Ganesh 3D Model in progress

Learning a program like Maya has not been easy, and to be honest, I didn't think I would want to see it through. As I have spent my time knocking my head against my computer , things have started to come together. In this post are some screen grabs as well as renders generated from Maya of my model. The model itself still needs some editing, and the textures are going to be much more refined before he is animated. For now here he is in progress.

Boozy Bachus

Bachus was the name given to the God Dionysus by the Romans. Bachus is also the Liberator, whose wine, music and ecstatic dance frees his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subverts the oppressive restraints of the powerful. In the case of my animation, Bachus is a dandy, fat, drunk guy, who can devour barrels of wine. Some of the timing as well as weight distribution for Bachus needs to be adjusted, and this is just my rough pencil test. I hope to post the finished results at some point...

Back to School like Rodney Dangerfield

Ganesh with Monkey

Ganesh Side

Ganesh Crawl

Ganesh Pointing

Looking to broaden my skill sets as an illustrator and artist I decided to take a few classes in animation at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. So far the experience has been pretty good and I figured I would share some of the preliminary drawings I am doing for my intro to Maya/3d animation class. This character was inspired by the Hindu Elephant Deity , Ganesh. Ganesh is said to be the Lord of success and destroyer of evil and obstacles. In addition he is worshiped as the god of education, knowledge , wisdom, and wealth. For various reasons I am a bit weary about being back in school again. Reasons such as the financial burdens that come along with education in the US. So I am hoping Ganesh will look out for me, even if I happened to cross him with a turtle in my design. These drawings will be made into a 3d model, textured, rigged, and animated. I hope to post the process along the way. For now here are the drawings...

Skunk Skate Punk

These are the preliminary drawings for a piece of art in which was intended to be entered in a competition that the Purple Skunk Skate Shop in San Francisco was hosting. Unfortunately I missed the deadline, although I do still plan to finish the painting. For now here are the roughs...

Skate Skunk

Skunk Character Designs

DPM issue 14

Funkt Up Illustration

Digital

Salo Feature

Watercolor

Had the opportunity to do a few small illustrations for Dead Point Magazine issue 14. Unfortunately I do not have the files for the straight up art work at the moment. I will plan to post those at a later time. For now I am using the actual pages from the magazine which can also be viewed by following this link:

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Both features were fun to work on. One of them was about a climber that falls on a poodle killing it instantly. Which made for a challenge , since we did not want to make this to harsh of an image. So I tried to keep it as light hearted as possible as most of us know how hard it is to lose a pet..

The second one was to accompany an interview with Andy Salo. This was fun to work on since I have always enjoyed the comic book character Wolverine.The illustration is the small image used in the newspaper layout. The photo of Andy as well as the other photos in the feature were taken by Tomas Donoso.

Rock and Ice Issue 191

Chipping Controversy

Watercolor and Digital

This is the image I came up with in order to accompany an article in Rock and Ice issue 191. In this article , the author Bill Ramsey, offers some very good insight to the various contradictions surrounding the topic of chipping holds in order to create rock climbs. Manufacturing holds is a very controversial topic and can be looked at in a lot of different ways and from many ethical standpoints, this article touches down on a lot of them. In my eyes it is a very murky subject , one that can conjure up deep dark feelings on sides both for and against.

Anyhow here is the image. Go and pick up a copy of the magazine if you want to make sense of what it is I am rambling on about here!

PS5 Poster Art

The Power Struggle is an annual indoor bouldering competition held at Prime Climb, in Wallingford , CT.. I have always created the poster art for these events in the past. Keeping with tradition , Prime Climb's owner Brien Roscetti was nice enough to ask me to create the art for this years event .. Brien threw a few concepts at me to work with and this post shows what we came up with..

I will post more info on the event and the final poster as we get closer to the date in which the competition is scheduled for. For now here is the art work:

Power Struggle Between

Thor and the Frost Giant

Digital