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.

Digital ink

Quick digital ink portrait in Corel Painter IX, hope you like!  -h

Holiday Card!

Here is my Holiday card for 2011! You can check out the initial sketches at the Dos Illustros blog by clicking on the blog name. It was inspired by one of my favorite illustrators, Jim Flora, and finished digitally in Adobe Illustrator (Fonts are Kon Tiki Aloha and Aloha Ligatures). My brother and I will be heading out to Puerto Rico to see our parents and grandparents during Christmas. Internet access will be limited but I hope to post again by the time I'm back before the new year comes.

I've still yet to see the new Muppets movie, of which I've heard nothing but good things. Maybe just before the trip?

I hope you guys have a great holiday season and enjoy the break! See you in the new year!

Nephew birthday card

So I posted the sketch and final illustration of my 1st nephew Levi's home-made 3rd birthday card at the Dos Illustros sketchblog earlier this week and wanted to post the card here with final text. This is all digitally made: sketch and final illustration was all done in Adobe Photoshop with an older Wacom Cintiq 21UX and the text/layout was made in Adobe Illustrator.

Mai Justice process

This week I've done some quick digital concept sketches for a character in Wolfgang Wozniak's "Mai Justice" game. Wolfgang is a Full Sail University alumni who posted one of his characters at our DADA Full Sail art club Facebook page and I decided to do a short critique demo there where I redrew the character. You can check out more about the game and characters by clicking in the name of the game above, he's still looking for artists if you're interested.

At  the Dos Illustros blog I posted the final color quick sketch but here I will post all of the ones showing the process of how I got to it.

Here's the original sketch:

I started drawing on top of the original, giving her more realistic facial proportions:

I then started adding Native American features, I used Irene Bedard (star of "Smoke Signals" and voice of Disney's "Pocahontas") for reference:

Then added the character's details:

And finally quick color to see what she'd look like:

 

Character is © 2010-2011 Wolfgame and Wolfgang Wozniak