For a long time I’ve been fascinated by kinetic sculpture. I remember reading an issue of IEEE Spectrum which featured artists doing collaborative projects with mathematicians. It’s really cool to see people who put both hemispheres of their brain into one project. My friend Jourdan forwarded me this video of Theo Jansen’s work. Pretty inspiring [...]
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 August 26th, 2007 | Category: my workDrawing people is fun, especially if they don’t know it. There are many times that I am out in public, walking around with my wife and I see somebody that’s really interesting looking. That is when I wish I had a sketch book RIGHT THERE to draw them. Also, I wish I had a secret [...] August 25th, 2007 | Category: talkshowsI like listening to podcasts while I’m working on projects late into the night, especially old-time radio shows. There’s this website that I stream them from called radio.macinmind.com. They’re always rotating new shows with old ones, and try to broadcast same-date shows from however many years ago they ran. A few of my favorites are [...] August 23rd, 2007 | Category: my workMy friend Greg Hardin hosts this Drawergeeks website where other animators and artists do drawings of a theme every couple of weeks. I haven’t done one in a while, so I thought I’d take a stab at this week’s challenge: Rasputin. It turns out that Rasputin lived uhm…a crazy life. Here’s his bio. Here’s a quick [...] I just went to the exhibit of”Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination”. It was awesome. They had models of most of the ships, and alot of the actual costumes and movie props used in the films, so I took a bunch of pictures. You can see some of them below. One thing in particular that [...] August 19th, 2007 | Category: animation“Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors” was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. It was totally rad, because the idea was so weird. I liked the bad guys in the show; they were these evil cars that grew out of plants from vines. You could see their hearts beating before the cars completely developed. Then [...] August 16th, 2007 | Category: my workI had recently done a painting called Dreameaters, which was from a dream that my wife had. It was so bizarre and strange, I had to try and do it justice. I started by drawing a few sketches after the story was told to me. In the process of sketching the Dreameaters they started to [...] August 14th, 2007 | Category: personalSo I was on my way back from eating out one night, and we saw these creatures stuck to the wall outside our front door. I thought they looked really neat so I took a picture the next time I saw one. After doing a little bit of research, I could only find one creature that [...] August 13th, 2007 | Category: cultureOne of my favorite books for character design inspiration is a collection of portraits by the photographer Steve McCurry. He is best known for his image of the Afghan girl which was featured in National Geographic in 1985. He has a way of capturing the mood of each personality that makes me wonder beyond the [...] August 9th, 2007 | Category: my workI will be participating in The Ninja Show 2. The opening is on August 11th at 6pm. They’ve got another killer lineup of artists from every creative industry, and it’s gonna be a good one. They had a Ninja T-shirt contest open to all the artists in the show to participate and they picked 2 [...] August 8th, 2007 | Category: animationI rarely get fired up for an animated movie before it comes out, but I can’t help but get excited for this one. Two talented friends of mine, Jerod Chirico and Juan Carlos Navarro, are animating on an adaptation of the Dr. Seuss movie Horton Hears a Who. This is just amazing because Dr. Seuss [...] I’ve just made some coding changes to the site so that I can update this section more frequently. I’ve retitled this section to “BLOG”, because I want to start including my influences and process, as well as finished work and projects. If certain pages aren’t loading correctly it’s because I’ve renamed a bunch of them. [...] Woo hoo. Comicon was crazy. So was meeting Stan Lee face to face and talking to him briefly at the Disney Channel event. Thanks for the invite Jay. I fell asleep in the hallway of the convention center in the middle of playing Yoshi’s Island DS, due to sleep deprivation. Live painting at the Strange [...] |
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