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		<title>Canvas for the Cause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Reel FX has an annual Canvas For A Cause fund-raiser, and I was happy to be apart of it this year. I&#8217;m pretty happy with the way mine turned out: It&#8217;s been quite some time since I&#8217;ve done a traditional painting, and it was my first time with acrylics, so I started by doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2011/07/30/canvas-for-the-cause/</link>
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		<title>Look out world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May I present to you Dr. Randal Direen Ph.D (I&#8217;m not sure the world is ready for this&#8230;) oh, I should note that this was heavily influenced by Pete Oswald&#8217;s work on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which happens to be Randy&#8217;s favorite movie (I&#8217;ve never seen someone identify with a character so much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/11/20/look-out-world/</link>
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		<title>I drew me some aminals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/11/20/i-drew-me-some-aminals/</link>
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		<title>Softball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This bambino is about to BAMBEAN it! &#8230; that or egregiously miss, spiraling to the ground &#8212; there might be a reason he only plays on the weekends at a kids field ;)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/10/04/softball/</link>
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		<title>Sculptris Rocks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;ve been told their interfaces are a pain to learn). Sculptris surpasses both those hurdles; it&#8217;s free&#8230; and it has like only 6 buttons in the interface :) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/10/04/sculptris-rocks/</link>
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		<title>Quick Watercolors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh watercolors, how you challenge me so.  These were done in a small 3&#215;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 :)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/10/04/quick-watercolors/</link>
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		<title>Been holding out on you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s from the drawing class I&#8217;m taking at work: (all were 5 min. poses)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/10/04/been-holding-out-on-you/</link>
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		<title>Spelunking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went spelunking in Belize last year, and it left a lasting impression :)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/04/26/spelunking/</link>
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		<title>Demo Reel 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuh Dah! Download (Android &#38; iPhone compatible) Demo Reel Breakdown]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/03/01/demo-reel-2010-2/</link>
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		<title>Wunderkinds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edit: I&#8217;ve updated this animation. Pushing the lip shapes and dialog accents. Here&#8217;s a dialog animation I did to test out the facial setup of my character: New Version Old Version I know a medium close shot of a character just delivering a line of dialog isn&#8217;t the most interesting thing you can do in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/02/17/wonderkins/</link>
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		<title>Shoulder Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m done with my character&#8217;s rig&#8230; well, done enough anyway.  I could certainly keep working on it, as there are a lot of places I&#8217;d like to improve it;  however I need to press on and get things done.  Besides, I&#8217;ve created a flexible enough pipeline that I can easily go back and make changes/corrections [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/02/12/shoulder-test/</link>
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		<title>Revolution 2217</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Tom and I just recently released this game Revolution 2212, which we have been developing on and off for the last couple of months. It is a good ol&#8217; action arcade game with that classic &#8216;shoot the enemy aliens before they obliterate you&#8217; game play. It is currently only available for Android phones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/02/10/revolution-2217/</link>
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		<title>Hands WIP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cleaned up the weighting on the hands today:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/01/18/hands-wip/</link>
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		<title>Work In Progress :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yup, there is work in progress on this guy :) In fact, he&#8217;s moving along pretty good now.  I&#8217;ve pretty well solidified the rig and have finished with most of his skin weighting. I was messing around with posing him to test his deformations, and thought I&#8217;d share: I&#8217;m pretty darn happy with how clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2010/01/16/work-in-progress/</link>
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		<title>Quick Vacation Paintings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the trip out to Florida, I did several quick paintings to keep myself amused in the hotels we stopped at. All were done in roughly 15 -30 minutes.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/12/28/quick-vacation-paintings/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure I&#8217;m a couple days late with this post, but I just got home from vacation yesterday. Spending Christmas morning with my parents, I pulled out a small portable watercolor set to pass the time :) These were both done on 2.5&#8243; x 3.5&#8243; water color paper (trading card size)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/12/27/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Shading about done&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well now that I&#8217;ve got some time, I&#8217;m moving forward with this 3D character I started quite a while back. The texturing could use some tweaking, and I&#8217;d ultimately like to go with a different technique for the hair; however I&#8217;m going to start pushing forward with rigging so i can quickly get this guy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/11/28/shading-about-done/</link>
