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Stephen Colbert Triangle Chokes Grizzly Bear

2010-05-17T03:32:00.001-07:00

Stephen Colbert Triangle Chokes Grizzly Bear
from a post on Reddit!

Color Studies

2010-04-21T20:35:00.000-07:00

(really long picture. click to view) (*and over here for some older studies!!!*)
Just a few recent color studies. I like using Colors! on the iPod touch, but I am really curious about the iPad and the new Brushes app for it.

Beautiful Grim

2010-04-16T14:46:00.000-07:00

"Beautiful Grim"
http://art.beautifulgrim.org/jake-hallstrom
Flash CS4.

Little Doods

2010-04-13T12:01:00.000-07:00

having a little bit of fun :). just a little.

WonderHill.com Background Paintings

2010-04-05T10:37:00.001-07:00

These are some backgrounds that I painted while I was at WonderHill. They were a lot of fun to make!

Wonderhill.com character design and animation

2010-04-05T00:31:00.000-07:00

The Money Bunny, Caterpillar and Face cards are from WonderHill Three Hills Solitaire on Facebook (link).

The rest of these are from Enchanted Gardens on Facebook (link). I designed the characters to have limited animation while using the least amount of symbols. They also have some randomization to the animation to make them feel more natural and less like a robot.

These two were animated at 12 FPS. I prefer 24 personally :D.

The bunny and doves were designed by other artists at WonderHill and animated by me :).

These were made early on when the style was more cartoon-ish

Wonderhill.com Fire, water and fun!

2010-04-04T23:36:00.000-07:00

I was responsible for the orb effects animations on WonderHill Fairy Rescue (link). The animation had to be fast, responsive and feel right. Play a quick round of FR to see :)

well, hello there

2009-08-23T22:45:00.001-07:00

A little something that started as a sketch at Dr Sketchy's. :)

Your Card?

2009-07-20T13:48:00.000-07:00

These are some characters from a game in an imaginary world. with keys!
This set of 4 cards will be available for purchase on my site as soon as they're available :)

Rainy Day Colors

2009-01-25T17:16:00.000-08:00

umbrellas are great investments :)
enjoy!

with real life colors

2009-01-22T14:29:00.000-08:00

I will talk more about the title later :)

Sketch Crawl 21

2009-01-11T10:48:00.000-08:00

I was painting with Colors! on my iPod Touch using a Pogo stylus doing some lighting studies. nothing too fancy.

http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/author.php?page=1&id=7056
anyone can view the painting process online via that link :)

GG Park. Carousel

GG Park. Side of a building

GG Park. View from Hippy Hill

De Young. Tops of trees at sunset right after the group photo was taken

De Young. Just after that last picture, the moon started to rise.

First time fishing

2008-09-26T10:59:00.001-07:00

I was just thinking about my first time fishing :)
Hope everyone has an awesome weekend... you too, blog.

sometimes you get a little bit lucky

2008-09-24T11:49:00.000-07:00

at least you can walk away with coin sometimes :)

Story of my Life

2008-09-18T09:58:00.000-07:00

a small biographical pic

Jungle Fever

2008-09-12T15:37:00.000-07:00

Hey all. Sorry for lack of updaties. I've been busy with these. Enjoy your weekend :)

sneaky moblin

2008-09-02T20:33:00.000-07:00

that moblin is being a sneaky guy. he doesn't even belong there :^)

AH! A MOBLIN!

2008-09-01T12:40:00.000-07:00

scary!

and then it moved!

2008-08-29T13:40:00.000-07:00

there are a few things i would change on it, but i'll make sure not to make those mistakes on the next one. (hey... there is sound!)
Have a great weekend everyone :)

Taiko! a little bit.

2008-08-28T01:26:00.000-07:00

he's totally beatin' it.

Throw a rope

2008-08-27T11:12:00.001-07:00

Just a little doodle and an animation test. Sometimes you need to throw a rope down to someone :)

The animation has sound, so adjust your speakers accordingly

cow

2008-08-22T11:14:00.000-07:00

sketch before breakfast :) enjoy yourselves!

pillow

2008-08-18T16:45:00.000-07:00

It isn't quite daily.. i did spend 2 days on it :). i ran out of steam on making the pillow jump :^(. enjoy :)

Pigeons!

