Little Roy

10 year old Roy tormenting some poor unsuspecting ants.

Cake-eater

1920's vesion of my character, Roy, I made for an art jam at Entervoid.com

Eff This

Huuuhhhhhh, so I was at school yesterday working on a character turn-around for my animation class on the computer for like 4 hours. I was originally saving the file to the desktop. Then I put my flashdrive in and dragged it over into that instead, leaving the original copy still on the desktop. I had been  saving the file periodically while working on it, and when I was finished, and it was time to go home, I though it had been updating the one on the desktop all along, since it was the original. So, I dragged it into my flashdrive again.  You know that little dialog box that comes up and asks you if you want to copy and replace the file? Well, I said yes. Turns out, it had been saving to the one on my flashdrive the whole time and I had just replaced the file I had been working on for 4 hours with the barely finished version i had saved 4 hours before hand.... mwap, mwap, mwaaaaa.
Any way, I drew this to make me feel better. It feel it expresses my pain.

No Water for Nemo

My school has this quarterly optional competition called the 24 hour challenge. Students have to create artwork (an animation, illustration, graphic design work, sculpture, etc.) based on a common theme within 24 hours, and you have to create it on campus. The theme this quarter was Forgotten Heroes from old early 20th century comics. 
Everyone was assigned a character at sign-up. Winner gets a certificate (woopee), some little prizes, and genuine artwork from some of the instructors. Not sure I really care for any of those, but I think it would be pretty cool to get some artwork by my animation teacher. You might have seen his stuff: this Guy-->[link]

I got Winsor McCay's Little Nemo. I entered into the Illustration category because I don't consider myself proficient enough with animation yet ...and no one asked me to be part of their group :(
So, 19 hours and several cokes later, I finished my four illustrations. The minimum for illustarion was 3 but I didn't want to put more than one image on the last page.
We had to have them printed and framed by end of it all too. These are all originally 16"x20," 4800px X 6000px files (Yeeaah, the computer I was using was not happy with me). Thank goodness for money-grubbing big 24hr businesses like Kinkos and Wal-mart.

Ugh, My neck and shoulder and wrist are killing me. My neck from sleeping in a lounge chair for 2hrs and My shoulder and wrist from using the cintiq for several hours straight. It's a wonder i haven't developed Carpal Tunnel syndrome from this school yet.

I want to say I'll never do it again BUT... I probably will 

Little Nemo © Winsor McCay

Tourny Battle 2: The Hunt

Second tournament battle for Roy on entervoid.com. Roy vs. Lt. Angus Blackader! The first round match, Roy vs. Lore Josse can be seen here: http://bloochikin.deviantart.com/#/d4xuonh

Individual frames for hair flip animation.

Hair Flip Animation

Rough animation I did at work. It's far from perfect, but I don't think it's too bad for a crappy little straight-ahead done between customers on post-it notes.