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		<title>Passamaquoddy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching Pete&#8217;s Dragon a couple of weeks ago, and while watching it I doodled down this likeness of the charlatan character. Which I then spiffed up into the above painting.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/11/15/passamaquoddy/</link>
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		<title>Destructinator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Needs some reworking, but I like some of the concepts of it.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/10/03/destructinator/</link>
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		<title>High Kick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a pencil test that I doodled away in my spare moments at work:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/09/22/high-kick/</link>
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		<title>Penguin Raiders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, the humans riding elephants in Lord of the Rings was cool, but check this out!]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/09/18/penguin-raiders/</link>
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		<title>Elephipipopatomous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask, &#8217;cause I don&#8217;t know&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/09/14/elephipipopatomous/</link>
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		<title>odosketch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A co-worker pointed me in the direction of this fun little on-line sketching program: odosketch where i wasted a few minutes of my morning doodling this: The cool thing is that it saves out a video of you doing the sketch:  Check this out]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/09/14/odosketch/</link>
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		<title>Vehicle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not very functional,  but somewhat neat lookin&#8217; vehicle design&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/09/05/vehicle/</link>
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		<title>Blazin Saddles</title>
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		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/07/10/blazin-saddles/</link>
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		<title>Fiddlin&#8217; Wane</title>
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		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/07/02/fiddlin-wane/</link>
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		<title>Fire Intrigue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to hide the lighter when my sister-in-law comes over&#8230; she likes to burn things :)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/03/29/fire-intrigue/</link>
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		<title>Here Comes Santa Claus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I better post this before I forget. It is an animation that I started over Christmas break, but probably won&#8217;t finish till next Christmas :) I really enjoyed doing it, but have lost interest in going further with it (for now): download]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/03/22/here-comes-santa-claus/</link>
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		<title>Lil&#8217; ol&#8217; man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another piece of art where I had no idea what I was trying to draw when I started&#8230; really quite fun. One of my co-workers let me sit down and play on his Cintiq (A flat-screen monitor that you can draw on).  Without anything in mind, I just doodle away seeing how I like working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/03/21/lil-ol-man/</link>
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		<title>Tom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I seem to be in the mood for doing these: I like the way this one came out. The more I do, the faster and easier it becomes&#8230; go figure?]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/03/18/tom/</link>
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		<title>Slacking off at work again&#8230;</title>
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		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/03/11/slacking-off-at-work-again/</link>
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		<title>Environment Desk Doodle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a while since I&#8217;ve posted anything, so here you go. Hopefully soon I&#8217;ll post something actually worth showing :)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/03/11/environment-desk-doodle/</link>
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		<title>I can post from my G1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How cool is that&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/02/10/i-can-post-from-my-g1/</link>
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		<title>Office Paintodoodle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cranked this out pretty quickly while taking a break at work.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2009/01/24/office-paintodoodle/</link>
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		<title>Sticky Walk Cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Playback doesn&#8217;t seem to loop smoothly, so here&#8217;s a download link: Download]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/12/22/sticky-walk-cycle/</link>
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		<title>Another Characture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nother somewhat successfull characture I did recently for a friend: It still takes me quite a bit of work to pull these off with any level of success. A well practiced characture artist can nock these things out in 5-10 minutes apiece. Though I don&#8217;t take much longer than that to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/12/14/another-characture/</link>
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		<title>Desk Doodles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of sketches I did while on breaks at work: (Yup, he scares me too&#8230;)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/12/13/desk-doodles/</link>
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		<title>I do 3D&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though you could hardly tell from looking at this blog, my profession is really as a CG character artist. I guess I spend so much time doing it at work that I have little energy for any personal stuff. Well, I started this character quite a while ago and periodically work on him bit by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/11/30/i-do-3d/</link>
