Network Redux Man

Got a lill shout out from them. Thanks to Mark for getting me involved in that project.

Ref: http://inside.networkredux.com/2009/11/18/network-redux-sponsors-ignite-portland-7/

I worked on the last scene of this animation. Watch it here

Airport Authority

Working on some concept boards with a friend. It's a short story on Link (Ref: ゼルダの伝説). Poses from the boards.. enjoy!

Lateral Collateral on the App store!

Been a super good day for all American Football fans! Two of my games have been published. Lateral Collateral, a big favorite on the NFLRZ has now been ported to the Iphone. Now you can spend endless hours on that international flight lateraling the ball and getting your butt kicked by your opponents. Fast and fun game. (Click here to go to the Apple App store)



The other game which I have made that has been green-lit is "Sprint Attack". It's a take on Super Sprint, with football players pushing opponents off the tracks, picking up bonuses and dodging Big Red Blitz Bots. Its a well made game, have fun playing it here at the NFLRZ

The blams of time

I decided to work on some art to help move the cog wheels of Clock Day.

Clock day is celebrated every 15th of August (since 2001) on newgrounds.com. It started when a user named StrawberryClock had turned in his flash submission which just contained the letter 'B'. This submission, as much as it was blammed, withstood the blams of time and has churned out an internet subcultre. From these bytes of silliness grew the phenomenon of the Clock Crew and their creativeness.

According to history books, before StrawberryClock submitted 'B', he had turned in 'A' which was blammed to the peak of oblivion. Thus my project is based on that submission by StrawberyClock.

It's a short animation and personifies the letter 'A' and A's bleak, short lived future it faced by the forces that binds newgrounds.

Below are some of the preproduction works that went into this project. Enjoy!

I started off by first getting a good feel for the character and penciled out some basic shapes to simplify the figure.



On nailing down the final design, I decided to go straightahead and not do the turn arounds, something that I essentially do on all projects.





After thumbnailing the concept storyboard, dove right into to creating a tight animatic with Jedadiah's: Pardon(theme) from the audio portal. Songs that didn't make it into the list or were dropped last minute were the following, A salute to these talented audio slaves.

CJ's : Ghost of the Past
DanPaladin's: Pear
Zeke30695's: Lilium (Music Box)
Jedadiah's: Reprise and Finale

The Clock Crew in the mean time have finalized on this years preloader, which I have modified to fit my animation.

Thus getting to the end of this post, I had fun working on this project. The total time it took me from scrip to screen was approximately 12 hours, broken over a few nights. Getting technical, this animation made in Flash CS3 (bloody thing crashed a lot of times), the background texture is from CGTextures.com which is a collective maintained by Marcel Vijfwinkel, also used Photoshop for editing and optimizing the final image. Audacity was the weapon of choice for sound editing.

I'm submitting the finished animation this Saturday to newgrounds.com and by next week, it goes up on thedevilsgarage.com too. So for now, I shall leave you with two stills from the animation.





Shoutout to Sean 'Chains' Mckenzie who helped me out with that strange language called actionscript.

Update: Death of 'A', has been featured on newgrounds homepage! Had got 15,000 hits in the first 24hours, most excellent!

Sasquatch Test Animations.

I had done this over a year back and had forgotten to post these random tests.

Clink - the introbot for Brandissimo! inc.

Clink, the pet bot of Brandissimo! Inc., was created to intruduce the company to its viewers and clients. Thinking out of the box, gets klink in to a lot of trouble, but hey! who could ever be upset with a cute lill bot like it.

This post contains design and development of the character and alternate storyboards and animatics that were pitched.


Some of the doodles for this creation.(Inspired by R2D2?!)

All robots manufactured at the garage go through a color test.

Clink Turnarounds

Complete turnaround of the character and rigged for animation.

Shown below are few other concept boards to the same intro.


Storyboard #1


Storyboard #2


Storyboard #3



To watch the final intro animation, go to devilsgarage.com and see it under the animation link or log on to brandissimo.com (this site may or may not contain the final demo).

