What's Seanyboy Doing?

Artichoke

2012-01-31T16:11:00.000-08:00

NYC to LA

2011-12-23T14:08:00.001-08:00

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12 Kng Fu Days

2011-12-09T16:45:00.000-08:00

COMIC-CON PANEL!

2011-07-15T19:03:00.000-07:00

If you are planning on crawling around the critical mass event called Comic-Con, on Friday the 22nd; come check out the hip ASIFA Hollywood panel in room 32AB from 12:00-1:00PM. Last time it was packed and some of my animation peeps didn't get in :(

I'll be on the panel, representing television animation. I'm no master of my craft, but I'll answer what I can and to the best of my ability. There are some other extremely talented people on the panel who have far more experience than me, so make sure you bug them more. Here's the link to the full Friday programming schedule: http://comic-con.org/cci/cci11_prog_fri.php

I hope to see you there!

Lunchtime 100th Post

2011-05-10T13:31:00.001-07:00

More lunch sketches

2011-02-18T10:36:00.000-08:00

Hording

2011-02-09T09:30:00.000-08:00

I've been drawing but not sharing. These are all just doodles from my computer at work. Some are stupid...well, all are stupid...but some are for fun and some are for co-workers/interns. There's still a lot of sketchbook material to post, but I plan to upload a lot more drawing that I do during lunch at work. Every drawing has a story. The one above, for example, I drew yesterday because my friend Aidan lent me his copy of Robot Monster. A perfect example of the 50's camp horror genre.

Caricature

2011-02-04T11:27:00.001-08:00

Best caricature of me to date. Courtesy of my good friend Aidan Casserly http://www.aidancasserly.com/SCAPULA/ - check out the man's work!

Israel

2011-01-11T11:36:00.000-08:00

This was done for a H.O.B. gig for my best friend, Israel. Since we were little, he was the violinist and I was the artist. I hope to do grander things in collaboration, sparked from our pipe dreams as kids.

Pile O' Heads

2010-12-24T12:39:00.000-08:00

Tried to make an illustration as fast as I could this morning to test myself. With the power of coffee, I got it done in 1hr 40min.

2010-12-21T08:41:00.000-08:00

AMA's

2010-11-21T21:26:00.000-08:00

Many of the projects I work on are still confidential, or confidential and will never see the light of day. Here's one I can show, because it was just broadcasted on a national network. I storyboarded the opening act for Rihanna at the AMA's and can supply you with a side-by side comparison of the performance to the board.

3000 to 1!!!!!

2010-11-01T17:24:00.001-07:00

In earlier posts, I've mentioned a comic that I was working on. Well...WE FINALLY DID IT. I(Creator/Illustrator) and Richard Bashara(Co-Creator/Writer) have finally delivered a product that we can be proud of. Check it out on the site 3000to1.com. I promise to deliver a page every Wednesday to play out this story. Also, check out the "about" page for a little bio on us. Enjoy!

Halloween Approachethhh

2010-09-22T16:47:00.000-07:00

Costumed Figure Sketch Dump

2010-09-07T12:13:00.001-07:00

Sorry about the cutoffs made by the scans.

2010-08-03T16:17:00.001-07:00

2010-06-10T09:40:00.000-07:00

I have soooooooooo many drawings that I haven't put up. More to come, I'm just not an awesome blogger.

Damon

2010-05-09T22:36:00.000-07:00

I did this characture for a friend's birthday yesterday. I figured he could use something for his stand up comedy persona.

2010-04-12T19:38:00.000-07:00

Stitch-less

2010-03-28T21:54:00.001-07:00

A quick and dirty sketch as a tribute to my two favorite animated abominations to hit the silver screen. Thank you Mr. Sanders, thank you.

Decor Cover

2010-03-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

An album cover I made for my dear friend, Israel, for his band "Decor". Check out their MySpace Music page here.

2010-02-10T13:12:00.000-08:00

Gingersmash 2009

2009-12-28T13:23:00.000-08:00

Here is Gingersmash 2009! It was quite surprising what I was able to capture with some low-res devices. Next year, I'll have a pro camera and will be able to deinterlace the video to time remap the footage and achieve that silky-smooth slo-mo. 3 cameras were used for the 'shoot'. Enjoy.

Spec Boards

2009-11-03T17:49:00.000-08:00

Theoretical car commercial boards for the ol' portfolio. I need to expand my market. Some more recent news- I was working on the Lady Gaga Concert Tour, storyboarding. She wasn't going to let the cancellation of her tour with Kanye shut things down for her. So I was brought on by the same director and drew up some boards for a pretty spectacular show. I can't wait to show them!

