Rainey Park

Warm Up 01

2012-01-18T21:41:00.001-08:00

Started a new job. Just warmin up

Book Cover

2011-07-06T02:10:00.000-07:00

My friend wrote a book. I made a cover for him.

5.45%

2011-03-24T23:04:00.001-07:00

I'm trying to do as few establishing shots as possible with this years film and instead try to set up my scenes in less conventional ways. That said, here's the only establishing shot from my film.

Fourth Year Film

2011-03-14T15:37:00.001-07:00

Will I try to finish this? Yes. Will I succeed? Probably not.

Dinosauraus

2010-10-15T01:42:00.000-07:00

Just something I'm developing

This is dumb but...

2010-05-25T02:27:00.001-07:00

I uploaded my film on Vimeo, in better quality. Here it is-

1995 from Jeffrey Rowe on Vimeo.

VisDevTests for my film

2010-02-18T16:41:00.001-08:00

Scylla and Charybdis

2010-01-20T16:10:00.000-08:00

Hey, me and my friend Dylan collaborated on a piece for the Character Animation Gallery Show. He did everything above water, I did everything below. Enjoy!

Final Album Art

2009-12-06T16:57:00.000-08:00

So if any of you follow my blog, you've seen that I've been working on album art for a friend. Well, the final work is finally finished. Here it is-

The Serpent and the Eagle

2009-10-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

Working on beat boards for my independent study with Chong Lee. There'll be more later. At this point I'm really struggling to do all the work I need to. To survive, i have to work on the weekends, and I'm left with almost no time to work on assignments. Finishing this and the other two is done at the cost of missing character design. But at this point, I need to prioritize whatever is more relevant to story, and a story portfolio. Enjoy!

Album Stuff

2009-10-05T21:58:00.000-07:00

So I fixed up that album art I was doing for a friend, and created a back image. He may not actually use it because it deviated too much from the original design, but I still like it alot.

First Assignment of the Year

2009-09-24T03:53:00.000-07:00

I did this assignment twice. I was happy with the first one, and then I saw Dylan's awesome masterpiece, and decided to redo mine. Hope you like it!

Octopus in Jungle

2009-09-01T03:00:00.000-07:00

So, as a way to show growth, I redid my first layout assignment from this year. I'll upload my first one later, but for now, here's the new version.

Backyard

2009-09-01T00:52:00.000-07:00

I miss Chicago

Lorettafest

2009-08-30T23:10:00.000-07:00

Every summer, Our Lady of Loretto would have there summer carnival to raise money for the church. Lots of fond memories. Would love to use it as a setting in my film.

2009-08-26T23:11:00.000-07:00

Still exploring film ideas. May sketch out another drawing tonight. Enjoy!

It's ON

2009-08-26T01:34:00.000-07:00

Putting together some portfolio stuff on the fly. Trying to make a piece a day to supplement what I have. This is kind of a film idea.

Bloop

2009-08-04T00:08:00.000-07:00

Everybody's doing it!!!

Kris- http://anklesnsocks.blogspot.com/2009/07/bloop.html

Dylan- http://dylanforman.blogspot.com/2009/08/bloop.html

Felt I Oughta Post

2009-08-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

Hopefully I'll post some better things soon, but I've been working on album art for a friend. Its just a sketch. If we go ahead and use it, the final art would be hand painted, or done with cutouts or something to make it more tactile.

Callahan Goes Down

2009-06-01T16:32:00.001-07:00

Here it is, for what it's worth-

EDIT: The film is being cropped weird, so just go to the youtube page to watch it.

Big Sur Morning

2009-04-10T22:13:00.000-07:00

I'd love to live in Big Sur.

Took a break from the film.

I've still got alot to learn.

15:02:56:06

2009-04-05T14:03:00.000-07:00

Times running out. I've been working alot lately, on a pretty regular scedule. This isn't perfect, but I'm at that point where I can spend too much time fiddling with things. If theres time at the end I'll fix this.

More Film Stuff!

2009-03-02T02:42:00.000-08:00

How the fuck am I going to finish this??? I don't know... But I'm not worried yet. And, for the first time, I'm starting to feel good about this project. Here's another shot. its not perfect yet... I'm still deciding a bunch of shit, but whatever. Feedback is appreciated!

EDIT- I fixed the shot. Got the character and background and everything working in a way I'm happy with!

