As I mentioned in my last post, I recently attended the Motion 08 animation conference in New Mexico. One of my favorite seminars was "Character Design: Capturing Ethnicity" given by Dan Haskett. Haskett is a Disney veteran who has spent the last twenty years working all over Hollywood as a character designer. He contributed design ideas to such Disney films...
Last week I attended the Motion 08 conference in New Mexico. The 4-day event was geared towards two industries: animation (2D and 3D), and motion graphics/editing. It was one of the best conferences I've attended in a while. The seminars were loaded with helpful and inspiring information, and I met a ton of great people. As an animation character designer, I...
I've been at the Motion 08 animation conference in New Mexico all week. More on that tomorrow. For now, a blog post I meant to publish earlier this week: The past weekend NBC aired another brand new episode of "3-2-1 Penguins!" for which I designed some characters. Here's a few misc. characters - a butterfly, firefly, and frog: The script called for the...
One of my all-time favorite artists, Rik Maki, now has a blog: http://americancartoonist.wordpress.com/ Check it out!...
This past weekend NBC aired another brand-new episode of 3-2-1 Penguins!, an animated series on which I was a character designer. I'm not sure but I think this was the premiere of season 2. The episode, titled "12 Angry Hens", required me to design (among other things) some robotic hens with holographic heads and a robotic scarecrow. Here's some of...
I'm still trying to dig out from under a mountain of work, so here's just a couple brief notes of interest: Play Election Lingo! If you are planning to watch the Vice Presidential debate tonight, have a little fun with this bingo-like game from illustrator Bob Staake. There's also a Presidential version for when the next debate rolls around. FallCon is this...
