I'm currently storyboarding a friend's thesis film. Its called "Sleep Fight." The film is about this guy who has this epic fight in his sleep and gets his butt kicked. Here is one of my favorite drawings from it thus far.

These all nighters are going to make me better, right?



Storyboarding for a friends Thesis Film. Its called "Sleep Fight." Sounds appropriate.....

So here is the finished piece! Its not really finished completely. There are a few things to tweak like the overlapping action in his hair. Also he could blink on "begin" and his eyebrows aren't very strong, but forget all that now! I did my first dialogue animation and I think it came out freakin sweet! Feeling very good I must say.

The character is the giant from that old Mickey and the Giant Disney cartoon.

So here is a VERY rough pass at the dialogue assignment. The previous video wasn't just to make me look stupid. I was going somewhere with it. Anyway ,as you can see, there are a few places where I can hold and quite a few more frames to add. Plus the mouth shapes. But I think its no too shabby for my first ever dialogue piece. More to come!

I also just wanted to say thanks to Sean Carrow. He sat with me and did a very basic but effective "crash course" type of demonstration for overall animation. The above result is essentially the result of his help. Check him out at www.seancarrow.com

Video reference is silly. Helpful but silly. For my first dialogue piece I decided to record myself to watch things like opposing action and overall movement. My buddy Sean filmed me, and suggested I record myself in the first place. I'll post the video of my animation to give you context once I finish it. In the meantime try not to laugh...

Here is the final illustration/doodle. I'm pretty happy with the final result. There are a few things I'm going to button, such as tighten up the triangle in the background. I think I'm also going to put playing cards somewhere in there. I think they would look cool flying out of his cuffs. Who knows. Eventually I will submit it to my schools magazine and hope for publication.

Hello All,

As six in the morning approaches, I have finally completed my cover letter, resume, and business card tweaks for the LAIKA submission here at SCAD. For those who don't know who LAIKA are, they're responsible for the stop-motion film "Coraline." Amazing stuff to say the least. Needless to say, however, its been a long and stressful week and I cannot wait for it to be over.

Here's to hoping for an interview!!