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		<title>Gung Ho Kung Fu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another quicky done with Pencil A good learning experiance&#8230; which is another way of saying I&#8217;m not completely happy with how it turned out :) It sertainly isn&#8217;t bad, and there are a lot of things I still like about it. It just didn&#8217;t end up with the snap that I wanted to give it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/11/24/gung-ho-kung-fu/</link>
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		<title>Coffee Needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had a bad case of the Mondays and this came out&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/11/20/coffee-needed/</link>
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		<title>The sticky note of animation software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s called Pencil and it is fantastic! It is opensource software, which means two things: one, it&#8217;s free, and two, it has a few bugs&#8230; : ) Though nothing that will stop me from using it, and I expect things will improve pretty quickly judging by the care that the developers have been putting into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/10/25/the-sticky-note-of-animation-software/</link>
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		<title>Chipmunk Rider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey look, a marsh mallow man ridding a chipmunk&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/10/09/chipmunk-rider/</link>
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		<title>Ericature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure does feel good to post stuff again : ) I&#8217;m still not consistent with my caricatures, but once in a while I pull off one that I like:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/10/05/ericature/</link>
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		<title>Truck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a while since I&#8217;ve posted&#8230; I honestly haven&#8217;t been drawing that much lately : (  Been really busy at work and just life in general, but hopefully posting some stuff will get the ball rolling again. Here is one I exumed from a 2006 sketchbook:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/10/05/truck/</link>
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		<title>A paintodoodle of my Dad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did this the other night while at our family reunion: It&#8217;s not spot-on, but it is close enough for me to be happy with it. I spent about 15 min. on it while he was sitting there, and another 45 filling in what I could.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/07/06/a-paintodoodle-of-my-dad/</link>
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		<title>Counter Climb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Download Talk about your random subjects. It seems somewhat reasonable for me to sit down and do a random sketch of whatever hits my mind, but an animation?! 10 to 15 hours is a lot of time to put toward a half baked idea. Why did I decide to animate a girl climbing over a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/07/05/counter-climb/</link>
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		<title>Squat Walk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just felt like doing a walk cycle&#8230; Download]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/06/26/squat-walk/</link>
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		<title>A Hoover Craft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a lunchtime doodle for ya. I didn&#8217;t have time to really finish it off, so hopefully I&#8217;ll get back to it later :)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/06/24/a-hoover-craft/</link>
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		<title>Evening Paintodoodle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one could have used a lot more work, but the sun went down too quick. At any rate, I liked the color scheme.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/06/23/evening-paintodoodle/</link>
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		<title>Kung Fu!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[hhhEEEEEEEEh Yaaahhhhhh! Hey look, I made another pencil test: Download]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/06/19/kung-fu/</link>
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		<title>Setup my scanner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally did it. I made my scanner more accessible. And here are a few images hot off the press (but in reverse if you think about it&#8230;?) Hadn&#8217;t done much gesture drawing in a while, so figured it was a good time to do some last night while watching a video. These are a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/06/19/setup-my-scanner/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect Dive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to finishing it! I ended up taking this animation further than I intended when I first started it, but that is largely because I was learning the new software and wanted to test it out in each stage of a 2D production. It certainly has plenty of room for improvement, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/06/08/the-perfect-dive/</link>
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		<title>Sunset from balcony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, that was fun. When I got home from work tonight I noticed that the sun setting over the mountains looked amazing. I&#8217;ve got a lot of work to do with my painting skills, but for 20 minutes work I&#8217;m pretty darn happy with it:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/05/28/sunset-from-balcony/</link>
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		<title>Nerftastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my friend and I have had this idea for a short quite a while back about these kids with over-active imaginations that engage in a Nerf war between one another. Not much has come of the idea, but we do like to kick out some concept work for it periodically&#8230; Here is my latest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/05/24/nerftastic/</link>
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		<title>Colored Tiger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey Look I colored it! I originally thought I would end up fully painting it, but I started playing around with a markered look and liked how it was turning out.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/05/22/colored-tiger/</link>
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		<title>Tiger&#8230;Meooow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yey, I felt somewhat creative. Here&#8217;s a slightly characterized tiger that I referenced from photo my sister-in-law took (Thanks Katie) : I like the way it turned out, and hopefully I&#8217;ll color it when I get a chance&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/05/21/tigermeooow/</link>
