MMS

Pretension, our magnet for guilt.

2011-03-15T23:47:00.001-04:00

Dead Blog?

2010-09-13T05:35:00.002-04:00

A man spots the silhouette of a carcass lying deep in the forest, and so he kicks it.

Pause.

THE EYES FLASH OPEN AND THEY'RE LIKE REPTILE EYES! OR LIKE AVATAR CATPERSON EYES!

The beast is alive.

old drawing

2010-04-01T01:21:00.001-04:00

in progress

2010-03-30T18:18:00.002-04:00

Tower 3D

Undead

2010-03-30T18:12:00.001-04:00

..And we're back.

Still Life Progression

2009-11-20T16:17:00.001-05:00

Next up, onions!

Bosc Pear

2009-11-19T17:08:00.002-05:00

I did this from life with the Graphire tablet and the laptop, in OpenCanvas 1.1.
Got some good crits from Julie and revised.

Sculpt Comps

2009-10-06T04:34:00.003-04:00

Figure (Work in Progress)

2009-10-05T15:23:00.001-04:00

Will post an update today with any luck...

TVPaint Walk Cycle Progression

2009-10-01T02:26:00.001-04:00

This will go into the Sprite Lab next.

animation break

2009-06-28T16:08:00.003-04:00

Modelling?

Some Renders

2009-06-19T01:49:00.002-04:00

These are some renderings done with Bunkspeed...THANKS DAVE for helping me get it!!! All the stuff is still up in the air- handle, number lighting, font style, etc... but it's fun to see it come alive!

Ironing out the kinks.

2009-06-02T17:17:00.002-04:00

Zooming in.

Selected concepts from the mailbox project

2009-06-01T10:55:00.008-04:00

I was trying to cast a wide net here... client was very pleased! yey! Now on to the real designing part of the project...boo!

Continuing

2009-05-29T18:25:00.002-04:00

Converted to splines

2009-05-29T15:40:00.001-04:00

Starting to look a little bit lifelike...

Hey hey, post #250.

2009-05-29T13:20:00.002-04:00

Blocking #2

2009-05-27T14:20:00.002-04:00

More blocking...

Blocking Pass

2009-05-26T12:13:00.004-04:00

Now I work on arcs, etc.

Kick The Can - Another Angle

2009-05-22T01:31:00.003-04:00

I think I will do one last round of tweaks before I move on to the next exercise (running and jumping or something). The hang time seemed funny in the beginning but it doesn't match the physics of the rest of the scene--it feels muddy now.

Kick The Can - Buggy Motion Blur in the Render

2009-05-22T00:41:00.003-04:00

But I'm too impatient to wait for a new render...hopefully another render this evening.
I put more care into this sequence than anything I've ever done in 3D so far. 10 hours for 5 seconds of animation, with just a ball and legs. I wonder how long dialogue sequences will take...

Weight Shift

2009-05-20T23:51:00.003-04:00

Did a quick weight shift exercise to brush up on balancing. "Kick the can" soon.

Walk Cycle

2009-05-15T04:45:00.002-04:00

Maya

May 5/9

2009-05-09T18:16:00.003-04:00

Veggie boxes

2009-04-22T22:08:00.003-04:00

the newest member of MMS...

2009-02-21T09:54:00.005-05:00

Nico Toscani Moyguda

Knife block

2009-02-18T20:00:00.003-05:00

A while back this caught my eye. Pleasing to the eye but not to the wallet, I attempted replication. Below are my efforts.

Acting drawings for dialogue sequence

2009-02-17T05:57:00.002-05:00

Phytoremediation Process

2009-02-12T02:39:00.001-05:00

Revision Crazy

2009-02-05T07:48:00.001-05:00

This is going to be like the sneaker with the revision process...sorry about that.

Night Time Version

2009-02-05T07:32:00.000-05:00

Phytoremediation

2009-02-05T06:19:00.001-05:00

This will go into After Effects now and move about.

Choosing and following a narrative is like surfing.

2009-01-26T16:57:00.003-05:00

The wave-patterns of material reality are the real substance of life, and it's beautiful.
But for a real rush, we seem to really love following one thread and playfully pretending it's The One--as a surfer picks his wave, as a fan picks his team, as a person chooses his fate.

couple of poses with MooM rig

2009-01-16T03:03:00.002-05:00

new post = rusty

2009-01-13T18:13:00.000-05:00

Who's desperate for an office job?

Ok, enough of the sneaker.

