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Gypsy Foxes

2012-02-02T17:59:00.000-08:00

STAMPEDE!!!

2012-01-25T14:19:00.001-08:00

Elefunkin' it up.

Hillbilly Shakedown

2012-01-18T16:49:00.000-08:00

Searley Old Woman

2012-01-03T13:05:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite illustrators, Mr. Ronald Searle passed away recently. This post is dedicated to him.

My great Uncle Joe was in town for christmas. He is 92. We spent a lot of time looking for a good old peoples home for him to move into. There were lots of single old women wandering around who kinda looked like this.

http://gickr.com/results3/anim_da099e22-4d6b-76c4-1553-322114397a5d.gif

Muppet Mondays!!

2011-11-21T22:51:00.000-08:00

Miss Tupperbottoms:

One-Legged Chicken Bunny

2011-11-20T23:11:00.000-08:00

This is a One-Legged Chicken Bunny:

And this is how he travels:

http://gickr.com/results3/anim_90296acd-1872-e3c4-15f1-afdf831adb51.gif

Moosemaid

2011-11-17T15:48:00.000-08:00

Mr Mustard's Nemesis

2011-11-16T17:50:00.000-08:00

Fly Mariano

2011-11-15T11:10:00.001-08:00

Muppet Mondays!!

2011-11-14T20:39:00.000-08:00

Todays Muppet is brought to you by the letter H, for Jorge.

This is Jorge Bravo, he is a kind man with a broken heart. If you talk to him for too long his heart will spontaneously erupt and gush all over you.

Orangey McGourderson

2011-11-13T21:53:00.000-08:00

Orangey McGourderson Contemplates life on November 1st.

LLamasquito

2011-11-12T23:05:00.000-08:00

The LLamasquito is native to the Oaxaca region of Mexico. They can be domesticated and are known for their cinnamon scented milk.

chicken noodle.

2011-11-11T16:16:00.000-08:00

Shrimpman enjoys a frosty beverage.

2011-11-10T20:40:00.000-08:00

ROBOTTERFLY

2011-11-09T15:22:00.000-08:00

buzz

Frog Coon

2011-11-07T17:48:00.000-08:00

I have decided to post a drawing everyday this month... so here is a FrogCoon playing basketball:

WOOLY DUCK

2011-11-06T20:41:00.001-08:00

Strummington Von Mooseberg

2011-10-04T16:05:00.000-07:00

This guy popped out onto one of my panels at work today.

Ice Age 3 Practice Sequence

2011-08-22T21:24:00.001-07:00

Here is a little bit of what I have been working on this summer at Blue Sky.

For this assignment I was given a three page script from Ice Age 3 and storyboarded the sequence without looking at the actual scene from the film.

Here is what I came up with:

And here is the actual scene in the movie:

I learned a TON working on this project! Doing an exercise like this is a really good way to see exactly what you need to improve upon. I found it really interesting to see how simple and compact the actual scene is, where my scene takes a lot longer to get the same point across.

EN WHY and Blue Sky

2011-07-12T18:45:00.000-07:00

Started my summer internship at the Blue Sky studios! It is pretty radical. All of the artists here are so talented it is mind-bogglifying. If being at school is like collecting shells of knowledge at the beach; being at a studio is like being given a bucket and a shovel and a tractor with a sifter on the back, at low tide, in the winter, after a storm.

Here are some practice Sid's:

These are a few of my amazingly talented co-workers' blogz:

http://raymondxu.blogspot.com/

http://stephenneary.blogspot.com/

http://andrew-ross.blogspot.com/

http://kristen-lester.blogspot.com/

http://jony-chandra.blogspot.com/

http://randeepk.blogspot.com/

http://biocreep.blogspot.com/

http://vadim-a-palooza.blogspot.com/

The Green Ninja

2011-06-10T22:38:00.000-07:00

Over the past year I have been working on a project in coordination with Eugene Cordero of the SJSU Meteorology Department & the National Science Foundation to create an animated mascot for sustainability awareness.
I wrote/storyboarded and directed this short. I had the pleasure of working with 35 of the most talented and awesome shrunkenheadmen & women who worked their butts off to make this film happen! Huge thanks to everybody who contributed to this project- and a special thanks to Josh Lieberman who helped me a ton with the storyboards, Jonny Bad Dog Magram who spent many all nighters editing this thing and making tweaks for weeks! and of course the big DC Dave Chai for being DC and leading the way/producing/co-directing it!!!