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		<title>Quick Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah Ok, so it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted. Sorry to disappoint&#8230; I&#8217;ve had a lot of other things taking my attention and using up my creativity. Not that I haven&#8217;t been drawing; usually during these times I&#8217;ll do study sketches to sharpen my creative ax. Typically from a book or tv, trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/05/21/quick-studies/</link>
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		<title>Lack of better things to do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was waiting on someone at work, so I doodled this while I waited: Not good, not horrible, makes me realize how much I need to continue studying anatomy&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/24/lack-of-better-things-to-do/</link>
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		<title>LunchTime doodles</title>
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		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/22/lunchtime-doodles/</link>
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		<title>Brothercature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Randy wants me to do a caricature of him like the one I did of myself. Curiously enough, I&#8217;ve found drawing him a fair bit harder than drawing myself. I think it&#8217;s because I did mine by standing in front of a mirror for a few minutes, allowing me to pick a pose that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/19/brothercature/</link>
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		<title>the Three Musketeers storyboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, this is fun! I get the rewarding sense of accomplishment that goes with making a post, without producing anything new. I am actually working on a new image, but I don&#8217;t expect to have it ready to post for another couple of days. So here you go: (Click for larger image) This was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/16/the-three-musketeers-storyboard/</link>
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		<title>ehMmmm&#8230; Marsh Mallows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, after making so many consecutive postings last week, I feel bad for going a few days without sticking anything up. I was sick with a cold this past week and didn&#8217;t feel like doing much after getting home from work. I did a few study sketches, but nothing really worth scanning in. Instead, I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/16/153/</link>
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		<title>Jose Olay!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens to you if you eat too many burritos&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/08/jose-olay/</link>
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		<title>Molting Eddie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woo, I&#8217;m on a roll! I had a lot of fun with this one. Playing around with the tools available in Painter IX, I think i&#8217;m starting to work with it instead of against it. Yeah, My feather painting skills have a lot to be desired, but I learned a lot from this one.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/07/molting-eddie/</link>
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		<title>Frank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woo, Kicked out another one!]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/06/frank/</link>
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		<title>Ernie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had so much fun with my bio pic, it left me wanting more. So I decided to paint this sketch during my lunch break today: Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to ride the wave and kick out a few more of these. I sure could use the practice.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/04/ernie/</link>
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		<title>Self Caricature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At work I was asked to provide a picture of myself (photo or drawn) for the company bios page they will be putting up on their new site. This is what I gave them:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/04/03/self-caricature/</link>
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		<title>Painting History as I never saw it&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading my brothers blog post, Miracle I felt inspired&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/03/12/painting-history-as-i-never-saw-it/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[More office doodles:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/03/12/86/</link>
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		<title>Switched my blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, now that I have moved to this new domain, I figured I would re-evaluate my blogging needs. I noticed that a lot of the blogs that I frequently visit started switching to WordPress. Blogger was great in it&#8217;s simplicity, but after looking into it, WP has some more robust features that I hope to take advantage of. I&#8217;m not sure if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/03/06/hello-world/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got sidetracked from this project for quite a while, but have finally had some more time to put into it. Seeing it inked, I think it still needs a few inbetweens in a couple of spots to slow down and smooth out the motion. After that I get to do the effects animation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/01/21/39/</link>
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		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/01/21/38/</link>
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		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2008/01/21/37/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pencil test #2! Often as I go through life and am about to do some action such as riding a bike, juping on a trampoline, or going off a diving board, my mind flashes to me the worse possible thing that could happen. Does this happen to anyone else? or is it just my over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/08/29/36/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to do some more traditional animation for a while now and have finally set myself up to do it. So here is a pencil test I did to get the ball rolling. I&#8217;ve got a ways to go before I would actually call my self good at this stuff(long ways), but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/08/25/35/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tah Dah (&#60;-so much easier than writing a description for everything I post, and it really says it all :) well maybe just a breif