sketch-a-doodle-doo

DOODLE DETAILS

2012-01-18T00:33:00.001-06:00

There's faces in them face holes!

2011-12-16T01:02:00.001-06:00

color pencil on tracing paper

airport sketches:

2011-12-16T00:58:00.002-06:00

Animation NIght @ PUNY

2011-12-16T00:45:00.002-06:00

a monthly free for all with a loose theme

Mr. Thompson, Mr. Oleck and Mr. Winslow

2011-11-09T21:47:00.000-06:00

color pencil on cheap tracing paper

Character Designs for Calabash

2011-07-12T23:03:00.001-05:00

The Trix Rabbit went to outer space and I was at the launching pad in a spot titled "Spoon Goon".

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE DISCOVERIES: Baby Boy

2011-06-18T12:36:00.001-05:00

A single panel cartoon for book about genetics

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE DISCOVERIES:Uncle Dave

2011-06-18T12:27:00.000-05:00

Going through external hardrives finding drawings I forgot I drew.
Like this image of my Uncle Dave (circa 1978) I drew for his 60th Birthday.

sketchdump 05182011

2011-05-18T03:35:00.000-05:00

TRIA

2011-05-17T00:32:00.000-05:00

Concept character sketches for a story my friend want to tell..

PEPPERMELON!

2011-05-05T23:59:00.003-05:00

Recent character development and designs I doodled up for the early stages of a Peppermelon project.
http://www.peppermelon.tv/

OBAMA Commemorative (paper) Plate 05.01.2011

2011-05-01T23:47:00.003-05:00

Killing time and waiting to die

2011-04-29T02:32:00.002-05:00

Tracing Paper, Pencil, Pastels

2011-04-06T03:45:00.001-05:00

Tracing paper. Pencil on the front. Pastels on the back.

lumpy #3 is perplexed

2011-04-03T23:07:00.002-05:00

This happened at my desk today

2011-04-03T22:26:00.004-05:00

No specific reasons or plans for this guy, yet.

2011-03-25T02:49:00.003-05:00

http://monkeyandcar.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html

Charli and The Apple Factory SKETCHES

2011-03-20T22:19:00.008-05:00

Initial character design sketches for College Humors short we created over at PUNY

ink.

2011-02-28T23:30:00.004-06:00

Still much to learn about ink

ink?

2011-02-23T20:36:00.006-06:00

Drawing with the ink and pen nibs that I never use
combining with watercolor to see what happens
the camera wasn't set for the harsh light
no intention
just laziness
so the color is less apparent
but I like the accidental result

watercolor thumbnails

2011-02-10T21:44:00.005-06:00

playing around with blending in watercolor
I laid down a series of color thumbnails
to see how combination blend

using the dry washes and ink
I experimented with staging, depth and mood
forcing my brain to not rely on my limited stockpile of compositions

scanned in grayscale to see what color choices translate variety in tonal value

Characters for Calabash

2011-02-01T21:12:00.004-06:00

My friends at Calabash Animation asked me to sketch some spacemen for a concept pitch.

Thanks Calabash!

sketchdump 01232011

2011-01-23T21:50:00.006-06:00

Dr. Sketchy's 01232011

2011-01-23T21:29:00.005-06:00

girl,squirrel,snow

2011-01-10T18:58:00.002-06:00

Gesture sketching in Flash on a Cintique

2010-12-10T18:07:00.001-06:00

Minnehaha

2010-11-25T22:29:00.005-06:00

FESTIVAL PHILLIP

2010-07-22T22:27:00.008-05:00

PHIILIP th SAFETY EGG will be screening at the Brainwash Movie Festival in Oakland CA on Saturday 8.14.2010. If you are in or around Oakland and enjoy cartoons about safety, walking bacon and a chicken's anus, please show your support for Phillip and for Brainwash.

