It’s been over a month since my last update, and a lot has happened, and a lot hasn’t happened. C’est la vie de le “freelancer”. Alors, voilá! L’art! (What’s up with all the french all of a sudden? Je ne sais pas…)
Animation Reel and Portfolio Page Update
Each year around this time I gather all of my work together once again for my yearly pilgrimage to CTN EXPO. This will be my third time going to it, and I’m glad it’s still going strong because with each new convention, I seem to make new friends and I have more fun than the previous year. So hot off the renders, here is my new animation reel, concept art, and storyboard portfolios. Enjoy!
Studio CATCH! Animation Reel 2011 on Vimeo
Studio CATCH! Animation Reel 2011 on Youtube
Concept Art Portfolio
Storyboard Portfolio
Here are some more design works for “War of the Currents.” With CTN EXPO coming up, I have to put up a new animation reel and portfolio for the convention, so I don’t know if I’ll have more design work next week, but I’ll try to have another post… of something. Also, people are starting to ask me about the story behind all these characters and places, and honestly right now the ideas are just a little too jumbled for a coherent story to come out quickly. Besides, I don’t even know in which medium to attempt something like this, though most likely not comics (maybe film, or animation; or even just illustrations for a novel?) Either way, I hope you’ve been enjoying them as much as I have painting them, so once again, enjoy!
This week I continue to explore the world of War of the Currents with some more character and mechanical designs. I guess the carbon light bulb theme in all of these designs comes from a concept of reverse causality (is that even real?) in such that the energy comes from the bulb, and not from another source that makes the bulbs glow. One of the challenges of sci-fi is coming up with the science or logic of that world, and while it’s exciting and interesting, it’s also a bit overwhelming; either that or I’m too worried about things making sense.