High Res Alice in Wonderland

Here are some high res concept art that was released for Alice in Wonderland. It two is from OutNow.



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High Res G-Force

OutNow has some high res G-Force stills in its site. These do a good job showing how much work went into the movie.








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G-Force

I was on the G-Force site and noticed they had one of my shots used in the About and Video Game section of the site. Its compressed to death but its still kind of cool.

Check out the offical G-Force site here.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/gforce/

First Look at Alice in Wonderland

USA Today has a first look at Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton. Its the current project I am working on. Check it out.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-06-21-alice-in-wonderland_N.htm

Team Keyop Picture

We are in the final stages of wrapping up on G-Force in the next few weeks. I am off the show at the end of this week but some people will stay to finish the remaining few shots.

Next Monday though I start work on Alice which I am really excited about. Its going to be a really crazy show but I am sure it will be fun.

Ben, my light lead took a team photo which came out really nice. Check it out.

Team Shirts

Team Keyop Rocks.

My First Animation Ever

Way back in the day, before I went to Ringling I had gone to a little art school which introduced me to animation. The program was very new and very much a joke, the teacher unable to teach and really under qualified however, at the time it was the most fun I ever had.

The class was three months long and we were to finish with a 15 second something... it was really that vague. The program we were using was called Infini-D and if I recall correctly it was v4.5, the last version released before they vanished.

Check out the awesome interface:


After spending as much time as I could figuring out what did what and how the program worked I modeled using vectors exported form Illustrator which I could then extrude into primitive shapes.

Then I grouped everything into a hierarchy and animated the group nodes (I had no idea what rigging was)

I don't even remember how I textured but it was really primitive. I don't think there were editable UV's, you just applied the texture using a drop down with some options.

After much blood sweat and love this came out. Yeah, by today standards it is an amazing pile of crap. Even back then it was but for me it was a major event. I made something out of nothing that moved and existed in a 3D space.

Here it is. (I removed the audio because it was copyrighted and I did not want youtube to yank it. The original audio was "The Man in the Box by Alice In Chains")

Where the Wild Things Are!

I have been waiting for this forever and it looks awesome.

G-Force... The Game

I was not aware but they are making a G-Force Game to go along with the movie. Take a look if you want.

http://kotaku.com/5182423/gadget-loving-guinea-pigs-attack-in-g+force

I.O.U.S.A.

Look at all that money... or lack there of.

Why everything blew up...

I saw this on Keith Langos blog and thought it was well done. Its well done and explains why everything went to hell.

I did get a kick out of it when they talk about sub prime mortgagees. The less responsible people who bought big houses aparently are fat, smoke and have lots of kids.


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

The thing that gets me when you watch this is I don't really see who should get any of this bail out money.

1. The banks should not get it. They abused their power by taking advantage of people who did not stop to think.

2. The people who were loaned more than they could afford should not get it. (Just because someone will loan you money does not mean you should buy a huge house or any house)

3. The people who could afford houses and bought them then walked away because the housing values plummeted should not get anything. They agreed to buy it and should have to pay for it. Have some responsibility.

Really, who should get any? Everyone was greedy.

Everyone now must pay now. The only people who are walking out of this just fine are at the top of the money chain and able to resolve them selfs of any wrong doing.

Crunch Mode and le Café

Being in Crunch mode this made my day:

le Café - Oldelaf (english subtitles)
by Boebis

Party

Last wekend I went to some crazy party all night long. Got a few shots.

Ewww

James is a sick fool to have eaten that.

What's in his mouth?

Saw this on Venice today. Not sure what's going on with the bench logo
but it does not look right.