Posts Categorized: Ramblin’

Bad Batch Season 2 Trailer

Posted 2022/12/07 by Sterling

More space adventures on the way. We just started working on this season when the pandemic hit and everyone had…

Quitter

Posted 2022/11/20 by Sterling

I decided to pull the plug on my Twitter account after all the drama and fallout from Elon buying the…

Hisaishi Scores the General

Posted 2021/07/09 by Sterling

Why am I only finding out now that Joe Hisaishi did a complete film score for Buster Keatons the General.…

Old dog old tricks

Posted 2021/06/29 by Sterling

Well that was a lot more confusing and way more work than I remembered. Long story short, I had to…

Singularity Black

Posted 2020/09/09 by Sterling

I’ve been obsessed with black paints lately. Just ordered some singularity optical black to play around with. It was developed…

Chiaroscuro

Posted 2020/09/08 by Sterling

Someone just said my paintings have a lot of Chiaroscuro and I had go look it up, before saying thank…

Star Wars Resistance wins a Saturn

Posted 2019/09/14 by Sterling

Last night Lucasfilm Animation took home the trophy for best animated television series. I’m proud to be a part of…

Star Wars Resistance season two Trailer

Posted 2019/08/14 by Sterling

Had a lot of fun storyboarding on this. Check it out.

My new En plein air setup

Posted 2019/06/12 by Sterling

My new painting pallet from prolific painter arrived in the mail so I took it up in the hills for…

Laser etching

Posted 2019/05/31 by Sterling

Laser etching on the glowforge.

Temple of Doom

Posted 2019/05/21 by Sterling

I was fortunate enough to watch a 30th adversary screening of temple of doom then listen to Dennis Muren talk…

Intro to oil

Posted 2019/05/04 by Sterling

Rudie painted a self portrait in oil

Making watercolor paints

Posted 2019/05/01 by Sterling

Making vindigris watercolor paint

Bought a new easel

Posted 2019/04/29 by Sterling

I bought the Daytripper Easel by Prolific Painter

Website exodus

Posted 2019/04/16 by Sterling

Transferred to a new server

Major Crash

Posted 2017/11/22 by Sterling

This website has been offline for a few months now for reasons beyond my control.

Angel Island

Posted 2017/09/10 by Sterling

angel Island beach doodling

Virtual Reality, circa 1938

Posted 2017/08/23 by Sterling

Visited the birthplace of the view-master, aka the Oregon Caves. The caves themselves were awesome and wonderous yet it was…

Bowler

Posted 2017/08/12 by Sterling

Finally found a good hat but it's behind glass and there are three guards between it and the exit.

Drawing party

Posted 2017/08/11 by Sterling

Drawing party with the boys.

Old dragon sculpts

Posted 2017/08/10 by Sterling

Sculpture by the kitchen window

Up the Cliff

Posted 2017/08/09 by Sterling

Our heros climb and give chase to the old miner who stole their gold.

Over the Falls

Posted 2017/08/08 by Sterling

Gasp! Our heroes are swept down the river.

Rock Hoping

Posted 2017/08/08 by Sterling

Playing with some new photoshop brushes.

All Washed Up

Posted 2017/08/08 by Sterling

Dick and Don, go for a little swim in the river.

Dead tree bridge

Posted 2017/08/08 by Sterling

cartoon: Dick and Don Try to cross a river

Gearing up

Posted 2017/07/21 by Sterling

Gonna try and post more

How to bake egg tarts

Posted 2017/04/16 by Sterling

My son Silas made an instructional video for baking Dan Tat, Hong Kong style egg tarts. I think he did…

Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Trailer

Posted 2017/04/15 by Sterling

Hot off the presses, here is the Star Wars Rebels Season four trailer.

Storyboard Reel 2017

Posted 2017/04/12 by Sterling

The above storyboard reel shows some of my work from the second and third seasons of Star Wars Rebels.  Whats…

Lego minifigs

Posted 2017/03/12 by Sterling

It is very satisfying to hold lego minifigures of characters you have worked on. They feel less like toys and…

Rebels Season 4

Posted 2017/03/06 by Sterling

Star Wars Rebels season four announced. This explains how I’ve been able to pay my rent. 

Star Wars Rebels on Boing Boing

Posted 2017/02/22 by Sterling

Always fun to see rebels show up on my favorite blog.  http://boingboing.net/2017/02/22/star-wars-rebels-thrawn-gets.html

Upside down mirror world

Posted 2017/02/16 by Sterling

While visiting the Exploratorium with my boys and we stumbled upon the most amazing giant concave mirror. I felt like Link…

Heart of a Warrior

Posted 2017/02/09 by Sterling

Made Sabine cookies with the kids today.

ArtRage 5 realeased

Posted 2017/02/07 by Sterling

Hell yeah, ArtRage 5 just launched. Can’t wait to try it out. The new brush creation tool looks great.

