today’s update are some more beautiful character model sheets from the x-men art book called. X Men the art and making of the animated series. these pages are from the newer X Men cartoon, you can see the difference in design. the have been stream lined, something that makes an animators life easier but the look just isn’t the same. i will always gravitate towards the older original designs but thats just cause i’m an old soul. i don’t think these designs were ever used in the series run, one of those “would have been cool” but just never got the green light projects
X MEN Model Sheets
today’s update is a massive dump of some X Men model sheets, all from the beautiful abundant book the art and making of the animated series
animation layouts
today’s update are some beautiful layouts from a few disney animated films, all images are from the book Setting the Scene the art and evolution of animation layout. i love looking at these old gems, they take me back to my young days of watching cartoons all morning and after school.
X Men the animated series storyboards
today’s update is more x-men! a big dump of storyboards from the opening titles and some other boards. i gotta say these boards are amazing, truly masterful draftsmenship
X Men Days of Future Past
today’s update is some production work from the X-men animated series art book
Travel Log #22
today’s update is a few unseen photos from a trip in 2017, i was in lyon france for a few days and got to explore the older part of the city. super beautiful and lots of walking and stairs
Jim Lee and Uncanny X men, the best comic artist of his time
today’s update is about comic book artist and legend Jim Lee.
Jim Lee is one of the most influential comic artist of his day. he got his start on X men and went on to work on many other big marvel and DC series. his style is so cool, i love his work. check out a few different pages below. most by Lee, a few by some others.
Pixar's Coco Storyboards
todays update are a few story boards from the pixar moive Coco. story boarding is both extremely challenging and rewards at the same time. I love storyboarding, its something i would usually a point myself todo when i was part of group projects while taking my animation studies
Dev Jam Labs…my side project
today update is about a side project i been involved with for a few years now. one of my titles in my day job is animation consultant/producer, this means i help create digital content. i have been involved with a project called “The Adventures of Mic & Sim”. i am co-writer/director/producer/animator. it’s a very small group of motivated talented men located in long island NY. we are trying to establish a community of like minded individuals.
the images below are from our website which we launched recently, we have a production blog and update once a week. the project is wrapping up its pre-production stage and will be entering full on production within the coming months. we are working with mainly open source softwares, we love the open source community and will be using Blender 3D for the majority of our production.
have a look at the site! we at Dev-Jam Labs appreciate it!
Go to www.devjamlabs.weebly.com
X Men the art and making of the animated series pt.2
today’s update is more x-men art, all from the art and making of the animated series
Tracking my progress
today’s update is about productivity. i’m a big fan of metrics and writing things down. since 2019 i have been keeping count of my productivity on this beautiful planner from Muji. my goal is consistence, daily progress, 30minutes or 3hours, doesn’t matter. progress is slow and it’s all about building the habit.
my goal is to create art or more specifically to work on my animated short FRANK. every night before bed i journal in my planner and add a Yes or No depending on if i worked on my project. i don’t beat myself up for missing days, i simply try not to miss to many in a row. in the end as long as i have more positive months then negative months i’m happy
this pic from 2019 shows a great strong start but in March my bday month my productivity drops due to my celebration of my bday.
last year however i was extremely productive due to covid starting and travel being shut down. i spent my bday in my room, working remotely on zoom
this year i started strong as i usually do, but then in march my productivity dropped, due to my bday month. i took a weekend trip to a cabin in rome ny. and i went on a few dates…so my routine was not normal
The Art of Coco pt.8
today’s update is more art from Coco
The Art of Coco pt.7
today’s blog post is more the art of coco, enjoy!
X Men the art and making of the animated series Cells
today’s update is a massive upload of one of my favorite cartoons. X-men the animated series. I found this book at the library and it is abundant of beautiful illustrations from the production. I adore production art or the making of art books. Please enjoy this wonderful selection of cells.
