Name Droppin'

I've been pretty busy working on a couple stories and doing some freelance.  Actually, I just got hired to do some toy designs for "The Walking Dead".  As in the TV show.  As in these things will be sold in stores.  So yeah, I've been freaking out about that but it's been fun so far.  Hopefully I can post some stuff from that soon.  But yeah, in between that I'm boarding out a story I wrote featuring the dog and guy you see below.  It's been a blast so far and I hope to see it through soon.  The rough stage at least.  My friend Adam (professional story board extraordinaire on such films as "Ice Age" and "Despicable Me") has been giving me advice along the way and I think this will end up as a good portfolio piece.  Consider this image a sneak preview.

Oh yeah, and I just signed up for a "storyboarding for feature animation" class with Steven Macleod!  Steven is a story artist at Dreamworks animation and has worked on "How To Train Your Dragon" and "The Croods", so I'm super pumped for that.  Man, I feel like I'm name-dropping a bunch in this post.  So why not do some more...

Adam Scott, the actor guy from "Parks and Rec." recently filmed a promo for a short film he's doing with Nick Offerman.  It's a ridiculous video but you can see Adam wearing a green shirt I designed that features a pirate riding a unicorn.  Pretty awesome.  You can see it here

That's all for now, I think...

Dog-racked.

This just happened and in an average week happens at least twice.  Apparently I need to start wearing a cup around the house.  

Kenpo Movie

I just started working on a short film with the Iowa Filmmakers tentatively titled 'Kenpo Movie'. Actually that name is just a placeholder and as soon as we figure out was it's called I shall tell it to the world.  Simply put, it's about a guy that's just trying to do right by the world but also happens to be a classical violinist and martial arts badass.   We're not too far along it but it's coming together quite nicely.  Just yesterday we rehearsed and demo'd some of the fight sequences to get the choreography straightened out.  I'll post more about this as we get farther into production, but here's some sketches of Jack ( the main character) playing his violin.

BURP!

If you know my girlfriend Erin, you know she can burp on occasion. Quite often actually. But I've learned to live with it. I personally don't even know how to burp (seriously, I have no clue) but every time she burps it seems like she always has a new excuse for it.  I've had the idea to immortalize this in drawn form for quite some time, so I'm glad I finally made it happen.

ps-Erin says that I have to allow her to burp whenever she wants as a result of posting this.

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