The Weeping King

Level Intro Storyboard

Storyboarding for the introduction of an underground level.
Challenges presented:
- Dark environment (limited visibility)
- Larger enemy (brains over brawn this round)
- Enemy is attracted to your light source on your body.

Frank Miller Style doodle

Viking Peeps Storyboard

Beautiful Music Together

Been awhile! Same for this drawing. I had started it in a sketchbook from 2008 or 2009. I FINALLY got around to finishing it. I had re-done the line work a year ago.

But why pick it up again? Well, I read a few good tutorials on color and wanted to play with ArtRage some. And... here we are.

Characters are copyright their owners.

Production Reel for "Kamali"

Production Reel for "Kamali"

Kamali - current look test render

In process look of Kamali. The wolf will have one more pass at textures. We are tweaking the subsurface scattering on Takoda and Kele and adjusting their texture maps one last time. But this is the current look/feel/render for our piece.

Takoda from the film Kamali

A quickie animation to showcase Takoda from our senior film Kamali.

Character Design & Art Direction by MJ Rawlings
Modeling by Gary Sabo
Textures by Jill Pond
Rig by Frank Schorsch
Animation by MJ Rawlings

Sacrifice Doodle

Doodle about the sacrifices one makes to get where they want to be. 1 hour doodle on Cintiq.

Look & Feel for Kamali

Look and feel piece for my senior team project: Kamali.

Tides Concept Art: Deep

Working on color/painterly style. Concept art for short story "Tides". "Tides" is owned by Jessica Watson. She's awesome. Check her out: www.JessicaWatson.com

Quickie Sketch "Free"

Just got my new cintiq! First upgrade in a long time (from my Graphire from 2002)
First doodle!

The Monkey King & The Immortal Peach

Obsidian the Derezzer FIN

Final version of Obsidian:

Early Obsidian Composite & Render

Playing around with some MatCaps in Zbrush for Obsidian the Derezzer concept. Still at an early stage for modeling:


Here's an early full body render as a progress update:

Monkey King Test Renders

Checking lighting on the leaves, warm light on the Monkey King and cool light on the Tree:




Lighting Test for this scene where the Monkey King decides to hop up the tree to get the Immortal Peach:



Test Render of the Peach (I want an illumination from inside, but not BLASTING with light):

Monkey King Storyboards

First Storyboard:

This board pointed out my broad scope by introducing another character. Also, when this board was shown to other people, half of them got the monkey poop joke while the other half did not.

Additionally, there's not motivation for the monkey to feel remorse and (what seems to be) returning the peach tree. So back to the drawing board for clarity and more bang for my buck.


Second Storyboard:

In this one, this become more about the Peach Tree than the Monkey King's story. While the audience I showed this board to were entertained, when the overall reaction was "Awww..." at the end, that was not my goal. So back to the drawing board.


Third Storyboard:

Now we're getting somewhere with this board. The word cards seemed jarring and the other option was to add dialogue (adding the responsibility to record and animate the mouth to match the voice). Given the time budget, I opted to take another whack at another board.


Final Storyboard:

With this one, I felt confident that I was getting it to where it needed to be given the man hours I have budgeted and clarity in storytelling beats. This board has more drawings because I used it to work out the animatic.

Monkey King Concept & Render

Here is the original Character Sheet Concept Art for the Monkey King:


And here is the Character Sheet with Render of the Monkey King:

Zbrush Cybernetic Horse

Original Concept Art:



Low Poly Model Renders of Horse Pre-Zbrush:

Storyboard for Billy Brushes His Teeth

I was given the character sheet of the character "Billy" and told to create a story off of "Billy Brushes His Teeth" and "What could go wrong?". This was what came to mind.