For more info, and to support the Green Ninja Project, go here: http://greenninja.org/

Thanks for Flying Green Ninja.

Flossy Rhinocerii

2011-05-10T00:06:00.000-07:00

My fellow SHM peoples and I have recently been assigned a character design challenge from nickelodeon's Joel Fajnor. We were given the option of designing either a female wolf in sheep's clothing or a male rhinoceros in women's clothing. I opted for the male rhino... here are some of my sketchers:

Storyboard Animatics!!!

2011-04-28T12:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some of my story sequences that I have done throughout the year.

Come see all of the radical work that the senior BFA class of Shrunkenheadman at SJSU have done this year at our gallery!-

May 3rd at SJSU ART room 224!

Lemon-maid

2011-03-30T02:16:00.001-07:00

Film Studies!

2011-03-19T02:24:00.000-07:00

Roland the Reluctant Bear

2011-03-16T16:42:00.000-07:00

Roland's Wife said that he has been hibernating too much and made him hit the treads.. Roland is not a happy camper..

Pigskin Pride

2011-03-14T19:08:00.000-07:00

Geoff has enormous pride in his home team, and loves the game of football... but little does Geoff know that he IS the game.

Kat & Mouse

2011-03-02T22:46:00.000-08:00

A little story about a cat and a mouse who were left behind during hurricane Katrina.

Encyclopedia of Lesser-Known Creatures Vol. 1- Shpiegenpontis Mublinoid

2011-02-01T23:02:00.000-08:00

The Shpiegenpontis Mublinoid, or the Whinoptislug, Is characterized by its rhino-like tusks, and monkeyish ear-balls. During mating season, the female Whinoptislug will often retch a viscous slime on the icy ground to use as a lubricant to glide effortlessly along expansive tracts of frozen land and water looking for a mate. The Whinoptislug's diet consists mainly of krill and shrimp larvae and have also been known to suckle the detritus from large boulders.

The Whinoptislug may look lethargic and passive, but when swimming, this creature is the epitome of grace and elegance:

Green Ninja

2010-12-11T18:20:00.000-08:00

For the past few months a few shrunkenheadman students and I have been working with Professor Eugene Cordero of the Meteorology department at SJSU to come up with a few short animation storyboards about a Green Ninja. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation and is intended to inform people of the ecological ramifications of the choices we make on a day to day basis in a fun and entertaining way.

The website should be up and running in a few weeks, Check it out at: http://www.greenninja.info/

Here is my take on the Green Ninja:

Sound Effects by: Steve Erickson

Voice characterization: Ovan Chan
Voice Casting: Katie Zeisl
Logo Design: Jeanie Chang and Michelle Ikemoto
Thanks to: (the Annie award nominated)Dave Chai, Eugene Cordero, Josh Lieberman, Mike Fong, Aden Scott, and Michelle Ikemoto.

more peoble I have seen...

2010-12-01T10:52:00.000-08:00

These Peoble:

And these Peoble:

Transcribing people into linear nuggets.

2010-10-21T21:31:00.000-07:00

Here are some recenter-ish sketchems I have created in my sketchem books.

I have been Storyboardin' like a madman as well, so I will put some of those up here soon!

Marty Makes Pickles

2010-09-06T02:23:00.000-07:00

This here is little introduction video I made the first day of my final class in the BFA program at SJSU. It is meant to be a brief introduction of myself to the faculty which this year includes Mr. Jason Spencer-Galsworthy!

It's gunna be an awesome year.

True story: Flying Paper

2010-08-22T13:53:00.000-07:00

One time when I was in the 4th grade I was waiting for my parents to pick me up after school. It was getting late and all the other kids had gotten picked up already. So I decided to make a paper airplane.

I made this cool one with like 10 folds from an instructional book.

I gave it a good heave

And anxiously watched it depart into the air. It was floated nicely up into the sky, much higher and farther than I had ever anticipated.

And then it kept Rising, and rising.... and Rising...

...It must have got into some kind of thermal or something because it just kept rising and flying farther and farther. I chased after it.

