Painting from google hangout

Did an impromptu google hangout.  Where we all draw together and see each others screen.  It was fun and I plan on doing more of them.  This is what I did

Fired animation by an excellent animator

You're Fired from Matt Timms on Vimeo.

Matthew Timms animation

and the original

Awesome job.  Makes me so happy to see art go forward and turned into something bigger than itself.  Thanks Matthew for the awesome work!

Give him some love here

http://matthewtimmsfx.blogspot.com/

Redwood Nature Preserve Inspiration

We got to go to the Armstrong Nature Preserve a few hours from San Francisco this weekend.  Reference for a project I am currently cooking up.  Here are some highlights that hopefully get your mind churning.  It was beautiful and awe inspiring.  A few trees even 1,300 or  1,400 years old.  Just amazing.

All in all it gave us great inspiration.  Hopefully these highlights help inspire you as the experience did for me.  Art soon.  Promise.

Have a lucky week!

Dark Minions part 1

I got to work with Shadow Machine animation on a pilot for Amazon Studios.  It was a whirlwind of 2 weeks.  Full paintings and designs in a day to lots and lots of iterations.  A great group of people and I hope to see them again down the road.  Killer talent and some awe inspiring set pieces from their movies and TV shows.  I will break this up over a few posts.  Here is some of the work I did on the 2 main characters.  Most of the design was done by Andy Bialk and I batted clean up.  I got to start fresh on some other characters but I'll leave that for later.  The pilot and voting can be found here:

Dark Minions