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Week 03 - #2012workhard

2012-01-30T11:10:00.002-06:00

Week 02 -- #2012workhard

2012-01-23T12:19:00.001-06:00

Full description on vimeo -- but this week I decided to try and composite some layers into some video shot here at the studio.which then turned into something else entirely :)

Week -01 #2012WorkHard

2012-01-23T12:12:00.001-06:00

Started a weekly video project group on vimeo. The goal is to post one video of any kind once a week throughout the year.I'm currently on week 02, but wanted to share the first animation as well :)

first doodle of the year.

2012-01-12T00:21:00.004-06:00

no clue what made me pick the style, but yep just playing around. <3 painter.

Best of 2011 in photos.

2012-01-04T11:43:00.009-06:00

Whew! Last year was really a strong year for me photography wise, I was pushing myself to shoot constantly which opened my head to new possibilities within restraints. Coming into 2011 I slowly backed away from my camera to try and enjoy what I was doing instead of constantly trying to capture it. I think this year I found a pretty good balance even though I slacked for first part of the year. I ended the year strong and actually most of my top 10 are from my most recent trip to chicago. I tried to cull through all of my photos and pick only 10, but that was a bit too hard. I reduced my selection to a top 25. I've reposted the top 10 here and the rest as a contact sheet. Enjoy!

1.Welcome to Earth - Newly hatched chicken in chicago at the museum of science and industry.
I actually shot this in color and changed it to B&W in post, I felt the composition and depth of field were so strong that the image conveyed enough without color. It was hard to get a clean shot in focus of these guys moving around, so this was definitely the hero.

2. Visible Light - another photo from an exhibit inside the museum of science and industry. We were in a room where you turned on colored lights to show how they changed perception of
colors and how they were additive. Saw the low light opportunity and luckily pulled off one
of my favorite shots of this batch.

3.We're tiny -- I love flying, it sometimes put things in scale. Out of everything that is going on
in your life, you fly all the way up there and everything else seems just out of proportion. This was on a flight heading towards san diego and there was just some beautiful desert that wanted to be photographed. The addition of the fisheye just helped capture how massive the earth feels.

4. Peeking down the street - My love of photography will still heavily rely on long exposure night photography. I'm fascinated by how light travels and illuminates even when to our eyes, its completely dark. Things become rich and vibrant -- almost extraterrestrial! This is in kansas city near our house, i'm sure I didn't look creepy at all photographing in the middle of the street at 2am.

5. Directional Blur -- Another photo from our visit to chicago, being outside of the city excited me enough to play in unfamiliar territory. While on top of the john hancock building I was able to get this great photo with the lens baby. Shooting in a lounge with you face pushed up against the glass with lots of reflections is already hard enough, adding the delicate focus of the lens baby and you have a heavy situation. I love that the focus landed perfectly left on this one and the bokeh effects really feel like arrows in the middle. I think that oddity is what excites me most, and the longer exposure photography in general :)

6. Celebrate with Dance -- This year gave a few fun photo moments through a couple of friends weddings. I had a lot of fun shooting at the Kemper museum here in kansas city, and this was another love story with the lens baby. This was definitely my favorite from the batch of photos I took this day. Just captures the satisfaction and happiness these two are celebrating.

07. Here with you -- I think I picked this photo half on the quality and tone of the imagery, but I do think most of it comes from the sentimental value it holds. I waited until night to start trying to shoot the sign on top of the hotel -- i knew the lights would kick on and give it an eerie glow. The moon came out to give a helping hand and what would a photo be without an american flag.

08. Tracing the light -- Another photo from on top of the john hancock building in chicago. What can I say? Long exposure city photography is fun :) The natural light bouncing around with the cars and christmas lights just illuminated the city in a great way.

09. Icon -- Again with chicago -- and for that matter the next one as well. You'd think I didn't shoot any photos this year until last month. I just love how larger than life this representation of
Marylin is -- just fit so perfectly to who she was. This was actually as close as I got, most people ran up to give a peek ;) I thought the scale between the buildings, statue and the viewers was pretty fun. This was also a photo I post adjusted to be B&W. I loved the longer exposure and what it did with the ambient lights -- I just felt it more appropriate to be B&W.

