A Chart for Visual Styles

A while ago when I was doing more teaching, particularly teaching Design I had created a chart to help understand "Visual Styles" by plunking on a chart a set of Films/ Animated Features/ TV shows/ and Games. This is an effort to remove the subjectivity of any particular intellectual property a student may be personally invested in so that in the creation of a new project, we can objectively dive into what this "new" thing can be. At least we will have a map to chart where it exists in the sea of other IP's. I discuss the topic in more detail below in one of my week 1 classes from my time at CGMA.
 

"Sugar sugar"

Character designs and thumbnail process for what has become my personal "BMW film" project.

Enterprise Bar Fight

In my quest to move into Storyboarding, i figured a good place to start is with some acting.

Development Work

This project didn't seem to get any traction and it's been a long while that i've been holding on to this. I think it's a good time to throw in a little bit of colored work here. This was part of a Moon Girl pitch, taking a stab of what our heroine's layer might look like.

Venture Bros. Se07 Rough Drawings to Final Art

 I want to share something a little bit different with this post. A lot of my work is polished and i forget that its good to show process on occasion. In my rough pass i make 95% of all my design decisions and address most notes so that the clean up process doesn't become bogged down. It takes a while to polish these things up, so the more locked down the shapes in rough stage, the better. This last image of a Frankenstein-like- table was actually a tight zoom of an establishing that i had previously done. The rough here is pretty chunky, but has everything the shot needs. I think i ended up removing the FG element as it was decided that it got in the way of staging the conversation between the two henchman manning the seats. Enjoy!

Sketchbook Pages!

After all these years i realized i do not post any of my unfinished, unpoilished brain droppings. Well, here they are. A collection of dancers, spaceships, Vehicle bits, character designs, old flames... you know... the works!

Pierce College Dance Company Shinannigans

My buddies in the wild from the Pierce College Dance company. That guy down low, his name is Julio. I used to get beer with him Monday nights at this Dive bar in the Valley. Good times.