Brandon Waltman Portfolio

Long day sketch page

2012-01-26T19:02:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-21T14:30:00.000-08:00

Watching some spongebob while putting off freelance work..

Limitless Power

2012-01-20T19:48:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-20T11:38:00.000-08:00

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

Mid day doodle

2012-01-18T12:51:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-17T00:58:00.000-08:00

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

2011-12-30T19:06:00.000-08:00

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.

Id and Ego break

2011-12-20T00:03:00.000-08:00

Trying to get ready to go to Oklahoma for a week and finish a majority of my freelance. Ugggghhhh. Took an Id and Ego break.

Late night sketching

2011-12-09T15:03:00.000-08:00

Been hitting the sketchbook every day for the past few weeks and it feels gooooooood. It should go without saying but it's easy to forget that just sitting and drawing for yourself a bit every single day is therapy by itself. I'm trying to make a habit of it.

I love you Winsor

2011-12-08T17:52:00.000-08:00

Going through my gigantic Little Nemo Sunday strip book. I could look at these drawings for forever. Did a couple scribbles while doing it.

Black-White

2011-12-07T20:30:00.000-08:00

Haven't messed around with this idea in awhile and have been thinking about space a lot lately. I want to paint nebulas. And yes, saying that sentence out loud sounded much more nerdy than it did in my head. But I love space. It's full of things that are beautiful, wondrous, and mysterious all that the same time. I can't get enough of it.

Self Portrait

2011-12-07T13:34:00.000-08:00

So work seems to be drying up again.... NOT good considering I need to work to make money. And I need money to eat and stuff. But it has given me a little extra time to play. Which I will now continue to do. PEACE

Id and Ego Clean ups

2011-12-01T18:56:00.000-08:00

Leg stretch.

2011-10-05T01:16:00.000-07:00

First self portrait in a long time. Well, half self portrait

Superhero sketches

2011-09-17T14:19:00.000-07:00

Some concept sketches that weren't used for a project at work. I liked them and had fun doing them though!

Character outfit sheet

2011-08-04T15:18:00.000-07:00

Outfit sheet from a project I'm doing at work!

Sketch pile

2011-08-01T11:24:00.000-07:00

playing with some expressions

Sketch day in a coffee shop

2011-08-01T00:17:00.000-07:00

Tuesday sketch

2011-07-26T17:15:00.000-07:00

"Space concept" sketches

2011-07-14T20:33:00.000-07:00

Playing around with some new ideas. I want to flesh out a space themed story. We'll see where it goes.

Charlie Wax Sketches.

2011-07-14T20:31:00.000-07:00

So I just watched the movie "From Paris, With Love" the other day and thought it was overall a pretty "meh" movie. But I did really love John Travolta's character in it. I wish I could see him in his own film without all the other crap I didn't really care about happening around him. Anyway, I sketched him for a minute while watching.

Randall

2011-06-08T17:35:00.000-07:00

Quick character study in between the job hunting

Sketch dump!

2011-06-07T17:05:00.000-07:00

I've been going through lots and lots of sketches, compiling them so they're easier to look at and access.

T Rex and the Salad Bar

2011-06-05T18:50:00.000-07:00

Fun little concept rough for a children's book

Black-White webcomic blog

2011-05-21T14:05:00.000-07:00

I've started a web comic to vent my existential ramblings and just to have a little fun. It's about a little robot floating through space. I'm attempting to make it a weekly deal but we'll see how long that lasts. Here's the first one! Head over to the blog to check out the rest.

http://black-----white.tumblr.com/

New work!

2011-05-21T10:25:00.000-07:00

I've been ignoring the blog again. But since being nearly out of work and left without the amount of contacts I need, I've decided to inject life back into this blog. And will try my best to sustain it. We'll see....

Here's some new diddies.

Hideous Hamster

2010-09-21T12:00:00.000-07:00

I've never found hamsters to be cute creatures. When I draw them from memory, this is what happens

Zombie fever

2010-09-16T09:07:00.000-07:00

I've been drawing many a zombie lately. I think I may have to make a zombie character to cure my zombie drawing fever .

Painting practice

2010-09-08T21:52:00.000-07:00

I've been practicing little quick photoshop paintings today.

Ravenous Decay

2010-09-01T23:24:00.000-07:00

Just found out that I won a "design the book cover" contest for a novel called "Ravenous Decay" by Rebecca Morsman! Check out her blog for info.