Turtle's Bait Shop

2009-10-12T14:10:00.000-07:00

Ext. shot of Turtle's Bait shop. Isn't the neon sign clever? Not mine.

2009-10-02T23:59:00.000-07:00

Going to LBCC tomorrow to introduce our work in progress "3,000 to 1"! SOOOO much more to come!

May I Introduce

2009-09-18T20:53:00.000-07:00

Angler Poster

2009-09-12T10:13:00.000-07:00

This is the Angler poster I've been working on, not complete and won't be for this version (maybe I'll finish it for kicks). I'm revising it right now; a revision which will be different, compositionally, but will still have some elements that I'll be able to salvage.

Been hitting this project pretty hard this past week. The week before, I was working for the Angler project as well as the Kanye West/Lady Gaga World Tour. Nice gig.

Comic Story Panels

2009-08-23T21:42:00.000-07:00

There's some new work on my site http://seanpetrilak.com/story.htm that is sort of a test run/excerpt from a comic I'm creating, with the help of my good friend and writer, Richard Bashara (Zombie Bank, see the link list). This isn't the format, not the style; but the panels serve a purpose of exploring characters and action.

The comic itself is a deeply philosophical, yet still crude and full of action. There's more to come...lots more!

Hitchcock Frame Grabs!

2009-08-21T16:57:00.000-07:00

If I may quote the great Eric Cartman: "Oh my Jesus Christ monkey balls..." I just found an enormous screen grab library of every shot of every Hitchcock movie ever made. Hot-tot-tot-tot!! Ennnnnjoooy http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/1000_Frames_of_Hitchcock

Turtle

2009-08-15T13:05:00.000-07:00

This is Turtle- a creepy, calloused, kermudgen from a horror flick I'm working on right now; "The Angler" (working title). Turtle is a bait shop owner in this mariner-themed film, set in the wet lands of Florida. There's more work to come for this one, including the bait shop to this humpty dumpty. So check back later!

Garth

2009-08-01T21:21:00.001-07:00

Howdy all! This is a concept piece I did for the Sci-fi feature "Second Coming". It's been just sitting in my folders for a while like a lot of other work I should post; but I haven't been blogging much lately.

So "he" is a living, breathing spaceship named Garth, and he's meant to resemble something between a stingray and a turtle. Think of it like the AI in Star Trek or 2001, but not homicidal and with a personality. The top one is the final version and the bottom one was the first. Mr. Ian Strandberg is going to work his magic and make Garth come to life, through the magic of modeling!

2009-07-25T00:35:00.000-07:00

Tonight's project. Dunno. Maybe a good story will come from it.

Interview With Zombie

2009-07-09T18:08:00.000-07:00

Recently, a Twitter friend, Summer Suzuki made an interview of me as she does for many other artists from different crafts. I talked about my school experiences, creative process, history and so on. Here's the link to the page.

Summer is a talented illustrator and all-around artist. Check out her site as well and take a look around. She has some great reviews on art and film.

I've been IMMENSELY busy lately. All of my work is extremely confidential, so...someday. I'll be posting anything I come up with!

Zombie Washington

2009-06-28T21:41:00.000-07:00

So is the term "sacra-litical"? Yeah, Zombie George Washington. These are a couple sketches for my bust sculpture of ol' Georgie. I'll keep you posted on this one.

New Cover

2009-06-14T14:11:00.000-07:00

I've been working on this one off-n-on for abouts a week. The purpose of dividing it in thirds was to use it as my new cover for my website and sectioning is going to allow you to click on a particular third of the piece and navigate you to either the storyboard, concept, or illustration areas of the site. The site will be structured the same, it just won't have the quick-n-dirty cover I put together so I had something to show a particular group of clients at the time. Now that I had the opportunity, I'm revisiting the design and giving the portfolio a proper representation.

So what is it? An Aztec-Frazetta-Mucha-Dune'ish whatchamahiggish. Who cares, it's sexy.

Sketchbook Update

2009-06-06T10:04:00.001-07:00

The last one here is a splash page I put together for the "To Be Friends" production crew. Todd Stashwick, the actor, aptly named Mike, a grip, the Sea Captain. Guess which one he is!

Im a Twit

2009-05-28T13:56:00.000-07:00

Hey guys and gals! By the way, I started using Twitter: my profile

2009-05-14T23:09:00.000-07:00

This is for my buddy's CYOA online story called Zombie Bank. Homage to the Leyendecker.

2009-05-12T12:09:00.000-07:00

I was dabbling with this one for a couple days. Been looking at some Earle trees.

