Jul 30
Canvas for the Cause
So, Reel FX has an annual Canvas For A Cause fund-raiser, and I was happy to be apart of it this year. I’m pretty happy with the way mine turned out:

It’s been quite some time since I’ve done a traditional painting, and it was my first time with acrylics, so I started by doing a quick digital sketch to figure out how I wanted to approach it.

Nov 20
Look out world
May I present to you Dr. Randal Direen Ph.D
(I’m not sure the world is ready for this…)
oh, I should note that this was heavily influenced by Pete Oswald’s work on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which happens to be Randy’s favorite movie (I’ve never seen someone identify with a character so much before :)
1 commentNov 20
I drew me some aminals
Sketches from a day at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
And these are some quick (60 sec) gestures from the cool Animal Gesture Drawing Practice Tool on pixelovely.com
No commentsOct 4
Softball
This bambino is about to BAMBEAN it! … that or egregiously miss, spiraling to the ground — there might be a reason he only plays on the weekends at a kids field ;)
3 commentsOct 4
Sculptris Rocks!
I’ve never played around with with any of the sculpting software on the market (zbrush or mudbox). Mostly because of two reasons: one, they cost money; two, I’ve been told their interfaces are a pain to learn). Sculptris surpasses both those hurdles; it’s free… and it has like only 6 buttons in the interface :)
I did this in little more than an hour of just playing around with it:
No commentsOct 4
Quick Watercolors
Oh watercolors, how you challenge me so. These were done in a small 3×5 watercolor sketch book. The first two were done from vacation pictures; the later two were done on the spot.
(though doing a water color under water sounds like an interesting challenge :)
No commentsOct 4
Been holding out on you
Funny how getting a new job and moving to a new state can keep a guy from his blogging duties ;P
Anyway, here are some drawin’s from the drawing class I’m taking at work:
(all were 5 min. poses)
2 commentsApr 26
Spelunking
Feb 17
Wunderkinds
Edit: I’ve updated this animation. Pushing the lip shapes and dialog accents.
Here’s a dialog animation I did to test out the facial setup of my character:
I know a medium close shot of a character just delivering a line of dialog isn’t the most interesting thing you can do in animation; however, I had a lot of fun being able to focus on it’s subtlety. I didn’t actually use any reference for this animation (not always a good thing to do), but I recently read a book on facial psychology written by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen called “Unmasking the Face” and tried to put a lot of what I learned from that book to use. I find it very interesting what triggers a facial expression, and tried hard to show it as my character is thinking through his dialog.
Let me know what you think. I’d love to hear any and all feedback!
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