Monstare

September 24, 2014

I just realized that in my crazy schedule the last month, I never took the time to announce officially my change in jobs. I decided to leave Disney and teach at BYU full-time. This semester they have me teaching digital painting for animation, character design, and gesture drawing. BYU has a great animation program and the students are very talented so I'm excited to see what kinds of things we can do there.

I have no idea if the students are getting anything out of my character design class but at least I've been having fun doing the assignments with them. This assignment was to design a monster that was both scary and had a personality. This idea was based on the criteria we had on an unreleased project I worked on at Disney/Avalanche several years back.

My Blog

A lot of this stuff is older, ported over from an old blogspot. But hopefully there is some useful information in here! I mostly post to my instagram now instead, see the image link below.

Try to guess what actor I had in my mind as I drew this guy.

The embarrassing return to play after the rage controller throw.

My son helping me butter the toast this morning. #buttersculpture

Assignment 1 for my digital sculpting class is usually a posed bust sculpt done with a clay-like finish. I usually demo with a troll or a funny old man, but this time I wanted to do show how to do something with more refined shapes. #sculpting #zbrush #digitalsculpt #bustsculpture #princess

From now on, this image will be my response when people ask me why I prefer doing my work on the iPad.

My favorite person in the world. There are not words adequate to describe how great Marilyn is, or how much of a positive impact she has had on my life. The most exciting thing is that, if you follow the trend of history, the best parts of our marriage are yet to come. Thank you for choosing me, Marilyn! #givethanks

Painting with the symmetry tool in procreate is an enormous amount of fun. Oh, and my schoolism classes are on sale right now!

I’m so grateful for my family. I never thought I was a big family kind of person, but now I would not have things any other way. Family life is awesome and I’m thankful for the funny, weird, and good things each of my kids bring into my life. #givethanks

Today I’m thankful for the amazing people that I get to work with and all the ways they inspire me to be better at what I do. Here’s a selection of color keys I made for the recent Darkmoone Faire trailer, with lots of help from the team at Blizzard, and then MoonColony and the motion story team took the ideas and made it all look magical. I am humbled every day that I get to learn from the best. #givethanks

Today I’m thankful for this table. It represents a string of small miracles for my wife and I, and allows my large family the room to finally eat in comfort with *no fighting. There’s nothing greater than a hub of good food and good conversation, the only place we still gather all together these days. *may still include some fighting. #givethanks