The New York Times says the Brainwash Movie Festival pirat[es] a piece of that old Hollywood magic and challeng[es] conventions on the role of public space in the process.
“We project movies onto a tarp in West Oakland,” counters festival director Shelby Toland.

FILM FESTIVAL PHILLIP!

2010-06-26T21:39:00.006-05:00

PHILLIP the SAFETY EGGtis making its way across North and Central America.
Still waiting for confirmation from a few more entered festivals and discovering new places to send this egg.

If you find yourself in any of these cities on any these dates, go watch PHILLIP on the big screen.

Johnstown Film Festival June 19th...........WINNER Audience Choice Award

Atlanta Shorts Fest Aug 6-8

Animation Block Party NYC July 30-Aug 1

Costa Rica International Film Festival Nov 18-21

The Johnstown Festival was a small event in my hometown in Western

Pennsylvania. I was not able to attend the screening but I'll assume my
parents were very proud to see all of that college tuition going toward a
cartoon involving a chicken's anus

sketchbookdump032010

2010-03-17T23:22:00.004-05:00

Photos from India

2010-02-04T15:14:00.007-06:00

Prince Piakattu, proprietor of Vriksha Animation Academy and old friend form my first trip to India has posted a few photos from my 2009 visit.

HERE
HERE
HERE

We are are on the verge of wrapping our first collaboartion project for his company Vaudeville Studios. A 3-D animated short that may land Vaudeville a series of episodes. Its been challenging to direct from the other side of the world and to learn the 3D production pipeline, but the team of artists and animators are quick learners and dedicated to improving their craft. More as this progresses.

SAFETY IS SPREADING

2010-02-02T00:01:00.006-06:00

PHILLIP the SAFETY EGG has been getting a fair amount of views thanks to

COLDHARDFLASH

and CARTOON BREW

and good old fashioned Facebook

Here's what some viewers are saying about PHILLIP:

"A well done “randomness”

"Wow.. that was weird, but funny!"

"Reminds me of the LOST pilot."

the birth of PHILLIP the SAFETY EGG

2010-01-28T14:19:00.008-06:00

After years in living in the purgatory in my head and weeks of living in development and production at PUNY...here he is...PHILLIP!

PHILLIP doodles

2010-01-10T13:28:00.003-06:00

A few pen sketches exploring Phillip's manner of speaking.

New Book

2009-12-08T23:46:00.007-06:00

I recently purchased this John Halas book, written for the British Film Academy

concepting an idea

2009-12-08T23:10:00.007-06:00

for a poem titled Mariah's Packed Lunch

for a potential book of illustrated poems.

midnight doodles of november 30th

2009-12-01T22:12:00.002-06:00

Dr Sketchy's 112209

2009-11-22T18:31:00.005-06:00

Another Sunday afternoon drinking Bloody Marys at the 331, drawing burlesque performers of Dr Sketchy's featuring Musette of the Midnight Muse Revue

(I just realized I can't spell Peacock)

Today was the anniversary of the JFK assassination.

Newlywed Consumers

2009-11-20T00:38:00.003-06:00

3 thumbnail sketches for a client.
The concept was a young married couple purchasing an antique mirror from a satisfied salesman. This concept was eventually, and completely changed. So this is where they end up

Odosketch

2009-11-11T18:38:00.001-06:00

gestures 11102009

2009-11-10T22:23:00.003-06:00

spaceknife part02

2009-11-10T22:09:00.002-06:00

...blocking in color.
Choosing colors make me nervous

spaceknife part001

2009-11-09T03:45:00.002-06:00

I tend to ruin sketches when I try to render with non- digital tools.
Its a habit I'm trying to break

Post of a Post of a Post

2009-11-03T11:16:00.006-06:00

ColdHardFlash has a post about a post I made on the PUNYblog about animation process for a cartoon I directed at PUNY

here is that Post

uselessimagination 10242009

2009-10-24T22:54:00.001-05:00

thingsonmydesk 10.21.2009

2009-10-21T20:46:00.005-05:00

a beverage from the future

2009-10-20T21:01:00.001-05:00

a question from the future

2009-10-20T19:38:00.003-05:00

TRIA...?

