DEMO REEL

NEW PROJECT!!

The next big project is upon me: An animated series following a group of housemates doing a season in the Fire Island Pines, called "SUMMER BOYS". The target release date will be around Memorial Day 2014. Attached are several photos of the early pre-production planning stages.

Right now I am focused on taking the plot outlines I have scribbled down and turning them into storyboards. I understand this may be different from how other animators/illustrators would work as I haven't given much thought to what the characters themselves are going to look like, but I think I've always been more interested in plot than character. The characteristics of the characters can be informed by what they do, their experiences. So now is the time to create those experiences. 

I am building an 8 episode story arc that will cover the Memorial Day to Labor Day season. There will be an episode for the 4th of July, the Pines Party (a big circuit party held each year in Fire Island), etc. 

I kept a journal following the creation of my last project, "DORIAN", largely so I would have a model to follow, or learn from my previous mistakes, when I endeavored onto my next. As I go through this new process & frustrations arise (as they inevitably will), I shall go back to my earlier texts and compare experiences. 

Illustrated Erotica

So, while waiting for my next project to get underway, I took a fun little assignment that had me illustrating a series of covers for a collection of gay erotica. Not a bad little gig at all. It's always a pleasure to draw attractive bodies in various states of undress!