Blogstuffs

my tumblr!

2009-11-22T12:28:00.000-08:00

haven't been blogging, but I've been tumbling.

http://thomasjmoore.tumblr.com/

hello there

2009-04-06T18:53:00.000-07:00

new drawings! hands and hellboy!

2008-09-03T16:40:00.001-07:00

George Liquor ink

2008-07-31T13:25:00.000-07:00

Still brushing up on my illustrator inking, Mr. Guimond's recent inks of John K's George Liquor inspired me to do the same. The drawing on the right is the original drawing from John K's blog.
I'm trying to follow the advice he's given Ryan about using weight variation on the lines.

yeagg!

2008-07-28T17:33:00.001-07:00

practicing inking in illustrator.......any pointers mr. guimond?

brush inked original

SHNORG!

2008-07-23T21:49:00.001-07:00

Cool sites!

2008-07-23T12:06:00.001-07:00

Last weekend I attended the Pitchfork Music Festival here in Chicago and found some cool stuff in the screen printed poster area.
The following 3 artists were the standouts in my opinion:
http://galaxyreno.com/
http://www.myassociatecornelius.com/
http://www.spikepress.com/index.php
check them out! they're fun!

also I stumbled upon the blog of the former Bolt director, Chris Sanders, definitely worth a look. Don't forget to read his weekly Kiskaloo comic strip.

I need to make something creative.

Onward...

2008-06-21T21:47:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I graduated, and now I am fully engaged in my job hunt. It has been a challenging 3 years at art school, and I look forward to the future.

Since I haven't mentioned it yet here, my website with my Demo Reel is located at www.thomas-moore.net, check it out! Let me know what you think!

June 18th!

2008-06-12T22:34:00.001-07:00

I have important things to do...

2008-06-06T07:49:00.001-07:00

...but instead I spent a little too long working on these, which, for some reason, count as my final project in biology. art school is weird.

this again?

2008-05-29T15:05:00.001-07:00

DVD cover sketch! Animation Show!

2008-05-26T18:01:00.000-07:00

working on my dvd cover for my reel, still needs some lovin.

The Animation Show Year 4 premiered in Chicago last Friday with Bill Plympton in attendance showing his latest short HotDog. Lots of great stuff, Gobelins had a big showing this year with 4 or 5 films. Key Lime Pie by Trevor Jiminez was my favorite, and the Psychotown segments by Dave Carter were rather entertaining as well. Go see it if you can!

Mickey

2008-05-07T19:11:00.000-07:00

hey doods! been busy, haven't been able to show this thing the love and attention it deserves, but today i doodled a doodle i thought i would share

it's Mickey Mouse

Ollie Johnston 1912-2008

2008-04-14T20:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/ollie-johnston-1912-2008#comments

Life drawing 2

2008-04-13T18:00:00.001-07:00

Finished the second long pose in my life drawing class at the School of Representational Art. Again the quality of the picture isn't the finest, but I promise scans of both the drawings pretty soon.

On a side note, Cartoon Brew posted a link to a really cool example of video reference by Jeff Gabor from Horton Hear's a Who! Check it out!

Here's something I'm workin on! Still early, but never too early to hear some feedback:

Also here's a roughcut of my demo reel
nothing's final, but I'll gladly take some comments on order/pacing/anything it's severely lacking or any other suggestions.

Radioactive Panda!

2008-04-10T13:10:00.001-07:00

angrybusinessfella

2008-04-08T08:46:00.001-07:00

Where can one find an uber cool ebook compilation of totally sweet animaton tips from ILM Animator and Animation Mentor co-founder Shawn Kelly? Here!!!
Some really really nice stuff in that. You'd have to be BONKERS not to check it out!

life drawing time!

2008-03-22T12:20:00.000-07:00

finished my first long drawing from my class at the School of Representational Art this morning!

pretty lousy picture of it, but it'll do for now

3 week pose (about 8 hours) charcoal
instructed by Grigor Eftimov

slow day for notes...

2008-03-18T20:12:00.000-07:00

Schools out!(for a week)
Finer Diner is finished! (pretty much)
Going home to Iowa for a week(ish)!
Graduation in 12 weeks!(sheesh)
Finding a real job! (uh oh)

DemoReel 07!

2008-02-23T14:28:00.001-08:00

burnt

2008-02-21T20:52:00.000-08:00

!

2008-02-17T14:52:00.000-08:00

the devil in mexico and lady

2008-02-07T09:06:00.000-08:00

two sketches!

2007-12-31T11:27:00.000-08:00

animation%wip

2007-12-19T11:03:00.000-08:00

animation wip! critz!? the fella is still a zombie.

Portfolio/class.results>

2007-12-09T16:11:00.001-08:00

i present to you:

Where does the time go?

2007-11-19T18:32:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving? Already!? Happy Turkey.

poses!

2007-10-25T15:43:00.000-07:00

i should post more. i will post more. soon. probably.

POSES!

JOY!

2007-10-11T18:48:00.000-07:00

Animation 3!!

2007-10-09T19:34:00.000-07:00

Summer Animation Compilation

2007-09-19T15:25:00.000-07:00

FINALS week!

2007-09-18T09:41:00.001-07:00

Basic Guy!

2007-09-04T16:04:00.000-07:00

hogan JUMP

2007-09-01T14:08:00.001-07:00

class exercise of jumping over a fence

Rainy McMailbox

2007-09-01T13:11:00.001-07:00

lipsync block

2007-08-18T13:22:00.000-07:00

berry early.

i woke up at 2:55 a.m. today

2007-08-07T20:31:00.000-07:00

torso front. torso back.

2007-07-25T11:44:00.000-07:00

hey. this was our first real project in my Advanced Modeling class. A torso. It's not too much, and I followed a video for all of it, but I learned a bit, so that's good.

Also the song Hey Momma by KayKay and His Weathered Underground is quite good.

Meep

2007-07-18T06:38:00.000-07:00

This was quick project to start out my Special Effects in Animation class that I have this term. That's the Meeper rig from that Maya book, I'm not sure what it's called, and I put him in the purrty picture that I acquired off MorgueFile.com. So basicly, I didn't do much in this. Pose, Rimlight, Render, Photoshop tweakerz.

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2007-07-17T06:37:00.000-07:00

sketchy sketches and floaty floats

2007-07-10T12:03:00.000-07:00

These are just some silly sketches.

Road to El Dorado studies

Splishy Splashy!

2007-06-12T16:46:00.000-07:00

clicky clacky for splishy splashy

spiral staircase

2007-03-15T18:46:00.000-07:00

this is the final image from my materials and lighting class

Focus focus focus

2007-02-15T13:00:00.000-08:00

Hey look at this.

sketches

2006-10-02T12:47:00.000-07:00

ANIMATION FINAL

2006-09-20T10:42:00.000-07:00

Here it is folks, my short film.

enjoy

watch it a few times even

All Night All the Time

2006-06-16T03:39:00.000-07:00

whew.

no i don't like to finish things

2006-06-03T15:19:00.000-07:00

tom done

2006-05-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

contest entry: finished

slam BAM!

2006-05-12T08:41:00.000-07:00