Girl Ordering Coffee

Old Caveman

Nick

This is my friend Angela's husband Nick, who also get a portrait from me for xmas, I did them as a pair so they could face each other hanging on a wall.

Angela

I made this for my friend Angela for xmas and thought it looked nice and thought I'd share something I did in my spare time .

Happy Holidays!

This is a mono-print I made just for the holidays, I'm thinking of making some stationary of this image for the holidays. Any suggestions on where I could do this online? Any feed back really appreciated!

runcycle

Quick run cycle of a cave girl character I helped design for the film I've been working on.

face animation

some facial animation tests I've been working on for the main character. This is the first time I've animated his face so I learned a lot from this, like how far I can squash him, and how far I can stretch him without making him go off model. Here He goes off too much but he wont the next time I animate him!

Shot Gun Animation Tests

In getting back into animation this week my director had us do some shot gun tests, which basically consists of animating a given scene as quickly as we can. I did the punch in five minutes, it took longer because it had a few layers to work with.
The Dinosaur run was another shot gun test which took about 4 minutes, it had been a while since I'd done a walk cycle, and it's super rough, but the shot gun's are helping me to quickly flesh out what works, what doesn't and why on a basic level without investing too much valuable production time just to find out something doesn't work on a very basic level. for example the tail of the dinosaur dips around too much so that's something I can fix on the next sg test.

concept heads

The Director of the film already had a clear idea of the face, and wanted some ideas as to what the girl's hair should look like so these are just quick sketches of a bunch of different ideas for his to glance at, then I went and did some quickie rotations of the hair styles he liked to give him a better idea of how animate-able they would be.

some basic maya work

Some basic blocking I've been working on in Maya the finished scene should be about 10 seconds long of the man tossing a bone to the dog, and antics ensue. I'm still just getting the handle on the rig for the dog, it's more complicated than anything I've used before since I'm still a beginner. Check back later for a more finished version, complete with camera changes and all rendered out.

more concepts

concepts

these are still being refined so i think i get away with posting these here since they aren't final.

caveman concepts

Sketching on the Farm

Sketches I did while on vacation at my grandparents farm in Tennessee. I was really excited to be able to draw the rabbits up close in their natural habitat.

Summer Time Sketch Book

Cave Man Summer work

Some Pre Production work I did over the summer for the film I'm working on this year.

Fresh Ink

Brand new tattoo by Mark MaGee at Overlord on 10th street ( Atlanta, Ga) . The man can sling some ink with the best of them.

Hollis Gillespie

Just wanted to post some of the work I did for Hollis Gillespie formerly of Creative Loafing, and currently of Atlanta Magazine, published author, Campaign manager for Atlanta Mayoral Candidate Kyle Keysor and all around loud mouth extraordinaire. This was on the old blog but thought it was note worthy enough for new blog too.

West Fest

West Fest Featuring Yours truely and a lot of Breweries.
Logo and Flyer design by moi.

Horror II

Working on some designs for the threadless brief , it's about HORROR. I'm taking the B movie route. I need votes to win so go vote for me so I can win money and people can buy my T shirt designs. If you like me even a lil bit you'll click on the link, vote a high score and help me out.
http://threadless.com/submission/229710/Mantis_Attack

West Fest Logo Options

Working on some logo designs for West Fest, a neighborhood festival put on in home park in Atlanta. These are a couple I just whipped up real quick and will probably go through some changes.

Summer Show Reel 2009