Figure Drawing 10/12/14

It's been a while since my last figure drawing post. These were done at the Paul McNear's Sunday class in Crealdé School of Art with a Faber Castell Pitt Pen, Kuretake brush pen, and Pentel Tradio and Brush pens on 8.5"x11 copy bond paper.

Warning: if you're offended by artistic nudity, I'd  suggest you not go further and please check out my other work here in the non-figure drawing posts (or clothed ones) and at the Dos Illustros sketchblog instead. If you're not offended then please read on...

Collaboration 4

I got to add a bit more to the Tom Buzbee collabo painting last year but haven't gotten any more done. Hopefully I'll jump back in it soon! This is only a small section; oil on a very big canvas (I believe 5'x7').

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UPDATES with older images:

"Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam" wins Best Animated Short at Florida Film Festival!

Great news: "Backyard Jam" won Best Animated Short at the Florida Film Festival this year! Now that the short has won a festival, it was necessary for the filmmakers to take it down from the Vimeo and YouTube page in order to submit to more festivals. You can check out a new trailer for the short here:

http://www.kleemanandmike.com/
http://vimeo.com/64579951


Press Release:

Full Sail Course Director Credited on Florida Film Festival Winner

On Saturday April 13, 2013, in Winter Park, Fla., Randall Christopher's independent animated short "Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam" won the Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short in the Florida Film Festival. Full Sail University Course Director Hugo Giraud is among the animators who helped make the short come to life.

In addition to being a full-time instructor at Full Sail, Hugo is an animation industry veteran whose work has appeared in productions by Walt Disney Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, MTV Animation, and Cartoon Network. "Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam" is the third film Hugo has worked on that has made it to the Florida Film Festival and the first winner. He previously represented the first "Kleeman and Mike: Animated Short" film and supported the Walt Disney Feature Animation documentary "Dream On Silly Dreamer" at the festival in 2005.

About Hugo Giraud:

Hugo Giraud is a Central Florida-based illustrator, animator, fine artist and instructor. He is currently the Course Director for the on-campus Design and Art Theory class in the Digital Arts and Design and Graphic Design programs at Full Sail University. Hugo attended the famed Barbara Bassett Art Workshop in Winter Park and the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. He is a 15-year animation industry veteran with former clients including Walt Disney Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, MTV Animation, and Cartoon Network. His fine art has been exhibited throughout Orlando at OMA, Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, Full Sail University, Überbot, The Peacock Room, Substance, Thee Grotto, and craft beer bar Redlight Redlight.

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0320783/

Twitter: @HugoGiraud
 

About the Florida Film Festival:
The Florida Film Festival is the premier showcase in Central Florida for American independent and international film. Celebrating its 22nd anniversary, the Festival debuted in 1992 and is a core program of ENZIAN, a nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1985. ENZIAN and the Florida Film Festival have served more than 1.5 million guests and hosted hundreds of notable celebrities including Paul Newman, Christopher Walken, Oliver Stone, Glenn Close, John Waters, Emma Stone, Campbell Scott, James Caan, Ed Burns, Jason Lee, Gena Rowlands, William H. Macy, Jon Voight, Barry Levinson, and Edward James Olmos. The Festival is funded in part by national and local businesses including Primary Sponsor Full Sail University and receives support from United Arts of Central Florida and the State of Florida, Department of the State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, National Endowment for the Arts, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In addition, this project is funded in part by Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program.

For additional information:
www.floridafilmfestival.com
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Twitter: @FloridaFilmFest

About Full Sail University:

Full Sail University is an award-winning educational leader for those pursuing careers in the entertainment and media industry. Founded in 1979, Full Sail has been recognized as one of the Top Five Game Degree Programs by Electronic Gaming Monthly, one of the Best Music Programs by Rolling Stone Magazine, and one of the Best Film Programs by UNleashed Magazine. In 2011, Full Sail received the “21st Century Best Practices in Distance Learning Award” from the United States Distance Learning Association, was named the “School/College of the Year” by the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges, and was recognized as one of the Top 100 Social Media Colleges by Studentadvisor.com.

Full Sail offers Master, Bachelor, and Associate campus and online degree programs in areas related to animation, art, business, education, graphic design, film, marketing, web development, music, recording arts, sports, and video games. Full Sail graduate credits include work on OSCAR®, Emmy®, GRAMMY®, ADDY®, MTV Video Music Award, and Spike Video Game Award nominated and winning projects.

