New Random sketches

Here is a collection of recent sketches for yall. Above is my super-macho friend Jorge as he talks excitedly about a crazy idea of his. And yes, he's referencing that super awesome old-school arcade game Burgertime.
These are from the ASIFA-Hollywood John Canemaker event last week. He showed his new film The Son and the Moon, which was great, and some other awesome, rare cartoons like The Fox Hunt with this funny dancing fox. Amid over at Cartoon Brew talks about the event more here. These drawings don't really look like John though because he was lurking in the shadows during the lecture, so I kinda just made stuff up. But I like em.
Here's another with Brewmeister Jerry Beck interviewing the Canemaker.
Here's some tango sketches. I love tango music (I'm half Argentine) but don't know the dance. Maybe one day I'll learn though.

Oh, lookie here, it's a whale, and I guess some pirates are using him as a ship. Oh crazy pirates...

And finally here are some really quick, rough studies from Citizen Kane done on post-it notes. There are some awesome compositions in this film and it's not even widescreen.

Who Wants Ice Cream

Hey, check out this student film I made a couple of years ago! It's called "Who Wants Ice Cream" and it was my senior film at CalArts. It's a little over 7 min. long, so it took some time to make. But the animation is stylized, and some parts I didn't even get to animate in time. But enough excuses. I'm proud of this film so check it out! Oh yeah, all the music in this film is property of their copyright holders and is not mine, but I'm not making any money off of it, so there. One last thing, the file it pretty huge, so be patient, and thanks for waiting.

Click here to download "Who Wants Ice Cream" [7:17, 43.9 mb (yikes!)]

Study Study Study

Here are some studies I did from Sergio Leone's epic 'Once Upon A Time in the West'. I tried to capture the magnificent compositions as well as studying the elements of light and dark. I also for the use of the 180 degree line and how it was kept and when it was broken. Anyways, just thought I'd share these sketches, which are just done in black prismacolor.

Charles Bronson's character, the hero essentially, starts off on screen right, but then when he shoots down the bad guys he jumps to screen left. But between the switch are centered shots.


The shot above through the window is awesome. Cheyene is looking on as Peter Fonda, the bad guy, and Charles Bronson, the good guy, are about to duel it out. And they're separated by the window frame! And the frame looks like a cross because one of them is going to die! Amazing!