Tigris: Dream Weaver projects

I'm an inventor at heart, so I occasionally get bored with the usual artwork that takes little thought and about 9 hours or less to finish. So I dream up a big project in which I try out new techniques, new ideas, and spend 12 hours or many days on a single project. The thrill of discovering how programs and media works, incorporating historical people/places/objects to show to the public, and the anxiousness of how it will turn out is what keeps me going throughout it.

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Current Projects

The "Tig" Suit: My biggest 3D project, creating a fursuit for myself. progress page

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Queued Projects

Basically these are projects that A.) I haven't done yet, B.) put on hold for awhile, or C.) forgot about until now. I'm very curious about animation but when realize the work that goes into it, it usually never gets finished, so this section is practically an animation graveyard.

The Harp Project: I created the idea that my characters Harp and Amber are making a short silent film (with animation, the dialogue cards, storyline, the whole bit). So I am drawing out their film, from beginning to end. The basic storyline is a typical one -- boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy struggles against odds to get girl, gets the girl, the end -- with a bunch of slapstick, pratfalls, and dramatic moments. I am studying the great Buster Keaton's films to learn the "art" that is physical comedy, which keeps me enamored with this project. I'm not sure how the finished product will look or how deeply involved I will get on the background images. But, I have an animation cell that I cleaned up and colored as a sample of what is to come, which you can view here.

Faux Stain Glass Project: Making a stain-glass window out of a plastic ceiling light cover (the type you see in school and office building light fixtures next to those rectangular foam ceiling panels) by using black electrical tape which is cut into strips and put on the plastic sheet to form a picture, then use acrylics to paint the sections. The scene will be a tree on a hill, with something below (I haven't gotten to that part yet), I can't decide if it'll be a day or night scene either. I'll probably hang it in my bedroom window or something when it's finished. View Status.

Tigville Project: An animated commercial for a comic book, created in Flash. It welcomes you into the world of Tigville, the characters, the town, the story, everything. The cells were hand-drawn in ballpoint pen, colored in photoshop, altered in photoshop to create a new animation cell, and then all the cells were pasted into Flash. Doing everything that way gave the cells an illustrated appearance (rather than cartoony). I stopped doing the comic book and so it was pointless to do a commercial. Also I was running out of ideas since it was a bunch of fast clips sewn together. This project was started three times, because somehow it was deleted twice by viruses and computer screw-ups. Basically I just got sick of doing it again and again. I might start it up again if I ever feel like doing another animation. The music behind the animation was Creedance Clearwater Revival's "Up Around The Bend", I even got as far as cutting the song together specifically for this commercial. Too bad I may never use it. Here is a cell which was to be a truck driving up the road, the view would start at the bottom, following the truck up the road and then swoop upwards to view the horizon as the truck came to meet it, view it.

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Past Projects

Theatre Project: I wanted to make a scene like real animators do. I painted a picture in acrylics of an old-fashioned theatre to use as a background. On separate papers I drawn over 40 characters in ballpoint pen, colored the characters in photoshop, and then pasted each character into the scene using photoshop. It took approx 19 hours (split into 4 days). To be honest, I got so sick of working on this one, I couldn't bare to look at the finished result for days. View the background. View the end result.