Life After Myth

LIFE AFTER MYTH - trailer from Whit Hertford on Vimeo.

As reported by Jeaux Janovsky and Julia Vickerman, the trailer we produced at PUNY for Whit Hertford's cartoon LIFE AFTER MYTH is available to watch online. I painted the backgrounds for the trailer, Jeaux provided the character designs, and Julia produced and animated on it. Whit created and wrote it. Animated by my fellow animators at PUNY.
From the LIFE AFTER MYTH Tumblr...



I think it turned out really nice, and I wish Whit luck with it!

Clyde Comedy

Here's a couple shorts that Ben and I made for Clyde Comedy. The first one we did features comedy from Mike Epps.


And the most recent one uses comedy from Maz Jobrani. This one is available in 720p Web HD!

Pokemon Kid Scene

Here's a finished shot from my Pokémon Kid Animation that I'm putting together in my free time. This shot takes place right after the kid wakes up to find himself in Pokéland. Is that real? I don't remember it being called Pokéland. Well it is now.

More Freelance Screenshots

Here are a few screenshots from a previous freelance short that Ben and I made.

Wastecorp on a sweltering day:


Part of a panning "Break Room" background in Wastecorp:


Wastemeister enjoying a cool breeze from his open refrigerator:

Some Freelancing Screenshots

Been without the internet for a few weeks, makes it tough to drum up a blog post. Here's some screenshots from my freelance Flash work, which I animate with my good buddy Ben Bury.

First, an Illustration I did of Wastecorp, Wastemeister's office building for the loading screen.

Wastemeister at his desk. My background with Ben's Wastemeister drawing.

My shot of Wastemeister's clock.

Here's a take I animated with my background.

And a Ben Bury Wastemeister over my pink bubbly background. Great face.

Hopefully there'll be more posts soon. Internet first.

Owl and Squirrel Background

Here's an establishing shot from my Senior Project animation about an owl and a squirrel. If you look closely, you can see the owl perched atop the hero tree in the shot. The camera will be slowly zooming in on him in the animation. I painted the piece in greyscale first, then colorized it, all in Photoshop. I actually like the grey version a lot too, so I'll post that as well. The trees are from a custom brush I made.

Forbidden Island

Here's my latest environment comp. I looked at this next to the other illustration I'm working on at the moment (coloring my waterfall drawing) and I realized that this piece is really boring comparatively, even though I personally like it. My future environment compositions will hopefully have a bit more going on, in terms of design. That said, as boring as it is, I'm sorta into it. My love for Mary Blair's conceptual work on Peter Pan definitely played a role this one. I sort of based it on that particular body of work, but not directly. Instead of using her work as reference for style, I used my cloudy memory of what I could remember her Peter Pan work looking like. The result ended up not really looking like the Mary Blair work much at all, but had a similar tone to it.

More Background Comps

Here are a few more environment compositions that I made. I actually made the forest comp back in October and forgot I made the picture until I stumbled upon it today while looking through my art folder. The other piece is an image of some islands I was inspired to draw by a Suiseki I saw in a Bonsai book. There'll be some more interesting stuff up soon hopefully.

Fallen Tree comp

Here's a thumbnail-sized composition for an illustration I may make a finished version of. If it's unclear, it's three (or 3 and a half?) people crossing a creek on a fallen tree under cloak of night. Sorry it's so small, that's just what it is.

Misty Waterways

Here's another environment for this week. It's sort of a swamplike place wherein the inhabitants live in trees on their own island, using patches of luminous mushrooms as beacons in the fog. I love drawing fat trees and glowing things (lately), so I'll probably develop this world a bit further.

Big ol' Building

Here's a quick digital painting I did for Digital Illustration 2. Well, it was supposed to be quick. I hope to get better at using color and painting backgrounds this semester with this class. I should have things to post from it every week. Hopefully I'll get faster at doing these little paintings so I can crank more out. For now, take a gander at the Modern building, a hustling and bustling hub for the cities high rollers international bigshots, and the slimiest swindlers, schemers, and snakeoil salesmen this side of the Salt Flats.

Tree Limb Background

This is a pan background for my senior project animation about the owl and squirrel. Boy do I love fat, gnarly trees. Most of this background goes by pretty fast, so I wanted someone to be able to look at the still image, so I don't feel like I spent so long painting up something that's visible for less than a few seconds.

Totoro

Close up of Totoro, Mei, and Satsuki:

Paintings for Count Goulash

Here's a Hanna-Barbera-like background I made for my Count Goulash animation. Photoshop, Photoshop, Photoshop. Also, here's a close-up shot of Goulash's finger pointing at his calendar.

Hansel and Gretel, part duex

Hansel and Gretel

Tasty children.