Eye2Animate

Mahjong Comp Art

2011-01-12T12:02:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-07T08:48:00.000-08:00

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

More UI from Unwell Mel

2011-01-04T09:44:00.001-08:00

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

2011-01-04T09:38:00.001-08:00

A couple of screens from the Game, Unwell Mel.

More Unwell Mel Backgrounds

2011-01-04T09:33:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-26T21:52:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-26T21:30:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-26T21:14:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-21T22:37:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-13T22:52:00.000-08:00

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

Orange Orb

2010-12-09T14:09:00.000-08:00

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

Comps in Flash

2010-11-30T08:26:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-08T09:20:00.000-08:00

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

2010-10-29T16:38:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-29T16:25:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-22T13:13:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-18T13:12:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-18T13:04:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-12T11:58:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-11T11:44:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-11T11:23:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-19T16:16:00.001-07:00

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

2010-09-14T21:21:00.000-07:00

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

Digital paint

2010-09-14T21:15:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-14T15:42:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-11T18:39:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-11T18:29:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T12:35:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T12:03:00.001-07:00

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

Doggy Canter

2010-09-08T11:47:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T11:16:00.000-07:00

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.

2010-09-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T10:25:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T10:21:00.000-07:00

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.

2010-09-08T10:17:00.001-07:00

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.

2010-09-08T09:42:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T09:37:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T09:35:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

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

Playing in Flash

2010-01-31T15:08:00.000-08:00

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

2009-09-11T08:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-30T08:52:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-23T10:18:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-21T08:06:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-21T07:47:00.001-07:00

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

Unwell Mel briefcase

2009-07-21T07:28:00.000-07:00

When a salesman calls he bring out his best goodies. This is the background I worked on for Unwell Mel. It contains powerUps that you can get buy during the game to help you along your quest to cure Mel. I created the packages as well. they were pretty fun putting together.

Unwell Mel calender

2009-07-21T07:20:00.000-07:00

This is the calendar I did for Unwell Mel. It tracked your progress and time you would be visited by Mel and by the salesman who would come to sell you power ups.

2009-07-21T06:19:00.000-07:00

some more web2 style icons. This is a never ending challenge to make things look as good as the can on screen. Fun and frustrating at the same time.

2009-07-21T06:05:00.000-07:00

I worked on Unwell Mel for about a year and I decided to share some more artwork I created from this game. Here are the icons I created for the game. This was fun to work on plus difficult at times because these icons had to fit into a 64X64 square space.

2009-07-21T05:50:00.000-07:00

I create icons for numerous projects. I been updating my style to run with current looks and feel, here's some blog icons

2009-07-21T05:48:00.000-07:00

I've got to keep on this stuff but life always seems to get in the way. Here's a background test I worked on a while back. I thought it came out pretty well.

2009-06-05T09:10:00.000-07:00

Been working on a website for my daughter, this has been a long time coming. I fianlly have some free time to finish this up. Elements are created in photoshop and flash. Hopefully will have it online soon.

2009-06-03T18:30:00.000-07:00

Here's another image I did in photoshop and Illustrator, I was having lots of fun with these ideas until I got busy with working for the man, so much to draw so little time....

2009-06-03T18:24:00.000-07:00

My daughter is playing volleyball for Seattle U. For a fundraiser idea I did this illustration in Illustrator and Photoshop had them printed on T-shirts from my friends at http://www.evolutionshirts.com. Thanks Tom and Jeff!
Go Redhawks!!!

2009-05-20T10:26:00.003-07:00

Here are some sketches I did a while back that i am planning on painting, so much to do so little time...

2009-05-04T17:36:00.000-07:00

Man, you can get really lazy trying to post onto your blog when your away from your computer too long, well here are some recent drawing I did....

turtle neck

2009-04-09T14:46:00.002-07:00

Wahine

2009-04-09T14:46:00.001-07:00

2009-04-09T14:45:00.000-07:00

Did a few watercolors for the book as well.

2009-04-09T14:44:00.001-07:00

King Louie

2009-04-09T14:43:00.000-07:00

2009-04-09T14:41:00.001-07:00

another one

2009-04-09T14:40:00.000-07:00

here are some more images...

Book Art

2009-04-09T14:36:00.000-07:00

I worked on a book for showing off my artwork, I worked on pieces for it for about a year, I just was really trying to develop my own style and play around with my pencils and markers, did some water colors as well. Here are some pieces that i have in the book.

2009-04-07T14:29:00.000-07:00

A drawing I did a long time ago, i did it in color pencil and canson paper, I love illustrating on that medium.

girl sketch

2009-04-07T12:47:00.001-07:00

Here's a sketch I did a while ago, I thought it turned out pretty well.

more sketches

2009-04-07T12:27:00.000-07:00

been doing a lot of sketching in my sketchbook. Something that really needs to happen more often because the more you draw the better you get.

2009-03-26T15:07:00.000-07:00

Not really sure what I was thinking when I created this sketch but thought it was worth the share.

blue elephant

2009-03-26T15:03:00.001-07:00

here's another elephant I recently did.

elephant

2009-03-26T14:59:00.001-07:00

This is an elephant I worked on a while ago.

2009-03-26T14:49:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to share some sketches and drawings over the past year. I even put together a book to share with family and friends. here's one I did... It's called Horns

2009-03-26T14:46:00.001-07:00

Here's the Dr.'s office I did. I really like the elements of this one.

waiting room

2009-03-26T14:43:00.000-07:00

This is the waiting room area loading screen for the game i worked on called Unwell Mel.

2009-03-26T14:39:00.001-07:00

Last one, the kidney...

heart

2009-03-26T14:38:00.001-07:00

Here's one I did for the Heart area.

background 2

2009-03-26T14:36:00.000-07:00

this one was a view of the lungs... Really liked the color of this one.

2009-03-26T14:33:00.001-07:00

Here are some of the backgrounds i did as well. had a really fun time working on these. This one was a view inside the mouth.

Unwell Mel

2009-03-26T14:28:00.000-07:00

I'd been working on this game for Big Fish Games for a year now. It finally came out in Feb. I was really excited about the way it turned out. I wanted to share some of the assets for it. They look pretty neat.
Here's the logo I did for the game title...

advice animation

2009-03-26T14:18:00.000-07:00

Here's the final for my advice animation, finished it a while ago but haven't made time to post it.

advice

2009-02-24T15:15:00.000-08:00

Been working on this animation for a long time, after landing a busy job working at Big Fish Games, I set this animation aside and almost let it die in the endless unfinished animated files I have on my hard drive. I'm determined to get this done so I can have a talkie in my portfolio. Here's my first finished piece of it, needs lots of work because I am really rusty.

Back on the Attack!!

2009-02-24T15:08:00.000-08:00

My buddy has been getting on me to animate again. I've been doing other stuff for a while (gotta pay the rent) and have found myself back around to this part over and over again, creating animation! I love animating, bringing something to life with just a few simple moves. It's a slippery slop but still a blast when you get something to really look like it has weight and timing to give you the sense that it is really alive....