10. On the shoulder of giants -- lastly a wide view from that 96th floor window. about a 10 sec exposure on this one if I remember right -- just enough to let the darks stay heavy.

And the rest of the 25 which can be found in larger format on flickr.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-12-12T17:07:00.001-06:00

Found photo art.

2011-12-09T14:45:00.002-06:00

Monday Inspiration!

2011-12-05T12:12:00.003-06:00

Happy Monday folks, unfortunately I was pretty bad at keeping URLs for all of the images I pulled the past week. I'm sorry for that -- mostly because they were other amazing images to see, if you would like to see more of a particular artist leave a comment and i'll try to track it down for you :)

great graffiti artist, i recommend checking out the rest of the images
on the link.
http://houhouhaha.fr/tasso#respond

Monday Inspiration!

2011-11-21T14:36:00.004-06:00

who can pass up these awesome looking birds?

beyond the great colors, i just love the simplistic approach.
great lines.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robotboy66/6350739910/sizes/o/in/photostream/

i always have a fascination for painters, this oil painting is no exception.
so awesome. such patience.
http://www.simonmonk.com/

such a great random russian photo.
the lighting is so surreal.

almost loved the minimal graphic approach to this.
strong lines and negative space.
http://martiszuludvikez.blogspot.com/

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-11-15T11:20:00.003-06:00

such a beautiful photo, the atmospherics are fantastical.
http://glennpajarito.com/#1486426/Fun-things

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23473719@N08/6283873213/sizes/l/in/photostream/

another great photo -- the motion blur is quite amazing. and there is still nothing more beautiful than black and white photography.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/3989339121/sizes/o/in/photostream/

really great installation using an unexpected medium: tape.
http://www.t-r-a-n-s-i-t.net/projekte.html

fantastic installation as well -- such a dream like world.

spirograph fun

2011-11-14T10:42:00.004-06:00

not really spirographs but they reminded me of the technique.
I was workingwith some lines and decided i'm going to mirror that --
and well these are the results :)

doodle i started too late.

2011-11-07T01:35:00.001-06:00

maybe i'll finish it who knows.

PJ flier.

2011-11-01T11:21:00.001-05:00

flier i worked up for an upcoming PJ show.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-10-31T15:39:00.003-05:00

Satellite images of earth showing air traffic, internet, and roads:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/8838796/Satellite-images-of-Earth-show-roads-air-traffic-cities-at-night-and-internet-cables.html?image=2

Nicolas Kennedy Sitton:
http://www.ignant.de/2011/10/18/nicolas-kennedy-sitton/

Keep it real tumblr:
http://k-r-e-e-p.tumblr.com/post/11011099787

kinda a hectic week, didn't really get to pull that much imagery. But here are some images that I found pretty fantastical.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-10-24T15:14:00.003-05:00

pulled this image from buamai, don't have the original link! great image though. subtly twisted :)

one of my favorite letter guys. Always clean, great letter forms, and fills.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emit-DF/261724820524621

dubai during a cloudy day, pulled this image from a forum, don't have the original link

http://www.olschinsky.at/de/de/newest-work/metamorphosen.php?seite=1
love the overall treatment to the imagery.

http://www.arno-rafael-minkkinen.com/
great use of the body and amazing compositions.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-10-10T13:19:00.004-05:00

Happy monday folks. I'll also be posting some new images to flickr, so watch there
as well :)

http://www.designaside.com/10935/portfolio/popupology-elod-beregszaszi

same link as above.

http://www.workdiary.de/ worth seeing the high res for the details!

http://unurth.com/2064304/Aakash-Nihalani-in-India
worth checking out the other photos as well! great stuff.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-10-03T15:41:00.002-05:00

As usual -- here are somethings that i've found throughout the week. new this week by request -- tried added a small reason to my picks of imagery... hmm.. :P

