Hungry

My latest weekly assignment for Animation I. The challenge was to animate 3 balls falling into an environment and interact with at least five objects.

Hungry from NATE on Vimeo.

Figure Drawing

I finally had come time to get to an open model session this past weekend. I am realizing two things: I am really out of practice in figure drawing and all of my drawings look the same.

Old Wolf Boy Process

For this series of images I drew them out on a heavier printmaking paper using a Staedtler 0.3 pen. Once they were all drawn out in black and white I photographed them and edited them with Corel Painter X, making slight changes and adding color.

Curiosity

My very first animation! Its about a week's worth of work for an assignment for my animation class. Modeled and animated in Maya and textures created in Photoshop.

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Wolf Boy

Every once in a while I have mentioned a story book or multimedia comic book. back in 2005 at William and Mary I made a print of a wolf creature standing under a tree on top of a mountain. This image was the beginning of a story that I hadn't created. Since that print I have made many images featuring that character. Its been an evolving process. At various points in 2008 I actually set out to create a definite plot and images to follow along with that plot. I got pretty far and ended up with over fifty images of different qualities. I started compiling them in 2009 then abandoned the project for a couple of reasons. I didn't really like the quality of the images. Only a very few of them held up to what I had envisioned. The story also had never been outlined clearly enough. I had been focusing on the images almost exclusively.

I've come back to the project several times since then. While I still have yet to get a solid collection of images the story is starting to solidify in my mind, and come together on paper. For a class this quarter here at Drexel I'll be looking at multimedia storytelling and comics on the internet. I'll be starting a concept of a project that will use pieces of the "Wolf-Boy" story line to demonstrate certain principles of this medium.

I have had this collection of art from the false starts sitting around that very few people have seen and I thought that I would start showing it. There is a narrative and I'll post it on this blog in the narrative order. This is all abandoned work, I won't be using this in the final wolf boy (whatever that may be) but it is worth checking out.

Patch Design

A couple months ago I submitted some patch designs to a contest. I didn't win but I did get in the top 20. You can see the top entries here.

Pirate Nyssa

My sister Nyssa graciously posed for a portrait over winter break back in VA. I painted myself as a pirate earlier in 2008 and I thought I'd continue with that theme. The pirate thing is just for fun and a way to use my imagination. I get bored painting simple portraits. The pirate theme gives it a story and another point of interest. The palette is the same as this.