I walked underneathe it, staring at it in awe of it glorious loftedness.

It kept floating all the way to the other side of the campus.

...Then Over the other side of the campus. It seemed like hours had past as the plane glided over the tops of the roofs.

Then, as gracefully as it had departed, the plane returned to the ground.

I gingerly picked up my little miracle contraption.

I was filled with an overwhelming sense of jubilation and pride when my parents finally arrived. But I never told them or anyone what had happened; I knew that it would sound like a ridiculous exaggeration. The world record for paper airplane flight is 27.6 seconds, mine had easily gone for over 2 minutes. Until recently I had never told anyone about my experience, I still feel ridiculous trying to convince people that it actually happened.

6 1/2 semi-lethal sins

2010-08-09T00:53:00.000-07:00

I have been conglobberating with fellow people from with whom I am working amungst at Crest animation studio. We have created a daily sketch blog called 7x7 where we are doing themed sketches 7 days a week for 7 wheeks.. It is fun.
The first weeks theme was the seven deadly sins. Here are my little sketchers:

Wrath:

Envy:

Sloth:

Pride:

Gluttony:

Lust:

Wrath 2:

Beethoven Visits a Friend

2010-05-27T11:30:00.000-07:00

I don't really know anything about Beethoven, but I imagine that he was a nerdy fellow who had strange uncontrollable musical tics, and that this is what would happen if he were to visit a friend:

This was created in less than a week using Photoshop, Flash, and After Effects. sorry beethoven.

Petaluma Hills Brewing Company

2010-05-24T13:54:00.000-07:00

I recently designed this beer label for the Petaluma Hills Brewing Company, run and operated by Jeffrey 'JJ' Jay. This is the first version, there will be more revisions and additions to come. I cannot wait to try this brew!
Become a fan on facebook
Check out the website

3d animationing'n'stuff

2010-05-23T22:06:00.000-07:00

Here is a couple three dimensional video clippers from my first three dee animation class.

Shrunkenheadpeople-Posters

2010-05-18T00:49:00.000-07:00

Well, I have reached the end of my term as the graphic design officer for the SHM club.. bummer. It has been an awesome year in the world of the shrunkenheadman club and I am glad to have been a part of it. Here are the rest of the posters I created this semester:

Figure time

2010-04-12T23:15:00.000-07:00

scrawled out these little nuggets after an unnecessarily long hiatus from the model stand...

Big Moe Norman

2010-03-18T00:07:00.000-07:00

There has only been one golfer in the world who could hit every single shot straight down the fairway every time, Mr. Moe Norman. His legendaryness surpasses that of pretty much everybody. He was kicked off the PGA tour because he was too much of a legend... Today there is an entire method of golf dedicated to the way he swung a club.
This is a little video I edited down to summarize his technique:

Here is my ode to his golf swing in 3d animation form.

The Family Hogwash

2010-03-14T00:13:00.000-08:00

My buddy Matthew Von Greggorystein has himself a swell band of bluegrass buddies with whom he plays bluegrass music. They call themselves The Family Hogwash, and they rock. Here is a poster I have created for their upcoming show:

Wordical Word Processification

2010-03-02T11:37:00.000-08:00

This is a diagram of every word I have ever used on this blog displayed visually with size difference representing word frequency... pretty wradical.
Created at wordle.net.

Cinequest Film Festival

2010-02-13T16:14:00.000-08:00

Five nuggets which I have worked on will be screening at the cinequest film festival this year in San Jose.
Two of which I directed and created, For the other three I worked on Story and and animation and are directed by Mr. Dave Chai.

Here is The Commercial/trailer for cinequest that a crew of Shrunkenheadmen and women created, Directed by Dave Chai.

Come see the screenings:
the bird photographer & just add water: 2/27/10 11:00am @ camera 3 San Jose, ca
the bird photographer & just add water: 3/3/10 9:00pm @camera 3 San Jose, ca
Ninjas vs. Guilt: 3/2/10 9:30pm @ camera 3 San Jose, ca
Ninjas vs. Guilt: 3/5/10 7:00pm @ camera 3 San Jose, ca
The Commercial can be seen on most cable networks after 7pm through february.

