I am a animation storyboard Artist, currently working on Star Wars Rebels.
This website wouldn’t be complete without a place to draw!
I put Mr. Doob’s amazing Harmony app in the frame below. What are you waiting for? Lets make some art.
Have fun!
—update–
sorry but i had to kill this page, i changed the layout of the site and it just didn’t look that great and I was getting frustrated trying to fix it all the time.
I had an idea for an iphone game about a free diver who has to dive down in search of pearls and other sunken treasures.
The idea was to make a really simple tilt game that you could play one handed. Tilt down to swim faster, left and right to dodge. The ticking clock was how long you could hold your breath and each time you leveled up you could go deeper and find better treasures. The catch was that you also had to have enough breath to get back to the surface so if you went too deep you might black out and not make it back. I still think this could be a great time waster.
If anyone out there knows objective-c and wants to make a game let me know cause I’d love to make it happen. I painted up a quick concept painting just to put my thoughts on paper. Scroll down to check it out.
Yeah! I just read the news about Vimeo throwing down mobile and html5 support!
Finally I have an easy way of adding video without spending five hours of compression and coding. This news solves the biggest hold up for developing this site. Wahoo! Looks like we are good to go. Nothing left to do now but upload and replace all the old files in super awesome HD!
Here is a little gator run cycle I made last night in TVPaint.
I thought I was going to use it for the loading animation that plays when you click one of the the image links. It turns out the pictures load to fast to see the whole cycle so that ended up being pointless and so I made little spinning ball animation instead. You can see that play when you browse through the image links.
*UPDATE: no longer use a loading image*
I’ve been trying to get the sites load time down to under a second but it looks like it isn’t happening. On the bright side I did set up a image mirror last night. Now all of the sites embedded picture picture should go through a images.sterlingsheehy.com domain. It might speed things up a little or just give me a big headache.
Looks like it is going to be a good drawing night.
I’ve got a couple of beers in the fridge, there is a rack of side ribs on the BBQ and itunes throwing down a good beat.
Well then. Time to get going on those storyboards. no more excuses.
Its always good advice to take a biologist along on your nature hikes. I woke up at five the other day and went for a hike up at cypress mountain provential park with Scott Loarie. We had a great time.
I’m really excited about the new Ramblin category I set up.
One of the goals of setting up the site was to have a professional work space but its nice to put up family stuff as well. Now I can do both without the water mixing with the oil.
Below is a listing of some of the Animated shorts I made at USC.
Most were produced while I was working on my masters in Animation and digital arts at the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Telivision, Division of Animation and Digital Arts…Whew what a mouth-full. The one exception is Red Sky Morning which I actually started as an undergrad at USC. I was in the film Production program *cough-cough-very-famous* but towards the end started falling in love with animation. Don’t get me wrong I love live action but I’ll tell you what I hate. I hate permits, paperwork, 3am wake up calls, donuts, bad coffee and having to work till four in the morning because the equipment is rented and you cant afford to shoot another day!
We spell scouts S-C-O-U-U-T-S which makes us a completely different autonomous organization.
An improvised comedy about the woes of scouting in the middle of urban Los Angeles.
Improv by Devin Westberg, Tom Warren, Jimmy Zerda, David Ury, Ben Tolpin
Directed, Animated and Produced by Sterling Sheehy
Never turn your back to the ocean
This is the project that got me into animation. It was entirely hand drawn with wax pencils and paint on cells and took about three years to finish.
Consciously simplistic, this film shows how the repetition of a single drawing is able to cast the illusion of rhythm and depth when enhanced through the use of camera movement and changes in exposure settings. Made from a single square drawing this film attempts to create compelling imagry out of a symbol as simple and primitive as a square.
Written, Directed, Animated and Produced by Sterling Sheehy
An ambient film I made from my USC animation production 2. The requirment was to make a one minute film so I made a 26min one! This was never ment to be watched as a film but rather played as an instalation at a gallery.
I projected this at a lot of LA group art shows where it went over very well.
This is an expiramental motion painting I made while doing my grad work at USC Animation. It is ment to be an ambient work, show at an art gallery.
Some rotoscope animation I did for a band while I was a student at USC. Drawn using ToonBoom Animation.
Made in collaboration with Daisy Church.
I’m in the process of rebuilding the website to make it more flexible to use.
The old one was a bit of a beast. Split into several parts, with multiple domains and overly heavy bad code it was a nightmare to keep up. Posting media was always rather frustrating. It had to go eventually.
The goal rebuilding the site was to clean up the interface and make everything mobile friendly. Ever since I got an iphone I’ve been more aware of these things. Waiting for your own site to load in order to share something with a friend is rather frustrating. It being too small to read is maddening. So if your reading this on the go, enjoy. I spend way too much time learning, css, javascript and jquerry code so you can do that.
A good deal of the information on some of the new tabbed pages is just filler. In the coming days I’ll finish polishing them up. While in the processes of building them though I did find a bunch of old project, mainly old student films, that I’ve never put up on line. I put a few under the “wrapped” tab for you to watch. Descriptions and such will come later when I find the time. Thats it for now.