Lo Ciento

2009-04-03T20:57:00.000-07:00

I've been really, really busy lately, and I apologize for not posting anything for a while. I'm out on location again, and will be for another two weeks; storyboarding and assistant editing. I'll be posting some pictures of of the location and some of the props that I made; including an entirely filled sketchbook of the character's (the main prop of the film :) )

New Website!

2009-02-25T14:03:00.000-08:00

Yes, finally my new website is up and you may find it here! I guess it's time to shut down the old portfolio blog. I'll be active on this blog as well as my new site.

New Sketchbook!

2009-02-09T09:03:00.000-08:00

There's the first eight pages of the sketchbook I started last week. I've been trying to get a little "me" time in with my drawing recently. It's refreshing. Sometimes you gotta take a break from all that drawing and just draw. Know what I mean?

Can you tell which film trilogy I watched this weekend?

I'm In Toon Boom's Expert Corner!

2009-02-05T08:21:00.000-08:00

You can see samples of my current project "To Be Friends" here in the Expert Corner for Toon Boom's Storyboard Pro. It includes an animatic that I entirely composed in the software.

I know, I know...more zombies

2009-02-01T18:30:00.000-08:00

Didn't have a good reason to do this one, other than I got antsy the other night and wanted to draw some zombies and cowboys. I'm lovin' the Storyboard Pro drawing tools. Need to see how far I can tweak them.

Kitten of the Sea

2009-01-11T17:40:00.000-08:00

PETA has announced their new campaign of ridding the word "fish" from society and replacing it with a more friendly name, so youngsters would feel hesitant to eat the fellers. The name they chose for our aquatic friends? Sea Kittens! Don't believe me? Check it out.

I like to think that I'm a progressive individual, so I'm proposing my new design for a popular treat.

Yay Toon Boom!

2009-01-07T10:07:00.000-08:00

I loooooove Toon Boom Storyboard Pro. I know it's been around, but I finally took time to learn it (which took no time) and dove right into it's tools. It draws so much better than Sketchbook Pro with its vector-based, freehand lines. It does what it takes me to do in 5 apps, all at a one stop, cinematic extravaganza.

2008-12-14T17:54:00.000-08:00

This is a rough cover for the film I'm working on right now. I'm storyboarding this full-length live action independent feature and I can't wait to hit the set for this one. It's beautiful and poetic, so I was trying to capture that feeling here. I won't be posting any more than this for the film until it's released, but I promise you, this thing will - be - beeeaaaauuuuutiful!

And the Winner Is...

2008-12-03T18:31:00.000-08:00

Yay! Just found out that it won the Concrete Jungle Contest. Here's the Winner's Page. It's going to be the cover art for the DVD and DVD menu for QD3's upcoming documentary "Concrete Jungle." A market I never considered, but definitely open to, as being a jack of all trades.

another entry

2008-11-21T20:11:00.000-08:00

Hey, Howdy, Hey! (50 bonus points if you can name that animation reference). This was another submission that I didn't have time to take to finish, but I thought I'd throw it their way anyways. Ehhhhh, I'm only going to finish it if I'm asked to. I'm a little busy at the moment. Yay wood grain! By the way, the reference "Hey, Howdy, Hey" comes from Toy Story 2. It's the record that Jessie, Woody, and the Prospector sing to. Woody and Jessie run and dance on the record while it spins. What a nerd I am.

2008-11-18T10:20:00.000-08:00

This is a little job that I did for my uncle. It's a picture of he and my aunt that was water damaged after their last house caught fire. It was in poor shape as you can see. It's missing large areas of the image, especially on her, so I did all I could to graph it from other areas. That highlight on the back of her head was bugging me too.

2008-11-12T23:29:00.001-08:00

DONE

2008-11-10T23:02:00.000-08:00

Ok, sooo...I'm not happy with the text, but I'm using it as a placeholder for now, until I find another type that I like (this one makes my piece look to asian). I'm trying to do a neon sign look. Still considering some other clever ideas for the text, I just need to figure out how to make them work. The arrows are more placeholders. I haven't even touched the ground, but it'll be fairly simple anyways. Most of it will be in a motion blur. After all that, I'm just going to unify some of my hues in the skin more. It's not quite matching the palette. Bla bla bla...goodnight.

2008-11-09T12:28:00.000-08:00

This is a WIP for a contest. It's for a black/latino documentary, and I hope they don't find out that I won the "White Boy of the Year" contest in 2007. Most of it is still laid in a bit and roughed-in. More to come.

Yay! Sketchbook!