2008-08-14T20:51:00.001-07:00

Pigeons are rats with wings

Just got back from vacationing. hope you enjoy :)

Jumping out of a tree part 2

2008-08-04T22:30:00.000-07:00

I wanted to see how it was to do frame by frame with something that has to keep some sort of shape. it was pretty fun :)

Jumping out of a tree part 1

2008-08-04T01:53:00.000-07:00

This one has been pretty fun. I was looking at some David Belle vids to see his jumping technique and apply them to animation.

Pew pew

2008-08-01T21:38:00.000-07:00

Just playing around with a virtual camera in flash. it's pretty neat and super convenient. tomorrow... he'll blow up someone's face :^)

I see you hiding there..

2008-07-31T17:43:00.001-07:00

Those leaf prints don't fool me :^0

HP -> HP -> LK

2008-07-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

press high punch, high punch, low kick to execute devastating combo

My costume for next year:

2008-07-29T21:19:00.000-07:00

This is going to be my costume for comic con next year. the puking hippo :^)
(click for animation)

2008-06-30T15:12:00.000-07:00

for the back o the card

playing with the manatee of animation

2008-05-26T11:30:00.001-07:00

Animated gifs.. Click em to watch some crazy aerial action!

guy.

2008-05-17T14:49:00.001-07:00

hallo thar.

gouache and heads

2008-05-12T20:54:00.001-07:00

do do dooo... painting and practicing. some people i know, some people, i don't know.

451

2008-05-04T21:49:00.000-07:00

I remember in highschool that I stole a copy of Fahrenheit 451 from English class because it was such an awesome book. I am creating my own vision for the dystopian future that Ray Bradbury created many years ago.

(PS. I do not condone theft.... I meant to give it back after i had written the book report)

New Randomness

2008-04-09T09:58:00.000-07:00

Sorry that i have neglected you for so long. But here are some figure drawings, sketches and designs to keep :)

Colors!

2008-02-08T20:06:00.001-08:00

Monkeying around in colors. it’s fun because it’s limited in size, so it forces you to focus on the big picture more than details, though detail is possible. and it’s totally portable :). I really like Goro’s work on Gorilla Artfare . painterly and stylized. just more fun things that can be done to push the limits of art and what’s fun.

Some figure drawings

2008-02-02T23:03:00.000-08:00

some figure drawing. it's fun to think about placement on the page. my friend Tonci... years ago... showed me a page of a book that really focused on that. it's something to always strive for... good composition in everything. still gotta work on mine. :)

It's like a drawing... except it's all bulgy.

2008-02-01T22:13:00.000-08:00

well... it's seemingly bulgy. except you can't feel it on your screen.

you too...

2008-01-29T17:52:00.000-08:00

...nonie :}

you... you too...

2008-01-25T18:02:00.001-08:00

ta-da

Please turn around

2008-01-24T15:57:00.000-08:00

Ta-da.

weeeeeeeeeeeee

2008-01-24T02:01:00.000-08:00

spin monkey, spin

revising the bees.

2008-01-20T23:56:00.000-08:00

So, I am exploring a different look for the characters. I think I like this more. It's more like... I am interpreting people as characters. As it should be :)

People with strong character

2008-01-11T23:54:00.000-08:00

Schnoh!

2007-12-26T22:26:00.000-08:00

well, blog, i went to see some snow and i drew in my DS so i could show it to you. hope ya like :)

8's Series 2

2007-12-18T23:54:00.001-08:00

gotta catch up!

8's

2007-12-17T19:17:00.000-08:00

Some Friends. Collect them all!

Squares

2007-12-12T19:26:00.000-08:00

square paged sketchbook :). some of these pages are lying. in fact, all of these pages are lying. i probably just scanned a blank page and photoshopped the drawings onto them... or something. oh blog, you know how it goes... being all electrical and stuff.

Tastykake Storyboard

2007-11-10T18:56:00.000-08:00

so, i did this commercial when i was in school. i had storyboard it out, but i had to redo the storyboards... since i had lost them (working backwards from http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3035768226225460622 this video)
thanks journal. you're the best

Watering can

2007-11-09T22:37:00.000-08:00

Watering can of orange

During sketch crawl on sunday..

