Silmarillion Concept Sketches

I'm a big Tolkien fan, and the Silmarillion has way more stuff going on than the other books. I've picked it up off and on over the years, and I've never really had time to finish it.

This is a sketch I'm in the process of turning into a painting. I don't normally paint, so it's...an experiment. The scene is High King Fingolfin's one-on-one duel with Morgoth, Sauron's boss back in the day and more or less the Middle-earth version of Lucifer. If you're interested and brave enough, I'd suggest checking the Silmarillion out.

More concept work after the break!

Piggies

Just playing around with some cartoony pigs. I might borrow one or two of them for future projects...

More after the break!

Diggy Dwarf

Just a concept I'm playing around with. He's definitely going to show up again, in one form or another.

And here are a couple of other color schemes I came up with.

Golems!

I've been doodling rock-men off and on for the past few weeks. Consider these four little guys a taste of things yet to come.

Some Sketches

I was in San Diego with my family the other week, and I got a chance to draw a whole bunch of complete strangers.

These drawings were all very quick, between 30 and 50 seconds tops.

More after the break!

Demo Reel!

Finished Short Film!

I've spent the bulk of the last few months grinding away at this, my short film for ANM 499 at the Academy of Art University.

Winner of the AAU Spring Show 2012 - Traditional Animation Short Film Test!