A little old drawing all about the scariest night of the year…except for Easter when that giant rabbit comes door to door demanding eggs. Or is that just in Oregon?
-M
Archive for October, 2007
Happy Halloween!
Posted in Blatherings, Paintings, halloween, illustration, kids books on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
New Illustrations
Posted in Paintings, Sketch, Work in progress, animation background art, illustration, informational on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Wow. Finally some new work to show off. It’s fall, the leaves have fallen, and this kid…I think the balloon has been stuck up there since June.
In progress. I included a detail of the boy. Painted in Photoshop.
-M
Animated Feature Films
Posted in Animation Artists, Blatherings, Dreamworks, Happy Feet, Triplets of Bellville, Walt Disney, animated features, animation on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I finally saw Happy Feet. Yeah, I know, it is like 9 years old…or a year old..but when you have a baby – movie going drops off the radar for, well, the past 14 months or so. And before that a 1000 mile move and selling a house and buying a house…I’m a little behind [...]
king me
Posted in Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is for another project right now. It is a first draft of a king. But I didn’t want the king to look like every other king drawing I have done or seen, but he still needed to be A KING, and I didn’t want him too historical, as the story is not in our [...]
It’s almost Halloween
Posted in Sketch, Work in progress, halloween, illustration, quick sketch on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From ye-ole sketch book. Merry Christmas.
backgrounds in a different style
Posted in Animation Artists, animated short, animation background art, collage, mr. shrimp on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This was from a collage style animated short. I really love this style. The original file is about 40 inches in width so we had room to pan and zoom in After Effects. I guess I should give this some reference point…It is the house of the Perfect Couple. A rich, beautiful, powerful, wonderful twosome [...]
Quick sketch Wednesday
Posted in Sketch, Work in progress, quick sketch on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another fast one from my sketchbook.
-M
Hollywood Backlot – first public screening!
Posted in Animation Artists, animated short, animation, animation background art, hollywood backlot, illustration on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This was made by a bunch of folks (credits at the end) but special thanks to John Hull and the writer Brent Boyd. This was made when we sold this concept to an online entertainment website, and they paid us to make this and a bible for the series (10 episode) and we wrote [...]
characters for Flash animation
Posted in Animation Artists, animated short, animation, character design on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some characters for an animated short from a few years back…amazing what you find when you start burning DVD’s of back-up.
These characters were designed by me and worked on by John Hull. I’d crank them out and he’d tweak them into working form for animating in Flash. I’ll post a link to the short on [...]
More old art ! More old art!
Posted in Animation Artists, Paintings, The Thing with No Head, UCLA, animated short, animation, animation background art, character design on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, OK. No one really wants to see work from like 3 years ago. But, I have been cleaning up and found the files from the animated short I made while attending the UCLA, MFA in animation program.
The top one is the original background painting for the scene which was a long pan. The second [...]