2009-10-11T19:26:00.002-05:00

TRIA?

2009-10-08T00:56:00.004-05:00

inking in Flash

original sketch

drawing a lot of ladies these days

TRIA

2009-09-29T22:32:00.001-05:00

Character sketches for Dave Facchini's film "Chained to a Cloud"

Angry Beaver

2009-09-24T13:27:00.005-05:00

SCIENCE!

2009-09-24T00:14:00.008-05:00

Not sure if I ever posting anything here about this science cartoon we made over at PUNY a while back.

SKETCHdump 09202009: YELLOW

2009-09-20T21:41:00.005-05:00

BACK from INDIA

2009-09-20T20:09:00.011-05:00

Its actually been 2 weeks since I returned from my second adventure to India.

I was invited to Bangalore as an advisor by my student, friend and collegue Prince Paikattu. In the 10 years since we have seen each other, the animation industry in India has grown significantly. Prince has been leading the education of animators throughout his career and has decided to open his own training facility, VRIKSHA MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY, that trains artists to become filmmakers rather than just technicians. The instructors are part of the creative team that makes up VAUDEVILLE STUDIOS, a the production studio that Prince has also started. We are trying to develop a new model for small studios in India. This venture is new but off to a good start.

The current students of Vriksha (+ a really white guy)

The VAUDEVILLE team (+ a really white guy)

Prince teaching his daughter the fine art of making cartoons

The neighborhood cow

INDIA

2009-08-17T20:15:00.003-05:00

I'm traveling to India this Friday to help develop a new animation academy.

and I image in will be just like this....
(courtesy of ASIFA Animation Archives)

spaceman 07242009

2009-07-24T23:37:00.002-05:00

PHOTOSHOP DOODLE

uselessimagination 07242009

2009-07-24T21:56:00.002-05:00

SKETCHdump 07232009

2009-07-23T22:40:00.009-05:00

F-bomb WARNING:
Not suitable for young readers

frame037

2009-07-08T11:08:00.003-05:00

Dr. Sketchy's

2009-06-28T23:07:00.005-05:00

MAde it to another installment of Dr. Sketchy's over at the 331 Club.

And in honor of the life and death of infomercial king Bill Mays, the host Ian (of Drinking with Ian) requested that one sketch include a tribute to The OyxClean Man.

Concept Sketch Leftovers

2009-06-13T00:22:00.004-05:00

The Beatles Rock Band Intro

2009-06-01T22:34:00.005-05:00

Saw this posted at Cartoon Brew and declared it to be awesome.

6.2.2009 BUT THE VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED...sorry

Monkey & CAR to star in Music Video

2009-05-28T23:10:00.007-05:00

FEATURING the music of ROCK 'n' ROLL MONKEY and THE ROBOTS!
http://www.myspace.com/rocknrollmonkey

Monkey & CAR

Mr Sunday released

2009-05-28T17:57:00.002-05:00

Recently I posted some design work I did for Reelworks Animation.
http://www.sketchadoodledoo.com/2009/04/mr-sunday.html

Here is the finished animation from the Reelworks Newsletter
http://www.reelworks.com/NL/May28/

PUNY + BRITNEY SPEARS =

2009-05-28T09:53:00.006-05:00

Checkout what we are doing over at PUNY these days.

I was responsible for Storyboard/Animatic, Layouts, and the approved Britney design.

STORYBOARDS are pretty

2009-05-12T09:39:00.006-05:00

I was recently sent this link to storyboards from Pixars new film UP!

I've been teaching and doing a lot of Storyboards lately so I've been studying the process and practice more than I ever have.

I really like the timing and personality of these boards.

So I posted them on my blog.

See the rest HERE>>>>

VOTE for number11

2009-05-06T00:22:00.004-05:00

One of my cartoons that was originally a xmas gift for a co-worker is now in the top 5 for an animation contest that rewards irrelevant nonsense.

