please understand me

(slightly) new reel

It's got clips of the Moby video and a new project for the BBC4. Everything else is pretty much the same but I trimmed the fat here and there. Music's the same too.

Welp! That's all I have to show!

i have a need to cut loose!!!

okay let's animate something straight ahead with no planning!!



YEAH! Have a good new year see you in 2010

Moby- One Time We Lived (music video)

Earlier this year i took a job doing some short animations for Moby with Robert Powers. those seemed to go over well because Moby asked us to return and animate full music videos! This is the one I worked on:



I was tasked with animating the dancing cycles but was given the restriction of making it fit within a more simple, "flash-puppety" style. It was a tight deadline, and doing flash puppets and making them look good is difficult. I'd rather just do new off-model drawings than slide elements around. eventually I ended up just animating the dancing normally and then cleaning them up so that they'd look like flash puppetry. the most fun part of this was animating the transitions between cycles. the face was then just added on top. (i did the lipsync and facial expressions as well)

development

She's dressed like she's on vacation or going to the club, but she's here to work.


He's not really interested though.


"All these tests sound like a lot of work... I don't wanna do it"


He's ugly, uneducated, and doesn't care at all. That's... oddly charming.


Uh oh, I think I know where this is headed...


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the lightgivers

...also:




...yeah. don't worry about that last one

Charterrrrrr

I almost forgot all about this until I saw a post about it on Cold Hard Flash! Earlier this summer I went in to Curious Pictures to animate spots for Charter Digital Cable. I'd never heard of them before but apparently theyre like the cable giant of the midwest. anyway here's the spot I did for them:

Charter- Beehive from Ian Jones-Quartey on Vimeo.

I wish I could see it play on TV! Greetz to the crew: Mike Carlo, Joe Cappabianca, kaNO, Danny Hynes and Elliot Cowan. A really good team! We had a lot of fun.

Big purple pan

a weird pan of a little girl room. looking at it all at once it's apparent that there are only three walls and no windows! hopefully you don't notice it when it moves though. I had to look up tween girl magazine pages to come up with the wall posters.

from this week's cartoon:

Poast

Just a serene park

deadly assault!

yo... finished a big new nockFORCE, check it:




a few ideas


the devil's in the details i guess... get one angle wrong and it looks more boat than car.


damn i love pans so much. just the planning and the execution is so fun to me


the finished pan.

corporate art

heya, I havent posted in a lil bit... I'm trying to get things moving on the job front. if you're a young starry-eyed animator in NYC y'all know how it's been. but i got a lil bit of stuff goin and i'm still livin the dream I guess. Also, I'm learning to play harmonica.

luckily, nockFORCE keeps me mad busy. here's a short with the two chuckleheads tryin to sell out:



their pitch hasn't worked for them yet though.

while i'm here, here's a few life drawings:



put your wrists in the air

rev em round like you just don't care

swing your hips like you do when you jog

now look at yall...

YOU'RE RIDIN' THAT HOG!

vbros update 3

Venture Bros DIR. UPDATE number threee + nockFORCE

These blog entry titles were getting a little long, had to trim it down a bit.

Anyway, a new Venture episode has been unleashed upon the public!

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Going by the adultswim schedule, the airing order is all mixed up, innit? Well that's because the show was made out of order. But it airs in the right order continuity-wise. So no worries there.

I bring that up because this baby was the first episode I worked on! #27.

I was scared out of my mind, as you might be able to tell my some of the forthcoming drawings. Some of these drawings are... well... less-than-confident. And I'll admit that some of my timing in this episode was pretty off. But things seemed to turn out alright I suppose!



These were the first drawings I did for the show. I didn't really try to embellish the acting that much- I was still too timid. But my next scene assignment forced me to stop being such a baby:




Yo-S-I! One of the highlights in this episode is a hilarious and fast-paced "OSI theme song" sequence. I nearly shat a brick sideways when I found out I had to direct some of it. But it came out okay!!!



This is where I really got into it though: Please enjoy the acting on Shore Leave and his cronies. This storyboard sequence had some amazing drawings done by the art director Stephen DeStefano.



I hope you enjoy the episode!

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before I forget, here's a nockFORCE that I never posted here! Enjoy.

HORSES

also here's last week's:

nockFORCE triple

Triple-p-p-p-postin some nockFORCE

First up, some office related mayhem!



Then some fat cat bashing!



And finally a really lame joke.



enjoy

he's washed-up but he has good advice!

Hey check this out! It's another musical quickie.



and here's some sketchin'

Here we go it's animation time

new nockFORCE and some sketches!



So in working up to this, here's a crappy storyboard:



and here's some character design stuff! Took a while to design this character, here are a bunch of my early tries. They're chronological from left to right.



OH! and a shameless plug! Venture Bros Season 3 trailer:



I directed two of the scenes showing up in here: The one with the pirate captain and the kids, and the first few shots of the OSI sequence! Can't wait for June 1st!

ichi ni san chi

Yo yo yo check out this new video it's about Steven Spielberg using the VERTIGO EFFECT and the NBC miniseries MERLIN. Damn it's nerdy as hell



Also i have been working really hard on the all-new all-sexy NOCKFORCE.COM for all your nockFORCE needs

Also i have been trying to get better at inking with a brush. it's been really hard and I don't have anything good to show yet.

hot damn

Had a lil bit of extra time this week and threw in some fun stuff. check it out:



oog i wish i had something else to post... i just never use my scanner anymore

Character poses BILLY

It's Billy!



Check him out. He's having issues. Deep ones.

Here's some character art!

Another one

Been busy on all manner of stuff lately. But I worked a little harder on this quickie, there's some movement whoa mama!