Mahjong Comp Art

I worked on this idea for a facebook application that was put on the shelf. I really liked the look and feel of this. Hopefully, in the future people on facebook will be able to check it out.

Video Tag

Working with After Effects creating a personal tag to send to potenial art and animation gigs.

More UI from Unwell Mel

Some more UI and inGame images from Unwell Mel. One is the Dr. Office and the other is the Hospital outside.

UI for Unwell Mel

A couple of screens from the Game, Unwell Mel.

More Unwell Mel Backgrounds

Some more background images from the game I created called Unwell Mel. This is a game that I worked on for BigFish Games.

Old Headlight and Grill

I have been involved on an internship with a close friend who is also my mechanic. He works on vintage Volvo's. http://www.xrayautomotive.com/ I own two 1967 122's. I took some photos at the shop and thought they turned out pretty interesting. Here's a couple I took and edited in photoshop.

Cobalt Blue

This was a gift I gave to my father-in-law, who was the lead singer of the band Cobalt Blue. I edited it in photoshop as well.

Busy Bee

I've been studying some photography for a while now and I thought I would post this composition. I edited it in photoshop too.

Flash Background 2

Working with flash and came up with these new trees, I liked the color choice and I'm pushing my style a little more.

Albany

This was an animation created in AfterEffects, working on timing with music and the background was created to set a mood.

Orange Orb

Working on After effects and created this orb, using some masks and particle effects. I think it's kind of neat.

Comps in Flash

Working on my UI skills in flash, made this media player imported the carbon texture. Thought it turned out pretty good. Need to get some actionscript going to get it functional.

Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead

Our annual Dia de los Mertos celebration has come to an end. This is an image I created for invitations I sent out that was influenced by some imagery that I saw when I visited Oaxaca, Mexico over the summer. It was an amazing place. I look forward to visiting there again.

animated background

This is the same idea, a test to create 2D assets in Flash and I just added a simple animation to it. I may push this one further since I do have some time to myself, we'll see.

Flash Background

I did this test in flash creating assets for a 2D game, found the style to be really awesome. Here's the idea I came up with.

More Advice

I've been working on this animation for a few months, Seemed like it would never be complete, or as complete as I have it at this point. With animation, there's always more to tweak, tweaking may never end. I'm really happy with this piece. I'd like to thank my buddy Mike Baran (http://baranarts.com/thebsides/) for his encouragement and awesome feedback.

scrap girls

I found these pieces of scrap cardbord and started drawing my favorite subject... Girls! Some more images that I created in photoshop an illustrator. Here are the sketches and final piece.

Jazz

I love Jazz, it is the key element to the true form of Hip Hop. I created some pieces for a book I put together a while back. Here's are some images.

Forza 2

UI Designer for the Turn10 Studios at Microsoft. I impliemented comps and ideas from the UI lead and created graphic elements for the GUI of the game, Forza 2. Here are some examples.

motion 2 music

At Bellevue College, I worked with students importing music and animating to the music. the focus was timing. This was a pretty fun exercise. Don't judge me on the song, I used it as an example... =)

Flash Exercise

At Bellevue College, I taught students frame by frame animation in Flash, here's my example of a walk cycle I created as an example for students.

Demo Reel

I find that when people are looking for my demo reel on my website that they run into issues of either finding it or downloading it. I'm posting it here on my blog so you can just click and watch, easy peasy! Note: This is a compressed version. So when you view it large it will look grainy.

Longsleeve Boy

This is a character that I created and started this children's book idea about unusual hero types.

Digital paint

Worked on this piece using my new intuos wacom tablet, took a while but hopefully it'll be insentive to practice more.

Shocked and Smug Expression

A couple of facial expression exercises that I thought I would share, fun stuff! Not as easy as it may seem because of rig limitations.

Exhausted pose

Another pose where I did a few sketches (don't know what happened to the sketch) and created it in 3D. I feel like this most days, ha!

Excited pose

Just an exercise where I sketched a few poses and then duplicated it using a 3d character, I liked the way it turned out.

lift animation

Worked on this lift animation. I think the timing looks good and the weight works as well, but as I always say. I could tweak it forever. Animation never comes to an end..

Doggy walk

Here's that walk with the same rig.. Fricken' cute!

Doggy Canter

This is a fun animation I worked on using a rig that a friend created. They needed some testing don on this to see if I could move it around and it srill look good. I did a walk with him too, I'll post it as well.

Flying Animation

This was an animarion that I worked on a while ago. I felt that it turned out pretty solid. I could continue to tweak forever as with anything else but I thought I should move forward.

Can't stop working with these UI elements, there's always more stuff I can learn to make them look cooler.

Some more UI element's. Always trying to push myself to create some cool stuff. Always a learner.

These were logo's that I handdrawn and then I reworked them in photoshop and illustrator to sett them up for print. I really liked the elements and flow of these.

Logo's! I really like working on logo ideas, here are a few I worked on. these logos were created in illustrator, comped out in photoshop. Check out http://www.emedtv.com/. I redesigned their website.

Modeled this in maya, going for a more realistic look for this model. Really need to work on the body for this.

Took me a while to work and rework this head. Using some zbrush for this but mostly smoothing and manipulating edges. Modeled in maya.

Another concept model for a racing game idea. i really liked the way this one turned out. The texture sheet really brought it to life. Again, maya and photoshop.

Tonka Dump Truck

I modeled this in Maya. Building the texure sheet in Photoshop. This was concept artwork for a game idea.

Playing in Flash

beening teaching Flash at Bellevue College and had an assignment where we traced a character using the different tools in flash. Thought it would be a fun assignment for students and created one for myself.

tutorial

Followed this tutorial online and created these buggy looking eyes, really liked them and decided to make it a bit more fun. I also did the fonts and the layout. the font is an existing supefly logo that I thought I would try to recreate.

walk across floor

It's been a while since I did some animation and I need to keep pushing that in order to find that perfect animation job. Been getting some great feedback from a friend of mine. He's been a great help. Here's a walk sequence I did. It's short but you can loop it.

Tacoma Film Fest

I worked on an idea for this annual event. I primarily worked this idea in photoshop and imported the images into InDesign and added text to it, here are my poster idea.

Unwell Mel UI with background

Here's a quick sample of the UI with the powerUps and in-game icons together with a background that I created.

Unwell Mel packages

Here are the packages for the briefcase I created and worked on for Unwell Mel, these were really fun create.