Charlie Update

My boy is growing fast. He's 12 pounds now, and almost half as tall as his mother! (He's 24 inches tall, and she's 64 inches.... Okay, that math doesn't really work, but he is getting really big!)
I haven't seen Speed Racer or Iron Man, and I'm probably going to miss Indiana Jones too. This is what I do with my time instead:

...Which is way more rewarding to me. Charlie loves picture books, and I love reading them to him. M. Sasek's books are his favorites. He kicks his legs and squeels at the good pictures - which is pretty much all of them. He also likes to babble along with me as I read to him. It's a hoot.

So if you see me around, I won't be able to give you my opinion on the new Hulk tor GTA 4. But, if you need any facts on the Saturn rocket, or the name of the first monkey in space, I'm your man!

Love And War

Something really cool happens in second seasons. After a dozen or so half hours, the artists and writers figure out the characters, and move away from plot driven stories and gags, toward personality driven stories and jokes.

Love and War marked that turning point in Tigre. We knew the characters well enough that we could start looking for entertainment not just the situations, but how the individual characters reacted to them. From this point on the episodes just got better and better, for as long as it lasted.

...Not that I did any of that in my beatboards. I continued to focus on the visual structure, and action - leaving all the juicy stuff to the people who are way beter at it than me. In this case, the phenominal Eddie Trigueros.

Crouching Tigre

I like all of the individual parts of this episode. The music, the script, the board, the animation - they're all really good, but they don't really come together as a whole, which, as the director, is my fault. So, appologies to everyone on this episode. But we did come back gangbusters on,"Love and War," amd Wrong and Dance!"

Burrito's Little Helper

Grave Escape Pt 2

One great thing about digital storyboarding is that it makes it easy to experiment with lighting. The shading and color effects can be added on a separate layer behind the line art, so if they don't work out they can easily be deleted without damaging the original.

It's easy to get carried away and over render your panels. But on the flip side - you can also use tones to pull masses together out of very rough sketches

I'm just starting to get my feet wet here - but by later episodes I really dove in. Hope you like them.

It's a boy!

Sorry about the lack of new posts, but I've undertaken a new project: Fatherhood.

I've taken some time off to spend with him. Most of the day I just stare and smile.

Those are great days.

Grave Escape Pt 1

First boards done 100% in Photoshop

One of our best episodes. Some of my best work. Some of everyone's best work, I think.

Animated in Hollywood, USA - by the great 6 Point Harness Studio.