Inspire

I have been doing some research on a disease I was diagnosed with back in 2001. I’m interested in learning as much as possible about Sarcoidosis, to be aware of things to look out for. I was told I was in remission in October of 2001 and that there was little chance of another episode, which was scary as hell by the way, but how do you ever really know?

I found this cool site that not only has information about my disease, but anything and everything else you might be interested in learning about as well. Many members of my family have conditions or issues that I am able to learn about there. There is also a community of support.

It’s pretty cool and informative. If you feel the need to look into anything, I recommend the site below.

Bob’s Dragon

A few weeks ago, I was asked if I could draw a dragon that would be used to make a decal for a Camaro. One of my friends, working with me at Cisco, was going to be moving out of state soon and he wanted to see if I could get the dragon done before he left on his trip.

Here is the line drawing and the Photoshop render of the dragon. It was a HUGE file, but everything worked out fine and he had his dragon on the Camaro before he hit the road. Too bad one of his friends backed out of a driveway and scraped one whole side of his car…not 12 hours after having the decals applied.

I’m still waiting for the photo of his Camaro. Hopefully he sends me the good side and the scraped side. I’ll post those images when I get them.

Latest Pet Portrait

Here are a few images of the latest pet portrait I did for my sister and brother-in-law. These are their puggles named Bobby and Eddy.

Blast From the Past

I drew this when I was a sophomore in high school. I was home sick for two weeks with some sort of high school virus and had plenty of Mad Magazines to keep me company. ET was on the cover of the one I was reading and I had the urge to draw him.

Ooouuuuuuch…

Colored Pencil – Animals

Between productions at Fox Animation, I had the opportunity to do some drawings and find out what I could do with colored pencils. I love animals of all kinds and decided to try a few. I hope you enjoy them.

Lion – Prisma Color pencil

Wolf – Prisma Color pencil

The Busacca Pugs – Prisma Color pencil

Fox Animation Studios – Titan A.E.

At the start of our next feature production, Titan A.E., I was still in the Ink & Paint department as a Paint Checker. Shortly into production, however, I tested for one of the Color Stylist positions that opened in the Color Model department. I was chosen to fill one of the positions and began choosing colors and working with another great crew at Fox.

Below are images from several of the scenes I was fortunate enough to work on:

Fox Animation Studios – Anastasia & Bartok the Magnificent

Early in 1995, I found out that Fox was going to be opening an animation studio in Phoenix. I gathered all the artwork I had, put together a portfolio, and shipped it off for review.

Two rejection letters, one life drawing class, and prepartion for teaching in my own classroom at the Phoenix Day School for the Deaf later, I received a phone call from someone at the studio. They were actually informing me that they had a position in Ink & Paint and asking if I was interested in taking the position! Hmmm, let me think about that…YES!

It was the middle of June and I wouldn’t be starting until September, so I finished my life drawing class and waited anxiously. I couldn’t believe it.

September finally arrived, I started working in Ink & Paint, and I was having the best time of my life. Not only was I learning everything I could about Ink & Paint, using Soft Image Toonz, I was asked to help out up in the Color Model department and learned how to paint cels, and I was asked to help out at the live-action shoots as one of the extra live-action reference actors.

In Ink & Paint, I probably touched just about every scene in the movie Anastasia. I painted and also did something we phrased as “manillation” (adding a manilla folder color to rough animation in order for the characters to read better over layout drawings). Later in production, I tested and became a Paint Checker for my department. I worked as both Painter and Paint Checker on Anastasia and then Bartok the Magnificent.

Below are some images from those movies:

Early Anya Design – Practice Cel

One of my other practice cels

Comic Book Store Mural (1990-91)

Here is my first commission ever! I started collecting comics when I was in college and offered to design and paint a mural for the shop where I bought my books. Some of the images are in progress, some of the finished work. The whole mural was done on four sheets of plywood, with acrylic paints. All characters and lettering was drawn freehand.

I think I have the original layout on a roll of paper somewhere around my house.

I went back to that store about 10 or so years ago and discovered that it was no longer hanging above the comics. I asked about it and was taken to the back room where the sections were lined up against a back wall and were being used for paintball target practice. Thankfully, they had the decency to use the backs of the panels and the artwork was still “ok”.

Sheesh!!

Course Window “Skins”

Below you will find a series of skins I designed for e-Learning course windows.

Instructional Design – Final Images

I was assigned as an Instructional Designer for several courses developed for the World Health Organization. Below are several image from the various courses. I was asked to take raw content received from the client and organize it into units, lessons, activities and assessments. I also designed and storyboarded all supporting media for the Flash developer team to produce.

Info Window – includes both graphic and animation on right side

Interactive Diagram

Scene from “News” theme used throughout the courses

First Section and Information displayed

Interactive Graphic

Interactive Scene Activity with Magnifying Glass Functionality

Change the Advertisement Activity

Interactive Quiz