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Thursday, March 29, 2007

More funny faces

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Been busy this week, so sorry for the lame post. The first one is, in fact, a lady. She's the bus driver in the morning. I don't fe...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Rock Star

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Did this for the Avalanche Blog . He's scary.
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Friday, March 16, 2007

Funny faces

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I want to start drawing from life more. It's fun, and feeds my brain with new ideas. Here's a couple doodles of people from the bus,...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Appeal Rant Redux

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Here's an example from my earlier post on Appeal . I talked about three things that influence the appeal of a design: Effective use of d...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Ace in Action design diary: Foxy Loxy

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Developing the look for Foxy as the main villain was fun. At first we were exploring all sorts of ideas---Foxy as a dark-helmeted evil warri...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Ace in Action Design diary: The Battle Barn

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I had fun with this project and I'd like to share a little bit of the process that went into the visual development of it. I won't d...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Chicken Little: Ace in Action

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One of the games I did concept art for recently came out---a "sequel" of sorts to the Chicken Little movie, based on the buffed-ou...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Eagerly Awaiting His Shadow

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Another one for the Avalanche Blog Villain topic. These villains are a lot of fun. I think I might do yet another one.
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Villain for Avalanche Blog

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This was fun and quick. I think I'm going to do another villain soon. Or maybe more.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Curse of Zumtar entry

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I posted this up on the Avalanche blog a couple of days ago but forgot to put it here. I realized after I posted it that it might be better ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

RANT of the Week: APPEAL

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Now that I've finished the character design class for the second time, I have a few thoughts I'd like to vent. The first time I took...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The rest of the final project: Environment 2 and Villain

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I think I've been dragging this out long enough and need to move on and start something new, so here's the last pieces. I don't ...
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Character design final project: Love interest

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Since I missed an entire week last week, here's the second one in two days. This is the love interest for the hero (the boy posted below...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Character design final project: Environment

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Don't ask me why we're doing an environment in a character design class. I guess the class IS called Character Design and Visual Dev...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Character design final project

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It's a relief to be done with everything for the semester! I'm probably going to be taking a break for a little while, so until then...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

Random head

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Some old scraps to keep visitors from getting too bored while I finish my final project for the character design class. This was loosely bas...
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Friday, December 01, 2006

Goat + Gorilla

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The other parts of the 2nd animal assignment. I was going to spend a bit more time on these before posting them, but I suddenly got very bus...
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Monday, November 27, 2006

Animal assignment part 2

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I'll post up the other ones this week as I put the finishing touches on them.
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Chatty Macaw

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I like to think about what this Macaw is blabbering about to that poor dragonfly. I can't say how many conversations like this I've...
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Thursday, November 16, 2006

More animal assignment

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Even though I'm constantly trying to stretch myself stylistically with drawings, I hardly ever wander outside my norm when putting down ...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Animal assignment

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Ryan Wood gave the suggestion to spread the posts for these assignments out over the week, so I'm going to try it. This assignment was t...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Fish in the sky

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These are for a short that is the brainchild of Joe Olson and myself. Joe did the character designs, I did the colors. I don't want to...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Heroes and Villains part 2

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The other two images from the assignment. I'm much happier with these two than I was with the first characters. First lady is an "u...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Heroes and Villains

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Another character design assignment on heroes and villains. I've got two more on the way that I'll post tomorrow. This first fellow...
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Lady Ghoulsmire

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Another one for the Avalanche blog . Don't you hate it when you know something is wrong with an image, but just can't quite figure o...
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Concept artist, illustrator, and animation faculty at Brigham Young University.
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