So vote for my irrelevant nonsense

WATCH
number11

VOTE
http://www.bigfish.tv/fest/comp

Thanks

Guy Whitey SAYS...

2009-04-30T11:36:00.004-05:00

Wesley and Issac

2009-04-28T11:06:00.003-05:00

On the horn...Wesley Hayes

On keys...Issac Mongomory

Guy Whitey says...

2009-04-28T11:02:00.005-05:00

Mr Sunday

2009-04-19T20:24:00.019-05:00

Some recent Character and Background Design I did for Reelworks Animation.
Check out the finest spot HERE

Click on LATEST and scroll down to the second spot.

Here are samples of some of the early design explorations:

NUMBER 11

2009-04-15T16:33:00.006-05:00

Milt Kahls Birthday

2009-03-25T10:51:00.002-05:00

Today he would be 100

Sketch-A-Doodle Sightings

2009-03-20T22:26:00.007-05:00

http://photofunia.com/

AnimationNite @ PUNY

2009-03-18T10:31:00.005-05:00

Once a month the animators at PUNY gather on a Friday night to animate for the hell of it.
This is the result of one of those nights LINK.

It's interactive...drag those things around!

FLASHdoodles

2009-03-15T02:38:00.004-05:00

SKETCH-A-Doodle NEW!

2009-03-07T23:43:00.016-06:00

To celebrate the minor revamping of this here BLOG...
Sketch-A-Doodle Doo! brings you another installment of crap I've doodled over the past few months.

I'm still in the process of updating my links and whatnot, so please let me know if you don't see your link anymore.....or if you want your link removed....or if you want to let me post a link to whatever it is you do on the internets

Thanks for visiting

and now back to the doodles

WONDERBOY! finds a magnificent specimen

her skepticism showed

see attatched

pectoralshare

minutes

froggyandleggy

LFCB!

Just then, Laura realized why.

GUYwith2heads

!MANofACTION!

This wasn't the first time Eric woke up alone.

deciding

CONAN

I was grateful for the ride, hoping that eventually he would stop staring at me.

boy monkey

blah

baseballthumbnails

It was like nothing she had ever heard before.

DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT

2009-02-23T00:10:00.012-06:00

Some work I did for Reelworks a while back.

LINK to article in SCREEN MAGAZINE

ChalkboardTV

2009-02-21T13:31:00.004-06:00

Experimenting with making old animation new while playing with After Effects.

I have a VHS tape of animation I captured in 2001 using a chalkboard & chalk under a video camera + a 3 color separated image of a TV from Vincent Stall, and some audio experiments courtesy of Curtis Square-Briggs.

The Strangest Thing I ever Drew for Money

2009-02-21T13:24:00.004-06:00

...but not much money.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

2009-02-21T13:23:00.003-06:00

DESIGNS for Supermarket spot

2009-02-21T13:15:00.006-06:00

The concept for the spot was an animated dancing mom on a grocery bag. Because grocery shopping is hip and fun at your local R______ Foods!

PHILLIP the Safety Egg THUMBNAILS

2009-02-21T13:04:00.003-06:00

GO PUNY!

2009-02-04T10:24:00.004-06:00

LINK

AUDREY KAWASAKI

2009-01-24T15:06:00.004-06:00

I was wrong in my previous post about Alice Smith....it does relate to sketching....well painting.

The cover art on Alice's first album was created by Audrey Kawasaki.

Who I also really like.

AUDREY KAWASAKI INTERVIEW

Alice Smith

2009-01-24T14:48:00.005-06:00

This post has nothing to do with sketching, doodling or animation.
I just really like her.

IT HURTS MY EYES

2009-01-15T18:24:00.001-06:00

This guy is so good it hurts me to look

http://polyminthe.blogspot.com/

Zombie Loretta Lynn

2009-01-11T19:09:00.005-06:00

MADE WITH REAL PAINT!

