Combo Attack!

Dominance War V winners were announced!

2011-12-18T08:51:00.000-08:00

Kilt!

2011-11-29T16:33:00.000-08:00

quick sketch at work

2011-11-20T09:05:00.000-08:00

I just remembered this is supposed to be an art blog!

2011-11-14T22:10:00.000-08:00

Last Months at Raven Software

2011-11-08T14:46:00.000-08:00

Well, here's what I had been up to my last couple of months at Raven. MW3!!!

The zero g sequence in the Turbulence mission was a particular favorite of mine to have worked on and see in the media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQu-h6pcWyY&t=0m39s

Won Team Best for CG Society! Now on to final judging!

2011-06-15T15:21:00.000-07:00

Dominance War V - Animation Entry

2011-05-23T09:35:00.000-07:00

Alright, finally finished up my entry for Dominance War V. I'm using the term "finished" loosely here, but it is submitted and ready to be harshly judged :). This was a fun project, but it took way longer and was way more complicated that I expected it to be. Well, here it is! Good luck to everyone else participating!

Dominance War V - CG Talk Entry Thread

2011-04-24T00:10:00.000-07:00

I've decided to enter Dominance War V and I've been working at it for a little over a month now. Hopefully I'll finish!

Here's a link to the cgtalk thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=331&t=965667

DominanceWar V Pre-War Challenge, CG Society Forum Winner!

2011-01-26T14:07:00.000-08:00

I just found out that my animation entry won the Dominance War V pre-war challenge on the CG Society forums! Next it's on to final judging along with the other best-of animations! Wish me luck!

Trailer for the game I've been working on for the past year!

2010-04-29T18:58:00.000-07:00

Video Games | Singularity | Cause and Effect Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

a few sketches from this weekend

2010-02-28T14:17:00.001-08:00

Still Here!

2010-02-02T21:02:00.000-08:00

Just some proof that I can still hold a pencil.

Jenna during some intense Call of Duty action.

Squirrel!

2009-08-06T17:10:00.000-07:00

Still in need of critique on this one :) Fire whatever you have at me! Thanks everyone.

some recent sketchbook stuff

2009-07-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

Yet Another Squirrel Pass

2009-07-23T15:54:00.000-07:00

Still going on this one. Pile on the feedback if you have some! Please!

Squirrel 2ndPass

2009-07-16T17:31:00.000-07:00

Here he is again with a little more polish. Hopefully I'll get this one finished up soon!

Animation Test

2009-07-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

The squirrel's coming along, but in the mean time... another test!

down time means fun animation test time

2009-07-09T15:43:00.000-07:00

It's been far too long since I've posted anything animation related. That needs to change! So... more animation to come soon! In the mean time, here's a squirrel grabbing a default grey cube. Keep in mind... still needs a ton of work :)

Random Pages

2009-04-23T22:40:00.000-07:00

WooHooooo! Made it on the Wolverine Gametrailers Video!

2009-04-01T15:44:00.001-07:00

Link to new trailer!

collab w/Jenna & Jason along with other random stuff!

2009-02-28T17:03:00.000-08:00

2009 Drawing!

2009-01-17T01:49:00.001-08:00

What I've been up to for the past year and a half

2009-01-09T17:38:00.001-08:00

The website
1up.com article

WOW

2008-11-17T22:57:00.000-08:00

Ok, I checked my google analytics page tonight for the heck of it and saw that my blog hits had gone from two or three a day to 200 or so day... I looked into it a little further and saw that John Nevarez had linked me on his blog!!!! I was amazed. This guy is a major inspiration to me! Thanks John!!

Still Here!

2008-10-07T23:31:00.000-07:00

Art = Fun

2008-02-14T20:50:00.000-08:00

This WIP is for a "draw off" with my good buddy Matt Kummer. You'll eventually be able to find his version of the Gansta Rappa topic on his awesome blog.

Back to Figure

2008-02-13T20:34:00.000-08:00

How I Spent My Sunday

2008-01-20T22:32:00.000-08:00

I swear I'll finish a painting one of these days... until then however, here are some more WIP's

DRAWINGS!!!!

