May's Theme, "Tea Party"

TEA PARTY!

March's Theme, "Flight"

As suggested by Kevin, this month's theme is "Flight"!

Favorite Movie Scene- "It's a Wonderful Life"

Not just for Christmas, "It's a Wonderful Life" is a movie that I can watch literally over and over again year round. It always inspires me personally and spiritually, it's funny, a great love story and in general is a great film.

I love all the little touches with George, constantly struggling against falling into a normal life in Bedford Falls. All his grand dreams and aspirations are seemingly blocked at every turn. When his father passes away and his brother gets married he's left holding up a family business that few people realize is so important to the town, including George himself sometimes. He struggles between his own feelings for Mary and his own desire to travel and build grand skyscrapers and cities. He chooses love. Mary and him and settle into a normal life and start to build a family and a home but all the time, just under the surface, he is a bit resentful. He feels trapped in a life that I'm sure that if he was asked he would say was "just fine," but in his mind he's always thinking "if only...". By the end of the movie he realizes that he's actually had a really wonderful life and everyone else in the town has been touched just from him being there.

Sorry, I'm sure everyone has seen it before, I just felt like talking about that.

I struggled trying to pick my favorite moment, since there are so many great scenes in "It's a Wonderful Life". I chose this image right from the end of the film. Not ashamed to say it makes me tear up every time. I also struggled trying to draw or caricature Jimmy Stewart, he's fairly ordinary looking except for his kinda sleepy eyes and a heavier bottom lip. This whole image really was a struggle which explains the kinda "in progress" look this has as well and the lack of a unified caricature style, but all the same I hope you like it!

February's Theme "Favorite Movie Scene"

Our February theme is "Favorite Movie Scene". Thanks, Brian!

January Challenge - The New Year

Here's my entry for this month's challenge, "The New Year". The New Year so far for me has been the year of an awesome new toy. I just got me a Cintiq and I've been playing around with doing a little hand-drawn animation test in flash. It's been a lot of fun! I tried a pretty simple pelvis and legged thing for my first test. A little warm-up. Hopefully I can only get better, it's just the beginning of this New Year!
Click here to see my animation!
(Sorry, the file takes a little while to load. Having trouble with my Quicktime player right now.)

January's Theme, "The New Year"

And you thought it was going to be boring old New Year. No! THE New Year.

Let's see what you got!