Cool Plug For My Studio

Well, we got another great plug for Salty Graphic Studio my company this time from Collide Magazine and Dale Carter of Worship House Media. We're pretty excited about this because it features our studio and one of our properties, "Bible Notes With Cliff". Thanks Collide and WHM!!

I recommend watching the whole video podcast, but if you're short on time just skip over to the 7:24 minute mark to see our plug.

12 - The COLLIDE Show from Collide Magazine on Vimeo.

Upcoming DVD Trailer

What good is an upcoming DVD release if you don’t advertise it a bit? The video below is a short one minute trailer for The Slug And Ant Show™ DVD that will be available towards the end of this summer.

Also below is the Ad poster for the DVD.

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Late Night Sketches

I've been playing around with some different shapes while sketching. I'm not sure where it's heading, but I'm trying to be less rigid and just let things happen. At any rate, I seemed to focus on Sumo wrestlers which I've always found kind of interesting for some reason. Maybe it's their large stature or despite their size how agile and flexible they are or maybe it was a late night and I wasn't thinking straight. ;)

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Toon Band

Just a little something I was messing with. The little animation is just a loop with some random music to test it. The characters are based on people I know. :O) When I have time, I'll throw a bass player in there and I know just the person I'll model it after. The one with all the heads is a mouth chart showing all the positions used to lip sync.

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This One's For You Elaine.

This past Sunday at church a friend named, you guessed it, Elaine told me in a serious tone that I needed to update my blog. So this one's for her. :O)

Just click play to watch a little test. The music, which is "The 2000 Pound Bee" by The Ventures,is just for placement all though it fits the animation.

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Drawer Geeks Again.

Another challenge over at Drawer Geeks. I did this over the weekend, I'm actually early this time. :)

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Inside Job

I'm working on a number of in-house projects and decided to mess with a poster concept for one of them. I'm not sure if I'm sold on the title it may change, but it serves a purpose for now.

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Drawer Geeks

It's been a while since I took part in a Drawer Geeks challenge, but I took a few moments to come up with a drawing for this weeks topic.



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Random Brain Cleaning

Sometimes I just need to clear my head of projects that I'm working on and give my brain a little cleaning. Not that I'm not enjoying what I do, but it's always good to take a little break and work on something random.

At any rate, I threw this together this afternoon. Now it's back to work. :O)

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Something Different

I'm hoping to post a few character designs I've been working on, but in the mean time I've gotten hooked on the free video tutorials over at Video Copilot
If you use After Effects and love working in video I encourage you to check these guys out. We're talking movie quality effects and heck, it's free!!

Below are two Studio I.D.s I did based on one of their tutorials.

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Freebie 01

Besides doing character design and animation I have a background in design. I still get the occasional logo design and it's a nice break to do something different. I also love graphic vector art and I thought I'd start offering some little free downloads if anyone is interested. The one below are random silhouetted birds. They're free so use them for whatever. I hope to post different vector art in the future, so check back. :)

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Salty Graphic Studio 2009 Reel

Well, I finally got around to updating my studios animation reel. I guess it's a little long, but I figured what the heck. If you get tired of watching it you can always stop it. :O) but why would do that???!!

One note though, if you click play then click the little arrow button on the lower right corner of the video and then select "HQ" you can watch it in a higher quality. I don't like the default quality of youtube at all, it really "mooshes" the images up.

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Sneak Peak

Well, I just finished up a few short animations that will be used in a longer music video for The Go Fish Guys They're a really neat children's ministry that record and perform kids music as well as putting their own spin on some classics. Below is a little sneak peak of their latest video with some, not all, of the animations I did for them.

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Job Sketches

I'm working on a few quick animations for a client. Below are a few sketches for a few Bible characters that appear in them. David, Goliath, Zaccheaus & Jesus.

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Background Comps

A few background designs. I've been doing most of backgrounds laely all in Photoshop with textures, but I thought I'd try some completely in Flash.

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Kung Fu Action

I was messing around with a few new characters for a side project, this being one of them. It's a looping animation test of a few random moves. I'm hoping to post a few more designs soon.

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Part 04

A few more tweaks here and there, but below is the last installment for the Mission Jelly Telly series for Phil Vischer.

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Part 04 (almost)

I'm almost done with the last installment of a small project for Phil Vischer. Below are a few screen shots in the mean time.

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Beep Beep

A few simple sketches of various vehicles.

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What It's All About

Well, it's the Christmas season again. I can't believe a whole year has gone by already. During this time of year many people including myself think and wonder what Christmas is all about. I mean I love giving and getting gifts and putting up the tree with my wife and kids, spending time with family and friends and let's not forget about all the food. But Christmas is much more then all those things, it's about the celebration of the birth of Jesus. It's about the celebration of a Savior. With that said, I made a little promo for my studio entitled "What It's All About".

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Nice Little Plug

I posted a contest entry for a Doritos commercial not too long ago. But I was happily surprised at the nice little plug I got over at Cold Hard Flash . woohoo, thanks guys.

Part 03

Part three of a four part series for Phil Vischer's Jelly Telly. These have been a challenge but really fun. I love doing action like this.

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The Snack Food For Everyone

Doritos is having a commercial contest. It has to be 30 seconds in length and obviously about Doritos. Below is my entry, very simple. There are some interesting entries so far. There's one by character designer and animator Allan Dye which I think is exccellant. It's filled with a lot of action and a giant Robot, how cool is that?

At any rate, you can check out the contest at Crash The Super Bowl

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Random Sketch

Well, it's been a while. I'm busy working on client projects which is a good thing, but I thought I'd post a few random sketches before the month is over.

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Sketches

I thought I'd post a few sketches for part 3 of the Mission Jelly Telly. Gee can you tell where it takes place?

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Lunch Time Project

I've been messing with these short animation for a while now. A little bit on my lunch breaks, a little at night... I've been itching to do something with a bit more action to try and stretch myself a little. I decided to use Phil Vischer's new venture "Jelly Telly" as a backdrop.

At any rate below are Part One and Part Two. My son has already explained to me what the next one has to have in it. He says it has to be an underwater scene with lots and lots of robot sharks. How cool is that? :)

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