Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Fan Film Storyboard Comparison

Some kind soul out there made a video with my animated tribute video alongside the original storyboard that it's based on. It was pretty awesome to see them play out side by side like this!

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Fan Video Completed!

After 6 years of work, here is the finished Rhinestone Eyes video animated entirely by me.

Apologies for taking as long as it did, but this project was completed in my spare time, and that is not something I have had a lot of over these past few years. Gorillaz has been a huge inspiration to me since I started animating back in high school more years ago than I care to admit, and I am so happy to be able to realize the brilliant storyboard video in this way for all the other fans out there to appreciate.




Thanks to everyone who has followed the journey along with me, both here on this blog and on my Youtube channel - your support has been invaluable.

Rick and Morty Exceed Exclusive variant cover designed by me!

Hey all! During my brief time on Rick and Morty season two, I was given the opportunity to design a variant cover for Oni Press' Rick and Morty comic. The cover was selected to be an Exceed Exclusive, and it is now available to purchase in the link below!

http://exceedexclusives.com/products/rick-and-morty-number-12-exceed-exclusives-cover

Animals. - New HBO show that I worked on!

Hey all! Just wanted to take a second to shout out Animals. - the new show from the Duplass Brothers and comedic geniuses Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano. This was the first show that I got to be a full time animator throughout the whole season, and it was an amazing experience. I highly recommend you check it out any way you can, it's available now on HBO Go a day earlier than it airs on TV, check it out, you won't regret it. Probably.

Also check out this sweet gif that got made out of one of my shots where a cat plays air guitar to White Zombie.
 via GIPHY

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes - Something big is coming...

Hi friends! To show you all once again that I am not dead, I have a little snippet of finished Rhinestone Eyes footage to bestow upon you all (in crappy low res gif form). Don't get greedy or anything because who knows when the next second or two will be available.

Gorillaz Small Update

Hey avid Gorillaz fans! I thought I would share a small update with you all that I have been wanting to announce for a little while. Many of you already know that I have been up till this point creating my Rhinestone Eyes video using a multitude of software packages, but for the primary 2D animation, using Flash. Well having purchased a license for Toon Boom Harmony in order to do some freelance work, I fell in love with the software and quickly realized that part of the reason why the quality of the animation was taking me so long to achieve was that Flash really isn't animation software. Toon Boom Harmony however, is. So hence forth I am switching over to creating the remainder of the video using Toon Boom Harmony, and I just know that this is going to bring an extra layer of polish, and hopefully shave off some working time, from the remainder of the video, allowing me to bring you the finest quality product, faster. Thats it! I will be sharing some new scenes as soon as I can that have been done in the software and hopefully you will all agree, it was a wise move!

Rick and Morty Couch Gag on The Simpsons

Hey avid readers! It's been a busy few months, and I have a few minor updates on Gorillaz, and what else I have been up to.

Since 2008 I have wanted to take the Animation Mentor - the intensive, focused, character animation school, and this year I was able to join the Animation Guild, and with the aid of the wonderful educational grants available, was finally able to enroll in the school. My wife an I both in fact. We are deep into the first semester and I will be posting updates of my progress as I complete each stage of the program.

The next exciting thing was that I was lucky enough to be able to contribute some work to a couch gag on The Simpsons, a lifelong goal and now one less item on my bucket list! Check out the clip below!



Finally, on Rhinstone Eyes, I have been doing a lot of intense maya work lately, both with the video and with Animation Mentor (since their whole program is taught using Maya). I have been doing a lot of time intensive renders lately that have slowed my progress on the video, and I have to share my computer among all my different projects so it is a slow process. In addition to that my workload is making it harder to spend time working on the video, but I assure you good readers, it is still coming out, and I am still working on it as fast and as much as possible. New updates will be added as soon as they are available.

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Fan Video - Boogey's Eye View

A quick update for everyone, just a shot that recently got done and since I have nothing more substantial to share right now, this will have to do. I've been busy working on a host of different projects, some large properties (*cough* Marvel *cough*) and it's all been terribly exciting, but I haven't forgotten this video, I swear!