Love the colors and abstract approach to the letterforms. Really reminds me of some of my co-worker Ben's early telephoneme style exploration. Found this linked on twitter from the infamous @Joker_TRNSCND

Type is something we're always working with at the studio. Finding interesting and new ways of incorporating that into our visuals is a consistent challenge. Love the abstract approach

this person chose to form the words.

a good macho man illustration isn't hard to love, but the bright colors and textural elements through

shapes and line work add a really nice aesthetic to this piece. all of the work on the site is pretty fantastic, but this one stood out to me.

http://www.thedeadwrestlersociety.com/

I'm not a big fashion person -- don't really follow it or know whats going on in the world of it. But every now and then images cross my path that I find intriguing. i thought the asymmetry of the design added such a nice weight balance to the bottom heavy graphics. the colors are pretty odd too!

Monday Inspiration.

2011-09-19T17:02:00.001-05:00

As always, from my weekly bookmark clippings to yours. Things i find throughout the week that capture my eye, that I re-post to hopefully inspire you. Or just give you insight into the things that make me tick.

http://uponafold.com.au/blog/post/pictures-on-pencils

http://www.behance.net/rookie

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8763834@N02/

Monday Inspiration!

2011-09-12T12:26:00.002-05:00

http://www.designaside.com/10819/arte/le-illusioni-di-tom-french

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53357101@N07/5480807113/in/photostream/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xODoWrOysRs&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.mutanthands.com/

http://www.colagene.com/en/illustration/mydeadpony#2584

Monday Inspiration!

2011-09-06T15:48:00.003-05:00

welcome back. hope you had a good labor day weekend :) sorry there is only a few images, but they are all gems!

Takeshi Kawano

Tomoko Shioyasu

Devour Book, pans that look like planets.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-08-29T16:10:00.003-05:00

http://www.serginhodimi.com/#1532962/Bird-Silkmag

http://www.kevincooley.net/

http://www.gregoryeuclide.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34900073@N07/3370154891/sizes/o/in/set-72157615686115514/

ewok installation.

Soda Can Fireworks.

2011-08-16T11:16:00.001-05:00

soda can exploration. from James Ramirez on Vimeo.
pflow + krakatoa.
nothing too fancy going on, looks like fireworks :P

Monday Inspiration Stravaganza!

2011-08-15T11:50:00.003-05:00

http://www.designaside.com/10768/arte/kohei-nawa

http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2011/08/04/to-the-moon-time-life-records/

http://www.etoday.ru/2011/08/predmetnyy-dizayner-tembolat-g.php

http://unicornology.tumblr.com/post/76781589/stirringofbirds-iwantmybearsuit

http://synapticstimuli.com/cellular-communities/

http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2011/08/04/to-the-moon-time-life-records/

Monday Inspiration!

2011-07-25T15:45:00.002-05:00

short list. i kinda was scatter brained last week so I didn't collect much, but here is what i got!

Punch them for a pick.

2011-07-22T12:35:00.002-05:00

friend just bought a guitar pick cutter and blank plastic pieces to make some custom picks. he passed me one and this is what i did with it. front and back side :)

Monday Inspiration!

2011-07-18T10:57:00.003-05:00

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/02/16/jules-verne-the-man-who-invented-the-future/

http://sedibujantuits.posterous.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbeadles/

http://www.chrisryniak.com/
http://www.spookypop.com/

Monday Inspiration!

2011-07-11T10:06:00.003-05:00

http://www.zaraillustrates.com/

http://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=23025

http://www.behance.net/goranportfolio/frame

http://500px.com/Matthias

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracciamenti07/5032920850/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Thursday Flashback!

