Back!

Just got back from the Philippines last friday, was one of the funnest times I've been back! Was a best man at my cousin's wedding, went wakeboarding a couple of times, and got spend most of my time in the countryside really. Its hotter than you can imagine there right now. Here are some sketches of things I saw on the trip, I'll post some pics a little later!

From the Seattle and Taipei Airport, where I had an 8 hour stopover!

You'll see these kind of tricycles everywhere, I wanna bring back one to the states, imagine the commute in that badboy!

This massive mansion was just recently built in our meager barangay(barrio, neighborhood) for some reason.

Neighbors taking a shower outdoors by the water pump across the street. I didnt get to try it because I'd be unconfortable, but it always looked completely refreshing.

The newest little one in our family, Therese!

My little cousins playing ( and takin a bath) in the waterhose.

Next door neighbor from the Nadal family.

Hostesses of Wowowee, a super popular tv show there.

From a drag queen cotillion.

From a city-wide parade and festival.Some pros from a newly built, local Watersports complex rockin out. I didn't come close to looking like any of this, but it was a freaking blast.

I'll post up some pics soon!

See you in a bit

I'm headin off to the Philippines for about 2 weeks this friday! I've tried to make it a thing to go annually, so I dont miss my little cousins growin up. Theres so many and they're growin up so fast! And for those who know what it is, we're scheduled to go to WoWoWee on the 9th ! So look for me screaming in the background. I'll be armed with my sketchbook so hopefully I can bring back some stuff. Also I should be starting up AM again after so I'll be posting that work again.

So I'll see you when I get back, until then I'll leave you with this little gem of a collabo between My beautiful fiance and I.
Thanks for stoppin by!

Biscuit by Cheryl Jacob
Color by me

harry

A drawing I'm doing for a good friend. One of three!

Peeps at 24 hour fitness Lynnwood.

Passed these twins on the way to the restroom, they reminded me of a freaky Nelson. I felt like they wanted me to check them out so I went out of my way to not to. Kind of like when someone in their car bumps their speakers because they want to turn heads, and you dont just to spite them!
I like to think they walk in unison too.Two guys that were getting their Jiu-Jitsu on in a the corner!

Every gym has one.

I know right? Super nice dude though.

More to come! There are too many great characters at this gym! Why did I just realize this now?

Toilet Humor

Very recently, a few employees at ArenaNet have been putting up comic strips in the bathroom for our reading pleasure. Now those who know me, know I enjoy a good chuckle while on the can, but sometimes this can and has made for some uncomfortable moments.

chicky-poo

More more more practice with design, color, photoshop brushes, you name it. Cause heaven knows I need it. Nowadays I usually just sketch at my desk between animating and go on and color it at home. Once again, the sartorialist a resource for this one. I'm trying to get better at controlling shapes and push to cartoonier proportions. As I think alot of my stuff is playing it safe for the most part.

I'm also starting up a new dialogue test soon, so hopefully I can keep a steady stream of traditional stuff coming too.

just some sketches...

Just some silly scribbly sketches from last week.

People I might've seen somewheres.Cheryl asleep on the couch.
Grindhouse drawings of course! What a boy thing to do. Anways the movie was wicked! Highly recommended! Much more than just hubba hubba moments. Although it has those in spades=). I seem to be in the minority, but I even like the dialogue-heavy scenes, where the camera is just moving around characters chatting at the table. Very Tarantino, very entertaining stuff.

My claim to fame baby!

I also updated and re-organized the content in the traditional work section in my sidebar to include some newer stuff, fixed some broken links, added newer life drawings etc etc.

Robinsons!

So Cheryl and I got to catch Meet the Robinsons the other night! I say it was pretty good! Story wise, we felt the pacing in the first half (or so) of the movie was a bit frantic and akward, but I enjoyed the end and how they tied all of the elements together, it made for a really satisfying conclusion. I'm no expert by any means, but I feel they could've spent more time fleshing out exposition in the beginning and in a few other sections, and less on random, unrelated-to-the-story gag scenes. That would've helped the pacing and made the whole cake sit together better. Cake.
Art Direction Design was great as I expected! With the exception of a few secondary characters,I thought Joe Moshier's designs translated extremely well to 3D. Standouts were Goob, Bowler Hat Guy, Wilbur's mom Franny, and the Gym teacher.