2008-11-04T21:29:00.000-08:00

Paintball, Al Roker, men in women's negligee, and jazzercizing zombees. For some reason, these have been recent themes in my sketchbook. Hmmmmmm....

Be on the lookout for the next installment of Drake Goldstein: Jewish Cowboy Senator. It's a doosy!

2008-10-29T15:12:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I've been pretty busy lately. Here's a pumpkin!

2008-09-29T09:38:00.000-07:00

They said "steal".

Got bored last night...what have I done?

2008-09-23T11:57:00.000-07:00

For all of those who aren't paintball savvy, this is a Halo B loader. At least it was before I desecrated it. It's a container that loads your paintballs into the chamber very very quickly. I'm getting back into my paintball game and thought I'd add a little illustrated flavor into it. Of, course I'd be open to doing commissions.

2008-09-17T23:56:00.000-07:00

Here's a really quick one from tonight. Mmmmm...about 4 hours from thumbnail to finish. More like an elaborate beat board than a concept piece. I think I'll do a proper prop design layout for this one.

New Sketchbook

2008-09-15T12:56:00.001-07:00

Well, it's been a week and a half since my last sketchbook got stolen out of my bag. The cover was a pretty, attractive, beveled green leather piece that wrapped around the actual sketchbook. So I had the opportunity to spoil myself with come new materials. Here's a few pages from my new one.

When Stupid Ideas Are Taken Too Far

2008-09-05T12:24:00.000-07:00

Old Ma Robot-Process

2008-09-04T21:57:00.000-07:00

The goal for this one was to experiment with Golden Acrylic's Digital Ground Medium. It's a medium that will pick up vivid prints from an inkjet printer and can be applied to any surface. Here's the subject thumbnail sketch with Tombow markers and Prisma Eagle Series black pencil. Just your typical sweet, elderly female robot with gears for curlers, holding up her copper wire hair.

This is the step after the designing of the subject. After painting on the canvas, I apply the non-porous gloss digital ground medium to the areas I wish to print. I haven't used it before, so I gave it two healthy coats and let it dry before scanning it.

Once scanned, I send it into the collage stage in Photoshop. I decided to keep the printed objects achromatic and just let the color of the background show through the negative spaces. I just used images of chain gears and scrap copper wire. Now it was time to print. I used a typical "U"-shaped feed printer and found some dificulty, but not too much. Golden recommends to used a straight-feed or an "L"-feed printer.
The print came out amazingly sharp with fidelity in the gradations. Then I just painted the copper wire on top of that and had a little fun with my new comb brush over the face to get more of a polished steel look. After all the big stuff was done. I brushed on the Golden digital topcoat UV gel to protect the print areas and punch up the true saturation of the print. Clean up this and that, cut it to size, then...BAM! Time to get my real work done. It was fun beacause it married two aproaches that I cherish- digital and traditional. A special thanks to Steve at Continental Art Supply for agressively recommending the digital media kit to me.

2008-08-09T08:55:00.000-07:00

These are a couple of mixed media clayboard pieces that I worked on for display at work. I call the bottom one "Mmmmmm"

Ramayana Monkey Chant

2008-08-07T20:18:00.000-07:00

Watch it all the way through. The head monkey's expressions are the best.

2008-08-01T21:16:00.000-07:00

Just for fun.

The Birdman

2008-07-19T14:12:00.000-07:00

A couple days ago, I saw a unique individual walking past my house, holding up a parrot on his finger. It turns out my parents knew him, but I've been out of the loop for a while, because of school. He sauntered along the street, with his head fixed on his crooked neck. Then he paused for a minute, looked about the neighbors yard and spoke to the bird quietly as he shaded the parrot with the bill of his stained baseball cap. The odd man chuckled like he was gossiping with a friend and moved along down the street. I said to my self as we pulled out of the driveway, I'm drawing you when we get back!

2008-07-02T14:42:00.000-07:00

I apologize for the aspect ratio. iMovie doesn't have an option to change the frame ratio, so it cuts off the sides. That's why the composition doesn't fit well. Next time it will be fixed and have SOUND! Oooooooooo! Enjoy.

How to Adapt to the New "Hands-Free" Law

2008-06-28T21:16:00.000-07:00

"So how's Stan doing in accounting...what?! FIRE THAT ASSHOLE!!"

Finally Free From the Madness

2008-06-22T23:43:00.000-07:00

I hope you're asking all the questions you ever wanted to be answered. You prince of free expression and thinking, you will be missed!