one here: I did this one at a Rockies game after I got board of watching the game, which didn&#8217;t take long&#8230; Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ve got nothing against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/08/19/34/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been keeping myself busy artistically lately by building a new cg character. I&#8217;m a little over halfway through the modeling process. Tonight after a couple hours of pushing and pulling polygons, I decided to take a break by playing around with some shader ideas. Here is a test to see what I could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/08/17/33/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/07/12/32/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/07/12/31/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the technical stuff I&#8217;ve been doing lately, it sure feels good to sit down and do some painting. Even though this took me a couple of hours to do this, it is still more of an instant gratification than the 3D stuff I do.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/05/31/30/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of three shots in an animation I&#8217;m doing for an online mini-challenge]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/04/29/29/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here&#8217;s a new practice for me&#8230; I did this gesture sketch about 4 hours after seeing the pose. It&#8217;s nothing great, but the graphical shape the overal pose made really stood out to me.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/04/12/28/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Quick sketch I did when I had a few moments at work.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/04/10/27/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an overly creepy post: It started out as a quick sketch on lunch break last week, then I went in and added some shading while I was waiting to meet with someone yesterday at work. overall, I may have put 20 mins into it.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/03/17/26/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some digital sketches for ya to take a gander at. (what the heck is a gander? In fact, until I figure out what it is&#8230; You keep your gander away from my sketches!)]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/03/17/25/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, I&#8217;m not done yet! Here&#8217;s some character sketches:          ]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/03/17/24/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I&#8217;ve been holding out on you. I recently realized that I have quite a few sketches just laying around that i&#8217;ve been to lazy to post. Well not necessarily lazy, but I haven&#8217;t wanted to use my time posting stuff on the internet. I&#8217;d rather be&#8230; drawing or something. So here ya go: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/03/17/23/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Concept Sketch Group entry. This one was some sort of multi-skeleton slime creature&#8230; I should probably through some color into it if I get the time (and motivation).]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/03/09/22/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spent some time backing up all the important stuff on my old computer, and while doing so I came across some old animations that really haven&#8217;t seen the light of day. Here is one of them, and hopefully i&#8217;ll post more later. More never came&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/02/20/21/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick little sketch I did for a consept sketch group. the topic was: Artificially Created Insect-Hybrids, Mutants, Radioactive oh my!!]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/02/15/20/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2007/01/01/18/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been a while since i&#8217;ve posted anything new. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of technical stuff lately. I suppose I could post some of the program code that I&#8217;ve been writting, but that would have a very limited audience and may cause me to loose my precious viewers. But while sitting here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/12/31/17/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wee Nascar. Not particularly a big fan, but my mom loves the sport, so I while I was watching the race today. I doodled this:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/11/19/15/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen this animation before if you&#8217;ve seen my demoreel yet (if not head on over to my demoreel section and check it out), but I feel this animation is worth being redundant.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/11/16/14/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick little animation I did to pass the time. Not very good animation wise, but it was fun.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/11/14/13/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[After publishing the previous post, I realized I had already done a digital charcoal drawing like that a while back. I created these guys for an animated short that I was working on in school; unfortunately the project started falling apart and didn&#8217;t amount to much. The concept is so cool though! I hope to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/10/18/11/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I colored an illustration I did a while back for my character and object design class. I&#8217;ve been wanting to do something that emulates the style that most comic books are going towards these days. So here is my attempt:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/10/17/10/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple more pieces that i&#8217;ve always really liked, but haven&#8217;t really seen the light of day.]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/10/10/9/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I felt like drawing last night and couldn&#8217;t figure out what to draw. I was then looking at the little boy I drew last week, and thought that I should draw a little girl that would be his equal but opposite. so here is what I came up with:]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/10/10/8/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of characters that I did a while back, but haven&#8217;t yet found a place for them in my portfolio (or in other words, i&#8217;ve been to lazy to add them). &#160; Oh, and i&#8217;ve figured out how to make it so that you can view a larger version if you click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://direenworks.com/jdblog/2006/10/09/7/</link>
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