Guitar Hero

So Janice started rockin
Aint never gonna stop
Gotta keep on rockin
Someday shes gonna make it to the top.

Beat Bot Game Animation.

Fat Guy Run Cycle

This was one of the many run cycles I had made for the game "Attack of the Fit-Nasties"



play the game here.

Tunnle Vision.

Here is a sample animation test I created for a casual game.

2.5 D background Rig

I had made this example for a 2.5d Tutorial some time back and had forgotten to upload it.

After rigging it up in Flash.



Original image

Boingboing

Ok I admit, I was addicted to boingboing.net. It's like a whiff of caffeine as the afternoon seeps in. (want to know more?) Other than the weird content, the blood orange logo is totally eye catching . Boingboing.net is such a well named blog that you can hear the sound the movement as your eyes roll over it.

The boxy pixelated girl in boots got me wondering... what she would look like, animated?!

Poses (rough animation)

Just some thing I was doodling this evening. The Clip is taken from 'American Pie'

And I've got a strong urge to fly.

Sweet rides, Easy pain. Class apart. My new Honda Accord.

YAY! TOMB RAIDER is up and running

Tomb Raider show I worked on just got released here View the "LEGACY" Episode :D

Father's Day at the NFL

One of my animated banner ad's for Father's day, made it to the NFL Rush Page. Yay!

You 'what' your son?

Hardboiled is a dark comedy about the perils of a suicidal egg. Worked with Brian Oakley and Aaron Kablack an few others on this short animation back at SCAD. Though We had finished the project, I am currently cleaning up the scenes and will post a few of them over this month.

You can check out any time you like....

A buddy of mine sent me this link (more). This is the only place where you can 'Buy Ajay Karat' from Amazon.com. Funny.

Threadmill Marathon (Update)

Threadmill Marathon now comes in THX, thanks Brent.


(Ref old post)

RapTapTapTapparapp Yooooohoooo! (Update)

This is awesome! Thanks to Brent Kiser for all SFX and Track, the Tap Dancer is looking better.

Detroit Shock City!

Working on a small concept animation with Brent Kiser, Sound Designer from SCAD.
Updates coming soon.

RapTapTapTapparapp Yooooohoooo!

Layout from an old project

Treadmill Marathon

It has been some time since I had been to the gym.

Robot Walk Cycle UPDATE!

Download the flash source file from here

Walking as a leisure activity

After working on those walk tutorials for quiet some time, walks have become so much more easier to animate. Loving it :D

Danny Phantom

My Friend the White Gryphon is the biggest "Danny Phantom" fan, ever. A lot of her works on Danny Phantom can be accessed here. This is the flash version of Danny, based off one of her art works.

DethKlok Metalocalypse

I'm finally in Hollywood,CA and @Titmouse Inc. Working on the heaviest show coming to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. The show is from Brendon Small, the guy who also did Home Movies. DethKlok is about the worlds most blackest, killer bee, meanest, badass, famous, badasssse, heavy, black metal band, ever! RoKing!

Im not too sure of the release date, But shall update when I receive any dates. Working on Vector Tracing, Color and Tones for Characters, and Layouts so far. Looking forward to learning stuff from Mike Roush, the lead animator on the show and Dik Pose the layout artist at the one man dept!

Update I: The Show will be air'd on Cartoon Network on August 6th, 2006.

Update II:If you have not caught up on the the best that's been happening on Cartoon Network's AdultSwim, since the August 6th. You should be buying your self a very demoted grave and dying in there. Cause DethKLOK is here! and here is some trivia



Update III: Watch the show for the week here

Update IIII: DethKlok Easter Egg!
I believe that the character "Fan 1" which James Hetfield Voiced is "Goat" from Downtown!

Update V: Yeah I was right! Chris Prynoski, (One of the BEST Traditional Animator I have ever Met!) had mentioned that Goat is indeed the Fan#1, Awesome