Portfolio/Reel site

http://brandon-waltman.blogspot.com/

Senior Film Blog!

So most of my time is now being dedicated to my senior thesis film. My group and I have made a blog there where we're putting up all our stuff for the production. I'll probably be posting there much more than here for the remainder of the school year. (not that i've been keeping up with this one anyway.) SO HEAD ON OVER!

http://cab-production.blogspot.com/

Laugh-O-Gram!

Recently I helped a group named Thank You Walt Disney paint the outside of the Laugh-O-Gram studios on 31st and Troost. In the first picture you can see what the studio looked like before the organization got to fixing it up. What they're doing is important to the city's history and the history of animation. They are still taking donations so head over to their website and doooooo it.

http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/

Junior Final (kinda)

My junior final. Mostly an exercise in integrating after effects and hand drawn. It still needs music though.... any takers?

Ball from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

Reel Spring 09

My spring 09 reel! whoooooooop!


Untitled from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

American Royal BBQ

American Royal Barbecue poster for my illustration class and for the ARB contest. I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. It's no winner though. I'm ok with that.

Illustration assignment uno

The first project for my illustration class. We had to illustrate the article "The People vs. Dick Cheney". I did a drawing with some textures overlayed.

The House of Small Cubes (La Maison en Petits Cubes)

This is the film by Kuni Kato that won best animated short at the oscars last night. For those who haven't seen it, it really is an amazing short and was one of my favorites to win. Here is the piece in two parts for those who missed it.

BACK!

I've taken an unnecessarily long break from updating my blog and that, as of now, shall cease. This is a pitch idea i did for the end of last semester. Expect to hear from me more often now!

Character design: Doyle

Character design project.

Doyle the renegade cowman

Roderick

An art trade i did with a classmate Caitlyn.
This is her character Roderick

Id

One of the characters I have been developing for fun. I am still working on his buddy.

more sketchies

and more sketches

sketchies galore!

Just some sketches from the summer time.

Why So Cuddly

so i was attempting to work on illustrations for my teddy bear book today and this is what happened. I blame my uncontrollable anxiousness for thursday at midknight. HELLS YES

a break from teddies

Just a little vacation away from drawing teddy bears....and now its over.

World Wide Teddy Bear Reunion

This is the cover for the new children's book i'm illustrating. I may move some stuff around a little but this is pretty much the finished product.

spring final: Transient

this is my final for the spring. it was a great experience in learning how to incorporate everything from the hand drawn aspect to the computer aspect to pull everything together. enjoy!

Bear test yall

this is a test for my final animation. the bear is going to be following a butterfly. i still lots to do though. it makes me feel good to have something to show though.

cat in a boat

this is some hand drawn experimenting i've been doing with some chroma keying and trying to hone my character skills some more. kind of a tribute to the looney tunes which is definitely what made me interested in animation in the first place

ima hound dog

so i've been trying to get better at photoshop painting because i've been avoiding it because i'm scared of it. i decided to man up and tackle it head on. this is photoshop painting one for me and it was interesting. as i painted him he got progressively more pissed off looking. most likely reflecting my emotions toward him at the time.

oh love

happy valentines day.......early!

the 3 elements

3 elements we had to animate for class and my first animations since being back from christmas break. it feels good to animate again.

my first walk cycle for class. it turned out a little more cartoony than i wanted but i still learned greatly from it

sketches from the book. just some characters i've been playing with. the bear one is for the new children's book i'm working on for next christmas

Sinclair and his excellent plaid paws

i'm a published illustrator! everyone out there should go to funteddybooks.com and buy one. peace

another christmas card

another christmas card! merry christmas again

christmas!

merry christmas!

self portrait

this is my final animation for my fall semester. I have never worked so hard on anything in my entire life. seriously. it took about a month to do and in the last couple of weeks before it was due i didn't sleep too much. but i am psyched i got my first full animation finished and am still alive. it was a lot of fun. next semester we're adding sound to these too so i'm looking forward to that. until then i finally have some me time over the christmas break and can do whatever the hell i want! booyah!

in my designing the frame class we had to make 5 frames depicting a pivotal scene in the fairy tale snow drop. i never realized how different that is from the disney snow white but its really different. this is my take on it and i decided to do the scene when the hunter is ordered to go out and kill her but can't do it. we had to blend photographs with our drawings in photoshop. this took me forever considering i am not a photoshop guru and didnt know many shortcuts so i took the long way around in doing most of this. fun though

previous sketch reborn!

just an old sketch i went over in with photoshop. fo fun

a tell tale heart

The tell tale heart as interpreted by me for a class assignment in designing the frame. this was a big step forward for me in the digital art realm and i'm happy to report that i partially know what i am doing now. its only improvement from here i'm hoping!

Metamorphosis (sp?)

3rd animation of the semester and this one gave me a run for my money. it was pretty tough but i had a lot of fun with it. moving on to my weight animation now!

Bean man

my second animation. this assignment was breathe and hold, and anticipation. i'm pretty happy with it minus the shadow i kept casting over it. annoying.

Humminbird yall

my first animation of my sophmore year! this is my hummingbird and it was tons o fun. it is a little shorter than i wanted it to be but unseen circumstances kind of got in the way and my time got cut down. but oh well, i'm happy with it. i can't wait to start my big project.

hummingbirdies

i've been surrounding myself with everything that is hummingbirds for the past week preparing to do an animation of one. i thought i would tire of looking at hummingbirds constantly but i'm actually having fun with it!

Music Cafe

just a fairly quick poster i made for an office friend about some thing called, well, music cafe. It really helped me on my photoshop experimenting which i need to do more of

random pages from the book of sketches

Jammin Kit Kat

So I've been trying to get used to and use Photoshop on my drawings. I really like how it looks but teaching yourself is a bitch. I'm sure i took everything that should be simple and made it oh so complicated. This took me like 3 hours. I need a Photoshop teacher

Some wonderland action

This was a birthday card i did for a friend featuring some wonderland critters.

sinclair cover

so lately all i've been able to work on is the illustrations for the book i'm illustrating, which isn't a bad thing but it does consume every ounce of time i have. this would be the cover. mostly finished i would say

Sinclair le teddy bear

A character i've been working on for a children's book I'm illustrating. This is my first job illustrating anything ever and it has been pretty fun, pretty stressful, and pretty amazing....and i've only finished the cover so far. I should have the whole thing illustrated by the end of the summer. That is my goal anyway.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Icecream Man

It is officially summer now and when I was a kid I always looked forward to the sweet melody of "Pop Goes the Weasel", which was the delicious sound of the nearby icecream truck. But now that I look back on it and think about it, I always remember the icecream man being absolutely terrifying. He was always smoking and looked like someone who had just escaped from prison. And yes, the icecream man that came around my neighborhood did actually have tatooed tally marks on his arm. I always wondered what they meant but the more I think about it, I'm really much more comfortable not knowing.

Character Sketches

just messing around with some character sketches. For some reason I got on a bird kick and just tryed to draw some of the weirdest types i could think of..... I suppose platypuses aren't birds....but I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from. Anywho here are some humming bird and platypus sketches. Lata

first post

just thought i'd kick off my little blogging business by posting one of my more recent explorations in comics. I just finished taking a comic class where we explored color and the narrative and this is one of the "free" assignments we did for extra credit. My teacher was Nathan Fox, who is an incredible comic artist who just did some illustrations in DMZ 17 and 18. Check it out