Ty Carter Art giveaway!!!!!!!

This month, my dear friend and talented artist Ty Carter of Blue Sky is giving away fantastic prizes off his website in celebration of the Holiday season. Prizes range from free prints of his artwork to half off tuition at AnimSchool. To see how you can win, go onto his site for details.

Drop by table TT27 at CTN this year. :)

Hey everyone, my friend Morgan Gibbons and I will be exhibiting our comic anthology Reality Not Included at CTN this November. If you're in town for the event, be sure to stop by table TT27 to purchase your own copy of the book, and chat with us for a bit. :)

Shallow Thoughts: An Edward Scissorhands Halloween

Where's Ryan Woodward when I need him?

This week, I did gestures in conté for the first time in almost a year. Where's Ryan Woodward when I need him?

2 min. poses

30 sec. poses

90 sec. poses

90 sec. poses

5 minute pose

The left pose was 3 minutes, and the one on the right was five minutes

For those of you who don't know, Ryan was my professor, and mentor when I was an undergrad at BYU. Everything I know today about story boarding and drawing, I owe to him. In spite of the annoying little kid I was, he took me by the hand and showed me what it meant to be an animation artist. I owe so much to him, and I aspire one day to be not the only the artist but the man he is. Ryan, thank you so much for all you've taught me, I will apply it all to the best of my ability wherever I go, and I apologize for the the four years of misery I've caused you.

Fan Art Friday- Those Meddling Kids!!!!!

So far, Paranorman has been my favorite animated film of the year (but I still need to see Wreck-It-Ralph). While watching it, I couldn't help but think of three things: The Goonies, The Sixth Sense, and Scooby Doo. This being a film with a group of "meddling kids", and in commemoration of the most recent Halloween, I couldn't help but mesh them with the old Hanna Barbera cartoon.