My wife and I just watched Ben Stein's movie "Expelled" on DVD. I had seen it in theaters but forgot how good it was. It's a funny and very thought-provoking look at the debate between intelligent design and evolution. There's even a couple of animated sequences in the film. A 2D cartoon clip and an impressive 3D segment with the camera...
Last Saturday NBC aired another new episode of 3-2-1 Penguins! Here's some of the character design work I did for that episode. In this episode the Penguins and the kids land on a planet inhabited by alligator-like characters. This guy was the Emporer. The script described him as an Elvis fan and director requested that he wear an Elvis-like jumpsuit with...
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 -Â 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!...
