Where to start

So many developments! Where to begin?

Well Wolf Girl is basically done! I just completed the very last shot. Now all that is left is some touching up and the final sound mix. They are shooting the live action segments of the film in just a few days, I am so excited to see it all together! I'll make it known here as the film enters

the film festival circuit.

I will also be creating the artwork for a 22 page comic known as DJ Messiah which will be so much fun and such a great experience! The deadline is tight and I want to make it look crazy awesome so i'll have go a little insane but i'm excited regardless. I don't now how much I can truly say about it but it involves, obviously, DJ Messiahs as well as Heavy Metal Demons and music battles of epic proportions all wrapped into a post apocalyptic story. I am in the process of creating all of the character designs. More on that as it develops!

Another project that I am doing with a collection of friends and colleagues is Jasper & Smiley, an animated short based on a children's book for the iphone. It is coming along and I am loving working alongside friends.

Then there is the 35 seconds of animation I will be doing for another live-action short, this one being a comedy in the spirit of Kevin Smith films. It's called Crotchless and is about to start as my partner on the project completes the rough designs and backgrounds for me.

AND! There is more. I am also doing special effects for a 10 minute live action indie short which looks so awesome. It's called Feed A and is done in the same vein as Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, & Quarantine. It has that shakey camera style and involves me doing some sweet gore & blood effects as well as muzzle flashes and bullet holes and crazy alien monster things!

So a storm of freelance is coming my way and i'm ready and willing to meet it. Excited for all these projects and plan to post updates along the way!

As for Memories, it has been accepted into the Garden State Film Festival!

The festival will run from March 31st to April 3rd at Asbury Park New Jersey

Memories will be shown on Saturday April 2nd at The Synaxis Restaraunt

Here are the details for my screening: http://www.gsff.org/synaxis-at-the-shore.php

And for the festival in general: http://www.gsff.org/index.php

I am not sure if I will be attending yet, but please let me know if you are going and I will make sure I make it! Hope to see you there.

Also recently put together my dad's website

Check it out here: http://tfkinc.com/

Annnd I am off early tomorrow morning to go to Ohio and from Ohio I will be going to Tennessee to stay with my girlfriend Amanda for an unspecified length of time. I may stay there till she finishes her semester in late April. I am bringing my cintiq and all my supplies so I can work my ass off while I am there wiith no distractions 'cept for herself and her stinky rat dog.

Here's the valentine's Day card I did for her:

Next update will be when I'm in Tennessee! :)

A New Year

A new year and a new New Years Resolution, well two actually.

1. Make a new animated short film (not for a client)

2. Move out of my parent's house

The latter may prove to be more difficult until I get the proper funds, but i'm doing what I can.

So Amanda is currently on route back to Tennessee, hopefully I can see her soon but the work that being near NYC brings in cannot be denied right now.

In any case I have some stuff for you to check out!

Deviant Art had a contest for the cover to a comic book which preludes the movie "Inception", here was my submission:

The animated segments i've been doing for the live action short film "Wolf Girl" (title in progress) has been coming along. It went from being 2 minutes of animation to 2 min and 20 sec. I've just hit the 1 minute mark and i've got a little over a month left to finish this thing. I will surely be working my ass off until then. I can't be showing any animation but here's a screenshot for now.

And lastly I give you the masterpiece I created with the help of Amanda and her disgusting dog Roo Roo as well as my brother and sister in law's dog Brundle

I give you

Roo Roo Save Channukah

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!