GGG-GHOST!

Haven't posted anything up in a while.  I was busy doing the special effects animation course, but now I started a full-time job  (*knock-knock* housekeeeeping. whatever it is still a job) and I am about to start full-time classes online in less than a week for my web design certificate.  So all of my fun animating and drawing will come to another stand-still.  Who knows though we will see.

Anyways here is a fun little comic that I am putting together, and it has to do with everyone's favorite ghost, Casper.

1st part

My First Demo Reel

I finally put together a demo reel.  This is a compilation of the last couple years of work.  My first one was done back at the beginning of 2009.  That is when i bought my first wacom bamboo tablet and started getting into art and animation.  I was also living out of my van, snowboarding everyday in the Colorado mountains, and animating every night at the public library.  Seems like such a long time ago.

After that I came back to Montana, and did a couple more little animations here and there.  Then for my 20th birthday in 2009, my girlfriend bought me an Intuos 3 9x12 tablet, which helped my digital art out a lot.  I realized though that my lack of solid drawing abilities made the animation much harder.  So from then until now I've been learning how to draw, and that's why I started this blog.  I started it to post my lessons from the $100,000 drawing course from the famous John K.

After a long stint away from animating, I've been able to get back into it recently and it feels good.  My drawing abilities have gotten better, but those still have a long way to go.  My animating abilities have also gotten way better, which I think can be seen from the intro to my demo reel that I just animated a couple days ago.

I made this demo reel because I saw a job posting for a animating job on craigslist, but I realized I didn't have anything but a couple of posted videos to show off my animation.  So I started making this reel, and then I saw that the job had been taken down already, but I figured it would be good to have this made.  I might not be the best reel, but my animation can only get better from now on.

Enjoy


Demo Reel 2012 from Tyler Williams on Vimeo.

New Daily

I got a new daily up for all of you guys.  I have had a lot more time to draw and animate lately and boy does it feel good.  It's posted on my vimeo channel.


Daily 2 - Sneak from Tyler Williams on Vimeo.


It happened because I was having trouble drawing arms on my cartoons, and I was always guessing when the bicep would push in or when it would push out, so I drew some roughs after figuring it out, and then I wanted to make a sneaking walk cycle.

 

sorry if it's a little hard to see

Pogo Tribute

For all of you faithful followers,(probably not many) you may have noticed that I haven't posted anything in the last couple of months. Well, there is a simple explanation for that, I haven't been drawing at all. I was working a construction job out of town and only had one day off, so I spent that time my women and my friends. Now that work is done for the winter I can finally start to draw again. I've also been teaching myself how to watercolor, or paint anything for that matter.

My first thing to post is a large scene of Albert the alligator from Pogo, which is just a fun tribute to Walt Kelly in his swamp style that I tried to emulate. I also made a little comic strip for Pogo that I will post here shortly.  This is in honor of the first in a series of twelve Pogo volumes that has been long awaited.  Now that I have more time I can finally sink my teeth the book.

Fun Rough Animation

I recently found Yoni Goodman's blog, Dailymation and boy did I like it. Pretty often he posts new rough scenes he animates. They usually last about 5-12 secs and take him 1-3 hours to create. Sounds like a good idea I says to myself.

So, after not animating anything for a long time, or drawing much for that matter, I decided to try my hand at a scene. It took me about 2 hours, and it turned out much better than I thought it was when I was timing it out. (My process of timing scenes is a very awkward. Any thoughts on timing scenes would be much appreciated) Overall it's just nice to get back to animating, if I go too long without doing any animation then I feel like a slob-kabob, if you know what I mean.

Here it is, tell me what you think.

Daily 1 - Happy Bounce from Tyler Williams on Vimeo.

Devolution

Well, I have finally had a little bit of time to draw since I've been out of the pen, hehe. All of these are from a Star, celebrity news magazine. Of course it's beach season, so everyone is mostly in bikinis and swimsuits. I mostly wanted to do a fold study on suits, because I watched this sweet animation called "Feelings from Mountain and Water" from the Shanghai Animation Film Studio and directed by Te Wei in 1988. It has some very expressive brushwork, but alas my religious reading of Star magazine only showed me a handful of suits and nothing but flesh and skimpy clothing, oh well.

Anyways, here are my devolutions, where I do a slow and steady realistic rendering, and slowly distort and caricature drawing by drawing.

Here is Selena Gomez

Here is Julianne Hough, not really sure who she is

Here are a couple of the sweet suit studies that I was talking about, dang doesn't this show, Torchwood, look awesome

Jailbird

Well, these last 2 1/2 weeks were supposed to be my fun vacation, where I went to Michigan for the Electric Forest music festival and then to New York for Camp Bisco music festival, and then to Vermont and New Hampshire to visit friends, but it didn't happen like that. We only made it one state east, to North Dakota, when our car broke down. Then the police searched our car and we ended up staying two nights in jail in Cass County Jail, in Fargo, ND.

Lots of crazy things happened, and our car broke down three times altogether, so the vacation turned out to be an expensive failure. Braking down in North Dakota is the worst place to brake down in the world, it's flat, humid, ugly, lots of sketchy people, and not much for fun things to do. Anyway, I did some drawings while I was behind bars, so I thought I would post them. Not that they are that good, but I'm going to post them for the MEMORIES!


This first one is a fun layout for Bugs Bunny jumping around





I made this little comic strip once I knew I was going to be free, but I still had a couple of hours before I got released.


The top part says Moby-Dick, because that was the book that I was reading in Jail, only got through the first hundred pages. On the bottom is my recreation of and old T. S. Sullivant picture I saw.


And finally here is a sketch of the jail area, with the cells on the left and the tables in the middle. Man this one brings back memories.