We all gathered at the Ferry building at the Embarcadero
Quite a line of sketchcrawlers this time.
And here are some sketches I did. I wish I'd gotten a chance to paint them. I think I will anyway just for fun/practice.
an amazing view of the bay and Alcatraz.
a pic of the view.
Now that I've finished production on Ratatioulle, and things have calmed down a bit, my mind has turned towards the pursuit of personal projects. I've got a lot of ideas floating around my head, and I realized that I needed to focus my efforts if I have any hope to complete anything. To that end I sat down and made of list of all of my ideas, and my goals and then prioritized them. I found this to be invaluable and with it, came up with a rough schedule for the year. Now the hard work begins. I'll keep you posted on things and I look forward to your comments.
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Hey! I'm back again. I took a bit of a hiatus while I struggled to play catch up at work, but I just couldn't stay away. I thought I'd drop another post in here just because I got all misty eyed looking at the same tired old blog entry for weeks upon weeks. I haven't been able to do too much aside from work these days, but one of the things I've been doing is watching a bunch of tv shows on DVDs. Well actually just one in particular. The Wire. I can't say enough good things about this show. I LOVE IT! The show is so compelling, the characters so three dimensional I'd go so far as to say it's one of the best shows I've seen on TV... period! Now this is of course my humble opinion, you're more than free to disagree, but if you haven't seen it, check it out. I borrowed all 3 seasons from my friend and I've been GLUED to my television. I've finished them all in a little over a week and I'm dying to see more. It's a show that makes me think... about a lot of things. Watch it!
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So I attended my first Sketchcrawl... FINALLY! I've been trying to check one of the out for about as long as I've know about them. (And I've known about them almost as long as they've been held!) Something always seemed to pop up, or my schedule never seemed to match. Well I'm glad I did it, because even tho' it was kinda rainy and cold, it was a lot of fun. I got a few decent sketches and I hung out with a lot of cool people. One of the best part was trading sketchbooks at the end. There's a lot of talented people out there. (I was particularly blown away by Ronnie's and Emma's sketchbook. Whoo man!) I'll definitely be doing this again. Thanks Enrico for hooking this up. I'll post a few of my sketches later.
Jake sketches as Darmelle enjoys the sketchbook exchange.
Ian and Jake (still sketching...)
Rosie exchanges compliments with another sketchcrawler.
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Here are some quick character sketches I did in preparation for my Afterworks 3 story. Still trying to find the characters a bit and solidify the style.
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So I took a trip down to L.A. this weekend to check out the Creative Screenwriting Expo. I primarily went to see the Pixar Panels that were being presented. Several of our story artist, writers and directors were down there sharing their experiences of working at the Lamp. It was pretty cool and very insightful. I found Micheal Ardnt (the screenwriter for "Little Miss Sunshine" and Andrew Stanton to be of particular interest.
Or lack thereof. Currently I've been in a bit of a rut. I'm running around like a tiger chasing my tail. There are so many things that I'd love to be able to do/work on. I've got a host of crazy stories and ideas dancing around my head. The problem is that I want to be able to persue them all... but that's impossible. The cycle looks something like this... I get a "great" idea. I get super jazzed about it and I start developing it. Somewhere along the line I get another "great" idea even greater and more interesting than the last one, and I start to persue that. I get the mistaken idea in my head that I can actually work on both ideas but inevitably I start to lose interest (and momentum) on one of the ideas. This about the time I get ANOTHER "great" idea"... you can see where this is going. I try to chase all my ideas around and then I get so frustrated I end up not getting anything done... What am I missing...Check the title of this post... Focus. Start an idea. Work on it. Finish it. Work on the next one. That's the goal from here on out. What does that mean? Well it means I'm going to have to cut back on alot of the projects I've got cooking. I'm going to have to shelf some, abandon others, and really push forward on the ones I choose. I've decided that I can successfully manage 2 projects at one time (between that and work). The most important thing right now it to analyse my goals, pick 2 projects that will lead me towards that goal, and execute them. I'll be sharing a bit of that progress right now. I'm putting this out there as a way of "formally" challenging myself... in front of a huge international audience... so it's official now. Check back for details.
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Here's an image I posted to the BSS challenge blog. A grip of my boys (and grlzz) from Blue Sky have been posting once a week to this site as ann art challege (for fun mostly... and practice). There's a different topic each week. This last week was favorite a Pixar character. Check it out. There are much better ones there.