Dr Sketchy's #2

2008-12-25T16:42:00.009-06:00

Sketches from my second Dr Sketchy's Experience.

A little drunk, sketching Burlesque performers is a great way to spend a cold Sunday Afternoon in Minneapolis.

SelfPortrait 11.08

2008-12-16T21:36:00.003-06:00

A call from Tom

2008-11-18T11:02:00.004-06:00

I received a call from veteran Disney animator Tom Bancroft last month help his new studio FunnyPages Productions animate this Christmas music video for the band Relient K:

CartoonBrew post

Cold Hard Flash post

(the posts are basically the same but CartoonBrew has my name attached so you know I'm not lying)

I came to the project late in production so all I could animate in time for the deadline was the Snowman spitting Snowballs and the Snowman hopping after the fake lady Snowman.

Enjoy

ANIMATED! at MMAA

2008-11-14T01:07:00.014-06:00

If you happen to be in or around ...

St Paul MN
this Saturday
November 15th
between the hours of 7:00pm-9:30pm

Stop by the

Minnesota Museum of American Art for their
Short Animation Film Festival

Come early to check out MMAA 's current gallery show

HOT INK: Comic Art in Minnesota.

The show feature two of PUNY's finest: Vincent Stall and Tim Sievert

Before the screening PUNY artist/animator/brain genius Yui Tanabe will bring his latest interactive creation for all to enjoy.

The first film of the night will be the results of the 2008 MMAA Animation Workshop...

About a year ago Ben Gessner from MMAA contacted me about the possiblilites of collaborating on an animation event at the museum. They agreed to let me and Eyo Peters (super talented PUNY animator) hold a one day animation workshop for 15 kids (between the ages of 7 and 13) to introduce them to animation and create 15 animated self portraits in 5 hours. I used to do these workshops in Chicago with the International Children's Film Festival and always had a great time and the kids always make great, bizarre, funny films.

The rest of the films will be from local student, professional and independent animators

Adelita Studios (Ari Carrillo)
AI Minnesota
John Akre
Flurry Animation
Rebecca Goodwyn
Jim Grafsgaard
Joanna Harmon
Katie Hoffman
Allyssa Howard
Kate Iverson
Jantze Studios
Dan Lundquist
Make
Mike Owens
Reelworks Animation
Bridget Riversmith
Tom Schroeder
Clement Shimizu
WonChan Shon

This will be the Minnesota Premiere of The FINGER ...the first cartoon created by CHEWBONE ANIMATION. A collaborative animation studio formed with a few of my old Chicago friends to assist, encourage and remind each other to make independent films.
(this was the description I gave for The FINGER for the screening at the FirstGlance Film Fest in Philedelphia. I'm thinking I should rewrite because there were only 5 people in the audience)

Created as an animated exquisite corpse among four Chicago animators The FINGER is a literal interpretation of a philosophical observation, resulting in a diverse, insightful, and sometimes creepy cartoon examining the conflicts of organized religion with awkward homoerotic undertones

Tigers Like to Swear

2008-11-10T19:39:00.007-06:00

Check out what I have been working on over at PUNY

LINK to COLDHARDFLASH POST

We got this gig as a direct result of the success and popularity of

AKON CALLS T-PAIN

My job on both of these shorts was to create a working storyboard/animatic from an existing audio track that provides layouts, rough character design, and sets up key poses to animate. Balancing economy (time & money) with creativity is an enjoyable challenge. The creative goal is to create a visual story that compliments the audio without being too literal with the interpretation. The production goal is to set up a file that can be passed off to a Background Artist (Curtis Square-Briggs), a Designer (Mitch Loidolt)and and Animator (Victor Courtright) so they can immediately do their thing with minimal guidance from me. Production schedules are tight on this type of project. Approximately 3 weeks from the day final audio is delivered. Those 3 weeks include, animatic,character design, background design, animation and composite. Once the animatic is approved, I usually spend some time setting up a Project Management/workflow document using Google Docs which the team can access through the network so I can jump onto the next animatic for whatever new project lands on my desk.

