Ant-Man (Sort of)

This is a sketch I did while sitting and drawing with my stepson again. It's nice that he likes to sit and draw and paint because it gives me time to stop and just doodle. I don't get much time for that anymore. I liked it, so I did a quick coloring job in Photoshop. It kind of looked like Ant-Man, so I used the blue and red colors. Or giant man. Which ever direction you want to go...

Alien Spacecraft

This is another Blender post. I was listening to a bunch of podcasts from fxguide, which is great if you are into that sort of thing, and it really made me want to try and build some sort of thing I could rig up. I had just finished drawing a picture for this years Moore calendar. Here it is:

This year, my brother and I did 6 backgrounds and then sent them to each other and we have to put stuff over the other persons backgrounds. I did the little alien guys. So I thought, I can just model one of these little spacecraft and then make the alien, and rig them up as a test. I got the ship done as you can see. My next step will be creating the alien to go inside. Then I will work on texturing everything. I kind of like the plain white models you see of things though. I guess I should finish the calendar and all the other paid gigs before I continue with this though anyway, heh.

Dino

My stepson and I were painting yesterday just for fun, and here's one of them that came out. I liked it so I thought I would share. I don't get to just sit and paint for fun that much anymore, so it is always nice when I get the chance. I like to think it's an amphibian type of dino...

Blender

I have been messing around in Blender for the past few months and have really grown to love it. If you don't know what Blender is, go check it out. It's an "open source 3D content creation suite" that is really impressive considering it's free!

I realize it's been forever since anyone has posted to the blog here, so I thought I would share one of my latest creations. It's some old archival footage of a tiny little island in the South Pacific. Click here to see it!

Sketchin' It Up

Here's a couple of test sketches for a children's book my family and I are trying to put together some day. Yes that is a flying cheetah...

Kwiki Joe's Exterior

Here are some sketches of the exterior of Kwiki Joe's...for some stuff in the works...

Run, Forest, Run!

Late again, and yet, Ricky doesn't know why...We do.

Two Students

Two students hanging out. Doing some waving. What are they up to? They look very suspicious if you ask me. Hooligans...get off my lawn!

Mitt Romney

I've been doing so much web work lately for work, so I haven't been illustrating in a while. I finally got to draw something for our Mascot Talk iPhone app. It's a talking Mitt Romney. You will be able to make him say whatever you want him to say...hee her can't wait, mowhahahaha...

Caroline

Caroline.mp3

Here's some more music. This is an old one I did along time ago. Allen was coming up with lyrics and he was calling it Caroline, so that's what I am calling it. Maybe one day we can sit down and work all these songs out and refine them. This one is still pretty rough as you can tell, but I still thought I would share. Just for fun.

An interesting side note on this song is that I wrote the music to this one with my buddy Drew Hughes back when we were in college, and at the time EMO music (not sure if you remember that genre) was at it's height. We had gone to see a house show in Auburn where this band of youngsters was playing and all their songs sounded the same and all EMOy and stuff. So we left making fun of the music. Then the next day we wrote this to show how easy it was to make EMO music poking fun at the genre, and now I like this song. Heh. Funny how things change in life...

Hair Growth

I have no real idea why I made this other than I wanted to do a super fast animation for fun. Basically the first thing that popped in my head I would animate and this is what came out. Weird I know. It's a bald guy growing hair if you can't tell...thank you for your time!

A Patriotic Post

Work, work, work, all I do is work...here's some work. This is a mascot for an elementary school in Alabama. It's one of our Elementary School Program children's books. He's a Patriot, can you tell?

Big Blue

For work we were working on coming up with an actual mascot for the University of Michigan. Here's one of the designs that got thrown out. I liked him the most though. Oh well, guess I'm weird...