tumblr is addictive

I managed to hold out for a while but it's time to admit that I've finally succumbed to tumblr (and it's completely distracted me from this blog).  I've got to start getting this one back up to speed.  The two will overlap - but not completely.  I'm trying to keep tumblr land largely wordless and mostly for personal experiments (mostly) while this blog can contain pretty much anything, personal, professional, whatever.  I'll only be talking about work & process on here though.

So yeah, tumblr, you can check it out here, http://itsaherring.tumblr.com/
Also, I contribute to another tumblr for other experiments and such with my friend Craig, http://insteadofbread.tumblr.com/ (It slowed down after summer but it's getting revived).

Oh, and the thing above, just trying some stuff out with shapes/form/color/and leaving details unsaid :V

Too bad it prints like garbage.  If anyone's got some real tips for printing intense RBG images or knows of any printers that actually give good color in the los angeles area or online please do share.  Kinkos and I have become mortal enemies.

crystallography

 

"Fig. 102 shows a tetrahedron (o), it's edges bevelled by the trigonal tristetrahedron, +202/2, k{211} (l), and its angles replaced by the rhombic dodecahedron (d)."

From the 1890 edition of Elements of Crystallography by George Huntington Williams.  Fig. 102. appears in the chapter "The Isometric System".

operations

 

child of

doodletime

 

and then Roy Orbison and Devotchka joined in.

site seeing

I made this website about a year ago.  It's birds, because birds are neat.  Not only were birds featured on this website but so was my work.  It's gone now though, a new one will be up later this month when I can get my domain back.  Everything + sub pages were hand drawn/written because I came to the realization that there were no internet rules saying I couldn't and this simply made more sense (it was also more fun).  But back to the topic at hand, websiiite.

As a side note, I had a bunch more sketchbook bits edited and ready to go but my macbook up and died.  Those scans are going to stay where they are until I can perform an autopsy.  In the meantime, funeral services will still be held next Friday as planned.  I hope to see you all there.

strawberry

It wasn't any kind of plot point, but when we were working on our film we came to choose a pie type for each of the characters.  Pete was apple - the quintessential American classic - even the stunt pie standing in for him in the live action scene was an actual apple pie.  Sheriff, we decided, was a meat pie.  Narrator came to be a strawberry pie.  Of course, by that point, it only seemed proper to outfit him with an appropriate bandanna.

airplane drawings

tiny squares

making drawings move.

dress-up

Key Lime was such a minor character in our film, really she was just a background character who played into a couple of gags.  Since she wasn't all that important and never got much screen time, not a whole lot of time and concern went into her design beyond the initial phases.  Upon entering 3D though it quickly became apparent that we had some issues to resolve and decisions to make.  Since Key Lime is a "flat top" pie she is very close to Quiche structurally and the structural problems were consequently solved through Quiche.  Her dress however wasn't.  We were stuck with the simple short hand we had used for her in prepro, but that simply wasn't translating into the world we were building, so it was back to the drawing board.  These are my notes from that whole bit of trying to fix her and how to adapt a showgirl's dress from a person to a pie.

jest

Guess which one I own.