Avid Animator

No more retail!

2011-04-18T14:48:00.000-07:00

Whoo Hoo! My Girlfriend and I have both found jobs in our respective industries and have worked our last day of retail! I have a new position working from home as a Graphic Designer and Animator! Expect creative output to be at an all time high!

Happy TGiving Everybody!!

2010-11-28T07:54:00.000-08:00

TS3 on Bluray TODAY!!

2010-11-02T06:50:00.000-07:00

Hooray! Toy Story 3 is released on Bluray and DVD today.

New Heavyweight Champ!

2010-10-27T07:49:00.000-07:00

Congratulations Cain Velasquez!!

Olive: The new cat

2010-10-03T09:24:00.000-07:00

Olive, Our new cat.

Colored Short Film

2010-09-13T12:31:00.000-07:00

My Short film "Colored" is now complete. It would be a lie to say that I wasn't inspired by Teddy Newton's new short that precedes TS3, Day & Night. Unlike Pixar's newest short, my story involves a shillouette of a boy whose emotions are purely motivated by the color on screen. Using color symbolism and an exaggerated animation style, the character cycles through the color wheel while on a roller coaster ride of emotion and stages of life.

Fist Pump!

2010-02-20T18:06:00.000-08:00

Mass Animation is at it again! This time teaming up with the creative talents behind the DC Universe Online videogame. They are allowing artists all over the world, via facebook, to download shot assignments and rigs and upload playblasts of your own spin on the assigned action. The ones with that "special something" are rewarded and even used in the game.

The following playblast was the "Fist Pump" that nabbed me some sweet prizes for being the highest voted animation of the week. Thanks for all who voted for me and please enjoy:

EvolveCG Contest

2010-01-22T16:53:00.000-08:00

I've decided to take part in the EvolveCG Hunters Challenge Competition. I jumped in a bit late and will have to bust out something cool enough that will attract the attention of the judges. The prizes are quite cool, among them are free admission tickets to the upcoming conference and free Jason Ryan tutorials. Crossing the fingers. My final animation is here:

Pendulum Art Test

2009-11-06T14:25:00.000-08:00

A couple of days ago I got an opportunity to do an Art Test for Pendulum Studios over in California.
After spending a good chunk of those two days here in the Animation result:

Seems quite unnatural without some head movement in there and some gesticulations and stuff but I was told to not set keys on those controls.

FULL SAIL DEMO REEL

2009-10-31T17:44:00.000-07:00

The work resulting from attending the Bachelor Program of Computer Animation at Full Sail University.