Western Pistol

I created this image in Maya. I modeled, textured and lit the western pistol.
Maya, Mental Ray, Photoshop

Painting for the 2011 HugABull Calendar

I"M ALIVE!! This week I finished a painting for the HugABull society. The painting will be in the 2011 calendar. My painting is inspired by a Pitbull named Brandi who was rescued by HugABull. For those people who don't know about HugABull, they rescue bully breeds from the shelter system, placing them in foster care and ultimately adopting them into responsible, loving homes. You can check out the website. I will keep you posted on when you can buy the calendar.

The annual Purrcasso Art show

It's that time of the year again when I do a painting for the Purrcasso Art & Craft benefit for the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society in California. This year I did a painting from the "Cat and mouse" series. The show will showcase lots of great artists from Canada and the United states. You can check out the artists and their work at the Purrcasso blog The great thing about this painting, I got to use my new intuos 4 Wacom tablet. All that I can say is that I love it!! It makes digital painting way easier and fun. One of the photos has my cat in it. I thought it was cute that she was interested in the painting.

Storyboards

Here are some storyboards to the film I am working on. They are just random boards from the film, therefore they are not in any particular order. I just finished the my second animatic. I have still lots of tweaks and changes to the film before I start actual production but the film is coming along. I have lots of other projects I have to work on so I may have to put the film on hold for a couple of weeks. However I will have some more posts in the near future.

Simon's Cat Contest.

A couple of weeks ago, Blake and I entered a contest that was held by Simon Tofield who created the animated shorts "Simon's cat". Basically they wanted to see a photo of Simon's cat in different places. Sadly though we didn't win but that's o.k, we had lots of fun doing the photos. You can still see our two photos on the website gallery. For those who don't know Simon's cat, please check them out.