Memory Lane: Crow and Flower

This was an animation I did in 2010, it is still something I'm very proud of. It's even given me an idea for a story.

 

See better quality here: https://vimeo.com/11680217

Memory Lane

Been going though some of my old stuff, looking for ideas, so many characters I want to revisit, so many stories I want to draw out. They're a lot of mistakes with these old ones know doubt, but a lot of them were great stepping stones for me.

                                                 Princess and the Emporer (2) Circa 2009
                                                                  

 

Cyber Punk Circa 2008

 

                                                    The Misty Dream Circa 2010

 

Riblam's 1st Story Circa 2009

 

 

Old Illustration: Prince at Sunset

I just realized I never posted this here, it's from some time ago, but I still like despite the mistakes.

"Pilgrimage" Splash Page

Made this as part of the prologue for my comic project, but I'm having lots of trouble figuring out how to draw out the opening, while I do like this page, it does capture what I need of the opening. I think I'll have to do a billion thumbnails before I find one that fits, luckily this is a page that will be of use a little later in the story.

Shahal Character concept # 1

My scanner hates light blue, and always scans it funky. Oh well. Anyway this is Shahal, from my story idea called, Pilgrimage. About a man (Shahal) who swallowed an evil Djinn and must go to a floating city in order to purge himself of it.

Miss G and the Toilet Story Board

 

Here is a thumbnail Storyboard I did for my application to the Japan Image Council for the 70 day residency.

Old Character New drawing

A character from one of my stories, Prince Kahnti.

Comic character concepts Kaiser and Luxandra

Kaiser (Xiu Fon Bixli)

Luxandra Alejandros

Inner Garden WIP Line (digital)

So I've started the digital version of this picture.

Will do a tradtional ver. later, maybe more than one.

Sketch for illustration

Thinking bout doing several versions of this. Sophie from upcoming comic project, Legacy.

Augenblick Stuff 2

Augenblick Stuff

Finally got the stuff I worked on for Augenblick, it's from the show Ugly Americans! Here's some of the vids. I did the inbetweens for these.

Updated Demo Reel

Included clips from what I worked on at Augenblick.

For larger ver.: https://vimeo.com/46451281

Sketch: Little village

I can't decide if I want to ink this or not. Anywho I'm planning to paint this at some point.

Demoreel update

As of July 2012
For hi-res ver. go to: https://vimeo.com/45946249

Thesis Revise update

Another deleted scene that will be put back into the Thesis.

Only two scenes left to redo, then to recut the project together. :D

Thesis Revise

So I've decided to go back and polish my thesis film further, to make it a better portfolio piece. I'm also putting  back in the deleted scenes. Here is one that I finished:

Scene 009_2

June 2012 Demo Reel update

For the bigger version go to my Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/44260631

Digital Painting Practice

Second attempt ever of a digital painting.

To be painted

I really wanted to get better with water colors so now I'm trying to see what they will look like if I don't ink them with pen first, just from pencil to water color. This is the pencil ver. backed up in case I mess up.

Sketch Dump

Haven't uploaded anything from my sketchbook in a long while:

In other news, here's some stuff I'm working on:

Thesis completed

Completed thesis.

Update: Titmouse Test and CP

Happy to say I finished the clean-up test for titmouse sent it off on Monday, hope to here back from them soon. Now unto to the animation test.

In other news Chapter 15 of Child's Paradise is now up. You may read it here: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/SMB/962282/

The link to all the chapters is here: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/SMB/957020/
Please enjoy.

Speaking of CP, I really need to do some artwork for that, but alas right now my work schedule is loaded, glad I was able to get a new chapter up.

All Work and No play...

Makes me very sad, first piece of artwork I've done that was not related to work this month, it's not very good, but it was great stress relief. In other news finished one of the clean-up tests for Titmouse.

Well now it's back to work.

Titmouse Test!!

Super happy, got a clean up and animation test from Titmouse! It's for a show that will be premiering soon, hope I get chosen to come on board!

CP on the Web!!

I started a story in college titled Child's Paradise it follows the lives of three escaped child soldiers and the people they meet. Hoping to get feedback so I can improve on it.

Read here: hthttp://www.writerscafe.org/link/655508/

Internship Complete

So my internship at Augenblick has ended, was great, gotta figure out when I'm gonna go back to get samples to add to my demo reel. Hope I find a job soon, been putting out to tons of studios in NYC, hoping one of them gets back to me soon.

In other news, got art block... :( Trying to sketch my way out of it, can't decide what I want to draw, maybe I do concept art for my story ideas? I guess.

More Legacy Art + updates

First here is my most recent completed painting.

 These three here are from left to right: Araneda, Nylil, and Maieve, they are my comic partner's characters. Have another one in the works, it's one of the main male characters from the story, need to check on how chapter 2 is coming along, will probably start thumb-nailing chapter one.  I'm really only using water colors for my primary coloring, as I wanted to get better with them, I think I should have used watercolor instead of the colored pencil on the door painting cause it's a little to bright. :( Oh well, life goes on. 

Aside from that, Internship at Augenblick is going well, still haven't found a part-time job or anything, trying not to let it get me down, and the storyboard for my freelance project got approved so, gotta start animating on that now. 

I'm thinking of maybe doing a short comic, since it doesn't seem Legacy will be getting started for a while.

Grey is… - Chapter 008: Page 01

Grey is… - Chapter 008: Page 01

One of my favorite webcomics of all time!!

Water Color Practice

Painting has been something I've always wanted to get good at, but I always have had trouble. I really'd like to get better with water color, I'm actually not to bad with Gouache so, I've decided that all the pieces I do will have water color in them somewhere if I choose to color them. So here is a piece I did to practice more to come.

Nothing special as you can clearly see, my characters from my comic project Legacy.

Unofficial comic relaunch

So my friend and I have decided to take another crack our comic, Legacy, which is a bit of an epic, so for some motivation here are some sketches for it.

Augenblick Internship

So here's just a life update on what I've been up too.

I'm in NYC now and I'm happy to say I got the internship at Augenblick studios!! So happy, hope it turns into a job. In the mean time I'm looking for other work to do, preferrably in my field so I can add more to my resume and just learn more in general. Hopefully all goes well.

- Shannon