeing in real life a place I've seen on the Crossfit main page videos. Meeting pukie, for all of you unfamilar with the term means I threw up. I felt fine durring the workout but about 3 minutes after we've finished I layed down. That was a bad choice. I ended up puking about 2 minutes later. The awesome thing about puking from working out is that as soon as you throw up you back to normal. Weird experience. I've never pukied after a workout before. I think it mainly happened because the workout was tough and I didn't want to look weak infront of so many (13) crossfitters, I layed down, and my stomach was feeling little weird so I took some imodium on an empty stomach. Oh well, live and learn!

Here's the workout we did . . .
Team Angie (teams of two)
For Time:
175 Pull-Ups
175 Push-Ups
175 Sit-Ups
175 Squats

The woman I was teamed up with was tough. She and Lisa were the only women to even attempt to to the pull-ups unassisted. She tore her hand in the middle of the pull-ups and barely took notice. We split the work in half and finished 23:37ish.

4-1 It Came From Beneath The Sink!

I really do enjoy making these comic doodles about my life. It's even more fun when I get to draw a monster.

I'm A Robot

In my never ending quest to conquor the world of art and make it dance like a monkey for me I've been playing around with color. I've recently purchased Colors! For my Ipod Touch and have learned some cool tricks watching other people paint. My Colors! attempts are pretty gruesome at the moment but here's something I did in photoshop. Usually when I paint in photoshop it comes out as a sterlie mess. No personality or texture to the colors. When you add that on top of my lack of understand of color . . .

I'm pretty happy with this attempt. It's a step in the right direction.

3-29-09: Lisa's Hair Cut

3-28-09: Bathroom Noises

Sorry for the lack of posting last week. I drew the comics and then I forgot to post them. So this week there will be a lot of posts.