Animation wise, I thought there were some great over-the-top performances from Bowler Hat Guy, and Goob was super appealing. Bowler Hat Guy man, soo good. I loved every time he was on screen. Although I felt the voice-acting overall, especially in the lead characters, left a little to be desired.
All in all, pretty enjoyable film. Congrats to all who worked on it! I'd recommend it and would watch it again, maybe in 3D this time?!
Oh yeah I got a real kick out of the new Disney Animation logo. There's that photoreal Walt Disney bit of the castle, but they have a brand spankin new Feature Animation logo bit that was awesome!

wake up

Sleeping in saturdays don't bode well with the pups.

Tamacun!

Hey all! I felt compelled to do this after being turned on to and listening to Rodrigo Y Gabriela (all day) from the recommendation by some good friends of mine. Have you ever seen someone so good at their craft that it makes you want to be that much better at what you do ? Check out these two get down on this video of them on Dave Letterman. Soo bad ass.

sartorialists

So my latest blog-related addiction is sketching different people from the Sartorialist for fun inbetween animating monsters at work. The sartorialist is a blog with pictures of interesting and unique peoples from all walks of life. Most of them in Paris, New York, London. Great site, Do check it out.

How many guys do you know can look this bad ass with yellow pants.

Oh man, You know some s**t is about to go down. Just waiting for the signal.
Photos from the Sartorialist.

Silly drawing from myself, colors in photoshop. That gun cheesball enough for ya?

A few more during the week.

GW on MSNBC

Check out this cool article on Guild Wars on MSNBC this morning!

Am-Class 1 Reel

AM-Last Q & A!

Yes,twelve weeks have already passed and we had our last q & A session with Ray ( of recent TMNT fame) tonight, it's kinda funny but you do bond with your classmates just over the course of 12 weeks. I wish them the best, and hope to meet up with some of them down in Siggraph this year! From Gregory with his frozen poses, Colin A.(from England) doin a Q&A at 5AM, Jerzy and his immaculate goatee,Tonya and her industry stories, to never ever ever seeing what Ya-Shu looks like. The quater was a fun experience. I never thought I'd have so much trouble with the bouncing ball exercise.

Unfortunately I'm going to have to be taking off from the next class coming up. I'm going to be going to the Philippines twice (4 weeks total!) and so decided it'd be best to not miss that much class in one quater. It is my fiance's first time in the Philippines and I want to be there with her, and AM will always be there when I come back. I'm signing up for the quater after. So I'll see all of you guys then! Or! I'll see you guys at Siggraph!Our mentor, Ray Chase, and Gregory Sugar Lips Jones.

GW 2!

Good news everyone! Guild Wars 2 made it to the front cover of PC Gamer this month! Check out this link for more info on the game and article.

Baby Fever

Last week one of my co-workers brought in their newborn baby. Babies are the best. At one point during the visit, over the span of about, say 2 minutes, he went from peacefully asleep, to foggy, to furious, to sleepy, to suddenly alert, to curious , back to sleepy. It was awesome.

Most of the time he slept though. Which means I got to pat his head alot.
And although tempting, I didnt go for the big sniff this time around, but I'll keep that one on the backburner for next time.

Week 11 -AM Balance

The next and final sketch n pose word for the quater is Balance. Here are some of the first few sketches I'm doin, mostly breakin poses and capoeira!

FlapTraps

Just drarwin co- workers.

Personality Walk

Week 10 AM- Exhausted

This weeks Animation Mentor assignment for sketch and pose is exhausted. Here are a few quick ideas, more to come later in the week!

Happy Birthday Aubs!

Corbis Girl

From a girl I found on Corbis today at work. Corbis is an AWESOME site for reference photos and movies!
Congratulations on the new gig Leslie!

Week 10 - AM Personality Walk!

Hey Mom! This week's AM assignment is a walk with some style! I shot some reference tonight for a fancy dancy,double bounce strut idea, should be fun. Pardon the pups.

Electric Boogaloo.

Inspired by some breakdancers we saw fighting for space at the J&M Club last Wednesday. And an excuse to play with more brushes!

I used to be HARDCORE into breakdancing, in junior high that is literally all that any of the kids did and thats all that we ever talked about. If we weren't video taping ourselves in the garage, we were watching Beat Street for the thousandth time. I could never do crazy any of the advanced power moves like headspinning or ninties. My forte was the windmill and I for a while I thought I was super cool until eventually eeeverybody in Bremerton could do it. The best guys were always those skinny 100 pound dudes because they didnt have much to work with. I kinda tapered off in high school and by college I was back to being completely uncoordinated.

For more crazy breakdancin action check out my co-worker, Rich, serving fools at work!

When I grow up...

I want to be a Spartan.