Friday, June 26, 2009

More process


















This stuff was shown over at the character design blog ( see below), but I figure not everyone saw it. This is a quick photo process for my Rip Van Winkle illustration.

Enjoy

Monday, June 22, 2009

Thank you Mark Twain


This one is from Mark Twain's Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County. Calaveras County is about a two hour drive from where I grew up. As a kid we I went to Mark Twain's cabin near Angel's Camp on a school field trip. Every year Calaveras County still has frog jumping competitions along with their county fair.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Thank you Edgar Allen Poe.

Sadly I do not have a lot of time to do personal work that I can show on this blog the way I used to. I'm working on some children's books, but for legal reasons I cannot show any of it. Likewise, I cannot show any of my production work from Pixar (except stuff already published). I decided to start reading a bunch of short stories and will try and get an illustration done form the one I like best in a week of lunches, flat. That means I have a total of 5 hours to read the story develop the characters and environment as well as paint the final piece. There is no way I can do this every week it will just burn me out, but here is my first attempt.

This illustration is form Edgar Allen Poe's the Cask of Amontillado. Just a great story all round.

Thanks again for all the kind comments.












Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Reason for my absence.


I don't normally talk about my work on this blog, but this time I will make an exception.
I have not been posting as much as I would like do mostly to work. Finally the fruits of that labor have arrive in theaters and I can tell you about it. I worked for a while on Up, but the bulk of my work for the last year has come from Production Designing Pixar's newest short Partly Cloudy. It was a huge challenge, but a wonderful experience I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.