i made this for the Michael Jackson Memorial in LA. I made a hundred copies and sold them on my lunch, my work is like a block away. It was really fun and sold all but ten of them. Haha they were only a dollar. It was crazy too cause i started at 10pm the night before and the whole ordeal involved a lot of running around to kinkos and stuff and i only had like two hours of sleep. Just like College.
These are from September to December 2008. For about four months i was animating every night from Monday to Thursaday and I had to finish one animation a night. No matter what i ended up with, that was it. So all of these are created within a couple hours. Minus the dialogue test.
Here are some sketch book images i compiled together from november 11'th to about Jan9'th. Theirs one quote i really like from the sketch book. It was the first one i glanced at once i looked for the dates. It says, "Robots dont Pray." Yes i like that one.
This is "Monster Face the Fancy Times". Thats right I mean you!!!. Some day I hope to have a large collection of fany faces that change the way faces of monsters are viewed today.
I wanted to create something that was ferocious. I had a magical dream where I saw the Fancifullness of the fancy times combined with the ferociousness of Monster faces. The dream realized, "Monster Face, The fanciest of Times"
On the top are images of John Henry and the steps I took to get to the more polished figure to the bottom left. Below are concepts of the steam drill that He will compete against.
Three worried brothers sneak into an alley as an angry mob searches for the pickpockets of Venice. Quick decisions need to be made or these boys are in trouble.
I am blessed to have a great creative family and many tallented and creative friends. To those of you out there posting fresh work and keeping the creativity rolling, thank you.