New Reel

This should be prefaced by saying that with the exception of the chalkboard, museum, car, and weight lifting scenes, all assets were created by me (modeling, rigging, texturing, animating, scripting, rendering). Most of the 3d work was done in Maya, a little 3DS Max, and After Effects. There is also so hand-drawn stuff thrown in there for good measure:

Tentacles

Some vector ornaments, they are tentacles. Use as you see fit: http://www.mediafire.com/?ozmjmutmyin

Dr. Conkey's Business Card

The final product for the Dr. Conkey's business card. I suggested a letterpress card, but they decided that the money was better spent elsewhere. Oh well, I'm happy with it.

SLI Brewery, Nut Brown Ale

Making your own beer is fun, making your own labels just adds to the experience. Hand-drawn beginning:


First Iteration:


Simplified down:

Business Card Redesign.

Beer Label

For the batch of IPA that I am finishing up brewing:

Distinctive Signs, Inc.

Design for my job's Corporate Face:

Walk the Line

Here is a silly design for a sign for a client. Full size about 18" x 24":

More Stuff from work

We are apparently in the process of making the front room at work more interesting. Here are a few of my ideas. Trying to go for something interesting, that can be created in the real world and installed on a wall:















Key logo for a property management company, it went downhill from here.





Quick animation for the web.

GSG 5 sec project: Good/Bad from Ian Gamble on Vimeo.

Work Stuff

A few things from work:



Building Signage

A vehicle wrap I was responsible for. Flames had to have backgrounds removed, the red of the truck had to be matched. Unfortunately, the printer was unable to get an exact match, but its fairly close.

A fun little experiment, nothing to complex, just illustrator.

Some more things

A few more things I've been playing around with:




This clown thing is ridiculous, I know, but I thought it was funny. Learned how to use a combination of photoshop and illustrator to get relatively clean line work.



This was for Illustration Friday, but I missed the deadline. Illustrator/photoshop combo.


Here is the animated logo, its not quite done, I have a few tweaks, but I'm posting it for now. Maya for the die, and a combination of photoshop, illustrator, and after effects for everything else. Pretty simple stuff, but it looks cool. And thats all that really matters right?

Something fun

Heres something fun I've been working on, I'm animating it and I'll put that up when it all gets done, but here is just a quick screenshot:

Intern work

I've been busy interning at a comic book publishing company called Studio 407 in Marina Del Rey, mostly doing lettering, color correction and assembly. I've worked on a number of comics: Hybrid, Golem and Shadow Chronicles as well as a few others. Everything is lettered in Illustrator, and then assembled for print in InDesign, so I have gotten to know those programs fairly well.

In addition to that, I have been helping them overhaul their website, www.studio-407.com. Chad the creative director, designed mockups for the site, and I have been implementing his design in Flash. I've been focusing on making it friendly on the backend, so that it is easy to update when needed, and I've been learning quite a few new things in Flash. Unfortunately, its fairly slow at the moment, and I'd like to figure out how to speed it up.

Several more websites I've worked on:
Havoc Brigade (Flash Animation)
Demon Squad (Flash Animation)
Studio 407 news (Dreamweaver)

On my own, I've got a few animation exercises that I hope to have complete by the end of the month. As well as any number of still pieces. Ellen and I also have two short films cooking.

(fun)damentals part deux

Week two! This is getting awfully hairy, its still staying relatively fun though...

Fundamentals

So I've been drawing for years, I've just graduated from Art School, and I've only just now decided to focus heavily on "fundamentals". So I'm going to partake in John K.'s $100,000 animation drawing course. (har har) And since it's never a good idea to have only one "teacher" I'm supplementing it with Andrew Loomis' "Figure Drawing for all its Worth". So these pictures that follow are the results of about 2 days study. (Tuesday and Friday).





Some thoughts on the process:

I'm skeptical as to how much use copying straight out of a book is. Beside simply ingraining ideas of proper construction into the process of drawing. It seems to me there is a danger here: the inability to create for yourself. That by copying straight from a book, you become "stuck" doing the same drawing over and over. Who knows.

And finally, The Aquanaut Production Blog!!!

Photoshop Stuff

Here are a few things I've given some color in Photoshop, as well as a few line drawings: