A.M.F_2009

"Always Moving Forward" Is a visual hair short I was involved in with my good friend Scott Bentley and the B-Concept Artistic team. I am credited as Film Producer and music is by Shadrick Ferrar.

This is my edit as it has more documentary shots than the edit at the hair show.
It's was more less run an gun,but each time I do these flicks I learn something new working with Scott's art direction.

Thanks for watching.

Acrylic warm ups

I've had these two blank canvas that have been collecting dust because painting on them means I have no undo button,so I'm grabing any scrap piece of materials as practice for serious acrylic work.

The first one the yellow is really washed out because of my bad white balancing in the camera.
It was done as a challenge to do a painting with only black an yellow.

Going to be painting on canvas really soon:)

Alchemy Green girl

Getting more comfortable with Alchemy.
W.I.P below.

Srlagann work in progess 2

Got the legs going.
A few more tweaks in chest area and I can start rigging this bad boy:)

Alchemy art

I'm feeling a lot better now.

Found a very nice vector base drawing pogrom called Alchemy that can also make art using a microphone with it.Last image I coloured in Gimp,as Alchemy is more about creating form out of chaos.

Flu sucks

Looks like I caught the flu really bad,so nothing new till I get better.
I'm coughing up my lungs as I type this.If I don't make it....it's been fun.

Srlagann work in progess1

Brushing up on the mech modeling skills.
Rendered in Blender/Freestyle experimental branch.

Storyboards for Red Lizard Films

Not too much detail,as they were needed ASAP.

Pizza pirate king!!!!

Only name I could come up with for this quick sketch.

"And just what do you think your doing?"

Marvel/Disney Parodies are funny.

Well... Marvel entertainment has been bought by Disney for 4 billion dollars.
Now they have 5000 characters form the comic book world to peer up with other stuff they own.Just business right?

The parodies have started and are very funny:)

















There is no turning back from this.
It's not like a company is going to buy Disney out.

Oh well.

Speed lines

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Any time I pick a comic book I'm always trying to figure out how to animate the images.Speed lines have been around for a while in moving images, but I have only seen the Japanese do it how it wold look like in a comic.

Used hair particles,made a few keyframes and rotated it in the same spot.
Going to add this as one of my effect shot in the Sci-fi short I making.

Painting with Polygons

Another blenderhead came across a SIGGRAPH paper about using stand alone 3d software to create a painterly style art.Others and myself started to see if it was possible with Blender.
Everyone uses Suzanne the monkey and I used Big buck bunny last test,so this time I'm using Jim from the Blender animation dvd.

Big Buck Bunny dance.

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Edit.
Lost audio when switch to Youtube.




I was watching a presentation with Mdot strange about how he did the motions for the characters in his music video,and thought that mabye I could do the same with the record to mouse function in blender.

The motions are bumpy in a few places, but it is only a test.

Killer inspiration

No art to show off today,busy working on storyboards for a animated short.
More on that later.


Just got done watching Killer bean forever,and I must say I'm impressed that Jeff Lew pulled off this one man animated movie.I watched the making of and there are tons of tips for animators wanting to follow this path.Even if your not into animating it's still entertaining to watch.
Well it's early in the morning and I'm felling sick from drinking two beers so I am out.

Later

Sketches of the day w/renders

Going crazy with nodes.

When I'm not working on clients stuff,I'm usually experimenting with Blender 3d.
Here are a few throw aways in goofing around with the node editor.
Just some lighting test.
Think I might go with a mix of the 3rd an 4th down.

Almost finised the war.

Wow!!!!

What a battle.
I just got my P.C. upgraded to Quad core system.It's pretty much a new computer and is blazing fast than what I was using before.Going to change the O.S to Ubuntu 64bit later today to use it's full potential.

This was a long time coming.

Still working

Working on clients projects that I can't post yet and haven't had time to work on my own personal stuff.Might be like this for the next 3 months till I get this thing finished.
I'll see If can squeeze something in for fun:)

Better modeling

My 3d modeling skills suck,but I manage to squeeze a few good nuggets out of Blender 3d .
Rendered with Freestyle of coarse:)

Raw!!Raw!!!!Fight the power.
Gurren Lagann core drill.


Old school scifi



Well back to work.
I've got to eat.

Just some pretty nikon d90 pictures.

Been loving the paper-crafting lately:)

I like how the paper roses look like a oil painting.

an more light writing.

Switch to Linux.

I’ve recently changed my operating system from windows xp to Ubuntu Linux and I have to say I’m quite happy with th switch. I’ll probably us windows in a studio environment or on a friends p.c.,but as building my own computer it will be a Linux distro from now on. Most of the software I used was open source anyways except for Artrage and I got Wine doors to get it to work. I even using Open Office to type this and the spell check is pretty cool. Also did a update to Ubuntu studio and there are all these really nice audio software that you make music with,be it real or virtual instruments .A lot of cool artwork is on it way=)

Now on to getting Blender/freestyle svn to work on this.

Comic page an avatar.

Been creatively burn out lately.
The environment I'm working in is very distracting.
Surprised I can make a living in this place.
Anyways.........



I love comics.
Did this for a sweet(writer) friend of mine thats going into her zine.

Here is a bold avatar image of my writer friend that would look nice on the cover.

Freestyle animations while I'm at it.

Still testing

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More to come.

More freestyle experiments

Still not production ready but still fun.

Recent Datz Deli artwork.

Art for Matthew Monster t-shirt and a staff drawing for the web site.

I've been busy.

I'll try not to take so long next time.

Later.
 

Where is the new art?

It's coming.
I've moved location to a more creative environment.

Merry Christmas

Have a good and happy whatever you believe in.

D90 vids

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Alright.

I'm hooked on this camera and have abandon my old ways of achieving film looking footage with digital tapes.

See for yourself above.

Nikon D90 photos

I'm back.

Busy with the lots of day work,but had time to play around with my Nikon D90 with the help of Quincy  an Jeff.

Thanks guys.

I'll post some video footage I shot with the camera soon when I get a decent video editor.

Glad I pulled the trigger on the purchase.I't was worth it.

Sundown

My 4th speed paint.20 minutes.
Sloppy,but I don't care.Quality will come with practice.

Datz sketches

They are simple sketches, but that can be a good thing:)
The line work of the guy in the top middle is very Ashley Wood style.

Happy Hallowen

A coulpe more vids

Transmute

This was put together for my friend Scott of Bentley's salon.
He was director on this while I manned the the cameras.

These girls were beautiful and great to work with.
I love this kind of shooting ,and hope Scott has more ideas
for me to film down the road.

Captured Burning

This was one of the videos that was on the Gato dvd

Pure mayhem.My best run an gun fliming...I'll never do this again.

Enjoy.

The Archive

Yeah I got some art coming but.....

This documentary really touched a brother's heart...sniff...sniff.

Will have to find out how this came about.

Check it out here

A doodle before bed.

Old Gato dvd intro

Way back when I started getting my feet wet with video editing and computer graphics.Ranmecca and I had a sudo studio name "Gato" for our collaborated works.

These were some very fun times.It wasn't just me by myself being creative,but also Ran,who ever I was skatboading with,and even the girls that were hanging out with us put there two cents in.After the footage started stacking up,it was time to put in on a dvd,and I wanted to grab the attention of who ever was going to watch it, so I went all out on the intro with everything I thought was cool at the time.

Yeah!Sure it looks wild and crummy compared to what I would do now,but it alway good to look back and see how you got started.

I can't post all the vids from the dvd,but if you ever over on my side of town and behave yourself,I'll show em to ya.

Rylan



Gato dvd intro from dwight mc carty on Vimeo.

Nikon D90

I'm very near to pulling the trigger on purchasing a Nikon D90.


Was waiting on Red to come out with the 2K resolution scarlet movie camera, but the industry is getting a shake it rightfully needs right now and Red cinema looks like they are working on a DSLR killer.Plus the Nikon falls in my price range of something I can use still photos for print, shoot movies with interchangeable lenses and not worry about cumbersome 35mm adapters,all in one device.
This camera will most likely cater to photojournalist so they don't have to carry around a still an a video camera,but folks are already using it to shoot movie shorts,music videos,family outing,and low light cinematography.
There are some limitation to it,but it's a good starting point to whats going come down the road.

