The Tortoise and the Hare

Another sketch I did trying to get comfortable building up and staying loose in sketching in photoshop.

Lesson 01 by Andrew Hou

Last week I did my first assignment for the digital painting course I'm taking from Andrew Hou at Schoolism. Here's the result of the first assignment: Do a sketch in photoshop...

...and some simple blocking of value.

Today I got my video feedback on my 1st assignment. To sum it up; Try to loosen up my sketches in photoshop and try get out your comfort zone by going for more 'realistic' sketches during this workshop. Here's my first attempts working with the feedback: Trying to build up a sketch that feels more loose and sketchy:

Simple blocking of value:

...and an extra sketch I did, trying to get comfortable with trying some new brushes to sketch with and the workflow.

Next lesson: Light and Shadows!

Tasty Christmas!

One log, comin' up...

Excuse me...

On your marks...

Haai

Octosushi

Working on a new story...

Back from CTN eXpo 2012

Thank you CTN for another awesome event, again! I got to meet so many great & talented people, saw amazingly interesting panels and scored some great books.

Here's some links of the awesome people I got to meet: Matt Doering; Isaac Orloff; James Gibson; Stephen Brooks; Jorge Verdugo; Rafa Vera; Peter J Casey; Alexandra Vo; David Pritchard; Alberto Gomez; Chris Deboda; Laura Craig; Benoit Therriault; Christina Chin; Cassandra Poulson; Alican Serbest; Greer McNally; Rundeep Khaira; Murray Huber III; Wouter Tulp; Edwin Rhemrev; David de Rooij; Kati Prescott; Justin Lee; Ryan Green; Jeff Snow; Eric Canete; Louie Del Carmen; Jake Parker; Sergio Paez; Kris Pearn; Elena & Olivia Ceballos; & Matt Jones.

-This is an instant classic: The Bur'bank'-

-And my last glimpse of L.A., see you next year!-

Cheese!

Martha Sigall

Yesterday I visited Warner Bros. Part of the VIP tour is a visit to the backlot museum. Inside the museum there's a wall full with original Chuck Jones sketches and Maurice Noble background paintings from the classic Bugs Bunny and Road Runner cartoons. In front of the wall stood this little old lady. It was Martha Sigall, one of the last living links to the golden age of animation! I got to talk to her briefly and she shared some great stories about her time working with Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. Here's a video where Martha talks about her career.

CTN Animation Expo 2012

The 2012 CTN eXpo in Burbank California is only a week away, and I'm going to visit again! A complete list of this year's artists, exhibitors and guest speakers is posted here. More details and information about the event is posted on the CTN website. Cheese!

Pirats

Little Blackbook | vol. 2

Alliwaitor

Grabbit...

CTN eXpo 2012

A video from last year's edition of the CTN eXpo 2011...



..and with a guest appearance introducing Dirk Fendulma. CTN we will meet again this year.

Grabbit

Busted!

P is for Parrot

O is for One-two-tree

M is for Milk

...or Mooh...

L is for Leaf

... or Ladybugs...

K is for King

J is for Jazz

...or John Coltrane

I is for Incognito

H is for Harakiri

G is for Genius

F is for Fur

E is for Evil

D is for Donut

C is for Cactus

B is for Beard

A is for Alien

it was about time for another post...-it...

Merci Annecy

Back from my trip to France and the Animation festival in Annecy. It was my first visit to Annecy's Animation Festival, and I had a great time! So to keep it simple: Annecy: à l'année prochaine!

Annecy 2012

Next week I'll be visiting the Festival International du Film d'Animation in Annecy. Have a look at the Annecy website if you like to see more about the festival. See you there!

WIP

Here is some things I've been working on. Mostly drawing a lot, some figure drawing, some warmups, studying one of my favourite films, some story development, some character stuff...