This is a short sample of the animation I completed for the documentary called Food Fight directed by Chris Taylor. I put a silly old 78 recording with it, just to have some music. The actual soundtrack is a voice over covering the history of American agriculture and Govt. interventions since the great [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Animation for Food Fight
Posted in Digital painting, Food Fight, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, animated short, animation, character design, tagged Adobe After Effects, animation, Documentary, farms, November Films on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My pants are too big.
Posted in Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration, tagged Sketch, sketch book on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the sketch book. I don’t know why I drew it…
McGoofy
Posted in Work in progress, tagged McCain on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Food Fight! the movie
Posted in Digital painting, Food Fight, November Films, Photoshop Painting, animation, character design, farm, farm painting, tagged after effects, animation, chris taylor, Documentary, Food Fight, photoshop, traditional animation on September 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before that I animated about 2 minutes for a feature documentary called Food Fight directed by Chris Taylor from November Films. I created it traditionally – hand drawn, ‘inked’ and colored in Photoshop and composited in After Effects (after getting rid of some bad RAM that caused minor disasters for a week or [...]
Literary Invasion
Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, character design, illustration, tagged aliens, bookmark, literary invasion on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m so busy finishing up work I really have nothing to show, that I can show, that I want to show. SHow-sho-show. And when I am writing revisions to manuscripts, no one wants to see that.
I really love drawing aliens. More than monsters I think…
This is a bookmark I did for an upcoming event. So [...]
Stories matter.
Posted in Animation Artists, animated features, animation, animation art, tagged animation, anti-war films, waltzing with bashir on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This animated film has me very, very interested. Waltzing with Bashir by Ari Folman looks to be one of those uses of animation that changes the game. It reminds everyone it’s not just a form for selling kids toys. It’s purpose is not to sell video games and Happy Meals. It’s not just a genre [...]
Off Topic Finanical Meltdown Day
Posted in Blatherings, illustration, panel cartoons, tagged advertising, economics, economics cartoons on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A very good post by economist Joseph Stiglitz. I know we’re not supposed to listen to educated, experienced people who express their ideas based on book learnin’. Better to trust moose hunters – but by chance, if you have an interest in economics, this Nobel Prize winning economist has a few things to say that [...]
From an older portfolio
Posted in Blatherings, Sketch, illustration, tagged kids drawings, old drawings, wolfman on September 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I should mention, as I get emails every so often about this, I know this blog is supposed to be all about what I draw and paint and seeing my work. But I use it for a bit more than that. I probably write more off-topics than on-topics. But the Flickr gallery collects most postings [...]
the dangers of bubble gum
Posted in Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, childrens books, illustration, picture books, tagged float, fly, kids books, Photoshop Painting, picture books on September 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A quick work in progress. This is from a story that I have tackled many times and flipped around in many different ways. This is from a discarded version, but at least it’s something new to post!
new picture book work
Posted in Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, illustration, kids books, picture books, tagged illustration, Photoshop Painting, picture book on September 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is a single page, greatly reduced, from the picture book I am currently working on. A scary page indeed! Of course, you’re missing the words, so you get half the story in the picture. The half that’s scary and you know, probably makes you ask – – ‘What’s going on there!?”


