Happy Halloween!!

This is one of my paintings for the Shrek Halloween special.

Owl

Rio2 Concept

Sinbad Thumbnail Comp

From back in 2001, acrylic.

Rio2 Vista

CTNX Workshops!

Storytelling and the Hidden Language of Production Design  Friday November 21, 5:15pm
Creating Extraordinary Places  Saturday November 22, 3pm
For more info and registration go to www.ctnanimationexpo.com and select Schedule.

See you there!

Frogs!

Limited Palette

Can you believe it? 2 colors plus black and white can mix nearly everything you need. (Alizarin crimson and yellow ochre.) Everything on this page is mixed from this very limited palette.

Last Chance!

Create exciting environments and bring them to life with color and light! Last chance to save $100 on my self taught online classes! Designing with Color and Light, Environment Design

Interview

I was recently interviewed for the Savvy Painter podcast, you can listen here.
Links to a few other interviews in the sidebar.

Fall Sale Ends Soon...

This is the last week of the schoolism.com Fall sale, save $100 on all self taught classes!
Designing with Color and Light: http://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=22 

Environment Design: http://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=26

Schoolism Live Montreal!

 It was a fantastic time at Schoolism Live Montreal this weekend! I got to talk about some of my favorite subjects as well as rub shoulders with some of the best artists out there.










From left to right: Kei Acedera, Bobby Chiu (organizer and host), Myself, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi with their lovely wives.












Special thanks to everyone who joined us!

Disney Color Key

Schoolism Live Montreal this Weekend!

Myself, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi are excited to see all of you in Montreal this weekend! Register here.

El Dorado

Continuing posts for the Schoolism annual Fall sale:
This is from the animated film The Road to El Dorado; learn how in my self taught online classes at schoolism.com while the sale is on!

The lighters hated me for this scene...

This is my version of photoshop impressionism. It's part of a discussion from my online lectures and demos about using color and light to best effect in an environment. I'll be posting material from my online classes while the Schoolism Fall sale is going on: $100 off the regular price of self taught classes until September 30!
Sign up for Designing with Color and Light!
Sign up for Environment Design!

Save $100 on my online self taught classes!!

If you've been interested in my online entertainment design classes, now is the time! Get $100 off the regular price!
Sign up for Designing with Color and Light here!
Sign up for Environment Design here!

From Sinbad

I know it’s an execution scene and everything but c’mon, was cropping my painting really all that necessary? :)

Neverland Color Key

This is painted in photoshop over an animatic rough model frame.

Charcoal Study

Rio 2 Confrontation Sketch

Painting Exercise

Get 3 random pigments to harmonize. (The image is lemon yellow, venetian red, ultramarine blue plus white.)

Perfect Sketchbook Kickstarter!

I'm backing the perfect sketchbook kickstarter, it looks to be the quality that I've been looking for but haven't been able to find.  I don't know this group personally so read carefully but I'm excited at its prospects, only a few days left!

I'm up on Twitter now!!

You'll always get the newest, freshest work here on Blogger but I'll have (almost) daily goodies coming out of the twitter feed from my backlog and sketchbook for those who are interested.

Completed Sketchbook!

 

More at Land Sketch.

Legend of Puss in Boots Color Rough

Layout by Marcos Mateu Mestre.

Comic-Report!

David Apatoff at Illustration Art has put together a very generous report on my Comic-Con demos. Check them out here:
http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/

Rio 2 Night Painting

How to Train Your Dragon Color Key

Gouache Sketch

Comic-con, Friday and Saturday Demos!

Environment Design for Visual Storytelling 

Friday, July 25, 2pm - 3pm

Photoshop Demo: Building an Environment 
Saturday, July 26, 2pm - 3pm

Schoolism booth # 2042. See you there!

Rio 2 Panorama

This is one of my panoramas painted for Rio 2. Below are crop in views for detail.

Gouache Comp

Another color key from Disney's The Pirate Fairy. The show tells the story of the origin of Captain Hook.

Disney Color Key

This is one of nearly 400 color keys I painted for Disney's The Pirate Fairy.

Charcoal on toned Strathmore paper.

Rio 2

Stockholm workshops

The most exciting part of  my career is the opportunity to travel to do workshops and work with amazing teams of artists. The latest was a trip to Beautiful Stockholm Sweden to work with Fatshark, Rovio and NetEnt. Thanks to each for being great hosts, especially our organizer Fredrik Englund http://www.behance.net/filto and tour guide and artist extraordinaire Leo Sandberg http://www.fabpics.com who got me in behind the scenes to see the Zorn show as it was being unpacked.

Frog!

Environment Design self taught now available!

I'm excited to announce the opening of the self taught version of my online class: Environment Design. More info and registration here.