Sketch explosion!

Here are some diddies from my sketchbook recently. 

Monster with some color

added color to an old sketch.

Still job searching and staying positive. 

Scribblies

Sketch diddies

Darwin's Evolution

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!

Enjoy!



Typhon's Wake from Brandon Waltman on Vimeo.

Darwin sketches

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

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.