RATS!

Butchers!

These are a couple of the ideas I had for the butcher character in the film. We ended up going for something much simpler and graphic, but it was fun to explore the essence of this guy.

Detectives!

a couple of early ideas for the detective character in "Defective Detective".

Defective Detective Visual Development

One of the most fun parts of making the film was to explore the world and the environments that the characters live in. We did a lot of research and collected so many images of old apartments, and old kitchenware to try and capture the spirit of the granny's apartment and the detective's office.

The image above is an early painting I did to try and visualize what this story moment might feel like. The final look of this frame (that could be viewed in the previous post) was quite different as we defined the color scheme and style more and more as production progressed. The essence of the feeling of this moment stayed pretty similar I think.

More development Art coming soon!

Back!

It's really about time I would dust off this blog. I am embarrassed to see when was my last update, but I promise it was all for a good cause :)

Last month I graduated from Ringling College of Art and design. it's been an amazing 4 years, and I spent the last year working day and night on a short film (no excuses, but hence the lack of updates...) . I teamed up with my good friend and super talented artist Stevie Lewis, and together we made our first film Defective Detective.


it's been an amazing experience working on the film, and we couldn't expect in out wildest dreams what this film will lead us to. A month ago we were notified that we have won the Student Academy Award for an animated short. We were so honoured to be selected, and had an amazing experience in LA meeting all the talented film makers! I might write more on this experience later on.

With John Musker at the award ceremony. Such a huge honour to meet him, and check out his awesome Genie tie!!!

Defective Detective will be available on-line in a while, but I will update here as soon as it is up. Meanwhile, above is a teaser image, and I'll start posting more of the visual development work for the film soon!


And now, off to a new chapter in my animated adventures! I started to intern at PIXAR a few weeks ago! These is are very exciting times and I am so happy to join such a creative environment and word aside so many talented people.

first day, with my Ringling buddies Uri Lotan and Justin Farris and a new friend, Jeff Leinenveber

Thanks for visiting!

JFK>TLV

Did this one as an ad idea for wine company a while ago.

winter break is around the corner! working full throttle on our film, stay tuned!

Lab Rats

Senior year!! I really can't believe this is already the last year hear at Ringling... time sure flew by. Really busy these days working on our film. It's a really exciting time and I can't wait to see it complete!

Not much time to draw though :( here are some sketches from those late nights in the labs
















bobby chiu and kei acedera Came to visit our school!

Matisyahu Concert and last days in Salt Lake

The party is over

I made this one for the Troll challenge on the Avalanche blog.

and some sketches from meetings and such.

I had a blast being here this summer, but it's time to go back to school now.

Time to make a film!!!

How did summer pass so fast??

Another delayed flight... As I'm cleaning up the drive I found these designs I did a while ago and thought I'll post them.
more airport sketches and Siggraph stories soon :)

Jazz at the Gateway and Beirut concert

staying loose :)

Heading to Siggraph for a week! have fun and keep drawing.

The Ringling 100

Hello!

A few months ago a bunch of Ringling Grads came up with an idea to put together an art book featuring 100 pieces by Ringling students. These is truly an awesome initiative, and even better, the money earned is geared towards scholarships for Ringling students, so make sure to check it out and support this great cause.

This image below is my entry. As always it could use some work but since it made it into the book, and I never posted it before, I figured I might as well.

THE RINGLING 100 by Greg Hettinger, Scott Zitta & Jorge Garcia | Make Your Own Book