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

Butterflies

Thanks to all who turned out to our gallery show/workshop/book signing on Saturday. It was a lot of fun meeting everyone and showing how we approached the art for the book.

If you weren't able to make it, don't fret. The show will be up for few more weeks and we have a few advance copies of our book, Curiosities left over from our signing! Get them while they last! - http://ow.ly/eR57j

If you're a Kickstarter backer, we anticipate sending order in December/January. Our main shipment of books arrived in a month and the prequel books will land shortly after that.

Aunt Lucy

Aunt Lucy has a wig for every occasion. Perhaps this is the one she'll be wearing at our gallery show on Saturday.

Curiosities Workshop, Gallery Show, & Book Signing!

Come one, come all! To the Curiosities Exhibit at the Gallery Nucleus!
Celebrating the release of a brand new book created using stunning COLOR PRINT technology.

With illustrations by the illustrious Victoria Ying and Mike Yamada
and prose by the prosaic Jonathan Ying

Details of this Spectacular Event below:

Q&A Workshop! See how the book was made at 3-6PM
Get a ticket! - http://ow.ly/eIgCt

Art Exhibition! See stunning Curiosities themed artwork at 7-10PM

Costume Contest! Be judged based on your appearance! FOR FABULOUS PRIZES! at 8:30PM

A Spooky new Cover!

We thought we'd share the updated cover to our book, Curiosities. Right before going to print we had the time to work on the cover. So as of right now, 100 copies are being air-shipped to us for our gallery show and the remainder are crossing the ocean in a boat. We're working hard on all the kickstarter extras and our gallery show coming up on the 27th (more on that tomorrow!).

Summer-Time

We just got back from a long trip across Asia and been starting to get back in the swing of things. Here's something I did to shake off the cobwebs.