Jeff's heart : Tin man Campaign

these are mock-ups for a new campaign I am starting. More details as the work progresses

Vector Sketches

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This image is for the business cards for the Taffetas project.










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And if this one looked familiar its an old sketch up i did for Tracy when she was feeling under the weather. I just edited it a bit since there were parts I didn't like.

Something Beautiful

Here it is completed :D

Taffetas Poster

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This is a poster I created for the pitch The Taffetas, an online drama series. It is to be featured in today's Senior Soiree at the Savannah College of Art and Design campus. If the pose looks familiar, its because it is referencing Botticelli's, The Birth of Venus. Hopefully people find them as humorous as last quarter and we get a nice turn out.



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The image above does not do it justice. The original printed poster will be done in a 3 layer cut out format where Gemini pops out from the poster just ever so slightly, and Veil is jumping in from the left, blushing (though his blush doesn't show in this one), and trying to cover up his wife.



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The characters themselves were sketched out by Tracy MacLauchlan and then vectored by myself.

Gemini Puppet Finially Done

While this puppet took a very long time to complete (2 whole days non-stop ;3;) I am very happy to say the results are fantastic. My good friend, and co-creator for our animated web drama, Tracy MacLauchlan will be test animating it very soon.This was definitely the most complex puppet I've ever made for sure, but my favorite. She came out so cuuute. I really want to thank Tracy for the wonderful turnaround she had done. I could not have done this work without her.

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The Taffetas animation will be a Flash-based puppet
animation with special effects and compositing done
in After Effects. This is so that we can work in-house
as well as distribute our media more on the internet.

Puppet, or cut-out animation, relies on a marionette-
like base for the characters made up of various shapes
that create the whole (for instance, Gemini's arms are
made up of two cylinder shapes that are connected at
the elbow like a puppet). In Flash, Toonboom or any
other animation program that like it,an animator can
then move and manipulate these shapes to animate.



For Taffetas, puppet animation makes sense not only
for production and resource reasons, but also for our
fashion and marketability plan. Take note of the var-
ious outfits we can put Gemini in, ready to go for ani-
mation for whatever episode we are now working on!

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Dibble Dabbles

A Project for a studio class. Essentially it was broken up into 3 parts. Something tangible, something printable, and something viable through the screen (ie web-based)
What I did was create a doll that had it's own packaging (it looked like a McDonalds happy-meals only shaped like a briefcase), a set of business playing cards, and a flash based game. This was all done with a approx. 2 weeks to complete it. ;) I'm good.

The idea behind the entire piece was how do I communicate a solution that will hit the idea that adults loss their sense of curiosity and imagination. I didn't want it to be a negative kind of approach, "YOU! Stop going to Chili's every Friday, and making love on a Wednesday just because you are free those days ... and those are the days you do those things" but I did want to approach the idea that, maybe as we get older routine becomes safe and familiar, and how can I shake things up. Some long thought went into this, but after a while I settled on Dibble Dabbles. (A play on the words, to Dabble and Fiddle-Faddle) Essentially it's a small portable game that plays on the idea of exchanging cards. You pass along a Dibble Dabble Business card, the person does it and passes it on. Or maybe you play it on your own and hope to go through the whole deck one card at a time. Either way, for a moment the person was creative and imaginative and managed to shack their routine even if by small increments at a time.





The cards above were sized like business cards and in a pack of 52. The first 3 being the top of the cards. The idea behind it is that it is in a format where it didn't feel like a child's game, but still inspired childlike creativity.

Whoa

What a quarter. Though it is not over yet, I am finally glad to get through the worsts of it. But if you are wondering how everything went, I will have to admit though this was a very stressful experience it was very rewarding as well. For those that do follow me you probably already know that lately I have been balancing classes and a (nerve wracking) pitch to Nancy Spears, director of marketing of Warner Brothers (She's actually very nice). All in all however after spending approx. 2 weeks or more on the book, and trying to round up all the final work for people, the final result was beau-ti-ful, and something I was very proud of :)

Well happy to say it went very well.

