Stop Wishing. Start Doing.

SUPER rough concept art for the children's show I'm working on. 

once finalized, these designs will be made into uber-rad puppets!

eddie the yeti. inventor extraordinaire.

sherman the pygmy unicorn. he thinks he's a dog.

inseparable baby loch ness monsters, peek and boo. rawr.

top two 10 second doodles by jeffrey fletcher of screen novelties. 

bottom 10 second doodle by yours truly.

Gradumacation

Dear all, yesterday, I gradumacated from UCLA with my MFA from the School of Theater Film and Television. It took me a while, but I made it. Yay me :)

Macho Macho Man

i yam! getting home at 11pm three nights in a row is killer. *scream into pillow* but i can do this. i am a tough cookie. much similar to ahhhhhnold. speaking of ahhhhhnold, an unwelcome cyst has grown on my left wrist! a friend said to me, "it's a tumor." to which i responded, "it's naht a tumaaaah." you know, like ahhhnold in "kindergarten cop"...

final quarter at ucla before i take a leave of absence to work on my thesis, and i'm am totally stepping beyond my comfort zone. with only one requirement (an elective seminar) left to take, i've signed myself up for "exit utopias: cinema, visionary architecture, radical urbanism." say what?! yes people, i've gone hi-brow. over the next ten weeks, i'll be partaking in convos that no ordinary human should have to endure. you know, the kind that's conducted in english, but not really? my classmates (mostly cinema media studies masters and architecture phds) are in for a fresh perspective on film and architecture theory. i rather enjoy being the odd man out..

still brainstorming characters and concepts for my final film. at the moment, i'm really into the possibility of a short starring a hard-working immigrant named "deepak." doodles to be posted this weekend. and gosh... i've been accumulating really rad reference images that should help with my art direction. check out this aduuuuurable car!

zoom-zoom, suckas... happy friday,

images plucked from www.ffffound.com

Deepak

one possible character for my thesis film...

Get Your's Before It's Too Late!

UCLA Festival of Animation 2010
June 5th - Two Showings
RSVP (for free) HERE.

Til Death Do Us Part will be screened!!!

Save Me.

Apologies for being missing-in-action as of late. I've been completely swamped with school projects, and have been barely holding afloat. *gasp* Working on a Flash presentation for WDI (Walt Disney Imagineering). Our group is pitching a superhero training facility themed gym. Don't ask. The incorporation of ten people's ideas without having any sort of hierarchy within the group has been impossible, and quite frankly, if looks could kill, I think more than half of my group members would've already been murdered by me. Above is a still from our splash page. Thoughts?

Dog-Gone Great

Between Bruce Vaughn and Glenn Vilppu, I think the money I pay to UCLA (tuition) is justified.

Pictured. Quick sketches of Vilppu's well-behaved dog, Layla. Haven't attended a life drawing session in ages, so there's much room for improvement!