Here is a link to the live action short film contest. Please vote for us by clicking the thumbs up button on the video titled "fish pasta". thanks :
http://www.youtube.com/sandisk

Fishington McChartimus

2010-01-05T20:13:00.000-08:00

Over the past 4 decades scientists have been researching a rare pocket of marine life found in a desolate crater near the mid oceanic rift south of Bermuda. For years these strange creatures have baffled scientists as to how they have developed such strange evolutionary adaptations. No man has ever captured these illusive creatures on film, but recently scientists have uncovered a chart documenting some of these piscafauna in the wall of a mud room in an abandoned English homestead.

Thing-a-ma-blog

2009-12-17T19:26:00.000-08:00

Welp, winter time is here and there is no better way to celebrate than hamburgers with lasers.
enjoy.

SHM poster designs

2009-12-11T00:59:00.000-08:00

I am fortunate enough to have been elected the graphic designer for the Shrunkenheadman Club at SJSU for 09-10. here is a collection of posters that I have made during my first semester as an officer.

vincent van Dough

2009-12-04T11:07:00.000-08:00

This is some visual development work I've been working on about a donut shop.

ottoman empire strikes back

2009-11-30T11:25:00.000-08:00

This a 3d model of an ottoman which has been created inside of a computamatronic machinular region by yours truly, using maya software.com/http/nerdville usa.

2009-11-20T00:12:00.000-08:00

It is quite a shame how the signage today is so bland... check out these awesome classic signs I attempted to paint. They are all on el Camino real between san jose and burlingame.

le Opera

2009-11-09T00:11:00.000-08:00

Just got back from a grand olde opera drawing session. This was a lot of fun, it was difficult to keep track of the story because I was focused on drawing, and because it was in Italian... but the poses and movement of the actors was so much fun to try to capture in my sketches.
Here is a sampling of some of the doodelidge that was had.

inventing people

2009-10-29T21:10:00.000-07:00

for in my class of visual development we are to create a human with unique characteristics and a personality of his/her own, like a real human. These are some sketches of the (live action) characters I have been creating:

this character is a locksmith who lives in San Francisco. I was using many people for inspiration including my Dad, Tom Arnold, Rob Reiner, and this guy in this video here.

Nurb polygon bevel mesh

2009-10-12T12:07:00.000-07:00

Extrude,
Surface poly sphere planar isoparm snap. Raytrace refraction, object hull mirror geometry vertices! Merge texture setting, constrain, outliner render editor. Curve preset vector format occlusion map. Ambient lambert nodes!

Kichenz

2009-10-04T21:27:00.000-07:00

Just started my first class in visual development, where we imaginate things!
I imaginated this kitchen. It designed for a live-action film, about a Mexican-American boy living in Fresno in 1952.
I based it off of my old neighbors (the Hills') Kitchen.

Just Add Water

2009-07-09T22:08:00.000-07:00

Sponges require routine cleaning; This is done properly by aggressively and thoroughly sqeezing ALL of the juicy dish liquid out of the porous little sponger. This MUST be done after every sponging session or else your hole laden cleaning utensil will become a putrid pile of fermenting food encrusted counter clinging synthetic sodium sulphate. The practice of this technique is termed, SPONGE DISCIPLINE.
The following animation is an illustrated example of what may happen if you do not use sponge discipline on a regular basis...

awkbird

2009-05-23T12:08:00.000-07:00

After a lot of paper flippin', pencil tapping, and wing flappin', I can finally call this animation finished... enjoy.

old man and the bear

2009-05-05T16:36:00.000-07:00

have you ever wondered what it would be like if you accidentally picked up a bear on the side of the road, mistaking it for a hitch-hiker?

this is the first draft of a project that I am currently working on in my storyboarding class.
Here are some character sketches and visual development for the same project:

Englandertonvilleworld

2009-04-04T13:21:00.000-07:00

I recently returned from a Visit to London, which is a small city in the England. I visited animation studios with a group of fellow shrunkenhead people. We went to the Framestore, and visited a fellow Shrunkenheadman who was working on putting the finishing touches on Spike Jonzes new movie "Where the Wild Things are". We also visited Studio AKA, Nexus, and cinesite, which all seemed to be really fun and inspiring places to work. I didnt have time for a whole lot of sketching, but I did many mental caracateurs of the goofy looking englander people, and I did this one of the flight attendant on the journey back to emerica.

the burley-nerd gets the worm.