Buffalo Bruce's

2008-06-12T17:32:00.000-07:00

Probably one of the coolest places ever, Buffalo Bruce's coffee and mercantile has the fun-kiest environment. It's a family-owned coffee house that invites all sorts of arts crafts and music. If you're ever in San Fernando, CA, you must check this place out and have a cup. Yes, there are chairs hung on the wall. I tried to capture this place's funkiness, but damn it's funky!

THE KOOS!

2008-06-01T13:48:00.000-07:00

This piece is dedicated to the love-hate relationship that I have with my girlfriend's dog Tikoos (it means "mouse" in Indonesian, but I think of it more as a squirrel). He's a long-haired chiwawa. I'm house sitting for her and her parents while they're out in Hawaii riding dolphins and eating macadamia nut and pineapples.

He'll start yapping at anything. He'll bark at the freakin grass growing. You could yell "Damnit Tikoos, SHUT UP", but he'll cower to half his size, look back at you with his naturally scared-looking eyes and shiver. Then you feel like a jackass. Tikoos will hop up on you lap later and expose his belly to you in submission.

I should make a comic strip of him attacking the crows in the back yard. It's really funny, 'cause he's only about 3 lbs and those crows can snatch him by his long butt hair and fly off with him.

2008-06-01T13:46:00.000-07:00

Airport people

2008-06-01T13:44:00.000-07:00

2008-05-31T17:33:00.000-07:00

This is a work in progress for a potential olympic commercial; a project undertaken during our senior year at San Jose State. There are still many things to sweeten and add into this piece, but it's prep work for this project shows a promising end result. Team Awesomeness, the muscle behind the work is broken down to the following elements:

Sean Petrilak (Muah) - Storyboards, Directing
Scott LaFleur - Animation
Jon Mendez - Environment and Prop Design
Derek Brand - Character Design and Research
Jesse Warren - Maya Modeling Master

You can find everyone except Jesse in my link list. They're going to kill me for putting it up at this stage, but the publicity couldn't hurt them (being that they're recent grads). I'm changing the stadium colors to match our color key and adding some more elements in the scene, such as the crouwd and animating some female olympic gymnasts in the foreground in the beginning. Oh yeah, the sound. Most of these things like the bad sound effects are placeholders for the final. Enjoy!

2008-05-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

Mom and I were painting outside by Tina's koi pond. She had her oils and was having a fun time, so I had to bring out the tablet.

2008-05-14T23:30:00.000-07:00

This is the greatest thing I have ever done and ever will do. Just take the shrunken headman sticker and cut out the negative spaces. As you can see, The stitching is hard to cut. I did this a little over a week ago.

2008-05-01T07:52:00.000-07:00

Sorry. I forgot to post this revision that I did months ago. The Navajo Tractor.

My Inspiration

2008-04-29T15:41:00.000-07:00

2008-04-26T14:35:00.000-07:00

I love my isight on my macbook pro. Greatest tool ever. Alright, let's get back to boarding.

2008-04-20T01:42:00.000-07:00

I'm making a maquette out of Rocket Pop for the BFA gallery coming up in a couple weeks. Here's the second day's work on him. The first day was getting the armature and the pose down right. I've changed the pose of the fella from before just a little bit, as posted above. My comrades Andrew, Andrea and Januel are sculpting their prize characters as well. I'll keep snapping some shots of the progress to show in here.

2008-04-10T10:19:00.001-07:00

What is this thing? I was listening to the song "Killing in the Name of Sebastian" (Sebastian's remix of "Killing in the Name of") and saw this thing in my head. So I took about 20 min out of my morning to paint it. I imagine a whole herd of them and a smaller figure riding them. Any suggestions as to what it is to develop it would be great!

2008-04-08T23:18:00.000-07:00

I found the line in a wrapper to a piece of Dove chocolate today. Wacka wacka...

2008-04-08T18:22:00.000-07:00

This is the most recent version of this animatic. Enjoy!

2008-04-08T18:04:00.001-07:00

My brother Don Ta was illustrating the fine art of footbag at Disneyland, so I had to capture his movement in this spread.

2008-03-18T20:49:00.002-07:00

Just some expressions I grabbed from Walter Matthau.

2008-02-17T13:47:00.001-08:00

Ok, finally some sketchbook pages.

2008-02-03T02:58:00.001-08:00

Pop's got some paint and a pedestal. I'm still working it out, but I got some progress today.

2008-01-30T20:56:00.000-08:00

His working title is called "Rocket Pop". I'm going to model him for my Maya modeling class. More passes will be posted. Next would be a painted and cleaned-up version.

2008-01-29T10:41:00.001-08:00

Up to my old shenanigans with Timmy again! Photo courtesy of Snoopdroop.