2007-12-19T20:31:00.000-08:00

Some random stuff from Tuesday sketch night

2007-09-22T22:36:00.001-07:00

trying to paint again

2007-09-16T21:49:00.000-07:00

I just started these this past week and it's been fun so far. This will be the first time I paint something and don't keep the original like work. Now let's see if I can actually finish them...

Winston in the Flesh

2007-06-20T15:18:00.000-07:00

I decided I would start working on this guy as I've been wanting to model him for while now. All of you character design people out there, let me know what I'm doing wrong. It sucks being away from all of the feedback at Ringling.

Final Ringling Project

2007-05-04T04:15:00.000-07:00

Well here's my final project. The lipsync is still pretty rough throughout and the last half could stand to be polished some more. I'll get to it sooner or later, but first I finish up my childrens' book work... then off to... somewhere not Ringling.

Thesis Poster

2007-04-18T21:59:00.000-07:00

Here's the poster for my senior project... Don't be fooled by its exciting appearance.

MooM Test Revision

2007-02-04T02:31:00.000-08:00

revision

Ok this will be the last post on this guy for a while. After tonight it'll be no more side project... It'll only be thesis animation in the spare time... that sounds so sad. Ok you guys made some good points. I tried to address the back Cat and I'm also stil in the process of getting the legs down in the walk. Why are walks so hard? Anyway, I changed the surprised pose at the end. I originally tried to go subtle with the reaction, but I think I want to take this guy a little further on the wacky spectrum. I've been paying less and less attention lately to the importance of a strong pose. Sometimes it's easy to get carried away with the trasitions and muddy up your keys in the process. This new reaction might be a little much, but it sure was fun to animate. Ok, let me know what you think. Your opinions help. Thanks,

-Jim

2007-02-03T04:56:00.000-08:00

MooM Test

Hey everybody. This is a really cool little rig I found on highend3d. It's called MooM by Ramtin Ahmadi. It's pretty versatile from what I can tell so far. Lately I find that when I'm tired of animating my thesis characters, it's just that. I'm tired of the characters, not animation itself. It hit me that I can start side projects and have something else to turn to when this happens. For anyone who is getting a little tired of constant thesis work, download this rig and mess around a little. It's fun because it's not going to be graded or anything and you can do whatever you want. And you never know, you just might get something for your demo reel out of it...

Here's the link to MooM: http://highend3d.com/maya/downloads/character_rigs/MooM-by-Ramtin-Ahmadi-4346.html

The major flaw in the rig for me so far has been the lack of shoulder and arm inherit controls. It's taking me some getting used to, but I'm learning to work in layers because of it. After a couple of nights of post-lab animation work, I have(what I think) is a respectable second pass of the first shot in my little project. Eventually this guy will have to overcome a wall that's blocking his path( ie. the shadow in front of him). I'm not sure exactly where I'm going to take it yet. Still need to thumb it out I guess.

Anyway, give me any suggestions you can think of. I'll take all the help I can get.

-Jim

2007-01-25T02:09:00.000-08:00

Winston may have failed to capture the hearts and imaginations of pre pro instructors, but he's back to take on childrens' book illustration.

2007-01-16T17:06:00.000-08:00

One Day Of Lighting Down, Many More To Go

2006-10-21T02:15:00.000-07:00

Blendshape Tests

2006-10-07T21:05:00.000-07:00

ahhhhhhhhh!

2006-09-27T22:56:00.000-07:00

Thesis Turntables

2006-09-16T02:40:00.000-07:00

Kid Progress... nose is changing as i type this

2006-09-15T18:24:00.000-07:00

Pig

2006-09-10T01:40:00.000-07:00

Thesis Models Coming Soon... I Promise...

2006-08-27T11:12:00.000-07:00

More sketches, just putting off posting any thesis

2006-08-10T00:53:00.000-07:00

a couple more sketches

2006-08-08T01:11:00.000-07:00

Lighting Study for Thesis

2006-08-03T00:38:00.000-07:00

a couple of recent sketches