Ice cream man news

In case the five people who read this haven't seen it yet, my film is online on youtube and imdb. Youtube refuses to make the frame rate normal so here's the imdb link.

Also, Ice Cream Man! will be screening at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas. Randomly awesome!!

Ice cream poo

It's been almost two years but...Ice Cream Man is officially FINISHED.

It's kinda interesting to see the very first storyboards I did back in 2008, and comparing them to the final product now. I cringe a little now seeing these old drawings, but I think I'm more embarrassed by the few drawings I did where I apparently failed to notice the possible sexual connotations i.e. second board panel. Oh well, good thing I revised that shot.



It's been an insanely long process but I learned a lot from making this film. I think I'll take my time before jumping into the next one. Watch for Ice Cream Man to be up on youtube sometime soon.

In the meantime, check out this comic I did when I went to Costa Rica two weeks ago. A lil slice of life.

Boy, I sure am gettin the winter blues...

...can't wait til I'm sweating like a pig again.

I finished up backgrounds on Ice Cream Man. Woohoo. Here are a couple screenshots.



I am so so close to being finished.

Drawins

Some watercolor stuff!

The first one is something this guy I worked with once told me to draw. "DRAW ME a rusty pick-up truck with a tire missing set up on a cement block and cracked windows. Oh yeah, and there's a octopus in the trunk." Well, here you go.
This one is based off a Richard Brautigan poem called Adrenalin Mother. I just like the words he used.

Adrenalin Mother
with your dress of comets
and your shoes of swift bird wings
and shadow of jumping fish,
thank you for touching,
understanding and loving my life.
Without you, I am dead.

And a comic! True story.
Besides illustrating things literally, I have started working on backgrounds on my film. Will post some later. In the meantime, check out my bohemoth stack of animation that have been cleaned up and colored. Those babies can finally go in the closet!

I'm soooo over animation

Just kidding. I love it. Really. I'm starting cleanup/color on Ice Cream Man. Check it out!



Haven't really been drawing anything new lately, but I've been working on a bunch of other stuff now that it's the last week of school. Maybe I'll post the puppets I've been making and some ceramics stuff.

I'm thinking about making more bird heads though.

Anyway, see y'all at the showcase! Maybe get a postcard?

Get set...

Bit stressed out today.

BUT. Here's is shot 21 of my film, cleaned up and colored. I was testing out how brush pen would look, and I'm pretty happy with the result. Means a lot more stressed out days to come, but who's counting?

Nothing compares 2 U

Final animatic done for Ice Cream Man...time to animate!

Here's some background stuff and color studies.

And now...as many of you know, my love for Sinead O'Connor will never cease.

More ice cream man

Boy, I've been spending a lot of time at the lab...

I'm playing around with the houses and cacti for my film. I can't seem to break away from that same old boxy look for the houses. I want to try approaching the design from a different direction. Maybe next post.

Sketches of Isabella, one of the kids.

And now off-topic...the mice in my apartment are such ballsy little bastards. I would be sitting in the living room and they'd come right out in the middle of kitchen and stare me down. It's a never-ending battle.

Ice cream man

School's started and I'm all geared up to get my advanced film rolling. I've got preliminary storyboards done, and now it's time to cut it down and rearrange them to fit the time limit. I'll post some boards here sometime. Here's some art I did earlier this year for Ice Cream Man.

Prick's suburban landscape.

Early designs of Ice Cream Man and testing some colors.

His mild-mannered alter ego. And the neighborhood kids. He's got a rounder, softer look now.

I'm excited for this year. My goal is to roughly finish this film by graduation, along with my intermediate film from last year. I've learned that making an animated film is no walk in the park, so I'm determined to thoroughly manage my time for the next two semesters and really discipline myself to get something done that I can be proud of.