Ravenous Decay

Fund us!

2010-08-13T09:54:00.000-07:00

So we're trying to raise funds for our film to get it out into film festivals. If you back us with some mulah then you also get some cool stuff! Help us out and we give you things. Everyone's happy!

http://kck.st/armha5

Id and Ego animatic

2010-07-26T10:45:00.000-07:00

An animatic I put together a couple years ago for a tv show idea. This was to get an overall feel for it. The general idea for the show is the relationship between Id (the monkey) and Ego (the cat) and their misadventures in the zoo they live in. One of my many goals for the next few months is to start fleshing out their universe more and maybe even produce more mini animatics like this.

Id and Ego animatic from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

Sketch explosion!

2010-06-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

Here are some diddies from my sketchbook recently.

Monster with some color

2010-06-14T11:00:00.000-07:00

added color to an old sketch.

Still job searching and staying positive.

Scribblies

2010-06-10T10:08:00.000-07:00

Sketch diddies

2010-05-27T10:32:00.000-07:00

Darwin's Evolution

2010-05-26T21:43:00.000-07:00

The path that Darwin took to get to his final design. I abandoned the mammal direction because the film started to look like a Jack and Daxter rip off. So I took him in a more bird like direction and made him a bird.

FINAL FILM!

2010-05-25T18:48:00.000-07:00

Enjoy!

Typhon's Wake from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

Darwin sketches

2010-04-08T17:40:00.000-07:00

So the reason I have been MIA for so long is because I've been cranking away at my senior thesis film with two classmates. The show is in about a month and we are nearly finished with all the animation! It feel unreal. I graduate and become a real person about 3 days after our senior film premieres. Life is going to start moving really fast really soon. Yikes. Anyway, here are a few sketches of the character I was in charge of, Darwin. I have tons of other sketches from pre production including some from when he was a mammal. I'll try and put those up after the film is released.

Portfolio/Reel site

2009-10-12T15:30:00.000-07:00

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

Senior Film Blog!

2009-10-06T14:09:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-07-15T20:01:00.001-07:00

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)

2009-05-06T19:37:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-08T16:55:00.000-07:00

My spring 09 reel! whoooooooop!

Untitled from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

American Royal BBQ

2009-03-25T18:43:00.001-07:00

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

2009-02-26T21:02:00.000-08:00

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)

2009-02-23T11:38:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-02-18T12:32:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-16T20:45:00.000-08:00

Character design project.

Doyle the renegade cowman

Roderick

2008-08-03T13:03:00.001-07:00

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

Id

2008-07-31T16:24:00.000-07:00

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

more sketchies

2008-07-30T13:45:00.001-07:00

and more sketches

sketchies galore!

2008-07-30T13:38:00.000-07:00

Just some sketches from the summer time.

Why So Cuddly

2008-07-14T19:15:00.001-07:00

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

2008-07-12T14:46:00.001-07:00

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

World Wide Teddy Bear Reunion

2008-06-10T14:33:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-11T16:18:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-07T22:01:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-02T17:47:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-13T20:48:00.000-07:00

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

2008-02-09T19:07:00.001-08:00

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

the 3 elements

2008-02-06T19:29:00.001-08:00

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

2008-01-25T16:07:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-15T09:26:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-14T15:57:00.001-08:00

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

another christmas card

2007-12-24T22:45:00.001-08:00

another christmas card! merry christmas again

christmas!

2007-12-24T22:13:00.001-08:00

merry christmas!

self portrait

2007-12-12T13:57:00.000-08:00

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!

2007-11-17T10:32:00.000-08:00

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!

2007-10-24T18:57:00.000-07:00

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

a tell tale heart

2007-10-22T20:43:00.000-07:00

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?)

2007-10-10T19:57:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-02T18:36:00.001-07:00

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

2007-09-30T11:51:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-20T14:48:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-14T22:21:00.001-07:00

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

2007-07-25T07:23:00.000-07:00

Jammin Kit Kat

2007-07-22T08:56:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-06T16:05:00.001-07:00

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

sinclair cover

2007-06-29T17:25:00.000-07:00

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

2007-06-09T09:50:00.001-07:00

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

2007-05-28T11:15:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-27T20:57:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-25T22:29:00.000-07:00

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