2011-06-30T16:11:00.003-05:00

forgot I did this awhile ago but -- i took the models from my short "Robot loving" and re-envisioned them in mental ray with shiny shaders and DOF. The original was all toon shaded. Kinda fun to see where you've come from.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-06-27T12:35:00.002-05:00

http://drafthouse.com/movies/bonnie_and_clyde/austin

www.scribeswalk.com

http://animationsmears.tumblr.com/

Deltron in photos

2011-06-27T11:19:00.002-05:00

Got to break my new fisheye lens in this weekend with del! It was hard enough shooting with a new lens, learning what it does / doesn't like and also the extreme dim light situation. Overall i think they captured the essence of what that stage looked like, and i'm happy a handful! We also stopped by firefly and caught some of sike spinning, Those are hard photos as well! oh nightclubs.

enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/friedpixels/

You're electric.

2011-06-21T10:37:00.001-05:00

playing around with particles as usual.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-06-20T09:57:00.003-05:00

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/chiles-puyehue-volcano-erupts/100081/

http://themonsterengine.com/

http://cargocollective.com/matthewcurry

http://www.lizcollini.com/

http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Monday Inspiration!

2011-06-13T12:22:00.002-05:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kraftgenie/5820589401/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://mabarnes.co.uk/index.php?/project/cold-stations-extras/

Weekly inspiration.

2011-06-07T10:22:00.003-05:00

Oh well i missed monday -- kinda all over the place. But hey -- don't go without some inspiration into the rest of the week!

http://www.saatchionline.com/yansenws

http://yutaonoda.com/

http://matthew-lyons.com/

http://www.aryz.es/

Fireworks!

2011-06-06T00:25:00.002-05:00

Fireworks - Krakatoa / Pflow setup from James Ramirez on Vimeo.

I found an evermotion pflow setup for making some fireworks. After tearing the thing apart piece by piece, i finally picked up on what was going on. I knew I wanted to convert it over to krakatoa instead of scanline, just took upping the amount of particles and saving out some extra channels.

KCM use:
Age / Lifespan to density.
density to TextCoord
Gradient Map based on TextCord.

Next step would to break out each event to get its own colors.

added a starglow in after effects to help push the flow factor since I haven't really figured out a proper emission or additive workflow.

collection of shots.

2011-06-02T23:14:00.003-05:00

some photos from off and on, here and there. enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/friedpixels/

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-05-31T13:28:00.003-05:00

makeup for memorial day -- hope you had a good weekend!

http://lobaton.wordpress.com/

scribeswalk.com

www.puhl.com.br/

http://icanfreezetime.com/

Monday Inspiration!

2011-05-23T14:55:00.001-05:00

Morning photo-ops.

2011-05-23T11:38:00.004-05:00

sitting here waiting on the plumber i tried to do some work but my poor laptop is a weenie. so instead I grabbed 3 random photos from the mighty google search and enhanced them with doodles! kapow! (sorry whose ever photos these are!) ;)

Frost experiments.

2011-05-18T10:45:00.004-05:00

trying to learn new directions.

Frost / Geometry Mesh / Vray

the previous test uploaded but actually rendered. I kinda forgot I had an omni light linked to my animated object and so the light is wild and flickery hell.

Blobby Mess

another frost random test, didn't really hone in the settings for the animation, i was rendering still images and i was fine with the settings. in motion there are quite a few problems.

it was also a pretty high particle count so the viewport was getting a little slow on updates, so i got a little lax on refinement :P

Frost / Vray play

first movie is .bin sequence
second is pflow source

vray with basic sss2 shaders.

Frost geometry mesh

pflow source + frost with geometry meshing sourcing 3 arrows and orientation set to follow target (gizmo) also using radius from pflow. same as first video but a playblast of the viewport.

Frost / Vray play

2011-05-16T14:03:00.000-05:00

meshing particles. sss shader testing.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-05-16T09:39:00.003-05:00

have a good week, and sorry for the void of linkbacks! if you really want to know where something came from leave a comment and i'll track it down for you! it was a busy week!

Monday Inspiration!

2011-05-09T10:06:00.004-05:00

Happy monday -- and look at that! I managed to get all working links for this round :)
As always -- i pull images throughout the week that I like and save them, at the end of the
week I share a handful with you :)

http://www.maudearsenault.com/

http://www.leenks.com/link351371.html

http://blog.stuntkid.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucsa/4558452691/

Monday Inspiration!

