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

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

Finally Free From the Madness

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

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!

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.

Airport people

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!

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.

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.

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

My Inspiration

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

Just some expressions I grabbed from Walter Matthau.

Ok, finally some sketchbook pages.

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