Retro Pie game boy

Posted 2017/02/01 by Sterling

I’ve been tinkering with my raspberry pie and have decided to build a game boy. I ordered some supplies today,…

Abyssrium

Posted 2017/02/01 by Sterling

I find the iOS game Abyssrium to be rather addictive and terrible at the same time.  It’s not fun but…

Storyboard team farewell

Posted 2017/01/28 by Sterling

Storyboarded a lot of really great Rebels episodes with this talented woman. Now shes off to Hollywood to sign one…

Sabine Wren cookie cutter

Posted 2017/01/25 by Sterling

Made a cookie cutter today in preparation for Valentine’s Day. I’m going to call them, heart of a warrior cookies.

Half drawn

Posted 2017/01/23 by Sterling

Half way through my current sketchbook. If all goes well it will be completed in about a month, but realistically,…

Raspberry Pie

Posted 2017/01/22 by Sterling

Baking up some fun with my new raspberry Pi 3.  The plan is to build a new Game Center for…

Cartography

Posted 2017/01/20 by Sterling

My boys are really into drawing maps. I owe this to their obsessive viewing of geography songs on kids learning…

Code Gremlins squashed

Posted 2017/01/19 by Sterling

After months of procrastination I have finally resolved some major errors in the code for this site. These gremlins prevented…

BAMPFA

Posted 2017/01/19 by Sterling

Took the kids to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and randomly stubbled into the Fisher Family Art Lab.  Community…

"Trials of the Darksaber" cuts deep.

Posted 2017/01/18 by Sterling

"Trials of the Darksaber" cuts deep.

Halloween costumes 2016

Posted 2016/11/01 by Sterling

Halloween has come and gone. The boys decided we all go as scary things this year so I was a…

Forgotten painting

Posted 2016/10/16 by Sterling

Forgot about this painting. I need to remember to take some good archive pics of it one of these days.

Skeleton costume

Posted 2016/10/15 by Sterling

Rudie wants to be a skeleton for Halloween. Years of anatomy and figure drawing have prepared me for this moment.

Storyboarding well

Posted 2016/10/13 by Sterling

Had a pretty good work day. Boarded a few shots for rebels which I’m confident will blow the fans away.…

Every time I look at the code

Posted 2016/10/11 by Sterling

I pull one loose thread and the whole thing falls apart. Good grief.

Jetpack or not to jetpack

Posted 2016/10/10 by Sterling

I’m having one of those internal debates again where I’m arguing the pros and cons of tweaking site code.

Blue angels

Posted 2016/10/08 by Sterling

Drawing on the beach, while the Blue Angels loop over the bay and my kids play in the sand. Not…

Getting dusty

Posted 2016/10/06 by Sterling

On man looking at the code on the site and boy is it dusty. This place is long over due…

Devin Westberg

Posted 2016/10/06 by Sterling

Go fast take chances

Rebels Season Three

Posted 2016/09/23 by Sterling

Season three of Star Wars Rebels premiers tomorrow. It’s gonna be a crazy ride for all the Star Wars fans…

New sketchbook 2016

Posted 2016/09/22 by Sterling

Starting a new sketchbook today. Another tiny red moleskin.  I’m going to make a more conscious effort to draw less…

Upcycling an old coffee table

Posted 2016/09/18 by Sterling

Found an old coffe table on the curb while riding through Mill Valley. It was a bit dinged up and…

Procrastination

Posted 2016/09/17 by Sterling

I really need to scan this sketchbook. It’s been sitting on my desk for more than a month. I think…

Star Wars Celebration 2016 Rebels Panel

Posted 2016/07/16 by Sterling

Proud to say they screened two sequences I storyboarded at this years Star Wars Celebration. Definitely check out the whole…

Maul Holds All the Cards

Posted 2016/07/16 by Sterling

A clip I storyboarded for season 3 of Star Wars Rebels. They just showed it at Star Wars celebration 2016.…

Ezra escapes

Posted 2016/07/01 by Sterling

Found one of the scenes I storyboarded from Stealth Strike, Star Wars Rebels season 2, on youtube.

Rain!

Posted 2015/11/15 by Sterling

Woke up to the sound of rain. That hasn’t happen in a while. Looks like today will be a good…

Neutrino wand build

Posted 2015/10/25 by Sterling

Been building proton packs for the boys out of foam rubber. They want to be ghostbusters for Halloween. Almost finished…

Found my lost sketchbook

Posted 2015/10/22 by Sterling

Praise the drawing gods. Found a sketchbook that went missing a few weeks ago… I really need to scan this…

Lucasfilm sidewalk chalk art festival

Posted 2015/10/20 by Sterling

Made a Rebels chalk drawing outside of work the other day with a few friends from the office.

Made it on Boingboing

Posted 2015/10/19 by Sterling

This makes me smile. Boingboing gave our show a great review.

