Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from Brian and his Beard!

I hope everyone's holidays are super awesome, me and my family have been having a most awesome christmas. I also created personalized christmas cards for my family, you can check 'em out below.

This first one is for my older brother, Will

For my sister-in-law, Rei-Hua

For my Dad

For my Mom

My younger brother, Alex

My girlfriend, Amanda

Hope everyone is having a most excellent holiday season! ^_^

The freelancing has begun!

The freelancing has begun!

I've been hard at work on the pre-production for roughly 2 minutes of animation which are part of a bigger live action short film. I think the script for the film is excellent and I truly am excited to be working on it. Not sure how much i'm allowed to say so that is all I will say but I can show some of the designs I have done, here is the main character and the king wolf.

Also soon to start up is a 41 page comic which I will be undertaking with a colleague. Should be great experience, I am looking forward to being challenged and growing from it!

Lastly I leave you with this cd cover I did for my friend CJ's solo album, "The Krusty Skinners" which will be released soon(TBA)!

Ch. 2 of Kyah & Koh is complete!

Last 5 pages of Kyah & Koh Chapter 02 is up!

Page 11

If you haven't read any of Chapter 02 you can start here,

Chapter 02

Taking a break from Kyah & Koh for a little whiles since some work is cropping up, but I plan to get back to it hopefully in a month or 2. The final goal is to have all 4 chapters of Kyah & Koh completed by this summer.

I also put together an ad for my friend's computer & website building company (which I also help in with flash web design). Check it out below, i'm especially happy with how my little robot dude came out.

There are three different freelance jobs that I should be starting shortly, they are all very exciting and I cannot wait to get started on them! I'll put more details up as they officially start, don't want to jump the gun on anything yet.

Also, Shelley Low started up this awesome collaboration blog where a bunch of us artist people get together and post art every two weeks on a specific subject which we take turns picking.

Should be fun! Check it out at Tonight, We Draw

Smoke Stack Boy + Final Japan Videos

Smoke Stack Boy, my new children's book, is available for purchase!

Check it out here:

Smoke Stack Boy

And the last two Japan videos are up!

Japan Day 11

Japan Final Days

Lastly, here's some rough character design for the new short film I am currently storyboarding

Kyah & Koh Ch.2 + Japan Video 10

First 5 pages for Kyah & Koh Chapter 2 are up!

Check them out here!

Kyah & Koh Chapter 2

Also Japan Video 10 is up!

Japan Video 10

Also my first attempt at a Children's Book is going to finally be on Amazon soon! I finally got all the margins and blah blah blahs right. Now I'm just waiting for physical copy in the mail and make sure everything is right before it is available for purchase.

Still working on Dilworth's short and the clothing store website. Bunko finished up the episode we were working on and now I'm waiting for the next one to start up. ALSO, ramping up for a new short film which I plan to do by the end of next semester. I'm treating it as a second thesis. I'll put up some artwork from that in the next post.

Off to a little halloween partay, later!

Work overflow & Squid Boy Make Love

Alright so I worked at Bunko over the past week and was busy being a professional squatter hopping between people's places in NYC. But it worked out well in the end and now I am going back in again tomorrow and could be there into the weekend.

I've also been working on a flash website for an indie clothing store which is coming along, I'll put it up on here once it is up and running.

And I am doing opening titles for a Parkour video which my brother directed and shot which has been very cool to be a part of.

I'm having so many issues getting Smoke Stack Boy up on Amazon's createspace, ARGH! It is very frustrating. Dealing with margin areas and gutter margins and all these margins that I don't understand!! But i'm not giving up, hopefully it'll be up this century.

Kyah & Koh, well I have the whole thing planned out and chapter 2 is half thumbnailed out, I even started inking the first page but the plentiful amount of work I have gotten lately is gonna put that on hold for now.

I did more figure drawing! Most of them were awful, here's one that is ok.

I got a spark of inspiration to make a flash game the other night and the culmination of that inspiration is Squid Boy Make Love. This game uses advanced nano cell technology and 4D graphics so please prepare your eyes to be destroyed.

You can download the .swf for

Squid Boy Make Love

HERE

Return to Bunko + Japan Day 9 is up

So the work is suddenly pouring back in again, it looks like I will be returning to Bunko. I am very excited to be going back even if it ends up being for just a short while. Between that, Dilworth's short film, and some other small projects that have been cropping up I seem to suddenly be getting very busy again.

I am also in the process of putting my children's book "Smoke Stack Boy" up on Amazon.

Keep an eye out for that.

I visited NYC this past week and did some figure drawing in the George Washington building, I was super rusty since it's been probably half a year since I did figure drawing but I had one drawing I was slightly ok with

Oh and Japan day 9 video is up, check it out below:

Japan Day 9