Under Electric Light

2009-11-17T08:06:00.000-08:00

And the DVD Covers Begin Again...

Once again, more free time more work to create. Thanks to my
friend Martin for suggesting the movie below for a DVD cover
makeover.

The idea behind the theme of the cover is hyper and skewed
vision with an obvious dark disintegration represented by
the Victorian wallpaper on the upper portion.

Fits, no?

2009-11-14T20:14:00.000-08:00

Fake Book Jacket

So now that I have all this freetime I'm getting back into building up my skills.
I did a search on Google for design tutorials across various media. I came across
some graphic design exercises and found one for making a book jacket.

The instructions were to makeover an older book called "My Life is a Poem" by Mark Everyman, a collection of poems written over a 30 year period of the author's life
with subjects ranging from "personal feelings about smoking pot in college, the birth of his first child in 1981, and shoveling snow to how he was affected by various world events including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger."

So the basic idea was to create a cover that "convey something of ordinary day-to-day life during the extraordinary events of that 30 year period."

And here's my take:

2009-02-03T19:40:00.000-08:00

BLOG LOGO

Something I created for a friend's tech blog. I still have yet to draft other versions and ideas I have.

2009-02-03T19:33:00.000-08:00

Mousetrap

Inspired by the scene in the comic strip "Mousetrap" from Flight Vol 2.

This is still a work in progress.

2007-08-17T22:44:00.000-07:00

Let's Go To The ZOO!!!

Well your's truly took a little trip through the zoo today, and despite the rain, I got to take some cool pics and sketches just so I could have something more to post on this here modest blog o'mine.

2007-08-10T16:41:00.000-07:00

Another DVD Cover....

2007-08-07T01:51:00.000-07:00

Wonder Woman

I'm not a fan, but give me a chance to try out a style and I'll take it.

For those who aren't aware, the style I'm mimicking in this illustration is Adam Hughes', who has done many of the Wonder Woman covers. He's also, to quote a friend, one of the few artists to get her whole "broad shoulder" proportions right.

2007-08-07T01:38:00.000-07:00

The Prestige

This is a DVD cover design I made for (duh) The Prestige. I'm kind of on the fence about the final product, but the fun part was trying to imitate the Headcut illustration style found in The Wall Street Journal using Photoshop (TWSJ is all HAND done!).

I wanted to to use the style from the book's cover, with woodcut and print style type of images, and some diagrams of magician tricks. Unfortunately those weren't easy to find on Google, even after hours of scouring. I don't know, maybe I'll return back to this later for a redo.

2007-07-16T09:48:00.000-07:00

Pictures of You

This is a 1 minute music video I did of The Cure's "Pictures of You". I used personal photos to create the piece as well as Adobe Illustrator to create the Robert Smith character and After Effects to composite the scenes.

2007-07-15T23:00:00.000-07:00

The Photoshop'n Continues

This is a picture I did of my friend Anneli. I completed it in a couple of hours. It originally started as something for myself (and it still is) but then I decided to give it to her. It's now her Myspace profile picture ;)

This is a new addition to the "Me Series". I completed this one a day or two before starting on the "Anneli" one.

2007-06-10T18:19:00.000-07:00

Let the Rain Come

Taken on a visit to my hometown, Philly. I find the combination of eerily tiny alleys and the unique lightning that only potential rainfall creates, produces an image that is just brimming with atmosphere.

2007-06-10T13:25:00.000-07:00

First 4 Storyboard Pages for Thesis

2007-06-10T12:19:00.000-07:00

Ducati 1098 (sketch)

2007-05-25T22:29:00.000-07:00

In Nolan We Trust

Okay so I, like many others, pretty much plotzed at the end of Batman Begins after the little mention of The Joker being in the upcoming sequel, officially titled: The Dark Knight.

For quite sometime now I've belonged to a film discussion forum, and every so often I check the upcoming movies thread for discussions about the sequel. So much like everyone else, when it was confirmed Heath Ledger was to play The Joker criticisms, praise and confusion were posted all over. But those who were so amazed with Nolan's take on Batman would always chime in citing their faith in Nolan's skill time and time again. After months of this it just seemed like the phrase "trust Nolan" was the rubber-stamped reply to all those who questioned the latest news leaked out about the film.

Now, one can only do this so long before the little gears in my head start a'turnin and my fingers get itchy for some Photoshop manipulatin'. So here is my smart-alec gift to the "Nolan faithful".

2007-05-24T08:41:00.000-07:00

Recent Sketches

2007-05-23T16:31:00.000-07:00

"Baldrick, the cocker-spaniel please!!"

Ok so I , like many other kids, grew up watching daytime children's programming on PBS. But it wasn't just kid shows, there was the suspiciously mellow Bob Ross' painting program "The Joy of Painting", various documentaries and specials, and sometimes, because of my dad I had to sit through some of Bob Villa's "This Old House".

PBS was how my parents spelled culture, however my after dark PBS programs like Benny Hill, Red Dwarf, Mr. Bean, Monty Python's Flying Circus, would have a hard time being described as cultured..... maybe Dr. Who....

However, one of my fave British sitcoms had to be Black Adder. In honor of the show I am posting this 3 step process of how the finished piece came to be.

2007-05-15T14:09:00.000-07:00

300: The Oracle

So now that I am freed from the shackles of my thesis, I have the time to illustrate and doodle work for sheer fun. What a concept!! I started browsing through drawingboard.org and found a "300 thread". The goal of this thread is for members to post up 300 works inspired by the film.

Here is my contribution. I think I'm number 218....

2007-05-13T20:21:00.000-07:00

My Completed Thesis Film

So this is my completed (award-winning) thesis film. It was originally inspired by the illustration works of Leo and Diane Dillon. Its a story I came up with on my own for my highschool Spanish class (it was also the only assignment I got a good grade for). Enjoy!

2007-04-29T16:57:00.000-07:00

COMIC INSPIRATION

2007-02-19T13:10:00.000-08:00

Animatic 27

This is a new recent update on my thesis.

2007-02-18T22:36:00.000-08:00

With Love, Frida

So in an effort to make a simple 3D Box assignment more interesting for myself, I decided to incorporate my already ongoing Frida Kahlo research into the assignment to give it a little extra life and dimension.

The result:

2007-02-18T22:29:00.000-08:00

Don't Be Messin' With The Peanuts

One of my favorite assignments from freshman year Animation. My first lipsync and group assignment. We were randomly given a piece of dialog from a film and told to do a piece of animation lipsync'd to the dialog.

Naturally, we came up with The Peanuts gang for this dialog. My partner, Gene, even put our teacher in it.

Yeah, it was lots of fun.

2007-02-05T14:59:00.000-08:00

Something for my Graduation Portrait .....

So tomorrow I have this photo shoot at my school for my Graduation photos. The photographer or whomever is organizing this whole deal asked us to "bring a sample of your artwork, or an object of personal significance with you to the portrait session."

Now I don't have a good laptop and such, so its rather hard for me to bring in animation. Instead, I've chosen to be slightly mysterious with my "object of personal significance". Only two friends of mine will understand the meaning of this, the rest of you can just think its nice looking and scratch your head ;)

2007-02-05T00:13:00.000-08:00

Recent Design Tinkering....

2007-01-21T15:21:00.000-08:00

The Most Recent Updates to My Thesis