Weekly Challenge II

transportation













Another version, dont know which one to go with. The first one has better atmosphere, and the second one has richer color and contrast, but loses the atmosphere. Bleh, maybe Ill mix them sometime soon.

sicksauce

moar sketches

From bart







































Deane and Cathy =]

Pixars Up!

This site, although not affiliated with Pixar or Disney, got some cool pictures of the upcoming movie "Up!" up on their artofpixar site, as well as a bunch of other Pixar art. Definitely worth a look. Check it out




Taken from ArtofPixar

couple of sketches

by the talented Jay-Z




from Toms rigging class.. fun


















WIP

couple of speedies

Just a couple of super quick ones.

Pretty old by now, but an amazing short. Oktapodi from the students of the Gobelins school in France.

heelflip-age

Not much from me this time, just a quick heelflip over a can done in Flash. Inspired by a good friend (who should get a Blog and show off his crazy sauce art, hint).
FUN!

This short has been out for a while now, but I recently re-watched it. Just goes to show how much character you can get out of an animation with no dialogue - its all pantomime - especially in a minimalistic (?) animated way.

Great stuff.




And here is his site http://bakenius.livejournal.com/.

Schools and Studios

No art this time from me.
Ive been reading animation blogs recently, getting myself ready for the new semester, when I came across this post by Kevin Geiger titled Cube Dreams (Read his blog, first). In it he says that animation studios are hiring cookie-cutter animators who keep within the narrow realm of standard animation. Now what schools are doing is teaching students how to "get a job" in these studios by giving them the narrow mindset of "thats how it should go" and "this is what they want". More schools need a closer connection with the companies. He goes on by asking the question "Do we want to turn out graduates who slot neatly into the job opening of existing production companies, or do we want to turn out graduates who revolutionize the industry..."
Our school has the Pixar program where the classes are taught by instructors who work at Pixar and teach part time. I've never gotten better advice or more a more thorough and direct critique of my work before those classes. Ive also gained an enormous amount of knowledge through just one semester of the Pixar class. The industry is changing every day, and its so hard to keep up with it especially when your school has little to no idea of whats going on behind the scenes at say Dreamworks or Rythm & Hues. Now I know why we need more school and industry connections, we need to break ourselves off from the standards; learn from the past but be original and expand our skillsets and imagination.

Theres a company thats taking action to move the industry forward, I suggest you guys check it out IPAX

end of summer stuff

Cant believe summers already over. Went to Israel for ten days, been to a bunch of crackin parties, Vegas, Napa, and the winetrain. Pretty crazy summer overall. Now back to business =]


Some speedpaints

















Some Acrylic practice



























































More sketches

Redsun

So the fields have been burning for a few days now, and the sunrises look like the sun is about to explode. Fun!

speedies

more speedpaints, this time some landscapes too

speedpaints

Some really quick studies from random movies. Each one was around 1-2 hours

sketches and spam

finally a finished piece










some recent sketches

more recent things

Fresh start

Here we gooooo!

Some old paintings: