Saturday

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Tuesday

Creaturebox Sketch WIP

Here is how I went about the sketch using Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro.


Creaturebox Sketch Afterwork

So today after work I did a sketch pretty influnced by the guys at www.creaturebox.com I dig their stuff and wanted to play around in Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro, it was like regular old drawing--and at the same time gliding gracefully across ice, well played auto desk, well played... I spent about an hour on this one and will post my work process in a bit.


John Sanford's Pink Unicorn

It was John Sanford's Birthday the other day, he is a story artist, currently at DreamWorks Animation and he also does a few webcomics, like http://www.kandjcomic.com/ and http://chippyandloopus.com/ , I wanted to do sketch for him of his Pink Unicorn--who has been absent from for a few years, bring him back John, bring him back...


Thursday

David Reddick's "Legend Of Bill"


Had been meaning to do a sketch of my friends character Bill from his comic Legend Of Bill.

You should get to know or at least "e"know Dave he is a swell guy and a fantastic artist, friend him on facebook and tell him Sam sent ya.

Check out his stuff below.

David Reddick is a professional cartoonist working on comic strips such as “Legend of Bill,” “The Trek Life” at CBS/ STARTREK.COM, “Gene’s Journal” and “Rod & Barry” at Roddenberry.com, and he is a full-time cartoonist at Paws, Inc., where he works on the “Garfield” comic strip, as well as conceptual art, character design, marketing, publishing and licensing.

David also worked as an award-winning staff cartoonist at a daily newspaper for 6 years where his editorial cartoons and single-panel cartoons were (and still are) distributed to newspapers nationwide through Artizans Syndicate, Scripps Howard News Service and CNHI News Service. David also produces comics and cartoons for magazines like Star Trek Magazine, Knights of the Dinner Table, Nickelodeon and Scholastic’s The New York Times Upfront, to name a few, and has created comic book work for IDW Publishing and Tokyopop, has created product designs for various companies like Paws, Inc. (Garfield), Paramount Pictures, CBS Studios, Roddenberry Productions, Canson, Inc. and the NCAA, creates mobile content for providers like CBSMobile and ROK Comics in the UK, and his abstract and pop art paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Indianapolis, Florida, Michigan, England and France, and he’s painted wall murals in Japan.

David also does lots of other stuff too, like attend conventions nationwide, talks to schools and groups about art and comics, and occasionally, if the planets are aligned properly, he even finds time to doodle in his sketchbook everyday, play with his kids and eat and sleep.

Legend of Bill webcomic: www.LegendofBill.com
Gene's Journal webcomic:www.genesjournalcomic.com
Rod&Barry webcomic: www.rodandbarrycomic.com
The Trek Life webcomic:www.facebook.com/thetreklife

Saturday

Roughing it…

An animator buddy of mine, (Lucas Gilbert), came over last night and asked me if I could help him with his boards for his thesis, so I gave him a hand and cracked out some roughs for him. I personally thought his boards read well and were pretty easy to follow--I can say this without bias because I had my wife check them out, which in my house is a good litmus test, she is brutally honest with me about that kind of stuff. So here are the boards their not pretty at all, but they will do the job for the project and are hopefully clear.


















Wednesday

ESPN SPORTS Bar & Grill



A year of work and now the game is out--now go play it.
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3D printed Zoetrope UPDATE

On display at the Atrium Gallery



Update from previous post.

When breaking down the support structure to this I broke plate 23 and glued him wrong and now he is a little twisted, this ruins the animation for this zoetrope so I will try to fix him manually if not I will reprint him.
So close…

Frame 23 is WRONG and if not changed must DIE!!! 

Click for Animation

The cycle should look more like this--->
video

Here is the first camera test: LINK