Hey All!

Here's a quick rough layout sketch I'm considering for my short I'm currently working on. Nothing is set in stone for now. I always enjoy this process and enjoy showing you what I like to call a "behind the scenes" look as to how I work towards the final result. More to come!

Hey everyone!

So remember a while back when I was talking about my film First Bite? The collaborative film I directed here at SCAD featuring a vampire and a cute little dog? You may have to go back to older posts to refresh your memory.

In any event, I wanted to announce that the short is up and running on Viemo and can be seen by all! Just go to vimeo and search for me, zak shapiro, and it should direct you to my page. I only have First Bite up for now and my profile picture is a clowns head. Take a look!

Here's the final color for one of the vampires in the short I'm making. I basically took the green and the blue from the ones below and found a happy medium between both colors. It definitely works much better.

Other vampire soon to come!

Here are a few color studies of the vampire I'm using in a short dialogue piece that I will be eventually animating in Toom Boom Harmony. The end one's body is working well, but I think that the skin tone is too green. Think it needs a color between that and the blue in the first one. More to come in good time.

Here it is!!! My 100th POST!!!! I never thought I'd have a blog, let alone make 100 blog posts on it!! I got to say that it feels really awesome. I also have to THANK all of YOU GUYS and GALS that follow and stop by. I've said it once I'll say it again, I appreciate the support greatly and it means so much to me! Truly, I thank you.

Here's something I whipped up today. A doodle, if you will. The depths of my maturity never cease to amaze me.

The size is no accident. I just wanted to play with space and composition.

Hey there folks! Here's a screen cap of a current project I will be working on this Spring Quarter here at SCAD. I am currently teaching myself ToonBoom Storyboard Pro and Harmony. Above is the storyboard pro software. I must say I do like it, however its difficult to make a switch to a new software especially when you're used to another. What I do like is that its a vector based line and has similar capabilities as Flash. It also allows you to write in text from scripts you have have written, which in this case I have, and it feels very professional. Two more things to tack on the ol' resume I suppose!

I'm going to be posting a lot of this production as I go along. Be on the lookout!!

Hello everyone!!

In preparation for the upcoming SCAD 2013 Career Fair, I have updated my demo reel. It needs a bit of tweaking (lighting and rendering for the 3D videos) but I'm pleased. Hopefully the companies I speak with will share my sentiments.