Gorillaz Rhinstone Eyes Fan video progress update!

Hey friends. I have been really, really busy of late, working on a whole bunch of projects which I of course can't say anything about. Suffice it to say progress on Rhinestone Eyes has been slow, but I will be ramping up to do more in the next few weeks/months...I swear. Probably. Or at least that's what I would like to happen.

BoJack Horseman Fan Art.

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Extended Clip 2

Here it is! clip 2 of the Rhinestone Eyes fan video that I have been toiling over a hot Cintiq to bring you all!

The progress has been slower than I had hoped, but those of you following the blog know I am spread pretty thin as it is. But forgetting all that, here it is, let me know what you think in the comments below. Don't forget to follow the blog by clicking "Join" on the right of the page, like and subscribe on Youtube to let me know you want more, because on those days when I just don't think I can sit down and look at Gorillaz, it's the positive encouragement of the fans that motivates me to pick the pen back up and keep rocking!

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes - I'm Batman...er...Boogeyman.

Hey gang. It's been a fair while since an update was posted on here about Rhinestone Eyes, so here is a little snippet of some animation I was working on a while back. It looks a lot better with the background and effects in there, but you will just have to wait and see it cut into the video when it is released. Which is definitely happening.

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes - Russel walking GIF

Hey all, I have been super busy lately working on GI Jeff, the upcoming animated Community episode (airing April 3rd - check it out!!) as well as other projects I am not at liberty to disclose yet, so as I had 5 minutes to spare this evening I thought I would dump something on here for you all. I really dig this shot and I have only released a screen grab up until now, as well as an older version of the animation some months back, this is pretty much the final iteration of this shot (though the sky may change) using the fluid simulation I generated in RealFlow. Hold on tight Noodle!

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Fan Video - Sailor Squid reveal

A new image for today, revealing one of the as yet unseen characters from the video, the one eyed squid in the sailor hat! He only has a brief cameo in the video but eagle eyed viewers will remember him getting knocked from his desk as Murdoc dives to avoid a rather large and nasty looking fireball...
Background by Yaoyao Ma Van As.
Happy Thursday!

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes New Teaser Poster - Wading Giant.

Actually feeling fairly productive today, so I thought I might share an image of what I have been working on lately. I have been working on the water simulations for the video, which has been eating up my computer power. Here is an example of one such shot. Behind the scenes stuff on that and more to come soon...probably.

Annoying Orange title card - The Further Adventures of Sherleek Holmes

I was commissioned earlier this year to create the title card for an episode of Cartoon Network's The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange. The episode was entitled "The further adventures of Sherleek Holmes". This was what I submitted, though I think that for the episode the text and other elements were tweaked slightly.

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Fan Video - fighter pilot

New poster from my upcoming fan video of Rhinestone Eyes - enjoy!

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Fan Video - Small Update

Here is a little preview of a new clip I will be uploading sometime soon. It is in the 3rd act of the video, once Boogey has summoned his forces to all converge on the island. Now that I am back on the job full time there will be more soon!

Once again credit to my wife Yaoyao for her amazing background work :D

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Fan Video - Russell and Noodle poster (to let you know I am not dead)

It's been a while since the last update on my video, so I thought I would share one now. This is a cleaned up image from the video (added the sky and shading for dramatic purposes :)) I will update more when I can, but things are always hectic for the freelance animators of the world.

Gorillaz Rhinestone Eyes Extended Clip

Hi all, it's been a little while, but as promised, here is a substantial update on my progress on the one and only Gorillaz Rhinstone Eyes fan video. Once again, this clip is a taste of what has been completed so far, and in no way represents the sum total of my progress. At this point I would say that the overall completion of the entire video sits at about the 30% range.



I would like to give a big shout out and thanks once again to my wife, Yaoyao and her work on the backgrounds and artwork for this video!

Also, if you like that there are fans out there willing to spend time making these projects then check out Frameslinger and his fan video for 5/4, which like mine, is based on an unreleased storyboard video! give him a look!