More Practice

I have some tweaking to do but I had to get this out of my system. This exercise has been taking me a long time to finish, mostly because I haven't been able to get into the acting so I don't end up working on it for long periods at a time.


Nearly Done from EvadCeivorus on Vimeo.

Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving at our place this year. It was a great time. Good food, good friends, good times. I was nervous about making the turkey. There was a lot of pressure after last year's amazing turkey cooked my our friend Tom. I had Tom's guidance while preparing mine so it turned out to be really juicy and it tasted great. We went with Tom's upside-down method of cooking. It lets the juices drip down into the breast meat. Joe and Em brought awesome deserts, Bill made some killer candied yams, Brit made her famous apple sauce, among other deliciousness and Greg entertained us with stories from his job at Laika.

I laughed until I cried

Mostly because I pictured my brother Matt doing this.

BEOWULF.....in 3d?

We went to see a free screening of Beowulf last night in San Fran and.......at least I got a free pair of glasses and a free bag of popcorn. I showed up about 15 minutes late because I was coming from work in Redwood City, and the show still hadn't started when I got there. They had been fiddling around with the projector trying to get the 3d aspect of it to work. All we ended up seeing was a double image even with the glasses on. After about 20 minutes of that they had thought they fixed it (the titles looked somewhat 3d) and they let the movie run for about 20 minutes ignoring the fact that anyone who was close up in the frame was still showing up as double imaged. After fiddling around for another 10 min or so they called it quits. There was no regular print so we didn't get to see the film at all. That was a bummer. From what I saw though it looked like it could be a decent movie if they just used the real actors. The CG was too much in the Uncanny Valley to really get into. The facial expressions were flat, and the design of Grendel was awful (it is possible to have a character be gross and ugly and still have good design). I think that if I had the chance to see this for free again I would. I don't think I'll be paying to see it. And if they ever want to make this story into live action I will be there on opening night.

jack o' Lanterns! pt. 2

Brittney's workplace had a carving contest tonight. Sorry for the lack of originality, I was looking for something quick and easy.
Brittney did a nice Madusa in a very Lou Romano style

Jack o' Lanterns!

Haven't done these since I was probalby 8 years old.

Practice

Been working on this one for a while. I've grown fond of this face rig that I built. It's really flexible yet it poses very quickly.



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Illustration Friday: Emergency

I suppose that he's running to the water to save someone. Or maybe he's had a long day at work and its imperative that he gets to surf.

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More sketches

Fjorg Trip

Welp. This past week three of the Commandos (me, Joe and Jed) traveled down to San Diego to compete in the first FJORG! competition at SIGGRAPH. The objective was to complete at least 15 seconds of animation in a continuous 32-hour period. It was a great time. We had a lot of fun and made a film we are really proud of. We unfortunately didn't place but oh well. All the teams did a great job...each one of them finished on time. To watch all the films click here.

The trip there was such a blast. It was great to have Jed around after not seeing him for over a year. We had a lot of time to catch up on the way down there. here are some sketches of the trip.



Here is our final video on YouTube.

The Man Who Plays for Pigeons

I've wanted to write a children's book for quite some time now. This might be an idea to go with. There is a fantastic clarinet player named Don who plays every weekend down at the Ferry Building. He loves when people stop and listen to him.

Some Old Skethces

Weiners...

Quick sketch of wolverine.

Quick sketch from "Once"

Best Food Ever!

I took Brit to a place in Berkeley called Venezia. This was hands down the best food I have had since I've moved out to the bay area. I think its probably the best food I have ever had in my life! I recommend that anyone from the area, take a night and treat that special someone to a nice dinner there. If you don't have a special someone, treat your self!

Illustration Friday: Twist

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No words for this

This is quite a unique animation. Just make sure you watch the whole thing.

Illustration Friday: Camouflage

Oops. I thought the topic was Camel Floss.....well I was close.

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Damn, Son!

A's vs. Red Soxs

Wed. night we went to see the A's take on the Red Soxs at the Coliseum in Oakland. It was a good time. I'm not very passionate about baseball, but looking around at all the super fans sitting around us it made me wish that I did care that much about a baseball team. There was a comradery between all of the drunkards as they cheered on their team and high fived each other as if they themselves made the triple play. I'll admit, even though I wasn't routing one way or another, I did sneak in a few high fives with some of my seat neighbors now and then...just so I wasn't left out. It happened to be that this game was the evening after Joe here went to Meez for an interview. He had to do an animation test in 3dsmax. Little did he know that this interview went better than he thought because they offered him a job on Friday!

"Once"

A friend of mine recommended I go see this movie. I found one showing of it down at the Embarcadero Center Theatre. This is a fantastic film. The great thing about some independant films is the use of actors that aren't pop icons. These people are not flashy or poetic or over-dramatic. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are real. Their relationship is endearing and I fell in love with these two the second they were on screen. I believe the film itself is somewhat based off of the way these two met and recorded their first album together. The music is excellent, I haven't stopped listening to it since I saw the film. Unfortunately right now its only in playing in select theatres across the country, but if you live in a big city where this might be playing I recommend you go see this movie.

Amazing...

Sketch Crawl 05-19-07

This was a wonderful time. We went into San Fran and spent the whole day (from 11 - 6) drawing. I got to see more of the city that I haven't seen before. I got some sun and some exercise...it was a great way to spend the day. Thanks to Enrico for getting these things rolling. Thanks to Ronnie for being so encouraging.

Why are they so angry?

Because their storyline was turned into an absurd mockery that looked more like the next days YouTube video making fun Spiderman 3. I know that Peter Parker is corny and a geek. Thats why he is my hero, but badass peter parker should be badass, not some spoof of Saturday Night Feaver's John Travolta. This movie could've been so cool

Ancient Book of Myth and War

Britt and I went to the Nucleus art gallery in L.A. the other weekend to see the art from Ancient Book of Myth and War. It was a really neat event. We got to meet the authors (Nate Wragg, Lou Romano, Don Shank and Scott Morse) the opening night, get the book signed mingle with some other great people and have a few drinks. The next day we went to a workshop to watch the authors paint. It was a cool chance to see how each one of them likes to work. There are pictures at the Nucleus webiste of the event. We made it into one picture.



The man we are talking to is John Musker. This is the second time we've bumped into him. It is just so cool to talk to one of the guys who made some of my favorite animated movies of all time. He is such a nice guy.

Hollywoodland Sketches

I did some sketches while watching Hollywoodland (which is an okay movie). These all were inspired from characters of the movie in the beginning, but sort of turned into completely different characters by the end of it.

New location

Crystal Dynamics has merged with Eidos in a new location in Redwood City. We are on the same campus as PDI now which is sort of cool. So the move to the new building was pretty smooth. No huge problems. I.T. did a great job getting everything set up. The place is really nice. I miss Menlo Park though. The new place is way to neat and perfect. Its neatness sort of gives me the urge t0 mess things up. Ya know...ruffle up some grass here and there.The nice courtyards outside of our building. Cute little fountains and perfectly trimmed grass. They certainly discourage loungers who might ruin the art of their architecture by not putting benches anywhere and planting razor sharp grass so you won't want to sit on it.

Our new building.

All cubed out.

Part of my new cube. I need some more books to fill up my shelf.

Another angle. I was going for a blurry sort of look with this picture.

The full view of the cube.