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

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.

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.

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.