New Fall Semester

So school has started up again, and since I'm taking two animation classes this semester, expect a lot more to pop up on this blog! I've just started my Storyboarding and Animation Production classes, and already I have a few things to show! Check out the art and video pages to actually see my work as the classes progress, but for now, here's a look at what we've started doing: Our first assignment in Storyboarding was to take a series of photographs of an action and redraw the frames as storyboard stills. Here's the first shot of my series, showing my cat Felix jumping onto his cat tree.

During the call-for-entries period of the NexTv Web Series & Short Film Competition that I'm participating in, there is a monthly viewer's choice "Shortcut to the Finals". The top vote-getter each month gets a pass to the finals of the overall
competition (still ongoing) and about $1,250 worth of filmmaking software. The list of industry heavy-weights involved is long (ICM, Disney, "The Office", Fox, etc...); getting to the finals is extremely significant.

Here is how to vote:

1. Go to www.nextventertainment.com/web
2. Click on the big blue tab at the bottom left of the page that says, "Shortcut to the
Finals"
3. Type in my name (or my project's name) in the search bar on the right just above the list of submissions
4. Click on WATCH.
5. Then click on VOTE.

I appreciate your support.

Interplanetary ART

Well, here's my latest film! It's actually only my second film, and was made entirely in just about a month. This should be up on the video page soon, so if you happen to stop by there, don't forget to check out my first short and my animatic for this film.

New Content!

Well, thanks to perseverence and a good amount of luck, I've managed to figure out how to put together pages on my blog with actual content on them. As of now, two of the videos I've made have been posted to my videos page, namely my short "Leo and Dee" and my animatic for my newest film. The art page is pretty sparse at present, but hopefully after this semester ends and I finish my film I'll be able to post actual artwork from my portfolio. Right now it's just a few of my character sketches and early story ideas for my film, but stay tuned for more!

This is an early incarnation of my character Leo who has appeared in two of my films to date. He hasn't changed too much apart from size and proportions, though he did go from being an outcast European bat to a lost Brazilian one.

Okay, so here's a picture I did a while ago, that basically depicts a cartoon "me" with most of my film and animation inspirations. Included are characters from The Last Unicorn, My Neighbor Totoro, Labyrinth, The Hobbit, and yes, even Muppet Babies and Pokemon. I'm not gonna lie, I totally love those shows.

But wait, there's more!

As an added feature to this blog (and in the hopes that someone will actually be interested in it) I will be featuring much of my fine arts work as well as animation related art. Having taken two years of AP (Advanced Placement) Art in high school, I have quite a few peices sitting in my portfolio at home just waiting to be presented. Seeing as I have never had an interest in taking up a career as a fine artist, I have not had the inclination or opportunity to show these works in a show or exhibit outside of high school. As this is the case, I see no problem in presenting my work in this setting where I can accompany such works with other aspects of my talents. I hope the wider array of media will provide a better perspective for my style of art in general.