100 %

Ralph animation crew, w/ our director Rich Moore and producer Clark Spencer

Well time flies, last Saturday we reached 100 % done on animation for Wreck-it Ralph!  

I can´t wait for you all to see it.  Growing up on these films,  I feel like it brings something fresh to the table and has the heart that comes with the Disney classics.  I´m lucky to have been a part of it, and it goes without saying that it was an honor to work with this crew and to be a part of this legacy.  I remember a bunch of us new guys went up to Glen Keane at his going away toast.  We told him that we were animating on Ralph, he looked at us, put his hand on Isaak´s shoulder and said, 

"The new generation."

I really feel that guys like Glen are passing the torch to all of us, no matter what studio, students especially.  He stood on the shoulders of giants, without simply repeating what they did.  That generation had something to say and did it their own way.  We took that inspiration and now it´s our time to step up and push this medium forward!

 This was the "A" in ANIMATION that was formerly in front of the hat.  Glen signed the top on his last day. 

Crew signing of the Wreck-it Ralph posters. 

The animation crew in the hat building´s lobby. 

Gathering up for the crew pic

The back of our crew shirt.  Each animator on the team was to caricature his or her officemate.

And this, just because I love pictures of old- timey California. How tiny IS this team.  And look how dapper everyone is!

Wreck-it Ralph Trailer

It's such a great feeling to read all of the positive comments on the internets. Thank you to any and everyone who's dropped me a line or mentioned it. I can't wait for everyone to see the film, it's got so much heart. We're coming up on our last 2 months of animation production, and I'm already starting to miss these characters! A real testament to the commitment of the crew. As romantic or silly as it might sound, Ralph has become a real person to me. I care about how he feels and am proud of him for the decisions that he makes in the film. I sound like a crazy person, but it's true I tell ya.

Caricature Show

Last Thursday Disney had their annual caricature show

Lots of amazing work by Shiyoon, Minkyu, Paul B, and of course the king of caricature, John Musker, amongst others!  Here are a few I did for the show...

 Mel Roberts

Lorelay 

Ron & John

Kira 

This was too late for the show,  our Ralph production supe, Karen!

 Adam Green

 Amy Smeed

Rahul Dabholkar

 Su Wong

 Chris Williams

1000

Thank you Maria Nguyen for following my blog!  You are number 1000, and I drew this just now as a thank you!  I really hope this looks like you, I only had your avatar to go off of.  Best of luck at Sheridan, go check out her work everyone!  Yay Maria!

And thank you very much everyone for following this blog, we've been through a lot together!  Sorry for the lack of new posts recently, but I've just been updating the previous post with more drawings every so often.

We are in crunch time on Wreck-it Ralph !  Here are some images from the film that were released a while back.

 This film has been amazing to work on,  I feel incredibly lucky.

Wreck it Ralph team

Morning everyone!  Here's a quick interview I had the opportunity to do with AnimSchool! 

Check them out if you haven't done so already!  The instructors are my good friends and some of the best in the biz.

On another note, I'm trying to do caricatures of the whole Wreck-It Ralph animation crew before this film wraps!  Here are the first ones:

Svetla Radivoeva

Eric Goldberg

 

Claudio De Oliveira

Our director, Rich in dailies!

Kelly M

Malcon P

Lisa A

Andrew P

Lino

Melissa Genoshe

The amazing Tony Smeed

Dani Peixe

Jen Hager

Wreck-It Ralph's sup, Renato !

CTN Expo

Yes ! I'll be joining the animation crowd and attending the Creative Talent Expo this weekend! Disney will be doing portfolio & reel reviews at their booth , and I'll be helping out with that on saturday, reviewing from 10AM - 12PM. I'm going to try and make the Animation Mentor party Friday & the Sketchtravel book party Saturday. Other than that I'll be wandering around the aisles spending way too much coin on art books man! Looking forward to seeing everyone !

*edit* Hey I just remembered it's my birthday today! Happy birthday me !

LA Journal

Hey I forgot to post this here but, like I did back in NY, I started an LA journal here :

http://bobbyinlosangeles.blogspot.com

Follow along if you're so inclined, should be fun!

Congratulations to the Richards's !

Congratulations to my good friends, Mike and Kwan, who are getting married in Hawaii this Monday!

I feel like I should explain this picture , or maybe it's best I don't :)

In other news, my first day at Disney is this Monday! Wish me luck!

More Blue Sky folks

Thank so much for all of the well-wishes!
I've been spending some rest time w/ friends & family up here in Seattle before I head down to LA in Nov.  In the meantime & in between time, I had the chance to do a few more drawings of some good friends back at Blue Sky!

BJ Crawford

 "Golden" Graham Silva

 Melvin Tan

Isaak Fernandez 

 Rich Fournier

Raymond Ross

Garrett Shikuma

Here are some of the roughs

Walt Disney Animation Studios

When I was at the Art Institute of Seattle ten years ago, I quite honestly had no clue as to what I wanted to for a living.  Probably like a lot of us, I just knew I wanted to "do something in art."  

Right then,  I started to come across the work that Disney was doing at the time, and in a flash became inspired to begin to pursue animation.  Quite obsessively actually.   I felt like a total slacker in high school, but animation just ignited something in me and all of a sudden I wanted to... wait for it... work hard!  What?! I now had this pie-in-the-sky dream of being a Disney Animator.  

Since then, I've had the good fortune to do a lot of things in this industry,  and I'm forever grateful for every experience I've been blessed with, good and bad.  I've had some amazing experiences w/ amazing people that I wouldn't change for anything.  What helped me pull through the bad was remembering what changed my life in the first place, and why I even wanted to do this.  So, as you can imagine, I feel extremely lucky to say that I've accepted a position as a Character Animator for the Walt Disney Animation Studios, working on their next feature film, Wreck-It Ralph!

It's still pretty surreal to say it.  And I know it's not cool to be this geeky when you're a already a professional, but man,  I GREW UP ON THIS STUFF!

Wish me luck because I'll need it!  Blue Sky Family!  You've all been awesome and the pleasure was all mine.  Thanks for your support everyone!