2008-12-31T03:22:00.003-05:00

Uh oh, heel needs reshaping...

2008-12-31T02:47:00.000-05:00

Some more bits rendered out

2008-12-31T02:01:00.003-05:00

Easy Paint Tool SAI

2008-12-31T01:31:00.001-05:00

the last three stages were done in art rage. but paint tool SAI has better blenders.

Cardiovascular Resolution

2008-12-31T00:22:00.003-05:00

Old Man, Look At My Life...

2008-12-18T20:19:00.003-05:00

John K. ought to be able to help me with my line weights.

I'm applying to be the store artist for union square Whole Foods...

2008-12-08T17:54:00.003-05:00

You have to make funny chalkboard signs...I made these two and emailed them as samples...did them in Artrage...learned a lot doing the "Corn" sign and managed to get the "Blueberries" sign just about where I wanted it. I have to work on my color!

Revised

2008-12-05T16:55:00.001-05:00

latest

astrakan again

2008-12-03T18:57:00.002-05:00

astrakan bug

2008-11-24T12:39:00.001-05:00

A bug is an animated logo before a film.

some SAI scribbles

2008-11-23T19:27:00.001-05:00

Easy Paint Tool SAI

2008-11-19T03:43:00.004-05:00

My trial period was running out, and after 21 days of daily use I decided that the program was worth my $53. I found a bunch of brush packs from Japanese manga artists and made a strange texture, and then put it on a form.

This is for my reference more than an advertisement, but:
forum: http://sai.detstwo.com/smf/index.php
official site: http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/

Healthily Referenced

2008-11-17T04:03:00.001-05:00

film logo

2008-11-14T14:56:00.000-05:00

skb pens, with a touch of tvpaint

2008-11-14T14:55:00.001-05:00

Home theatre components from work this summer

2008-11-14T14:35:00.005-05:00

heads

2008-11-11T20:43:00.002-05:00

Abismol

2008-11-07T03:37:00.001-05:00

ArtRage

I have two scanners and tested them out--

2008-11-06T23:17:00.002-05:00

Lizard Bird

2008-11-06T16:47:00.000-05:00

Goofy.

Isn't it ionic...

2008-11-05T18:38:00.002-05:00

Not quite two hours into it. I expect it to take 10-20 hours total.

I have a new imagemaking toy.

2008-10-30T23:15:00.002-04:00

Some mmessy doodles.

2008-10-26T02:18:00.002-04:00

Beaver w BG

2008-10-22T22:12:00.000-04:00

I made a slashy background.

Another beaver

2008-10-22T21:24:00.000-04:00

this one took a lot longer.

self-explanatory, really.

2008-10-20T02:52:00.001-04:00

Bouncy

2008-10-15T04:12:00.004-04:00

I highly recommend the $25 e-book called "Save The Pixel!"

Everything I thought I knew about web design was wrong.

startup

2008-10-05T01:14:00.002-04:00

... ...

2008-09-16T10:54:00.003-04:00

...

2008-09-10T01:56:00.001-04:00

...

2008-09-09T04:03:00.000-04:00

Go easy on us Hannah...

2008-09-06T15:35:00.000-04:00

Sounds from the floor

2008-09-05T00:05:00.002-04:00

“I wish he would follow through with what he is saying. I just don’t think the country he wants is the country I want.”

Obama isn’t a PO Something? My friends...

can't stop, won't stop

2008-09-03T20:41:00.005-04:00

Tonight's endeavor

2008-08-30T02:30:00.004-04:00

I swear it didn't have the dancing feet before it was rendered.
Some of these faces seem good to me. Others not.

Okay, okay, let me catch my breath...

2008-08-27T15:51:00.001-04:00

As promised...

2008-08-26T11:43:00.003-04:00

Here's a walk cycle I whipped up this morning (the rig was pre-made).
I did some color/grain treatment in tvpaint after, just for fun.

NEW

2008-08-23T16:12:00.004-04:00

We'll get back to posting drawings and animations shortly, right?

Bloomtown

2008-08-16T18:12:00.006-04:00

One day we'll look back at this and laugh...OR CRY

Torch Sunflower

Bountiful harvest!

Recipe available upon request.

I'll wrap this up with the hottest fucking pepper this side of the BQE. Our next barbecue will require goggles and rubber gloves, and not for the usual reasons.

it begins

2008-08-05T21:26:00.002-04:00

new heights

2008-08-03T21:45:00.002-04:00

bon appetit

2008-07-20T19:49:00.003-04:00

July 11th Pictures

2008-07-15T23:13:00.012-04:00

Your long botanical nightmare is over!

