I was recently commissioned to produce some artwork for longtime
gaming site 1up.com. They had various "What If" scenarios in gaming,
each needing a drawing to be clear and eye-catching. It was a bit of a
tight schedule, but also pretty fun! Here are some of the drawings I
did. You can also check them out at 1up.com itself:
What if the Dreamcast survived?
What if the price of games continued to rise in the 80's?
What if the Sony/Nintendo gaming console came to fruition?
Exclusivity agreements in sports games
What if Star Wars had flopped?
What if your Princess wasn't in another castle?
What if Spielberg had never touched a camera?
What if Steam never recovered from it's horrible launch?
Here are some of the rough drawings for good measure:
Hello world! Well, I finally got around to uploading my film, WAAY later than I had intended. Realizing you lack some vital software needed to re-render stuff kinda sucks, but finally- patched together and partially animated, here is my third year film! Enjoy :)
A big thanks to my composer, Jake Smith and musician Alexy Shant Yeghikan for their brilliant work. And of course my awesome voice actors Megan Rippey and Michael Auriello. Writing dialogue, casting, getting an original score taught me a lot (like how I definitely need three clones of myself to organize all this stuff)
Yep, I still haven't uploaded it yet. But it's coming soon, I promise! Like, within the next two weeks soon. I've been (extremely slowly) coloring some unfinished scenes. Summer can be so distracting..
Hello world! I'm still alive and well into third year. I've also started work on a certain third year film maybe, so hopefully I can finish it this time. But it has voicework and is four minutes long so I'm also screwed. Although I can definitely say I'm enjoying myself with this film more than last year's, so that's good. Anyway, here's part of a shot that won't be totally visible in the final. No worries, there are no animated crowd shots this time, haha...
Until next time! Hopefully soon. And hopefully I'm coherent.
Welp! Didn't finish the film, but here it is anyway. It's in a place where I could still pick it up anytime and potentially complete, but for now it's time to move on to third year, woo! So hurr it is:
I want to take this chance to thank all of the amazing people that helped me out along the way of this crazy film's production:
Coloring: Sunmee Dong, Jiyoon Shin, Jeff Liu, Matt Braly, Ashley Nose, Amelia Lorenz, Tahnee Gehm, Marcos Cohen (color keys)
Bg Assistance: Ashley Nose, Michael Herrera
Ahhg I hope I didn't forget anyone, I have the memory of a fragile grandma.
So with that it's third year time! I'm really excited for this year- I'll finally be doing a dialogue film. I''m feeling confident in my film direction, so hopefully I can start soon on it. Until then stay tuned and hope I don't criminally abandon this blog again.
I'm gonna post my film up soon (don't get your hopes up, it's unfinished!) But in the meantime, here is some early concept work from 2nd year I did for it:
Where's the promised film from this year? Where!? It was kidnapped, that's where! There's nothing I can do, sorry.
Ok, nobody will believe that.
So here's the real story! Most of the film is done, but not completely! It wasn't fully finished by the deadline... But my plan is to hopefully finish it entirely, then post it, since in my imagination it doesn't need too much work to be completed... But if laziness overcomes me, (which is likely, with videogames nearby and all) I might just post a quick reel of what I've already done. It was a rough year with workload, but I learned a lot along the way! So onward to third year, where I hopefully have a better grasp of reality.
So may your summer be filled with much rest and many trips to non-oily beaches! Until next time! (hopefully soon...)
Wow, just yesterday it feels like it was November, and now suddenly we have just under two months before films are due, hahahahaaa...ha... AHHHGG! DAMN! CRAP! I made the mistake of falling into the 'second year epic' with my film, and what a curse it is. I don't know how, but I'll just work and work and see what I get by the finish line. But it's fun along the way, just wayy, way more involved than last year's film to say the least. But who can complain about getting too much to animate though? Anyway, here's a slight preview of my film. Not animation or anything, just some teaser artwork. Stay tuned till April!
Here it is, my lockdown film for this year... (which wasn't really made in 48 hours... shhh..!) This year's word was night, and it produced a really awesome lockdown show. My short however premiered without sound for some reason I'm not smart enough to understand, but it's been fixed now. Anyway, enjoy!
Okay that was an awful post title, but I have chef drawings here and there was no other choice.
So a summer of fun, learning, and back breaking labor has ended! I couldn't have dreamed of a better experience, and there's no way I can thank those enough who helped me grow over the break. But now it's back to school at Calarts as an official second year!
It's been great getting to see everyone again and people seem pretty pumped for sophomore year, and even more have film ideas ready to go. Woo! I really wanna focus on my animation this year... So the faster my story and stuff solidifies the better.
And so here are some chefs from an assignment in character design class with Rik Maki (TAKE THIS CLASS. IT IS FANTASTIC)