It's fun work. I get to draw.

Staging and timing with rough sketches is my favorite part of the process.

Here are a few stills from the animatic

(this panel was cut and reworked but I still like the drawing)

Bush Buddy

2008-11-08T21:22:00.015-06:00

Remeber this:

A few months ago I was approached by Tipping Point Strategies to create storyboards based on the My Buddy jingle for a potential anti-Norm Coleman cartoon for the 2008 election.

For a variety of reasons the project was never able move beyond this stage of production in time for the election.

So in honor of the current recount taking place in Minnesota between incumbant Senator Norm Coleman (R) and comedian Al Franken (D), I have been given permission to post
the BUSH BUDDY storyboards.

(Sing along with these new lyrics!)

"BUSH BUDDY...BUSH BUDDY...BUSH BUDDY...BUSH BUDDY!"

"WHEREVER I GO..."

"...HE GOES!"

"BUSH BUDDY!"

"I'LL TEACH HIM EVERYTHING..."

"THAT I KNOW!"

"MY BUDDY AND ME..."

"SQUASH DE-MOC-RA-CY..."

"MY BUDDY AND ME ARE THE BEST FRIENDS THAT COULD BE!"

"BUSH BUDDY!...BUSH BUDDY!"

'"BUSH BUDDY..."

"...AND ME!"

ANNOUNCER: "COMING SOON...KID SISTER!"

(that's America's favorite commie hunter, Michele Bachman, as Kid Sister)

Though they were not able to get this political silliness to the public in all its glory, Mike Dean over at Tipping Point did succeed in delivering this jab at our old pal Norm...
http://www.candidatemakeover.com/index.html

Literal Interpretation of AH-HA

2008-10-13T12:23:00.002-05:00

I did not make this...but I wish I would have

SNAPTAIL!

2008-10-02T11:26:00.004-05:00

About a year ago I posted a few images of concept development for a secret fish project

PREVIOUS POSTS
fish-poses
backgrounds-for-fish
fish-2
more-fish
fish

Well in addition to airing on your favorite outdoor sports channels including ESPN 2 and The Outdoor Channel, the website is up and running. The site incorporates all of my fish designs plus the full length version of the commercial

http://snaptaillures.com/index.php/site/anglers/
Scroll to the bottom of the page and watch the "What fish are saying" Quicktime.

I wish the Quicktime was a little bigger, but it is what it is. Hope you like it

BUY SNAPTAIL!!!

Economic Crisis!

2008-10-02T11:16:00.004-05:00

In celebration of the current crisis in the housing market I though it would be a good time to revisit our old friend Gil.

PUNY press for YoGabbaGabba

2008-09-04T09:36:00.004-05:00

PUNY the studio where I am currenlty working as an Animation Director has started to get some attention in the press for our work on YoGabbaGabba.

LINK to Article

Immigrant Song & Cactus Charlie featured on MNArtist.org

2008-08-29T12:26:00.005-05:00

Two of my independent short were recently included in a collection and short essay exploring independent, MN-made animation by writer and twenty-year veteran of the craft, Alison Morse.
LINK:
MASHUP: Homegrown independent animation, curated by Alison Morse

mnartists.org is an online database of Minnesota artists and organizations from all disciplines. It offers to Minnesota-based artists a central gathering place on the Web, and will grow to become a marketplace and community hub. It offers the public a new way to explore art and get to know artists. In addition to providing artists and organizations with a web page containing images and information, mnartists.org provides news and features about the local arts scene from a variety of sources. mnartists.org was developed as the result of a survey of Minnesota artists conducted by The McKnight Foundation. The survey revealed the survival struggles of individual artists. The McKnight Foundation partnered with the Walker Art Center's New Media Initiatives group to develop mnartists.org.