Tend Your Own Garden

I made this illustration for fun this week. “Tend your own garden” has been a mantra for me lately as a reminder to focus less on what other people are doing and focus more on what I’m doing.

 

When I Saw Pocahontas for the First Time

Golden Globes Ladies

Yikes, it’s been a while guys. I’ve been totally slammed at my new job, working lots of late nights and weekends so I haven’t had a lot of time for fun things like drawing and sleeping. Anyway, as a result I’ve become more active on Instagram and Twitter. You can follow me there if you’re interested in my less artistic pursuits… Hopefully I’ll get more free time soon to dedicate to personal projects.

Here’s some ladies from the red carpet at the Golden Globes this year. Bonus points for anyone who can name them all.

The Sketchbook Project (finished!)

This post is a bit picture heavy, but I dug deep this weekend and finished up my Louis sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. I am so excited to send this in before the deadline at the end of the year!
On the last page I wrote some fun facts about Louis.
And lastly I drew a title page and put some doggie doodles on the front cover.
To see all the sketchbook pages click here.

The Sketchbook Project

I realized that I’m falling a bit behind with my Sketchbook Project sketchbook. I’m a little over half way through, but the deadline is coming up at the end of the year so I really need to get a move on. Here are the most recent pages.

Figure Drawing

These are some of my drawings from the last figure drawing session held at DD Florida. On a positive note, I’ve taken a job offer in California and Brian and I are packing up and shipping out to Burbank next week! I seriously cannot wait to get back to Cali.

Portfolio

I love animating and I am always looking for opportunities to work with a team to make awesome projects. I am proficient in Autodesk Maya and Mental Ray, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. I have experience cleaning up mocap data as well. Take a gander at my current animation reel below.



I worked with the VFX department while at Digital Domain creating crowd simulations for a project called Heads-Up Display. Working with one other animator, we animated over 100 individual variations of fans cheering, sitting, clapping, walking, talking, eating etc. to fill the stands in a baseball stadium. We used mocap data to start, cleaning it up and creating variations from it, but our director wanted more options so we ended up creating a lot of keyframe animated fans as well.



Animation Credits:
HUD (2012) spot for the Mets baseball team

Animated Short Films:
The Extraordinary Story of Lily Lily (2008)
Best Friends (2007)

As for my day job, I have four years of experience in the stereo 3D conversion industry working as a senior artist and project lead on major feature films. I have a highly trained eye for stereo and an in-depth understanding of the entire stereo 3D conversion pipeline. A sampling of my stereo work can be seen in my stereo conversion reel below (anaglyph glasses recommended).



Stereo Conversion Feature Film Credits:
Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon 3D (2011)
The Smurfs in 3D (2011)
Thor (2011)
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland 3D (2010)
Disney's G-Force in 3D (2009)

Other Stereo Conversion Credits:
Undisclosed game release for Sony Games (2012)
Amazin' (2012)
Space Command Commercial (2009)

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