Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Playing around with Flash and Illustrator....

I AM ALIVE!!!! Sorry I haven't posted in FOREVER, but I have been busy working at my new job as a college prof, so I've been keeping busy. So A friend of mine sent me a link to this animation tutorial, so I thought I'd play around with and see what developed. So here is the result. I created two characters as well as a bloo character in the style of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Then created a quick background in Illustrator. Fun with Flash!!!


Playing in flash from boaktree on Vimeo.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Still Alive

Sorry Guys...I know its been a while since I've updated, but I've been working like a fiend and in between moving and tons of other stuff. Hopefully after I get settled wherever I end up, there shall have some new material.

-B

Monday, July 09, 2007

I'VE BEEN TAGGED: 7 THINGS ABOUT BRIAN

1. I am from Raleigh North Carolina, but I currently reside in Savannah, GA. I am in the process of starting my career as an artist, and I'm looking forward to relocating to some amazing destination.



2. Other than my love and passion for stop motion an animation, I am an avid roller coaster, amusement park and theme park enthusist. Ultimately, my life's ambition is to design and build my own theme park.




3. I come from an amazingly wonderful and crazy family. Moving to Savannah to go to school was one of the most exciting, yet hardest things for me to do, considering how close knit my family is.

4. During the summer of 2006, I was fortunate enough to be a puppet fabrication intern at Shadow Machine Films on a show called Moral Orel. I got to work with several animators and fabricators that I admire and look too for inspiration. Not to mention, they worked on several stop motion movies and shows that I love!






5. I love to laugh, and make people laugh. Being silly is probably one of the things that I do best.



6. Before I began studying to become an animator, I was pretty much set on becoming an architect or a mechanical engineer.




7.The most surreal moment of my life was when I was given a cake by Seth Green (but the cake was baked by my buddy ROSA, who is an awesome baker ;D...). I made an elaborate scheme to spark a conversation with Mr. Green before I left to come back to school, but the tables were turned, and thus the joke was played on me.



Sorry, forgot to do this before, but I tag...Michael Granberry.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Vinnie has made some PROGRESS!!!!

Hey All!

I finally have some new and up to date photos of my puppet Vinnie.



I am thinking as far as the fur bell bottoms go, I think that I may trim it down a little. I have been thinking of using a different process to make the head for the character, but as of right now it it a little foam buildup over a resin skull.




Look for finished photos soon! ::FINGERS CROSSED AGAIN::

Friday, May 11, 2007

New Stuff!

Hey all! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I've been working hard putting together my portfolio package, considering I will be finishing school in 3 weeks, and graduating with my MA. So in honor of that, I wanted to post a more up to date demo reel with some new stuff.

I hope you enjoy, and hopefully soon, I will have more puppet photos and a finished puppet soon!! ::FINGERS CROSSED::



Also, I will give you a glimpse into work other than my stop motion too; in my animation flatbook.** The file is a 18 mb pdf, but I think its worth the download :D!


Animation Flatbook.pdf

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

New advancements!!!

Well, just a little update from my previous new project. I am currently working on making a mold for a character that I am using for a small project. Here is the semi final sculpt of the character to create my stone mold from.



The mold is done, and as soon as I get more photos to post, you will see'um here first!

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Peter and the Wolf: Stop Motion Goodness



Simply amazing!!! I Found this info over at Animate Clay. Production on Peter and the Wolf finally wrapped at Simafor Studios in Poland. There is an article from VFXTalk.com that has some nice clips of cleaning up rigs and backgrounds in the animation.

Read the article and see the amazing clips here:

Stop motion goodness