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:

Figure Drawlins

Some figure drawings.