2011-05-02T09:52:00.002-05:00

Rock 'em, sock 'em. Happy Monday.

http://w-portfolio.com/demo/

http://rhettdashwood.com.au/

Old style exploration.

2011-04-27T15:19:00.003-05:00

this is when we were brainstorming for our swiss air short. still a frame i love. sometimes i think it feels like we have the world on our shoulders.

photoshop brush play.

2011-04-25T01:43:00.002-05:00

i could play with brushes for hours. so much variation.

Monday Inspiration!

2011-04-24T22:32:00.006-05:00

Your feast to start the week off! Good luck.

http://www.amandafriedman.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/louislanderdeacon/

http://www.wechoosetogotothemoon.tumblr.com/post/4327293589

http://www.unbuendia.mx/post/4256702423/venga-esa-mano-amiga

Monday Inspiration!

2011-04-18T10:47:00.004-05:00

yeah yeah -- i think we should just move these to monday. It makes much more sense since I keep all of my imagery on my work computer that I accumulate during the week. either way -- kapow. (ps sorry i was bad at keeping source links this week!)

http://www.designaside.com/10147/arte/l017-angelo-bramanti-e-giuseppe-siracusa

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgdsca/5597704333/sizes/l/in/photostream/

birthday doodle.

2011-04-11T16:00:00.002-05:00

did this for a friend -- spray paint, paint pens, on wood.

Inspiration Sunday. (late night)

2011-04-11T01:09:00.001-05:00

enjoy!

Inspiration Sunday. (monday makeup)

2011-04-04T11:14:00.004-05:00

oh i missed sunday. but monday morning is nearly the same right?

(from a friend, don't know source!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/5571181942/in/photostream/

(unknown source)

everynicething.com

Birdy exploration.

2011-03-28T22:42:00.002-05:00

Inspiration Sunday.

2011-03-27T19:35:00.004-05:00

Another Sunday - another set of internet references from me to you.
I try to attach source / artist if possible.

http://www.bookworship.com

http://charliebowater.tumblr.com/

http://www.snarlik.se/

Conference doodle 03.23.11

2011-03-25T12:40:00.001-05:00

forgot to post this up.

Reversed Out.

2011-03-24T11:45:00.001-05:00

Reversed Out. from James Ramirez on Vimeo.

thought it would be fun to switch up the palette and do in inverse coloring. almost like scratching into a surface. short but fun -- sorry i started off slow had to make a brush ;)
painter had just crashed and i lost my last one :(

Music:
Snippet from @DJpromote video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezjdkZa5Ki0
used without his permission and he is definitely going to hate this! ;)

Conference doodle 03.20.11

2011-03-21T15:50:00.001-05:00

Inspiration Sunday.

2011-03-20T23:47:00.005-05:00

I thought i'd give a go at something new -- i'm pretty OCD about checking my bookmarks (well the ones on my toolbar) and I thought that some of you might enjoy some of the imagery that inspires me. As with anything on the web -- its not like i'm diggin and finding this great imagery, there are already blogs i'm pulling it from, but I thought it would be interesting to try and show things that inspire me personally out of the thousand of images I see weekly.

let's try it out -- if people like it we'll do it! if not -- we'll do it anyways ;) I'll try to start slow, we'll do 3 images for this week.

edit: had the wrong link, this is san zhi in taiwan.

http://www.koentjoro.com/

http://www.aerosynlex.com/

just splitin.

2011-03-16T00:40:00.001-05:00

tonight's doodle. decided to try and keep it loose. as if doodling in my moleskin.

Tuesday's call doodles.

2011-03-15T15:29:00.001-05:00

Conference doodlin'.

2011-03-10T12:17:00.001-06:00

Shoo bee dooo..

2011-03-04T11:06:00.003-06:00

Hello! Sorry i haven't been showing the blogging much love as we start this new year. I just haven't had the time to dedicate to personal work, or as much as i'd like to. I hope you don't get too bored, and i'll bring goodies out soon! promise.