Film Time

2009-02-27T21:58:00.000-08:00

Film time has begun! I'm way behind schedule. But here's a scene from the film. It's set near 33rd and Halstead by my friends old apartment. Hopefully I got the look and feel of a southside Chicago street right.

EDIT- Here's an interior scene, including a character. I still don't know if I like the look of the character in relation to the backgrounds, but its too late to be indecisive. This is what I'm rolling with.

Uhhhhhh....

2009-01-08T17:10:00.000-08:00

I was working on my film... and took a break. I don't know what this is supposed to be. I think it looks cool... but its utterly useless, unproductive, and souless. It captures nothing about life or human experience. Gah.

Photoscoping

2009-01-06T23:50:00.001-08:00

So, I'm still trying to hammer out my story, but I think the final film will look something like this. I just used photoshop to steal colors from a photograph. I'd do this for the final film too- go shoot reference photography and use it to create my color swatches. To save time I'm going to use alot of video reference for the animation as well. Maybe its cheating... but I don't mind. I'll use whatever tools necessary to make the film look finished and better communicate the story (which is really where my career goals lie anyway). So I'll cheat to make it look good. Actually, thinking about it now, this style kind of supports the story. The story is taken from my life. So why not take the colors from life too? Hahaha, who knows. No one even reads this anyway.

Blah

2008-12-22T16:17:00.000-08:00

I took a break from boarding today to just doodle something. I'm playing with different styles and ways of representing things, trying to get comfortable with drawing. This ones kind of Jeff Liu inspired.

Maybe not one a day...

2008-11-20T00:58:00.001-08:00

So that fell apart, but here's some new drawings anyway. These are inspired by Andrew Hem. I like the way he keeps realistic features with well designed shapes. The way he proportions his faces is really nice. At this point the drawings are still more about the drawings. For the next batch, maybe I'll actually try to draw characters doing something.

First Drawing

2008-11-12T02:11:00.001-08:00

I need to update this thing more often. I also need to draw more. I'm going to try to do a drawing a day for the next month. Wish me luck and watch me grow!

I'm losing my edge!

2008-11-11T20:26:00.000-08:00

I found this online today. Its something I did years ago, but I like it alot better then the things I'm doing now. This was made during a time when I thought more about what I could do than what I couldn't.

Its an inside joke from me and my friends.

Welcome back.

2008-10-20T21:06:00.000-07:00

So I haven't posted in a while... probably because I haven't drawn anything in forever. But I have been taking lots of photos. Here's some highlights.

My film is over.

2008-04-22T13:20:00.001-07:00

Here it is-

Random Classwork

2007-11-30T14:10:00.000-08:00

I made my first painting, andI think it turned out alright. I'm excited to use gouache again in the future. Also, I included my last perspective project-

Some animation for you!

2007-11-17T00:32:00.000-08:00

First is a fox I animated for my intro to animation class.

Next, here's a film I made in 48 hours as part of the lockdown competition at calarts. This years word was "Piranha"

Dan Holland Lecture

2007-11-11T20:41:00.000-08:00

When I'm done shooting my 48 hour film, I'll be uploading that and a couple other animations. Until then, here's some sketches from my sketchbook. I drew them during the dan holland lecture. The second one is composed around the bleedthrough from the first. If blogspot doesn't compress them, they should upload at actual size.

2007-10-21T15:22:00.000-07:00

So, as soon I was done with my last post, I went outside and was suprised to see what the sky looked like. Apparently theres a big forest fire by malibu, and being the windy autumn that it is, all of the smoke is drifting over calarts making the sun red and sky yellow. It looks like the end of the world outside.

2007-10-21T14:24:00.000-07:00

I should have more life drawings and other school assignments coming up soon, but here's something until then. I drew this little fox in my sketchbook at 4am last night because I was trying to avoid doing my real work-

2007-10-15T02:12:00.000-07:00

So here it is- page for page, uploaded so you can view in in order, my 2006 accepted calarts portfolio. Enjoy!

2007-10-15T02:08:00.000-07:00

2007-10-15T02:02:00.000-07:00

2007-10-15T01:59:00.001-07:00

Here's some more!

2007-10-15T01:56:00.000-07:00

Hey, here's some pages from my portfolio. I can only do 3 or so at a time, so I'm going in backwards order.

Online!

2007-10-06T01:28:00.000-07:00

Hey, I'm online now, so pay attention!