Getting Cold Outside...

We had our first instance of snow this year and now I feel like I need to go out and cut some wood for a fire. Brrrrr!

I did this Lumba' Jack while helping out someone with their animation. Reminds me that I need to work on my short...

APL Benefit Pics

So here are some of the picts from the APL Benefit. It was an amazing thrill to see my work on the big screens behind the Black Eye'd Peas.

Taboo, Apl, and Will

Check out the lil' ol' lady on the screen...

Show us those pearly whites!

Think I captured the smile...?

Check out the little village.

I got to meet Taboo and Apl during soundcheck. It was awesome to hear Taboo say that my animation was 'SICK' during rehearsals. I made a few connections and hope that I can continue to help Apl.de.ap with my skills.

The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation presents the APL Benefit

This is what has been taking up most of my time for the past month or so... I was contacted by the management of Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas to do a 30 second animation for his charity event.

Have a look at the animation...

http://www.ricecookerstudios.com/APL_benefit.html

• A.P.L. BENEFIT, focuses exclusively on international works in the Philippines and Asia, was envisioned by Apl.de.Ap (Allan Pineda Lindo), a Filipino-American founding member of the Black Eyed Peas, as a way for him to give back to his homeland.
• Peapod Foundation, Band members from the GRAMMY-winning hip-hop group, The Black Eyed Peas -- will.i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap and Taboo -- created The Peapod Foundation to encourage social change by uniting people, especially children, through the universal language of music. The Peapod Foundation supports innovative programs for children and focuses attention on universal needs including music/artistic education, shelter/housing and healthcare.

The Karate Kid

Someone sent this video around the office a while ago...

Got me inspired to cartoonize Daniel and Miyagi...

Family

Freelance work has been keeping me from working on my short. For the past couple of nights I have been working on developing the character design for my short... I just wanted to give it a bit more stylization. Here are the latest versions... Slowly, I feel it coming together...

Boy and Dad

Boy

Character Heads

Did a little experimenting with some characters heads last night.

Dude

Last night... I got really close to finishing an animation project. So to celebrate... I did a new character.

Halloween Characters

Had some time to do some characters for Halloween!

Flash Forward Conference 2007 Boston

So, Flash Forward was a great time. I had some of my graphics up for a Rich Shupe session--AS 3 for designers. Although it was way over my head still, I got a kick out of seeing my character up on big screen in front of a packed session.

I was able to hang out with some cool folks Chris Georgenes, Colin Smith, David Stiller, and tons of other Flashers. Check out Chris' photos... I look forward to next year where I hopefully will have my short ready for entry.

New Facelift

The ricecooker has had a bit of a facelift. This is in preparation to Flash Forward coming up on the 19th... and mainly to simplify the home page.

I guess now I actually have to finish the short...

'TWEENER

This is a character I did for the keyframer forum...

Barriors is updated

The BARRIORS site, BARRIORS myspace page and new blog have been updated...

Graphics Flash Forward 2007 Boston

So Keyframer, Chris Georgenes, received an email from a buddy of his, Rich Shupe of FMA online. Rich needs graphics for the session he is running in Boston at Flash Forward. Rich's session is called 'ActionScript 3 for Designers'. This might be right up my alley. Chris sent some great words of recommendation to Rich Shupe about my skills and I ended up doing some graphics for Rich to use... It will be cool to see my work projected on the big screen...

I will be in Boston from the 19th-21st of September...

Pnoy Apparel

Since the launching of the BARRIORS site and myspace page, I have had a lot of positive feedback.

Pnoy Apparel contacted me through myspace to do a comic for their newsletter for their June 29 launch of their new website. This is what came out of my head. I will be doing at least one more for them... We'll see how the relationship evolves...

http://www.pnoyapparel.com/

Barriors.com is up and running...

http://www.barriors.com

After a couple of late nights, Barriors online is now up and running. I have been developing Barriors for a while now. But after a couple of late evening pushes, I now have a comic website.

It is just launched, so there is plenty I still want to do... But it is in a stage where I am happy for others to look at it.

Please enjoy and let me know what you think...

Colleague Roasts

So at work(my day job) to help keep moral up, we do a visual roast of each other. Someone pulls a name out of the hat and we roast 'em every other week.

My way of roasting is to 'toon' em.

A DAM is a Digital Asset Manager... Henrik's work has revolved around the DAM for the past several months.

And Jayoung is a print designer...

Nerd Fury

So I am looking at Nerd Fury similar to Ricetoons...

This one is the same size at a Ricetoon, but I want to allow the flexibility to turn them into two or three panel comics...

For you non-gamers and those that haven't seen Lord of the Rings, the green dude is an ORC...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc

I am a non-gamer, so I am relying on my buddy to help me out with the humor. I threw this one together quickly based on the previous comic.

Unleash the FURY! Nerd Fury

So a buddy from a previous job has asked me to do some comics for a site we have talked about... would be mostly about online gaming and the life surrounding it...

This was the first thing I threw together for him...

http://www.nerd-fury.com/