Check out some of the movie clips on the Nikon site to see what I'm talking about.

CLICK HERE

A little yellow somethig before bed.

Speed paint for the end of the day
I'm off to bed now.

Staying inspired

It's one of those days again.

Not everything went well today.Had some personal issues bog me down and I feel creatively burned out.
Every artist must experience on some level,but it's got me thinking how staying inspired really helps from being down in the dumps for to long.
Since looking into the blank page of death can have you mesmerized,I did more reading late in the day and searched about the thing that inspire me to get the juices flowing.

A very wise man(Rune Spanans) said.

"Don't sit up late nights fighting problems."

Too many late nights struggling with some drawing detail, render bug or other problem is destructive. Leave early, get some time away from the screen. Then your mind will be more relaxed and better suited to solve whatever you're up against. Too many late nights banging your head against problems will eat you up inside out. If this means losing a deadline or milestone, so be it. There's more to life than milestones. It's more important that you have energy to work, than for you to reach every single deadline.

"Leave when you're on a roll."

You've just solved a major problem, you're feeling great and have energy for a couple more hours of late evening work. That's the perfect time to get away from your desk and leave for the day! Then you'll leave your desk with a positive memory of working, full of extra inspiration that is better used the next working day.



"Identify the things that inspire you."

Whenever you get a rush of inspiration, make a mental note of what is causing it. I have a very long list of things that give me inspiration; good music, films by Pixar, my Gundam robot instructions, Star Wars art books, lego sets, good literature, walks in nature and so on. I've even made a little book of pictures and photos that give me an creativity boost. Whenever I feel exhausted and empty, I just visit the things on my list, or browse through my little book. But be sure to differentiate between feeling good and feeling inspired. For example, eating food makes me feel good, but it doesn't make me feel inspired.


"Identify what is killing your inspiration."

Just as important as keeping track of the things that inspire you, is figuring out what is doing the opposite. Then simply avoid those negative things. In my case these things happen to be people and types of projects. I do a lot of work in the advertising business, and some people there can be extremely negative and condenscending. Being smart and ironic on others expense is how some people raise their social status. I simply stay away from people that are like that, trying instead to be in the company of people that inspire and support me.


"Make sure being at work brings positive associations."

Some times work can be painfully repetitive and boring, and you only want to go home and relax with friends or your wife. You start thinking everyone at work talks like idiots, and holidays seem way too far away. If that's the case, make sure you identify why you are feeling like that. Being negative at work is extremely contagious, and it can really hurt an otherwise nice workplace. It spreads to your colleagues, and suddenly you are on this downward spiral of negativity. If you are fond of the people you work with, it is very important you have positive associations with being at work. Remember to have fun with your colleagues during working hours and outside of work: play videogames at lunch, be social and have dinners together, make fun of clients, take time for seminars and take time to relax.


"Procrastinating?"

Some days you just can't get started with anything. Here's what I do: I just open the software and my current project file. Sometimes that can be the biggest hurdle. The empty screen looking at you can become an obstacle itself. If you just open the software and start looking through your file you may find that you slowly start working again. I had that problem with this website for quite some time. I just couldn't get to work on it, and weeks would pass with no progress at all. But as soon as I managed to open my HTML editor and started looking through the files I found stuff here and there that I wanted to fix. Now I just load up the project I'm working on as soon as I switch on my machine, and without knowing it I'm working again.


He had more to say, but I posted the ones that made good mantra for what was going on in my head early today.

With that I'm going to watch some Gurren Lagenn and tomorrow, pierce my drill through the heavens:).

Work in progress

I probably won't stay on this to long so I don't over kill it,but so far, so good.

Later

Some fun while on a lunch break.

Not greatest,but one of the the better Art rage speed paints I've done.
Wishing to afford a wacom cintiq one day.

Beast burn

Sketch of the day.

I love Freestyle

Freestyle rendering and run cycle experiment with Blender3d.
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