Here are the production boards for one of the vignettes for my thesis. I did these as the final project for my storyboarding class.

Well, my semester is over! These were some extremely challenging classes. I took three classes, and two were drawing classes. My drawing skills are not what I would like them to be, so it was tough for me. I learned a lot though. The instruction at AAU so far has been fantastic! Here are the presentation storyboards all colored. I did the coloring in Photoshop, and I am still quite a noob with digital painting, so this was a great learning experience.

These are halfway done presentation boards for my storyboarding class. They will be colored soon. They are from an idea I am considering for my thesis animation, a short about fatherhood comprised of a series of humorous vignettes progressing as my son gets older.



Comforting him when he wakes up in the middle of the night.



Playing together.



Foam sword fight!!




The ol' rubber band around the sink sprayer trick to get mommy!

This is an assignment to work on the proper way of doing reflections in perspective. The woman is too close in the reflection, sometime I would like to fix that.

Yesterday was a sad day. Budcat, the studio I used to work for, was closed down. I worked there for four years, and only left because I needed to go back to school. A lot of great friends, talented people, are out of work. I wish them all the best, and pray they find good work soon.

Here are the gladiators in an environment, it's a practice area.

This is the previous drawing I posted with the characters clothed.

My instructor gave me lots of great feedback on the combat drawing I posted. Here is an updated version based on his comments.

Here is my latest assignment for my drawing from imagination/perspective class. It is a three part one, the first part is drawing two figures in combat without clothes. The second part is clothing them, the third placing them in an environment. Here is what I have for the first part. This was drawn without direct reference. I used reference for the poses and anatomy, but I did not directly copy a model or a picture.

This is my latest assignment for my drawing from imagination class. We were given photos of three people, then told to draw the heads of those people at a different angle than the photo. We started by drawing boxes in perspective, then fitting the heads inside the boxes. Since we couldn't see the actual models at the angle we were drawing them, I took pictures of my sister's head to get a better idea of what the head features would do at that angle. I then extrapolated that out to make my drawings. Unfortunately, I don't think I really captured the likenesses well.

Here are the color boards.

Here is a storyboarding assignment I did. We were supposed to storyboard our own Trunk Monkey commercial. These are advertisement presentation boards, not meant to show the whole story, just get the idea across to the client. The assignment was to convey the story in only four boards.

Here are the third and fourth assignments for the drawing from imagination class. Again, the first assignment was to do the linework, the second was to do the value and shadows.

Well, it's been a while since I last posted! School has been keeping me incredibly busy! This is the first and second assignment for my drawing from imagination class. The first assignment was to do the line work for the drawing, the second was to add shadows and value.

Brand new fall semester here we go!!! These are my first assignment for my storyboarding class. The baby has a loaded diaper. :)

Demo Reel

I have been meaning to post my most recent demo reel for a while. This is the one I used to apply for graduate school. I have done quite a bit of work since then, but I can't post it until the game is published. Below is the shot breakdown, and the reel.

Jesse O'Brien demo reel 9/2/2010 from Jesse O'Brien on Vimeo.