Senior Thesis Preview

Throughout the entire semester we were supposed to be working on our thesis films. At the end of the semester we were required to give a presentation to the entire department about how the production was going. I was pretty on schedule and so I made this little trailer.

Artist Interview

To kick off the senior year, our Portfolio class required us to pair up with someone and take turns interviewing each other 10 years in the future. It was kind of an interesting project...

Hitamus Rocketus

Anticipation is one of the major aspects of good animation. This project was a lesson based solely on that principle. This would be a good point to mention that almost all of the characters I use in these projects come out of stream of consciousness sketching which is just about how I do all of my sketches. Generally i have no idea what I'm about to draw until I start putting pencil to paper.

The Best Day Ever

Then I went to college at the Kansas City Art Institute. The first year at this school is a general studies curriculum in which you work on projects in an array of different mediums, styles, and methods. I was lucky enough to have Nathan Fox for my first semester. He had us working on all kinds of mind numbing projects that really whipped me into shape. Towards the end of the semester he hosted a 24 hour comics day in which my entire class was locked in our studio with the intention to create comics for the whole 24 hours. I made a comic or two and this flip book. It was really a rewarding experience and I would never trade my freshman year at KCAI for anything.