Train Drawin' and Workin for the Man

Started the new gig at Curious today. Two week trial period to get up and running. Went well. We'll see how the working till 7, then working till midnight on the personal stuff goes in the long run.

Regardless. Here are some doodles since the last post from too much time on the Path train. And a wee bit o' figure drawing.

almost met a fellow blogger in real life

I was sitting next to this guy at drawing thursday night. Hard to miss his stuff.

Sketch Book Dump

and some doodls while TA-ing for an intro to 3D class.

Sexism

More has come. I'm not bitter I swear. I just think this is fun.

Beware

of angry animators ...

Sexism

I had on truth goggles one night, and this is what I saw. More to come later.

Meh-hico and the new place

My Brother. Own article in ultramarathon magazine. 100 miles non stop ... no big deal. Third place first time he did one, then second, then first. I don't know all the facts, so catch him in the mountains if you want all the details. The quintisential Shaw Family game face. And yes, it is nailed to my wall. I thought you'd appreciate that Phil.Aaahhhh ... desk space and a chair that is not a metal folding one. Still no bed, but I don't have time for that any way.

And the living room, courtesy of my room mate with her new camera. Fancy finding me in the kitchen.
Oh mexico. just the views from the condo window. Grand Mayan. Puerto Vallarta. Christmas.

Holiday doodlings

8 foot Table. All set up finally so I don't have to work in the living room and on the floorFound some quill tip and ink at the parents. Fun time.


Gramps from memory. This man lived. He was not driven. He drove.

Dragons ect.



Train, Plane, and living room doodles. Art Pen.

Margaritas, Roaches and Boxes

New Place. Has roaches. Earth boy before me did not realize that keeping a compost bucket, IN THE APARTMENT, and all the general filthyness that accompanies such behavior, might aid in cockroach reproduction.

Mexico was boozetastic ... still recovering.

Vacation was a slightly needed break. More of an effort to relax as I had a great groove going before I left.

My grandpa is amazing. 87 ("whih is almost 90, which is almost 100"). This guy truly lived. Not only was he driven, but he did the driving ... if you want to get sickenly metaphorical.

Found some old ink and quill tips in the desk at home on the west coast and had fun doodling a bit.

pictures of some of the above in a few once I get unpacked. I moved into the new place on the 22nd, flew to mexico on the 23rd, and got back his morning.

Got some potential jobs lined up. Looking forward to it.

and Bruce Cambell has a ad out for Old Spice. Yay.

Hand-me-down

Thanks Dad.

John Lasseter and Dan Brown would be proud.

"loving you" ...

... "is a dirty job."

80's hair metal saves the day once again.

Ever have a really good vacation when you didn't not need one, so all it did was throw a stick in the spokes of your routine, and leave you feeling like you wasted something.

I know how to lounge like the best of them, but I did not quite earn it this time. Only about 75% earned it. And now I am stuck at the old home, out of my element, trying to get some work done, with the people I am there to see, giving me some warm hearted crap about not working hard enough.

But on a good note, saw ice age the meltdown finally last night, and quite enjoyed it. Good job! to everyone on it. Quality.

looking forward to getting back to NJ/NYC and working.

Atomic Playboys

"we are radiation romeos."


gotta love 80s hair metal.

and for a moment, There were two ...

foOpahzzhEEzoh!

The deadline at Hurd Studio is wednesday, and we are going to make it. Or at least my stuff will. Good thing I have been spending every minute except for sleeping there, or I might not have.

First real, serious gig I have to say. Very good experience. Excatly what I was looking for. Learned alot, did alot, made a good impression. Cept my lighting skills could be better and faster. But I knew that. I have never done it before.

And regarding the title of this entry. I just finished reading 21 seconds of giberish I orriginally recorded for my short, but passed on because it just was not the right energy, But it will be a blast and one hell of a challange animating to. First real effort at lip synch in 2D. Here we go.

I've been lucky enough to be working on rendering at hurd which leaves many stray minutes to paruse blogs such as the art of Glen Keane. Wow. Talk about inspiriation and motivation.

Goodbye

Goodbye summer. Although I miss not your heat waves, and dissaprove of your behavior in July and August, it was fun.

Cool

I want one and I don't know why. Or perhaps a reason to put it to good use.

Good to be back

Spikes covering his fore-arms, tattoos and scars on his the face, the frail, drunk little man shakes my hand,” good to be back in jersey ... I went through a lot of fights to get here.”

“Worth it?” I ask.

“I don’t like fighting.” He says, executing a miraculous, stumble-free dismount off the escalator.

web site progress

And my website sees progress. Lets see if anyone gets as much of a kick out of my home page as me.

Band: Pantera
Song: War Nerve
Lyrics: the very first line



Odd. Now, lets go in the opposit direction.

United States Postal Service. I detest thee. All hail FedEx.

Let There Be Sleds!

So I have all the kids in the neighborhood pulling sleds now. Cept for the teenagers cause they are too cool to show any interest at all. And its not sleds plural, its my sled, and only once, but that is besides the point.

After I was done on saturday I let em have a go at it. Nothing like the biggest, bossy-est kid in the group talk tough about how easy it is, then first time he takes off, jerk to a stop like he's tied to the wall.

The picture blow, although not me, is a about what you will see on the side streets of jersy city three days a week. Cept more weight, hair, side burns, and a sexier ass.

RIP

And my dog is dead. Put down this morning. it being, 666 and all, maybe satan will be pleased. Now I don't need to sacrifice any virgins.

Thunder and Lightning

I really missed the rain.

Watch out!

Word of the Day

Today's word is "blivit." Definition: "10 pounds of nonsense in a 5 pound bag."

Food for thought ...




Ever have one of those days ...

MUSIC!

The soon to be proud owner of a protable personal audio device. Good bye cruel world and sideways hat wearing doofus who assumes everyone else on the train wants to hear the latest lame hip-hop via your cell phone turned up as loud as it goes.

Happy Birthday to me

And the best present I got today I made myself. Finished up rough animation on one the ending shots.

I love animating.

Rumble

Imagery of the day is ... something massive, with horns, charging.



This is going to be a good month.

Here is a "Hey-oh" to miscomunication.


rough animation in flash






sometimes you are just not strong enough.

Flying

For the past two days.

And here are some screen shots from my current dialogue test in progress .

and my time fills up.

Priroty number one, finish 3D character.

Priority number two: animate said character ... sickly

number three: film.

should be able to get my character up and running in under a week. And by week I mean 7 full days that I will be able to work on him.

last priority: make more time.

got intro shots animated for my film. using the computer for the crazier perspective.





Cut into my animatic here

web site HO!

And I start down the time consuming task of making a web page. Now there is at least the possibility of others seeing how much time I am putting in huddled over light boxes, computer screens, and citique tablets, other then my two animation comrades.

Who knows maybe someday Naked Apple will be a house hold name.