another nockFORCE quickieeeee

Directing Venture Bros is kind of kicking my ass. I havent had any chance to scan any of the stuff I've been working on. But it's only my first week and I'm hoping it will get better.

IN THE MEANTIME!



Detail of the poster:

nockstuff

I try to create a piece of artwork for every song. This one is obviously referencing Dragonball Z to go along with the theme of transformation. The song uses a sample from Sailor Moon but come on, I'm not going to draw these characters in skirts.

Another Quickie:


I'm pretty sure it's obvious that we're ripping off home movies here :D

I don't even think I posted this one:

snooty sketches

here's some chicken scratch!





here's a few snobbish Magical Brooklynites

nockFORCE quickie #1

Been busy lately. Here's a fun lil thing to tide you over until i can post up some new stuff.



the quickies are barely animated, theyre just for fun and extra content. I hope you enjoy it anyway :)

nockFORCE short #1

HIT IT! I hope you like it :)


also, NOCKFORCE.COM site launched!

BONUS childish background from the episode!


A lot of people complimented this pan from the opening so here it is in all it's glory:


Here's some more promotional artwork wot I done lately:


I can't believe I am saying this but I actually enjoy how flash makes my brushstrokes look sometimes. Just for fun here's the rough:

nockFORCE OPENING ANIMATION!

Good News! The opening animation for nockFORCE is complete!



I slaved over a hot Macromedia Flash for the last few weeks and that was the result! hope you enjoy it and show it to all your friends!

The first short episode should be done by this time next week!

Also updated blackdotstudios (new layout and demo reel)

AND it's my birthday today!

Good News!

drinkin

a lil piece of rough animation from the opening sequence im doin:



my favorite thing about rough animation in flash is that i can copypasta in the cases where I just used to do tracebacks. of course that doesnt really help when doing cleanup, but whatever.

this is the last piece of the puzzle! hopefully it'll be complete this weekend

EDIT: it doesnt really play at 30 fps wtf! oh well hopefully you can still enjoy it... in slow motion

progress!

shot's all done!


Funny how just adding a background makes everything look so different.

Someone emailed me about this film I did today and that reminded me that I never posted it here. I present to you George and Ted!



People always thought the "confession" scenes were unfinished... but they were supposed to be like that. My idea was that when cartoon characters aren't "on" and entertaining the cameras, they look all rough and sketchy. But I guess that didnt come across. I should have just colored it. :\

almost there

Getting closer! nockFORCE episode 1 is taking a while to finish, mostly because of the elaborate title sequence. Here's some backgrounds from the episode:


I've been using photos for background reference. I really didn't know how to draw a good building so I had to go out and take pictures of them. I ended up having to re-draw a lot of my backgrounds based on those photos. Buildings are interesting because there's a lot of weird structural things on them that you don't notice. Or at least... I didnt notice them because my method for drawing buildings was to just stack up a bunch of cubes and hope it works.



I never noticed little touches like those things above the windows and such. I should ask my brother the architect what they're called. It looks better anyway I think!

I'll have more updates soon!

PS check out the nockforce.com "Under Construction" image ;D

no mouth and I must scream

the wonders of aaaaaaannnnnimation!

things are progressing slowly. I completed the first episode and now I'm animating the title sequence. The title sequence is going to have actual good animation so it is taking a little longer. Danny is also helping me with some of the animation so you have my word that it will be dope when it's done.

I've got nothing else to post because this project's been taking up all of my free time.

EDIT: actually I lied- RPG World updated earlier this week. It's a two-week long comic story that is new to the internet but old to me. not really a big deal but i guess i should mention it anyway

NOCKFORCE HITS MYSPACE

Phase 1 of the magical project nockFORCE has hit the streets. If you want to get in on the ground floor you better hit up myspace dood!

What is nockFORCE exactly? It's music. It's cartoons. It's comics. It's comedy. Listen to us drop some dope tracks contemplating on transformations, middle school life and the classic shows of TGIF. Add us as a friend and you might get one of these bad boys to show up on your profile:


thank you for friending nockFORCE

at least you still understand me

s...so t..ti...tired...

here's some more drawings from the comic dealy





it is shaping up to be a silly little "Boy[and his brain] meets Girl" story. she's probably not the right dame for him but his brain certainly doesn't think so! wacky!

at least you understand me

just some dumb drawings for YET ANOTHER project- drawing a one-page comic for a zine

woop woop woop

working on it some more now. not enough animation in this project because there's a lot of backgrounds to draw and I'm trying to get ahead in my schedule for it. should be complete soon! stay tuned.

a short word

my tablet PC died! the animation i was making headway on has now hit a snag. BLEH

I'm thinking of getting a cintiq to use for my projects... it would probably be better than the tablet PC anyway. this sucks

Imagination Collaboration!

"Imagine That"


Garrett just posted up this video, which is a film we and Aaron worked on together many moons ago for a PSA contest. God bless youtube. Garrett animated and designed all of the animals and background, and did all of the color styling. I did the design, timing and key animation for the little boy. Aaron did breakdowns, inbetweens and the digital compositing.

i hope you like it

goes together like a horse and carriage

The concept of marriage scares the crap out of me. Good luck big brother!!!!


hello, blogosphere. been mega busy lately so I havent posted anything new. but recently I did this quick little card that will be given as a party favor at my big brother's wedding! It's this weekend so this is a SUPER RUSH piece. Hopefully it gets printed on time!

i don't even know how i should feel right now

Self portrait. I usually stick with #1.

A little dance... uh oh!

be sure to click on him.

Erin Esurance Fan Art

I was drawing jump kicks yesterday. I never really did many action poses like these in my comics. That needs to change. That turned into this cause I was talking to Carly about Erin Esurance:

Foreshortening's mad wonky. This time, I did the sketch in Flash, cleanup in Photoshop, vector trace in Illustrator, color in Flash, and then tweaking in Photoshop. Convoluted, but I wanted to do a completely digital drawing because I recently upgraded my setup in anticipation of doing comics/animation again and it was fun. Gave me a lot of ideas for changing the way I do things.

As for Erin herself, not only is it just a great design, the commercials are just fantastic. The designs and staging are always really clear. The animation is efficient- it's almost completely anticipation and reaction shots- sparse, but it doesn't tell more than we need to know. Ghostbot has more Erin stuff. Talented people.