more:


this one's a little bright. But exploring how the characters fit in their environments.

maybe something like this:


but with a texture cycle going over the entire chicken. Paper or fabric. I'm still testing.

I want to make it the final product really big, too. Either 720p or 1080i.

some backgrounds I painted for chicken cowboy. they scanned a little hot, so I might desaturate them a bit when I get some characters in here. More of a sepia feel? Anyhow, I'm trying to paint them as small as possible for texture and stuff. We'll see.

Some drawings for a title sequence for Liz Toonkel's short Fashion Kills! A little strange, but it's fun doing somethig different.





It's that time of year when there are millions of things to do. You'll start to see more coffee stains on all my work. See above.

some stills from a few animation tests. I'm thinking about just lining the facial features now (rather than the entire figure), but boiling those features continuously. The choice ultimately will have a lot to do with how the BGs and color directions go, but I'm open to whatever works best for the film.



mario galaxy looks cooool.

another cow dude.

more designs


the outlaw.

Does anyone remember these things from the 80s called bow bites? They were little plastic faces that clipped onto your shoe laces. As I recall they came in many different shapes. I had "animal" ones from the muppets. I'll try and find them at thanksgiving. I would like to bring the fad back.

more designs

This guy blows things up. There should be a designated explosives specialist in any gang of worth, in my opinion.

trying to push the designs.

here's benny two point oh.

chicken cowboy. here's the look direction it's going in, for better or worse.


the colors look very different depending on the monitor. Does anyone know the best way to calibrate a monitor? Or what to calibrate it to? Or how?

metal figures from the Greek Ministry of Tourism.

Don't worry, "chicken Cowboy" won't be in 3d. But I made this poor sap for stand in and pre visualization purposes on some of the more complicated shots. So he doesn't need to be too beautiful or move with the grace of an olympic ice skater.


I'd like to make a more complicated rig later for some animation tests. Making this guy has been more fun than I thought it would be.

Shark Suit won 2nd place in Collegiate Animation at the Ft. Lauderdale Film Int'l Film Festival. Thanks!