Back ...

After an extended lazy period, I'm finally back to drawing again. I've got some stuff in my sketchbooks that I'll share as soon as I get my scanner hooked up again (hopefully tonight).

The Beatles: Rock Band trailer

This is a kickass piece of animation to promote the new The Beatles: Rock Band game. I love the transitions between the various moments in their career, and how the visuals complement the music so amazingly well. Superbly thought-out and edited ... enjoy!

The Beatles: Rock Band Trailer

It's very inspiring to watch something like this. I've gotta finish my Radiohead animation. I need to find a reliable artist to help me, however.

Little Rose

Here's a better version. For some reason the compression in the last one caused some problems at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu63ujIIF4U

Flower Bloom in Color

I finally finished the flower bloom. I was asked to change the end to have the flower bloom so it takes up the whole frame. It could have turned out better, but I didn't have the time to draw and color all the frames needed to make it nice. Besides, it's supposed to have a childlike quality to it, hence the quick and dirty color job (done with Crayola crayons and colored pencils).

Pencil Test No. 2

Here's the second part of the pencil test -- the flower blooming. I'll be coloring this in either crayon or colored pencil to give it a child-like quality, but I can't decide how to handle the background. It'd be nice to have a separate element animating as a background. I'd like to have some sort of movement back there instead of just a static color.

Pencil Test No. 1

Here's the first part of a pencil test of a little animation I'm working on for a friend. Nothing fancy. Eventually, this little guy grows up into a rose.

Death Tank

If you own an Xbox 360 and wanna play a fun game, download "Death Tank" from Xbox Live Arcade. It's a really fun multiplayer action game from Ezra Dreisbach, a former Snowblind Studios programmer. The original game was included as an Easter Egg is the Sega Saturn games "Powerslave" and "Duke Nukem 3D." Snowblind helped him with development of this finely polished sequel, and is publishing it (I helped with the Italian localization, and also did some animation that didn't make it into the game).

Anyway, it's a great game, so cough up the $15 and blow some shit up.

Death Tank XBLA Site