Tomatos!

Peppers!

More peppers! All the cage food items are doing remarkably well. We have finally begun to consume our fruits of labor, to delicious results. The big ticket items seen above are still a few weeks short of readiness, but hopefully those dreams of Brooklyn salsa will soon be realized.

Moving on...to the beginnings of our sunny side planting:

Artemesia: fluffy, silver, grew one back home. This guy is a fan favorite and really seems to be taking to our glass/plastic/sweater filled soil. Once I am able to take more pictures in the daylight, its growth will be noticeable.

Lavender: as advertised, attracts butterflies. Minutes after planting a Monarch butterfly flew by and landed on it. I stood there dumbfounded, while Winnie was mostly frightened. A bold statement: We are officially impacting the biosphere on our side of the BQE.

The "torch" sunflowers are about 2' tall in this photo, and beginning to show signs of flowering.

The full scope of work to this point. All those little sticks? "Stakes" for sunflower seedlings we planted. Much growth in recent days, along with additional plants to fill out the shady side, requires more recent photo documentation.

To be planted...soon.

Calm before the storm

2008-06-29T13:27:00.006-04:00

Took these after working out back Saturday...before a thunderstorm came by and decided to get violent. Blood was spilled, plants were saved, clothes were hung out to dry. Enjoy.

Halfway done.

First addition to the "sunny half".

Cage, part deux.

Predator free tomatos. Mmm.

Critical Mass

2008-06-16T10:05:00.010-04:00

This weekend was a flurry of activity, continuing the modus operanti of the past two weekends. Intermittent rains lead to choppy periods of work. Winnie's west coast venture next weekend meant much work would need to be completed before her departure, lest the garden be left to fend off my meddling solo. Let us be counter intuitive for a moment, and work from the inside out:

Via courier, we receieved a slew of seedlings that needed a home in a cooler climate safe from predators. Thus, the Moyguda BotanniVestibule was born. Complete with plant specific indoor flood light! I swear, just flowers. There are no poppies here, stop asking.

The vegetable cage made room for some new friends from Chicago (sent by Winnie's parents). I forget the names. Swiss chard? Onion? Hopefully this bounty will be able to feed us once Obama raises taxes and converts us all to Islam.

Flower = grow, sweet sweet vegefruit.

More seeds. Sunflower seeds. I used the excess chicken wire just as a precaution until the seeds sprout and we can all get on with our lives. I have a Wii now, I don't need this "out side" shit.

The "complete" shady side planting. I pulled the tarp back to the compost burm, and bricked in the remaining edge. Found a tail pipe while tiling the new open space, and considered quitting for a brief minute. Another row of sunflowers should hopefully grow along the fence in the back and mask the chain link. We ended up planting three new guys and an old friend (the survivor) to call this side of the garden "full". Let's meet the competitors for root space:

Hosta #4: By far my favorite. It's like, I saw him, and, I had to have him. Bonus friends beneath the main plant = 3 for 1 steal.

Japanese maple: Green leaves with new growth emerging as red. Does well in All Star balloting.

I forget the name of this thing. It gets 6' wide, is slate/green in the summer and red/orange in the fall. So that's nice.

Next step: I'll hold down the fort in Winnie's absense and devise a way to get pavers. The path is planned, just getting the stupid things over here is the problem. Winnie and I thought last night that we could just buy quick cement and a sonotube and make our own. Any thoughts?

Phase 3: photos photos photos

2008-06-09T11:20:00.011-04:00

Oh no!

All these precious vegetables are exposed to the backyard predators of Brooklyn!
What will we do?

Take that, rodents.
No more seeds for you, bird colony.
Poop elsewhere, mystery beast. Is that you Quetzalcoatl?
(Cage constructed of 1"x2" framing wood, enclosed with 1/2" 19ga. "chicken" wire. Measures 3'Wx4'Lx3'H. Yea, its a little too high for what it needed to be, but once the plants fill out i think it won't look as awkward.)

It's safe to come out now, precious sprouts.
('B' is for basil.)

We planted three hosta plants behind the six ground cover plants from the week prior, which seem to be growing. The potted "survivor" from the first week marks where the frist paver of our path will go. That gap between cover and hosta will be filled next week with a tall, object plant to be determined. You might be able to make out on the left, by the fence, the stem line I marked where...

