Hiatus Over

Long overdue for a post here! Tons of stuff coming in for the next month, so stay tuned!

Took an old illustration and gave it a digital redux.

Ga-Koro Beach Sketch Progress

Doing some more Bionicle art. I've always been a big fan of the Mata Nui Online Game, and this particular location brings back lots of memories!

As always, feel free to comment below, and stay tuned-- exciting things to come later this year!










Sweeney Todd & The Producers

Worked on some postcards and a poster for Victoria Buda's Drama Room productions earlier this summer.

Awesome New After Effects Animation!

Brought to you by me. 6 million years in the making. Literally. I was proud to have this video featured in the senior show. Music by Kenji Yamamoto. Enjoy!






P.S.
I also have new giant business postcards! You can expect one in the mail soon!

Sneak Peek

Stay tuned folks!

Surfin'

Took a few moleskin sketches and made them awesome.











Climbin' bonus!

Anthony and the Dinosaurs

This series is supposed to be a personal narrative. Since I didn't have access to my baby pictures or a time machine I had my little brother stand in for me. I have a few more image ideas I'd like to try if I come back to this story again. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!

3D Modeling and Animation

Took a 3D course this semester. Spent a lot of time modeling various objects and characters and I thought this environment was worth sharing. Everything you see here was built using Cinema 4D.

Our assignment was to create an animation using the camera tool. I took a previous project where I had to create two rooms that were connected by some kind of staircase. I've always been a fan of the Myst series, so I wanted to do something that was similar to the flybys and trucking shots from those games.

I was really satisfied with the spiral staircase. If I had more time I might have smoothed out the camera rotation in the animation. I learned a great deal about materials and modeling, and the camera tool was not much different from the one in After Effects.

The animation took FOREVER to render. If I ever take on a project like this again I'm going to limit myself to no more than 1000fps. I hope you all enjoy, and don't forget to watch the video in HD!

Four Paintings

Hey everyone! Got lots of new stuff just in time for Christmas! Spent a lot of time this semester painting people and things around our dairy farm. I had a great time doing these and learned a great deal more about color and value. Special thanks to my drawing and painting instructor Ray Bonilla who offered and demonstrated some great pointers and inspiration.

























I also did a painting of my grandfather. This was a difficult image to do based on the lighting, and I still think I could go back and fix this up a little (perhaps digitally). But I like a challenge and I really wanted to paint this photo I had taken last summer. I'm not much of a traditional painter, but the same techniques and rules still apply, so I spent a lot of my time trying to find the right values and reworking the way I thought about light and color.

Wall Art

Last weekend I got together with a few friends to pay tribute to the first caveman who ever drew on a wall. The Emmitt Christian Gallery in the Rockafeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia is reserved for students to display their own work(s) for one week as a mini gallery.












We decided we would each paint something that best defined our styles and artistic character. As you might have already guessed, I drew a giant robot, Tyrannosaurus, and lots of action!
















It took 24 hours for me to finish the painting, but it was well worth the time! The transparencies and projectors helped out a lot with the sketchbook to wall transition.
















Featured in the gallery were myself, Mike Hernandez, Lindsay Holmes, Fred Duchow, and Jason Rappold. You can check out everyone's awesome progress and final work in the video below...

College Paper Illustrations

Been working as Illustration Editor for my college paper about a year now. Keeps me on my toes and practice for freelancing. Here are some of my favorites that were featured in The Leader, as well as a few comics from The Lampoon.

3:00 am

Here's a short comic about getting up at the most ungodly hour imaginable and going to work. For those of you who don't know, I live and work on my family's dairy farm. I am not a morning person and I can't stand the cold, so this period of time from three in the morning till about quarter to four is the absolute worst semi-daily experience I have ever endured.












I wanted to give the reader a sense of loneliness. There is absolutely no one awake, and with our neighbors being further away than most people you feel pretty isolated at that hour. This is why I excluded any dialog or sound because it is tremendously quiet. It's also dark. Really dark. The rural area lacks much for street lights save the one at the end of our driveway. But you can see the stars forever, so there are some nice benefits.