Here is some behind the scenes work for the screen shot XD

GET BETTER NOW

Awwww my friend Tito has been sick, so me and a fellow friend of mine, Whitney have been drawing this as a get well present. We collaborated, on just about everything. I drew Veil, and Turner, and Whitney drew Mouse-Tito, Toby, and Crumpet. Then it was all inked by Whitney, and we colored our pieces separately. I put them together and did a quick background after. Hope you feel better Tracy. We LUV you, and we cant wait to see you tomorrow XD

Visit Whitney's Blogspot. She draws amazing, amazing things. [Link]

These are the one's I did:

WF blog templete

Sample pages for the upcoming blog I was thinking of doing. WE will have to see if my team likes it. Admittedly....it's very me. I might change it later tho. It was just an idea after all.

Gemini: different pose?

I was thinking about fighting games recently and thought, I might make a character select screen, since I thought it might be fun. Here's a quick look at one of the sketches for it, more to come of course, but Gem is gonna be 1 players choice. I haven't decided on P2 yet tho lol.



The resemblance is uncanny lol

I just love being a Nerd

So here's the image finally finished. I'm pretty proud of myself. I think it's one of my better ones lately. With all this social drawing, I've noticed that I am gettering a bit better. LOL Really, I just love being able to nerd like this. On that note: lol Really, this is what Veil comes home to. It's a wonder why he ever comes back.

Below are my ever present WIP's. I get so excited about my drawing I end up bothering my friends about them before they are done. But atleast after I can show everyone my process. LOL That's something right!?

The Making of Lachesis

This guy was actually a hard one. I had to draw him over and over again, just to get him the way I wanted. While normally he's less fuzzy, I kind of decided last minute that I wanted him really inhuman...and he looked so much cuter in the final lol so this is his new design.

Lachesis

Its's finially finished. Yay. These always take so much longer than I actually think they will.

Momma's Little Helper

This is a picture of Gemini and Kyle(Dana's OC - He's adorable) together. She's trying to get him to use his psychic ability to get her something. We've decided since Gemini is a cat-lady for misfit kids that she would just automatically adopt this lil' boy, since she ha a habit of doing that. I wanted a 1950's feel since it's during a period where women were constricted into fitting into the perfect motherhood role. I thought it nicely ironic lol being as Gemini is happiest mothering someone, and in this point of the story she's being controlled by Malachi(a wonderfully beautiful and evil man) into doing whatever he wants while maintaining the appearance of a happy family. Perfectly 1950's...

Cat Fight

A lovely little fight between Gemini and Larkspur (An OC of Dana's) at a restaurant. This is the part where Gemini is winning lol, but Larkspur does get her good. Anyhow, I'm seriously debating whether to keep editing it or just leaving it alone. So I figure I'll leave it be for now... and fix it up later... when I have more time.



EDIT: Okay well here is it edited lol as you can see <.< I thought to fix a few things. New background, and tore up Larkspur's dress.


I figured Gemini's wardrobe would be a little more showy because she comes from wealth, So she has on pink pearls (rare and freaking expensive lol) and a pretty but other wise ornate dress that does her skin tone justice lol (Since Veil picked it out, he would have thought this over) I also put her in lace rather than jewels and made the cut of her dress less risque since I think while she'd be put in fashionable clothing.....it would still be something that makes her look soft and cute rather than sexy. Larkspur on the other hand is dressed in a plain cocktail dress. Classy, and elegant, but not extremely fancy since she's of moderate wealth. I made it orange since that's the color of her normal wardrobe, and black would have made her look like the villian LOL

So Delicious it's Scary....

A drawing I did for my buddy Jon, who was stuck in the hospital for a few @_@ I liked the picture at first and then I finished it... Anyways, I might add Pearl, her pet bunny. Right now it's a scene from Jon's earlier strips that I found pretty funny. But with his character in my vector style it looks like its a cereal box character LOL. This cereal is Scary Delicious...

Also, read Jon's comic. DO IT NOW! ----> (link)