...what I believe to be the sunflower seeds we planted are growing.
Only one week?
Mutant soil!

Or maybe just soil littered with buried garbage. These two and a half tall kitchen garbage bags represent the shit we had to dig out of the ground just to plant those three hosta plants. Plywood? Sure. Glass bottles? Why not. Lets throw in a wool sweater for good measure. After the sandal was unearthed, Winnie questioned whether we should continue to find the rest of the body. In any event, we demand LEED points for this garden venture. Platinum ones.

Chaulk art. Eh? Matches the flower color scheme?
Verdict: Pending

Next up: Sunny side tilling and way too many varieties of sunflowers to plant.

a little bit of doodling

2008-06-03T08:05:00.002-04:00

while unfortunately beginning to get hooked on "Lost."

Progress?

2008-06-02T10:20:00.006-04:00

Phase 2 saw the removal of the blue tarps, with minor growth returning under some areas. This much to the dismay of Winnie, required some reassurances on my part. Faith in the tarps, bring on change, yes we can. Dried plant materials were gathered and buried in the beginnings of the composting burm against the CMU wall...I think the slope turned out nice, and right now the burm is about 2 feet higher that the average elevation, since its probably hard to tell in the pictures. We reorganized the tarps and tilled the shit outta a patch roughly 9'X10' on the shady side of the yard. Within this we planted 6 "ground cover" plants, 2 types working within the adopted color scheme for the area. A small row of torch sunflowers (bought here: http://www.seedsavers.org/) lines the fence, fingers crossed. With bricks from the neighboring yard, I edged by the fences to avoid unwanted vine growth from returning, and to give things a taste of formaility. Winnie started the vegatable/herb seed planting in ceramic/plastic containers that we have found or bought cheaply at my new home, National Liquidator Warehouse (smells like degrading plastic and feet). After cleaning and attending to blisters, alcoholic beverages were enjoyed.

up next: Phase 3: plant more, till more, pavers?, profit?

to anyone for comment: I want to "do something" to the back wall, spice it up, but maybe not anything as crazy as something permanent. We aren't going to be able to cover it with plantings (tall grasses and sunflowers take time to grow) for a while, so suggestions? My only idea at the moment is to just buy sidewalk chaulk and have people draw on it (tastefully of course)...rain, repeat.

wasn't paying attention

2008-05-30T05:04:00.002-04:00

had Blue Velvet playing on the other monitor; disturbing.

Dead blog? Pff, dead weeds.

2008-05-18T20:28:00.006-04:00

Project Garden: Phase 1

Cut, rake, pull...pile & tarp.

The sole survivor.

Next up, Phase 2: Dig, trench, cover.

Is this something?

2008-05-18T06:53:00.002-04:00

Aw, dead blog.

2008-05-16T20:30:00.001-04:00

Some motion graphics moves I did today at work.

reel

2008-04-22T22:00:00.004-04:00

I really thought I had more decent animation!
Inspired to make more.

Some updates

2008-04-21T00:46:00.002-04:00

Some compiled pages here...

2008-04-20T03:42:00.005-04:00

None of these drawings are new -- they've just been put onto a single page and colored and stuff.

Splash Montage

2008-04-15T06:45:00.002-04:00

Welp, those animals are done.

Splashcat.

2008-04-08T08:59:00.003-04:00

Interesting sidenote -- the Upright Citizens Brigade play an improv comedy game called "ASSSSCAT."
WTF?

Splashing Pig

2008-04-07T04:10:00.003-04:00

Done in flash, looks like a cut-out piece of outsourced crap.

Bear and Turtle Splash Each Other

2008-04-07T03:02:00.002-04:00

Starting to compose these guys on the page.
It can't be delivered by tomorrow.
Let's see how long I can keep them hanging.

Splashing Bear

2008-04-05T22:59:00.003-04:00

I'll necessarily have like...6 more animals in the next three days.
So I'll post em and help April start a little juicier.

steves

2008-04-02T05:59:00.001-04:00

steves

Uncle Jimmy

2008-03-16T19:55:00.002-04:00

Dimitri?

No idea.

2008-03-16T06:09:00.001-04:00

I think I started by trying to design my splashing pig. But the rendering got carried away...

couple thangs

2008-03-15T02:23:00.002-04:00

LOU

2008-03-08T21:06:00.002-05:00

I did this coloring in PhotoShop, using Dave's color palate over one of my previous sketches.
Onward to TV Paint!