I've Gotcha.

2011-02-16T00:35:00.001-06:00

this way sir.

2011-01-27T00:41:00.003-06:00

wallpaper size too!

Lunch Doodle.

2011-01-26T16:24:00.002-06:00

one thing you gotta love about Happy Gillis, beyond great food, a place that puts out paper for you to drawn on while you eat. :)

Light Studies.

2011-01-14T16:54:00.003-06:00

just trying to play with a few various ways of lighting an interior scene. Main source of light is a sun and sky, with either additional lights in the windows, single light source in the room, and variations on skylights + skylight portals (which i had no luck with) either way. always learning.

The Warriors!

2011-01-09T22:43:00.001-06:00

was working on this doodle till my laptop battery called it quits. who knows where it would of wound up.. :) kinda fun. kinda odd.

Bang Time Lapse

2011-01-08T01:19:00.001-06:00

Bang. Bang. from James Ramirez on Vimeo.

another time lapse doodle. tried to do a quick coloring with it as well using some old water color brushes I had laying around. tried to keep the video short and sweet.

hope you enjoy it.

Music: Jaylib vs J-Rocc Champion Sound Bonus Disc.

BANG!

2011-01-01T23:49:00.002-06:00

first doodle of the new year. just kinda wanted to play around and throw in some color this time with some old watercolor brushes. time lapse video to follow soon.

brain splatter.

2010-12-21T01:09:00.002-06:00

One Fire Ignites Another Main TItles.

2010-12-09T19:04:00.002-06:00

Main Titles for a documentary 'One Fire Ignites Another' Directed by Stacey Lee and Clare Van Den Berg.
http://onefireignitesanother.com/

In the lab

2010-11-28T22:15:00.001-06:00

Trying to work on a painting. Slow process and experiments.

Eye God(s)

2010-11-19T10:26:00.001-06:00

Here is the video in HD nonetheless. enjoy!

Eye God(s) - Time Lapse

2010-11-18T23:01:00.002-06:00

just finished working on a new doodle that I recorded. Will post it as soon as vimeo gets done uploading / converting -- probably be tomorrow... super slow upload and im guessing with my free account i'll have to wait in line for an hour. see ya then!

Hip Hop is Undead flickr set.

2010-11-08T14:40:00.003-06:00

Here are some of the images I was able to snap during the show -- thanks to everyone who came out. I had a blast and can't wait till my next show. [view set]

HipHop Is Undead! Custom Munny

2010-11-04T16:55:00.001-05:00

here is the final version:

a few work in progress shots on the flickr if you are interested.

three days of calendars

2010-10-21T12:50:00.003-05:00

(yes i'm still doing these you should see the stack! mucho impressed)

Happy Holloween!

2010-10-20T15:56:00.003-05:00

found this old drawing I did a few years back. Thought it was still fun although a bit lofi.
Enjoy!

Rockout Icon!

2010-10-18T17:19:00.001-05:00

Download this free icon for your Mac! More to come!
(get info, copy and paste to any item)
http://www.mediafire.com/?rwab5sj81s8aen3

Happy Sunday!

2010-10-17T18:53:00.000-05:00

Fantastic unintentional directions :)

DJ Doodlism Part Deux

2010-10-04T23:19:00.002-05:00

kapow. what you think? quick color scheme, just disregard that.

DJ doodlism

2010-09-30T22:23:00.001-05:00

Working on this guy, he is coming along pretty good!

Making an album cover.

2010-09-30T12:28:00.003-05:00

DWill asked me to collaborate with him and work up some cover art for his new instrumental album inspired by cartoons. It's a banging album and be sure to download it for FREE. Here is the final artwork with a few other explorations I was testing out before picking the right direction. Excuse some of the raw state these are in -- but thought it'd be fun to share the brainstorming process.

Can art.

2010-09-28T01:55:00.002-05:00

HipHop Is Undead!