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Kleeman and Mike THIS WEEK at FFF!

"Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam" will screen as part of the Florida Film Festival's Animated Shorts program: this Wednesday 6:45pm at the Enzian and Friday 9:45pm at Winter Park Regal Cinema. I'll be there on Friday, come say hi... there'll be Q&A! Buy tickets soon, that screening sells out!

http://floridafilmfestival.com/films_events/film_guide/backyard-jam

http://floridafilmfestival.com/films_events/film_guide/shorts-program-5-animated-shorts

Also of interest for animation lovers is the International Animated Shorts program, Sat. 4/13 @5:30pm and Sun. 4/13 at 2pm both at the Winter Park Regal:

http://floridafilmfestival.com/films_events/film_guide/international-animated-shorts

How to buy tickets:
http://floridafilmfestival.com/tickets/how_to_buy_tickets

Hope to see you there!

-hugo

Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam

So the cartoon I first wrote about here and then here is finally done! Go on over either to kleemanandmike.com or Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/53638798) to watch it. Thank you so much to all who contributed to see this project through, sincerely.

I have to mention that out of all of the Kleeman and Mike shorts (I've worked on 4), this is probably the slickest and most professional one. It looks SO good! The art direction & color of surfer/artist Andy Davis really knocked it out of the park. Cool original music by Spencer Rabin of the San Diego band "Little Deadman". My old theme park friends, Rex Russell and Tony Misiano lending their voices for K&M respectively. As for my animation, I tried to do the best that I could with the limited amount of time I had last summer. My schedule at Full Sail is demanding and so I wish I could have spent more time animating. It all was wonderfully guided by Randy Christopher's direction.

I just dropped it off yesterday as a submission for next year's Florida Film Festival, wish us luck!

Update!!!

Here's a small "behind-the-scenes" clip of my run cycles near the end of the short :

Click here for a bigger view.

Birthday drawings

Here's a couple of birthday drawings for some of my co-workers. I used the Pentel Tradio and Pocket brush pens for the main parts of the drawings and a Pentel Black Color Brush pen for dry brush effects on Canson BFK Rives cream paper. As always, click on the images for a closer look.

R.E.M.'s bassist Mike Mills for Kim last month, 5"x7" (http://instagr.am/p/PNC55_AsSu/):

A fun/weird drawing of heavy metal vocalist King Diamond and Korean pop star PSY (dancing in Gangnam Style) for my friend Avaryl, 8"x10" (http://instagr.am/p/PNFOVsgsUM/):

(I changed King's eye makeup to look like a fish, put a correct cross on his cheek, and made him smiling as opposed to his usual grimace for fun)

And as a bonus during these election times, here's a fictional ad that one of my former students worked up for fun. I don't think I'd ever run for office but Elias thinks I should! I think the logo is pretty cool although my real beard is whiter in color these days:

'Til next!

Collaboration 3

More progress in the collaboration painting with Tom! He painted a crinkled paper texture on the top right corner in blue while I added flat red violet squares on the bottom left (click on the photos for a closer look):

Detail of Tom's work:

Detail of my work:

Here are pictures of the set up that Tom made to reference for textures:

Keep watching for more progress!

This is a continuation of the collaboration painting between Tom Buzbee and I. To check out the first 2 posts, click here:

http://hugogiraud.blogspot.com/2012/06/collaboration.html

http://hugogiraud.blogspot.com/2012/07/collaboration-2.html

Collaboration

I've started a big painting (5'x7') collaboration with our school's Resident Artist and my friend, the amazingly talented Tom Buzbee! Click on his name to see more of his work and you will see why I am super excited about it! The man is not only a fantastic fine artist who's found his own voice but as an illustrator, I respect him highly for working in places like NASA and Disney's EPCOT. And I always was a bit jealous that my friends McArthur Albert and George Frei got to do painting with him so I'm really glad I finally get to do one!


I will try to post progress photos of the painting here on the blog as we go along. After stretching & double priming the big canvas, here's our 1st step: covering the background in expressive washes of black acrylic paint. The rectangles you might see in it are pieces of paper towels that we threw on it to soak some of the paint out. They left some of the pattern & shapes from the paper towels and we also threw them back at the painting to build more textures. Click on the photo for a closer look: