Comet returns to earth and Huston catches our falling star.
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Jetpack Chase Boards
These are the roughs for the big jetpack chase scene at the end of the Space Chimps 2. It’s particularly memorable because my wife went into labour while I was working on it. This is also why it is incomplete.
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Looking for a Comet
In this scene from Space Chimps 2. Comet has taken off in a rocket and the rest of the gang tries to find him.
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Dick and Don Storyboards
Dick and Don go all the way back to elementary school days. They have evolved of course but stay true to their slap stick roots. I used to run a comic strip in the USC Daily trojan student newspaper with these guys. They are a lot of fun to draw.
This little sequence is part of a larger project I have been dreaming about. Someday I would very much like to expand it into either a video game or a feature.
In this scene Dick and Don, two american tourist, have just escaped from prison, and discovered to their surprise that they are in London. They have been framed and they need to find out why and by whom. Being handcuffed at the ankle though is going to make the search difficult.
Boomerang Girl is a film idea I was playing with a few months ago. The basic idea was to do something really fun, so I mixed together a bunch of my favorite things and wrapped a story around it. Here are a few panels.
The galion in the clouds 
showing the scale 
fighters make for the hanger 
They dock with the landing hook 
on the bridge 
Soemthing of great importance 
sitting on a cloud 
Boomerang 
disappears 
into a cloud 
She emerges from the clouds 
the fans rotate 
and the flies forwards 
Looking below 
She eyes her target 
The galion below 
Boomerang drawn 
She races to the attack 
Her weapon at her side 
The fighters are caught unaware 
She Strikes 
Kaboom 
THe fighter explode 
she flies under the massive ship 
looking for her openning 
its scale is massive 
The villian orders his attack 
she buzzes the control room 
He sees his foe for the first time 
Attack 
dont let her escape 
the fighters circle above looking for her 
inside the hanger 
coming in fast 
She springs into action 
Boomerang on the ttack 
doing her thing 
oh 
no 
title card 
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Light Paintings
Virginia, Silas and I were at the park last night with our lanterns and mooncake for the annual moon festival. I had my camera, a tripod and a flashlight with me. Just for the fun of it I started playing around with some long exposures. Running around the park with my flashlight on got the attention of a couple of curious boys who proptly came over to see what Silas and I were doing. Together we had a great time making “light paintings” as their mother called them.
primitives 
light tree 
tracing 
The ghost in the park 
blue hands 
name on the ground 
Ghost 
three point lighting with a single light source 
Not sure kind ok looks like a mushroom cloud 
RGB 
Silas name in light 
blue lightsaber wash 
learning to play with light 
light writing 
drawing with light 
car 
flashlight 
the flashlight is working 
green fire 
“S” is for Silas
shot on a nikon d700 50mm lens
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loose iOS paintings
A few loose ArtRage images floating around my media library.
My parents newly landscaped back yard. 
a sickly looking strong man 
looking out the upstairs window
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Intruder Alert
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Lazy River Camera Mount
Ok, at first this may not seem like it has much to do with animation but here are some sketches I made for a little lazy river time-lapse camera mount. My brother and I are pretty avid tinkerers and ever since I gave him an HDhero cam for his birthday we keep playing around with different camera mount ideas. He’s made a pretty decent surfing head mount system but I can’t shake the idea of building some sort of floating stand to follow us on our inevitable drunken float down the russian river later in the summer. We usually travel with an armada of friends and I just love the idea of documenting the trip as an epic time-lapse pixilation film.
My brother, mr. obvious, was quick to point out that we could do the same thing by just strapping a tripod to an inner tube. Yes, yes these are overly complex and unstable but they kind of have a suessian vibe that I like. Anyways, thought I would share. If the trip happens I will be sure to post the film.
documenting a lazy river party 
the camera tube
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Rough MonSTER model
I recently started to learn how to model characters in Maya. This is something I have been wanting to learn for a long time and just recently sat down and forced myself to do.
Working with ortho drawings, rough clay sculpts and having to depend on other people to build my designs has always been frustrating and played a big roll in motivating me to learn the process. Although learning to use the tools in maya has been a bit painful now that I am beginning to make some progress those pains are fading.
Below are some rough topology renders of my first character sculp. A Silly little monster character I started last week. Learning line flow and polygon placement has been a big challenge but my biggest challenge has been having to build expressionless neutral characters. The character designer in me has been going crazy with this and I can’t wait to move on to skinning and rigging so I break up all this boring symmetry. I’m almost at a point where I can move on to skinning so we’ll see what happens. I imagine I will have a lot of deform problems where the topology is too low res. Oh well, we’ll see! Until then, enjoy.
…and as a point of reference i also included a rough doodle I did after the fact to give you an idea of what the final character might look like. As for now I am just making this up as I go along.
teeth and mouth 
hands 
Monster sculpt back 
Monster sculpt 
Monster head