Platform!

Here it is finally my Platform International Animation Festival Post! I got the opportunity to go thanks to American Greetings, I was able to go on a "Creative Recharge Grant" (thanks AGP!!!)

It was an amazingly informative and inspirational few days in Portland, Oregon, i met a slew of animators and film makers. I was blown away by the amount of talent and the level of quality of the films shown, and came back inspired and (appropriately enough ) creatively re-charged . Here are a few pics of my trip, i'll make the full album available on flickr soon also make sure to check out some of the other coverage of the festival at the following links:

Official Platform Site
Article about the festival on Animation World Network
Ward Jenkins Platform Flickr photoset




The Portland Center for the Arts



Some Platform Shwag: Note the Cartoon Network frisbee, a personal favorite :)


Portland is a beautiful city, tons of parks and very pedestrian/biker friendly.




Sweet drawing by Artist Illustrator James Jarvis, one of the guest speakers and designer of the awards trophy.

Special 35mm screening of Disney's "Snow White", hosted by famed animation historian John Canemaker, with special guest Marge Champion, the model for Snow White's movements and gestures.

Closing Night Party.

Smoosh live!!!
Me and Don Hertzfeld, animator creator of many short animated films, including the Academy-Award nominated cult favorite "Rejected". Don's latest film "Everything Will Be Ok" was one of the best films i saw at the festival, and won Best in Category at Platform, highly reccomended.
Thats it! Special thanks must go out to Ward Jenkins for allowing me to hang out with him and for poitning out who everyone was, also thanks to Amid Amidi for being cool and encouraging on my first animation festival experience!

Darth Talon!

Here is my Sketch-o-rama entry for Darth Talon, it was fun drawing this bad girl, here is a little more on this cute chick:

Darth Talon was a Sith Lady in Darth Krayt's new Sith Order c. 137 ABY. She was a female Twi'lek of the red-skinned Lethan group. She had black Sith tattoos covering her body, head, and lekku. These tattoos were earned in ritual combat.

She was trained by a fellow Twi'lek Sith named Darth Ruyn, whom she killed on Krayt's command with a swift decapitating strike of her lightsaber.


What can i say I'm a sucker for a girl that enjoys tatoos and decapitations.

PS: I attended the Platform Animation Fest in Portland Oregon, expect a post with pics soon!

TEE-Shirts!!!

My co-worker and friend Saxton Moore recently told me about a great site called
Bountee.com, it allows you to create t-shirts by uploading your own designs.The shirts are printed using a digital process that looks remarkably similar to silk screening, only there are no limits to how many colors you can use. Check out the Bountee banner on my sidebar to the left and buy a shirt!

The Vulture

I am a huge film buff, i devour special features and am in awe of the amazing talents that go into making a feature film. I am an especially big fan of concept art, ever since i got my hands on the Return of the Jedi sketchbook as a kid i've been addicted to it. So this weeks theme for sketch-o-rama was to do our take on a classic Spiderman villain for a future installment of the Spiderman film franchise. I jumped all over the Vulture.

I chose to cast James Marsters in this role because he not only has the physical looks to match the character but he also has the charisma needed to play one of Spidey's classic villains. I also re-interpreted the character as a monsterous, tragic figure. In my version, the vulture undergoes a horrifying physical and mental transformation, ala' Seth Brundle in the Fly.

As always, there is more awesomness from my peers over at Sketch-O-Rama.

Shadow Walker

Riff watches over us all!!! Did this in about an hour and half.

RoboCop: Redux

Here is yet another Sketch-O-Rama entry...RoboCo...errrr...Chik!

I'm probably the only person that actually really likes RoboCop 2 better than part 1. I remember my parents telling me there was no way they were letting me see RoboCop 2 opening week because of how violent it was, luckily my neighbors hadn't read any reviews and took me along with their kids to see it! Score! I have fond memories of Phil Tippet stop motion robots beating the crap out of eachother...those were the days,,,


"Cain LIKE nuke....hhhmmm..."

Spider-Woman

I always thought Spider-Woman had a ridiculous yet sexy costume, it's definetly 70's cheese but it's somehow really hot too...

Bizarro's Lament

This piece was inspired by my room mate Carlos V. who, like myself, is a rabid Grant Morrison, Frank Quitley fan. He's been reading All Star Superman and last issue Bizzaro made an appearance, Carlos decided to take a stab at drawing him and couldn't help myself either. Make sure to check Carlos's Bizarro here!

Fantastic 4!!!

Our latest Sketch-o-Rama theme: the Fantastic Four! Consider these an attempt to erase the memory of the movie from my brain, yeck!

There be some Sketching going on...

Hey everyone! I finally got some new work to post, some sketches done for the recently blogged about Sketch-o-rama. Make sure to check it out and marvel at the amazing talents shown within!

Transplant Show Update:

The Transplant show was great! We had an amazing turn out and the artwork looked awesome. Special thanks go out to everyone who helped make the show possible especially Saxton Moore, without him none of this would have been possible!











Thanks to everyone that came out to support!

TRANSPLANT SHOW!!!

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isoNaut Series

These pieces are part of a series i'm gearing up for. I'll be participating in a group show in March and my personal theme is starting to take shape, i want this series to be the fullest expression of my fine art leanings. I'm looking to do these as a series of large silk screen prints on paper. More on the show in upcoming month's so stay tuned...