Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Self Portrait




This took me longer than I care to admit. Actually, I wasn't keeping track of how long it took so there's nothing to admit.

This is probably the first photoshop painting I've done where I didn't start with line art, and one of the few that didn't make me ragequit halfway through.


Also, I covered a bit of an Exivious song a few days ago. This song is murder on my fingers with all the jazz chords, but since I started learning it I've already noticed some improvement in my other playing, which progress is normally slow enough that I don't notice it.



http://soundcloud.com/ryanimation/waves-of-thought-cover

Still a lot of mistakes, and I can't play the solos at all, but I'll get there hopefully.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Some figure drawings (not entirely safe for the workplace environment).

I remembered I bookmarked this tool a while ago:

http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php

They've updated it since the last time I used it, and it's a lot more functional now. They also have an animal version up top which I've yet to really use.

Anyway, I went into this with the intention of these just being quick gesture drawings, but as usual I get bogged down in details and they got more fleshed-out (HIYOOOOO... sorry) than intended.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Community Webisodes

So I worked on these webisodes for the TV series Community at Animax.

Episode 1:



Episode 2:



Episode 3:



Here's what I worked on:

Episode 1: Abed's animation, Study Room background design.

Episode 2: All animation up to the "5 minutes later" screen, All set design except the lounge (vending machine area)

Episode 3: All animation on Britta, study room background design.


I worked on all of these with a handful of others, including Sir James of Gibson.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Late-night musicmaking.

I stayed up way too late last night making this. I wrote and recorded it in the space of about 3.5 hours, and I'm pretty happy with the result for something so quick, and somewhat improvised.