hi blog i missed you. here's a sketchbook drawing i colored:

i've been super busy at work. and i animated a new short! i hope you get to see it someday...

and i went here:

and lived in this:

i recommend it! I drew and painted about 100 of these original things and handed them out around black rock city. if you got one, well, cool!

bye!

i drew this picture of me and my brother as crystals a couple weeks ago and totally forgot to color it. so i did.

makes me wonder why i ever stopped collecting geodes. why?

other than that, i drew this goat in an ikea catalogue. 

forgot about this

my little tribute to the transit of venus

i watched a solar eclipse through a pinhole projector in 2nd grade. it took every ounce of strength i had not to just stare at that sun directly. 

young ahab

i drew some rocks.

    

i like rocks. 

heads up that mocca starts tomorrow! if you're in nyc, check out all the amazing artists there. i'll be at table j18 with the talented connie chan. check it out!

I'm selling copies of my sketchbook--see?

each one has an original watercolor cover. gotta catch em all.

poor Lincoln.

stuff is happening! you can watch my short "let's make out" on liquid tv now! check it out! i'm really honored to be part of mtv's long tradition of strange cartoons.

here are some drawings

 ithink more soon

hello neglected blogspot. i've been busy! doing lots of traveling with blue sky, speaking about story stuff. I headed to BYU, and last week, San Jose State:

(dang look at all those people)

for most of my talks I show lots of different iterations of the same scene as I'm given notes week by week. it's fun pitching old boards. you look at stuff you had forgotten you ever drew. and sometimes you see stuff you wish you had forgotten--bad drawings, dumb ideas, and things that just completely missed the mark. it's a learning process for myself just as much as students (hopefully).

enough chat. here are some sketchbook pages

dolphin party

And a huge thanks this past week to the Rincon International Film Festival in Puerto Rico--Dr Breakfast won Best Animation! Cool!

I was in forbidden planet and saw this cover i drew for i love bad movies, the bad movie zine.

just a little nerd-out moment. then I bought some comics.

here are some sketchbook pages!


I really hope someone sees this "stargate brooklyn" idea here and runs with it. My gift to you!




Dr Breakfast is official selection for the New York International Children's Film Festival going on right now! Also check Dr B out at the Florida Film Festival April 13-22, and the Dallas International Film Festival April 12-22! And big thanks to Vimeo for including dr breakfast in their program, Best of Vimeo Shorts: Drawing Inspiration at this years SXSW!

i've been getting lotso quetions about how i made dr breakfast since posting it, so here's a brief making of video.

oh and the original for ref I guess

the key to surviving any long commute is to draw countless, unflattering caricatures of your coworkers.



sometimes i get carried away. sorry guys.

oh! I started a pie tumbler a couple weeks back! I post pies I bake. Mostly apple pies. Someday I'll be able to make perfect pie crust like my mom, but until then, these are my attempts. you can follow or do whatever people on tumblr do.

and then there's this...

sundance is over. everyone get back to work!

Here's a little blurb about dr B in the hollywood reporter. And you can see my last thingy for the huffington post here.


My mom called channel frederator and left this message. Dr Breakfast played on their youtube channel last week. Thanks frederator!



And thanks mom! My mom leaves some good messages. Except when they're sad. Like this one that I animated about three years ago.


bye mickey...

I've been out at sundance this week. It's been awesome. saw some really great shorts by don hertzfeldt, julia pott, kangmin kim, & others. and features! and things!

in lieu of drawings, here are some random pictures from park city.

if you run outta town for awhile to the middle of nowhere, you'll see this


this snowman and I flew around the world one evening.

clips of dr breakfast played at a bowling alley? check that off my bucket list.

ok. back to new york soon. and reality.

oh cripes has it been busy. lots of stuff to get ready for sundance, and the top-secret project at work that I'll hopefully get to show people someday.

Here's a new poster for dr breakfast. Do you want your own dr breakfast poster? It's OK to say no.

I started writing for this blog on the huffington post called the sundance diaries. It went up today, but I should be updating until the fest is over at the end of the month. The other short filmmakers have some great stuff to say. But you don't have to take my word for it.

i wanted to do another post like this one, showing a bit of how i animate using a combination paper and after effects. it's not the most efficient system out there, but it's the most efficient system for me, working on a train at least.

all starts with the storyboards/animatic. I try to draw really loose, but with enough poses so I know what's going to happen.

next some sort of layout to draw over on paper. it's pretty much the same here, but ideally a layout should improve the staging a bit.

Pencil animation. Really going scooby doo on this one--limiting the parts I animate with multiple layers.

From here I'll use a multiply filter in after effects to color underneath the pencil drawing. They're just shape layers with the paths adjusted a tiny bit each frame. I've found this to be a little quicker than coloring frame by frame in photoshop, but it's not nearly as exact.

Oh! add the egg too.

add the watercolor BG

and the final product

oh yeah! dr breakfast is a vimeo staff pick! thank you so much!

hi everyone. it's been a crazy couple weeks with work, travel, holidays, and commuting. and there's this thing--this is new. . .

really excited to go to park city in January!

and a huge thank you to the crew--sound designer Robin Arnott does some insane stuff--try watching with your eyes closed. And Nick Koenig's music is awesome. And we had the perfect deer, Chris Siemasko and Vadim Bazhanov.

I was going through some old, embarrassing sketchbooks and I found my first ever dr breakfast ideas. They're a lot older than I thought they were--drawn 7 years ago, right after I graduated high school.


I guess it all started with bread. Hmm. Anyhow, pretty weird how ideas come back, or maybe they never leave. Just mutate a little. Eventually, the scene became this.

from the old sketchbook

sad batman