Curio Jr!

Another excerpt from Curiosities Jr.

Plus some good news if you backed our Kickstarter - We started shipping orders! If you're in the group of people who pledged under $50($65 international) we have shipped your order! The rest of you will be receiving a copy of Curiosities Jr which should arrive on our doorstep shortly.

Snow

I know this is a bit late for this year, but is it too early for 2013?

A Curious Demo (from Nucleus)

In October, we did a demo at Gallery Nucleus where we talked about our process for our book, the concept behinds and met some cool people.

Here's the piece I worked on for those 2ish hours which is appearing in the companion book to Curiosities, Curiosities Jr. It's what we called a "conspiracy room." One of those rooms you see in movies and tv shows with news clippings, photos and lots of string connecting things together. In this case, he also pinned a few more mundane things.

Curio Jr - the Beast is hungry

Here's an excerpt from Curiosities Jr - a short children's story we called "The Beast is Hungry." Enjoy!

Announcing - Curiosities Jr!

Hey everyone, we've been a bit quiet since we've been finishing up work on not one book but two! This is the companion book that we did as part of our kickstarter. We had such great support from out backers that we wanted to give back something special. This additional book is included FREE to our all our backers who pledged over $50.

It's 48 pages full of a new story and includes comics, a children's book & more than a few odd ancestors.

It will be available for order early next year.

Snow

Being in LA you don't see much snow this time of year, but I'm hearing it is in the local mountains.

Visual Development class Demo

This is our demo from our Visual Development class last night. We try to keep things down to an hour which is a fun challenge each time. Vicky acted as the art director and gave me notes as I progressed with the painting. This is from our class project which is a retelling of Pinocchio set in Tibet. This shows the god Shinje, the tibetan god of death confronting Pinocchio & Gepatto.

CTN pt 2

As mentioned in the last post we're going to be at this weekend's CTN Expo! It was our first show ever and we're really glad to go back and see everyone again. If you'd like to find us, refer to the above map. We're also do a talk, a demo and a portfolio review session! So check out the schedule to know when and where to find us.

And lastly we leave you with another look at part of the CTN talent hunt map! 

SCHEDULE -

"Branding and you" @ Parlor 125 on Saturday Nov, 17 4:30-5:15
Vehicle design and painting @ the Atrium on Saturday Nov, 17 1-1:45
Portfolio Reviews @ Disney [booth B-26] on TBA

CTN!

We're going to be at CTN Expo this weekend! It's a gathering of all sorts of talented artists from the field of animation. So stay tuned for more info. Here's an illustrated we did for their talent hunt. Its a sort of scavenger hunt where you collect the signatures of artists to be entered to win prizes!

Tibet

We had the great fortune to go on a trip to Tibet and finally had some time to try to capture the colors and the environments in a few paintings. We spent a lot of time driving and we'd stop to see great vistas like this one.

UP NEXT: CTN!
In a little under Two Weeks from now, you can catch us at CTN! It's a convention bringing together artists from animation and it's being held in Burbank,CA. Stay tuned for our booth number and more info