Updated Reel

Coming a bit late but I finally cut a 2013 reel

BWaltmanReel2013 from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

Pubertina: Pubertino

Did some more animation work for Pubertina! It's always super fun to work on.

Id and Ego page

Still developing these characters and ideas more. Currently throwing together some storyboards in flash. . we'll see where it goes.

Roider

Playing around with an old sketch

Donatello

Last bit of fun before more work. I've loved Ninja Turtles since I was a toddler.... and still do love them despite how ridiculous the entire concept obviously is.

Piggies

Playing around with some character concepts on my freelance and job hunting breaks. 

Happy Birthday "little" brother

Lip Sync Exercise

Did a fun lip sync exercise today while police and swat locked down the neighborhood because of people with guns? ... It was an interesting day..

Lip sync sketch from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

PAPERCUTS ON PAPERCUTS

I've been trying to organize and find better places to store my old sketches. Rifling through sheets of paper is so much more dangerous (and painful) than it sounds.

Lunch sketch

Quick color sketch during lunch. 

Saturday sketching

Taking a break from the children's book to do some sketching. 

Dinner doodles

  Doing some doodling with my right hand while I shovel ramen into my face with the left one.

I'm FREEEEE

Just finished a bunch of job tests and freelance work. This is how I currently feel inside. 

Girl color sketch

Playing around in Photoshop 

Doodling and watching Disney movies.

Ten Directors

Ten classic directors in name tag form for a friend who works in a video store. 

For the birds

Been on a bird kick lately. Morning warm up.

Peacock

Morning warm up. Peacock style

More storybook sketches

Some more sketches for the children's book I just finished working on. It should hopefully be coming out sometime in the spring! 

The manliest of men

Made this for my father for Christmas. Without him, I would never have learned what it means to be truly manly. I don't possess any of those qualities unfortunately. 

Storybook sketches

Unused sketches for a children's book I'm currently working on.

Animal

Did a fun illustration for a friend's mixtape release.

Saturday Sketch page

In a bit of a rut. Random sketch vomit always helps. 

Scribbles and scratches

Started a little tumblr for all my sketches that happen randomly throughout the day and just end up piling and being forgotten. Go to there.

http://scribblesandscratches.tumblr.com/

Warm Up

Elephant Doodle

Freaky Pets

Freelance work for a children's toy line. Some used but mostly unused drawings.

http://www.freakypets.com/what_is_freaky_pets

The Field

Trying to work more with color and light. I have been concentrating too much on singular characters and not practicing large compositions with multiple elements. Time to stretch the legs! 

Return of the blog

Finally getting time to play around. Going to try to make this a regular happening. 

Pubertina: Rusty Sprinkler

So I haven't updated this in awhile... But it's only because I've finally been incredibly busy again thankfully. A new full time job and a bunch of freelance has taken away the free time. Anywho, I recently animated an episode of Emily Brundige's "Pubertina" which premiered today on the youtubes. It's normally animated by the very talented Josh Herron but I was lucky enough to get to step in for an episode. Enjoy!

Lazy Sunday

Having a relaxing Sunday sketching the activity outside my window. My apartment faces the street and it is a constant source of entertainment. I've seen everything from homeless people romances to a man hunt run by police. I probably stare out my window more than I watch TV.

Top of the sky

Doing some more playing in photoshop and really enjoyed playing with colors on this one. I'll probably make more than one version of this guy. But for now, sleep.

Park sketches

                                          Spent a little relaxing time at the park the other day.

Ant hill

Just got off of a big and exhausting weeklong freelance job so now I'm taking a break and playing with some new ways to render my characters. This was a fun process and I think I'm going to explore it further. Also, poking at ants is how I spent most of my childhood summers.

Reel 2012

Updated the reel!

sketch break

Taking a lunch break and playing with a bunch of photoshop brushes.

Acorn

Finished my 3rd exercise! It took about a week longer to finish than it should have but life has been busy lately. For this I just wanted to get a character moving around a little more. I think I'm going to step it up a notch in my next exercise.

Bosko and Louie

A couple more character clean ups for Id and Ego. I'm back in the process of putting together a pitch bible for this idea along with trying to produce more animation, job hunt, and figure out my student loan situation. See you never, sleep.

Long day sketch page

Applied to about a billion jobs today. Took a break and did some concept sketches for an idea that's throwing me out of my comfort zone a bit.

Spongebob

Watching some spongebob while breaking from some freelance work.

Limitless Power

Finished my second exercise! I didn't really plan anything, just kind of ran with it. I guess this is what happens when I improvise. It was a lot of fun and I may clean it up and color it at some point as well as make a few minor tweaks. But for now it's back to animating. 

Coffee Shop Sketchplosion

Been bad about scanning in all my sketches recently. Here are a few from recent coffee/drawing/procrastinating sessions.

Mid day doodle

Working on another fun and quick animation and taking a break. Been brainstorming a concept with these characters so I've been doodling them a lot lately.

One of them movin pictures

So I haven't animated anything in a long time. Between job hunting, freelance work, and life I haven't had the energy to dedicate to doing what I came to LA to do in the first place. I'm changing that by doing a few quick exercises a week. Then I may start trying to put together some more complex pieces. We'll see what happens. To productiveness!!

Family portrait Scooby style

I made this as a poster for my younger brother for Christmas with the two of us and our deceased pup as the Scooby gang.