2009-03-13T12:01:00.000-07:00

this here is a memory sketch, which means I saw this human whilst walking about and when I returned home I attempted to recall his demeanor, and attributes:

olderly fellowingtonsteez

2009-03-04T21:06:00.000-08:00

I wonder if old people know how much steez they have:

analyzing animal animation animatics of animism with animosity

2009-02-15T15:10:00.000-08:00

any comments on how to improve this animatic would be really helpful! I need as many critiques as possible before I start animating. ANYTHING, be cruel, crass, crude, callous, cocky, coarse, cold, churlish, critical, cloven-foot, choosy, close-minded or coldblooded.
thanks, enjoy.

PLumB

2009-02-08T15:50:00.000-08:00

PLUMB: plumb is another word for lead. The Plumbing in old buildings used to be made of lead. This is how the word for a plumber came about. However, there is no such thing as a Plumberjack.
Here are some recent sketches:

radical animaticals

2009-01-29T16:17:00.000-08:00

here is a bit of advice from the geniuses at birdwatching.com:
"Many beginning birders have been fooled by the look-alike downy and hairy woodpeckers. The hairy is bigger, but it can be hard to judge size when you see one alone. How to distinguish them? The most important field mark is the bill."
always good to remember...
so here is an animatic for my 30 sec. short film:

how 'bout some pepperoni?

2009-01-12T08:59:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Jake Apotomus, and Paul Inkton, the shrunkenhead people gathered for a weeklong celebration of figure drawing at our 2nd annual figure drawing marathon.
HERE are some highlights of my adventure:

We were very fortunate and got to have Mr. Mike Matessi come in and blow our minds with his awesomeness, he totally changed the way I draw and think about drawing.

and sometimes the people in the class ar funner two draw than the model:

We also did some figure painting on the last few days:

triggered

2008-12-19T12:14:00.000-08:00

Flour sack pantomime final project.

Hamburgers with lasers.

2008-12-06T12:53:00.000-08:00

This is my first 2d animation ever, from my art 28 class a couple of years ago.

so many people in the neighborhood

2008-11-30T21:23:00.000-08:00

never squeel on the pusher

2008-11-26T02:09:00.000-08:00

erstwhile pencil scrawlings:

fig yerd raw wings

2008-11-10T23:57:00.000-08:00

best of the semester, thus far:

los arboles en el parque

2008-11-10T17:52:00.000-08:00

hola, yo me gusta colores. Yo me gusta el parque. Yo estudian como mi hombres en el parque!

A little bit-a-buta-goes along way

2008-11-03T21:44:00.000-08:00

always remember to shake a little bit of salt in your hand to test the flowidity of a foreign salt shaker before releasing the salt unto your meal.
here is a page from my sketchbook:

Space shuttle to the bus stop.

2008-10-22T00:30:00.001-07:00

sometimes the quilt patches the needle.
Always bring your thimble.

toaster egg

2008-10-15T15:14:00.000-07:00

This here is a painting of a toaster-painted-egg.

mutated model

2008-10-05T23:52:00.000-07:00

Marshland objects

2008-10-01T23:32:00.000-07:00

This is a study for an illustration of the Palo Alto Baylands that I am going to start soon.

old cartoon

2008-09-17T00:14:00.000-07:00

here is my final comic from John Clapp's illustration class that I took three semesters ago.

Viewing non-native creatures in oakland

2008-09-13T18:41:00.000-07:00

I took a trip to the zoo today with Joe Weatherly , The God of animal drawing, He was a cool dude...
Here are some sketches I sketched..

big ball paul

2008-04-21T17:07:00.000-07:00

figer drawing is radical'n'stuff

b&w rendering

2008-03-12T04:23:00.001-07:00

just finished this little acrylic nugget...

exaggerated portraits

2008-03-06T23:46:00.001-08:00

... some sketches of people at a creative writing lecture i went to today...

steezboat

2008-03-06T01:36:00.001-08:00

I have been buying old paintings from the goodwill and painting over them...
Im workin on this duder right now.. he is lonely..
I only painted the blue dude, the rest was done by some shmo, haha.

Got a blog...

2008-03-06T01:01:00.000-08:00

...blogging my dolphin...