2007-11-07T20:00:00.000-08:00

A bunch of people ended up going to the park to draw. So I went digital (just like you, journal ;)...) and drew on my DS

Life has been crazy

2007-11-07T19:58:00.000-08:00

wow.. it's been a while since i shared anything with you, journal. Life has been pretty crazy. However, it's now all the rage to draw on your DS. I got the program before anyone on CA did tho :D. this is the common space of my place.

Beehive Interior

2007-09-24T03:04:00.000-07:00

hot platformer action.

Bad Guys from the bee hive.

2007-09-20T09:14:00.001-07:00

oh noooooooooooo! bees :( they're gonna hurt us a lot.

Friends of the Bee Town?

2007-09-13T23:49:00.001-07:00

what is going on in the town surrounding the bee hive? why does that man have a honeycomb tattoo? and why are those kids so hip?

Friends and Foes of the Bee Town

2007-09-12T22:02:00.000-07:00

Some inhabitants of the bee town. They all have designs based off of some shapes of beehives and bees themselves. fun sketches :)

New website

2007-09-10T04:17:00.000-07:00

I updated my website (I gave in and renewed my hosting... my pocket still hurts). I just sat down and in a 3 hour burst came out with what you see here. It was as fun as I remember web design could be. (the image is the graphic on the left of my screen)

The open world

2007-09-07T18:00:00.000-07:00

This is the world that has various locations that you can visit. There is the beehive on the right with the mutated bees and a brainwashed town surrounding it, an observatory, a junkyard, and a dead end. fun times lie ahead.

Teaser (back from vacation)

2007-08-31T00:14:00.001-07:00

I visited home for a week, and now I'm back and recharged. I'm working on another screenshot/pitch material piece. I am spending more time thinking about what all of the pieces are (the previous beehive). this is the corner of the image :o).

edit

2007-08-22T22:59:00.000-07:00

I touched it up a little bit (more visual decision making)

Beehive Sketches

2007-08-17T16:20:00.000-07:00

Beehive with junk from the junkyard. crazy bees got confused and started picking up trash to put into their hive.

it's Samus, lol.

2007-08-15T23:04:00.001-07:00

lol

Goo Processor

2007-08-14T23:56:00.000-07:00

Goo Processor

He's got goo for a face and buttons on his chest :)

Pigeon-Tron GO!

2007-08-14T20:10:00.000-07:00

Pigeon-Tron GO!
I would laugh if I saw that.

Metroid <3 Chrono

2007-08-10T00:00:00.000-07:00

I was doodling, then i noticed that they went together.

also, happy birthday to me

Boss Fight

2007-08-08T22:34:00.001-07:00

go go go toaster man!

Screen Shot!

Tree Walker

2007-08-05T23:17:00.001-07:00

The trees let the girls down easy.

Dirates

2007-08-04T17:39:00.000-07:00

Dragons + Pirates = Kninja's arch nemesis

Kninjas

2007-08-03T23:33:00.001-07:00

kninjas are a cross between knights and ninjas.

Nonie

2007-08-02T19:12:00.001-07:00

This is my girlfriend, Nonie

Silver

2007-08-01T22:01:00.001-07:00

He's a mean li'l guy.

I've been around...

2007-08-01T19:30:00.001-07:00

"I've been around a lot of chemicals, and I've smelled a lot worse"

give granny some kisses

2007-07-31T00:34:00.001-07:00

i saw is yesterday :(

QUACK!

2007-07-30T21:32:00.000-07:00

for todd.

Girl Pants?

2007-07-27T22:08:00.001-07:00

tight

Is that a clearing?

2007-07-26T17:59:00.001-07:00

Is that a snowy landscape over there?
-sketch-

Beep

2007-07-25T00:45:00.001-07:00

this is the only way to dance to electronic music

Bums are scary

2007-07-22T21:18:00.000-07:00

i saw this guy the other day.

father figure

2007-07-16T23:52:00.001-07:00

I was out sketching at a coffee shop in SOMA capturing some people as characters. this one fit the best as a father figure.