My kids think I predate color TV

Posted 2015/07/09 by Sterling

A conversation with my son about cartoons and how old I am.

Best First Book: Pairs

Posted 2014/10/14 by Sterling

My wife Virginia recently started Ammonite Films Publishing to publish children’s books.  Ammonite just took Gold at the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards for Best First…

O Totoro tops the list

Posted 2014/10/07 by Sterling

Looks like ‘Totoro’ tops the list at my sons Kindergarden, for words with the letter ‘O’

Kalifia Digital sketch

Posted 2013/10/21 by Sterling

Playing around in ArtRage. This is Kalifia queen of the isles of California.

New image dump page

Posted 2013/10/16 by Sterling

I added a new page to the Art Archive today called the Image Dump. It is a random image wall…

WaterColorBot

Posted 2013/07/18 by Sterling

Just backed Super Awesome Sylvia’s WaterColorBot project over at Kickstarter. I’m so excited. Can’t wait to play with this thing.…

New scanner!

Posted 2013/06/13 by Sterling

Oh happy day! My new scanner just arrived in the mail. There is a lot of art waiting in the…

New office

Posted 2013/05/02 by Sterling

I’m setting up a new work space here in Hong Kong. Now that I can get away from the kids…

Expired

Posted 2013/03/25 by Sterling

Good grief. I go offline for three days and of all things, my website address expires. Many thanks to Sam…

Crunch time

Posted 2012/11/20 by Sterling

Sorry for the long posting delay. To say these last three months have been busy would be an understatement. I…

Drawing at the median

Posted 2012/08/25 by Sterling

I've reached a milestone and moved past the halfway point of this sketchbook. Only thirty or so more pages to…

Major website overhaul

Posted 2012/08/09 by Sterling

Just finished converting all of my old art gallery posts over to the new image format. It was a lot…

Return of the Video Library

Posted 2012/08/06 by Sterling

After a long broken hiatus the Video Library is back up and running. Yeah!

I want an add to Flipboard badge

Posted 2012/07/29 by Sterling

Just made a widget request to the fine folks over at Flipboard.

New iNaturalist Page

Posted 2012/07/10 by Sterling

Just added my iNaturalist feed to the site.

ZBrush Turnable Gallery

Posted 2012/07/04 by Sterling

Super fantastic art update! Looks like my King sculpture has been added to Pixologic’s ZBrush turnable gallery.

New iPad

Posted 2012/06/22 by Sterling

From now on It’s going to be a lot easier to paint my iPad painting commissions. My amazing wife just…

Instagram photo page added

Posted 2012/04/12 by Sterling

Just added an Instagram photo page to the site. -update Took it down because instagram started getting all weird with…

Mini Me

Posted 2012/04/06 by Sterling

Just updated the sites favicon to this swell little animated self-portrait.

Return of the King

Posted 2012/02/19 by Sterling

Years of curiosity have gotten the better of me. I jumped into Zbrush today and resurrected the dead King from…

Been doing a lot of painting

Posted 2012/02/09 by Sterling

I recently got another iPad painting commission. Three paintings in two days it a lot of work. My hand is…

Back online

Posted 2012/01/31 by Sterling

It took longer than I thought but after a few weeks of frustrated coding and image rendering I finally have…

Rebuilding the image library

Posted 2012/01/03 by Sterling

I have to rebuild the entire image library for the new theme. There may be broken image links until I’m…

Happy New Years 2012

Posted 2012/01/01 by Sterling

Spent my evening doodling in my sketchbook with close friends. We waxed philosophically, shared projects, ideas, art, news of babies…

Still updating

Posted 2011/12/26 by Sterling

I’ve done a lot of work on the site these last few nights but still have ways to go. You…

Major changes in the works.

Posted 2011/12/18 by Sterling

Sorry for the mess. I’m in the process of upgrading the sites.  Its going to get messy for the next…

Wiley and Rudie

Posted 2011/11/02 by Sterling

I have been very productive the last few weeks but haven’t had a chance to post about all of my…

Thick Headed Boy Font

Posted 2011/06/15 by Sterling

New! I made this free truetype font on the iPad using iFontMaker. I registered it creative commons so no worries,…

With a little help from my friends

Posted 2011/05/25 by Sterling

Major thanks to my good friend Sam McMullen for all of his help and patience in moving things around the…

train 360

Posted 2011/05/23 by Sterling

Taken on the train to Hong Kong.

Reorganizing the Library

Posted 2011/05/20 by Sterling

The site has built up enough posts that it is now time for me to reorganize all of the information…

Little iPhone pop-up bubble

Posted 2011/05/11 by Sterling

Just added a swell iPhone pop-up bubble to the mobil site, so folks can add the web app to their…

The new mobile site is up and running

Posted 2011/05/04 by Sterling

Having been in Hong Kong for the last few weeks I couldn't help but notice that my site didn't play…