Susan and Mudjo

I drew this as a gift for Susan; it's her and our cat Mudjo. This turned out better than I expected, so I'll probably continue to be a creep and draw little girls and kitties. D: I drew it in Illustrator and did the color in Photoshop. Here's the real Mudjo in a bowtie, inspired by the drawing.

Stalking Tiger

Here's something I whipped up today, a tiger stalking through a snowy birch forest, whose anticipated meal has fled their firesite. I drew it in Flash and added textures and shading in Photoshop. I think I'm going to try to get back into drawing in Flash.

15-Minute Caricature

Here's a quick caricature of a guy I can't beat at darts, Justin McKinley. I want to do more of these.

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.

Chocolate, Mices, and Channel Frederator

Good news, everyone! You're eyes do not deceive you! That handsome devil is indeed yours truly. I submitted my Chocolate and Mices stop motion to Channel Frederator and it got accepted for this weeks episode! I made the animation a couple semesters ago, and had intended on going back into the piece and erasing out all the visible wires and fingers from each frame they entered. Of course that never happened, so about a week ago I put it on Youtube and submitted it into Channel Frederator for shits. I'm very grateful for getting onto the show; it was one of my goals to get on there, and I didn't think it'd be this piece that would do it.

Click here to read my interview with CF and watch this week's episode!

Be sure to watch the whole thing too, there are some really cool animations in there!

And if you have a piece of your finished animation collecting dust on a harddrive somewhere because it's not absolutley perfect, SUBMIT IT. ...Owen Dennis....

Here's some art to look at, since this was a lot of words.

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.