2010-09-20T14:40:00.004-05:00

This should be a great show! Hope you mark your calendars and make it out! @sikenomics is putting everything together and looks like its going to be a great collection of artists!

Tree Swiper! WIP -- updated

2010-09-15T09:59:00.003-05:00

Tree Swiper! Update. from James Ramirez on Vimeo.

combined both sessions and dropped an atmosphere instrumental in the background. enjoy!

was working on this until the battery on the laptop got low... had to stop, save, and upload what was done... hopefully finish this soon! i like the sketch!

work in progress as my laptop battery died. had to call it an early ending for this one. hopefully finish soon!

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updated with latest and greatest.

Telephoneme Preface A

2010-09-03T10:55:00.003-05:00

a short animation from the world of telephoneme.tv

Bbboy Style.

2010-09-01T00:57:00.002-05:00

busted this out today for something coming up -- you'll know more soon.

Dust exploration.

2010-08-26T23:46:00.003-05:00

took a building explosion animation and attempted to create a poor mans dust / debris with krakatoa and pflow. Ran into a few challenges but even in its simplicity I learned a few things. 30 million particles (44gb of data) I accidentally left the particles visible at birth so -- please excuse that! (nerd nerd nerd)

Not complete neglect.

2010-08-19T01:04:00.002-05:00

I've still been adding to the daily flickr feed and also posting on 365ers, i'm sorry its been drought for doodles and whatnots -- hopefully i'll get to share some side projects with you! In the meantime be sure to check out our new short Telephoneme and our summer reel!

be good!

TELEPHONEME | MK12

2010-08-12T23:50:00.005-05:00

MK12 presents our new short TELEPHONEME. I do hope you guys enjoy it. As always its a labor of love, late nights, weekends and little sleep.
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Dance Dance Dance.

2010-08-04T00:20:00.001-05:00

Building Demolition 101.

2010-07-30T13:09:00.000-05:00

just messing around with building destruction, you never know when you might need to destroy one or two or eighteen.

Forever People.

2010-07-27T11:59:00.003-05:00

Not sure if i've mentioned Ascot J. Smith before but... seriously. Go check out his work, he does good things for you, as any artist should. His latest series Forever People is an audio piece which updates weekly and currently has a billboard downtown kansas city to advertise. you can also follow him for the latest via @ascot_world on the twittereerez
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Dem Demon Dogs.

2010-07-22T08:59:00.002-05:00

photochop + found imagery

FLUORESCENT BLACK trailer for SDCC

2010-07-21T10:31:00.001-05:00

I worked with Nathan Fox and M.F. Wilson on creating this trailer for their upcoming release @ comic con. Hope you all enjoy it. Compressed schedule while working on a million other things but hey -- it's out of here.

Music and Sound Design by Luka Kuncevic
Voice Casting & Direction by Imaginex Studios
Moving pictures by Friedpixels
Illustrated by Nathan Fox
Written by M.F. Wilson

Death doodle.

2010-07-20T00:31:00.003-05:00

EEL head. i hate when this happens.

2010-07-19T14:06:00.003-05:00

found photography + photochop

and then there were Pixels again.

2010-07-14T16:11:00.003-05:00

after a few years of waiting and standby... i'm proud to announce i've finally gotten my domain back!!! you can no go to http://www.friedpixels.com/ and it'll bring you here. Maybe later on when i get fancy i'll make a proper site -- but this alone is enough to make me overwhelmed with joy. Seriously a robot had my domain and was holding it hostage for like 400 bucks or something outrageous. i'm glad shes back... and i hope you are too.

the domain was just registered, so it may take a few days to work properly.. but it will!

This new inhouse font.. sucks..

2010-06-30T12:13:00.002-05:00

not really. i like it a lot. heather rocked this out.

Some pixels via particles.

2010-06-29T22:53:00.002-05:00

some particle play in 3dsmax. was trying to make all of these books attracted to this earth model, and then interact with each other as well. Coming along -- maybe it'll turn into something cool.

Book love. from James Ramirez on Vimeo.