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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Movies that I love- Poltergeist (1982)




Basically, this is my favorite haunted house movie of all time(yes, even better than the Haunting in my book), full of ghosts, monsters and even a pool full of skeletons!

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Rey's theme


Once again, the Maestro Williams gives us lush, romantic symphony stuffs.

Monday, December 28, 2015

He got mauled by an English Werewolf in An American Werewolf in London


Still my favorite werewolf movie of all time.

"Beware the moors, kid."

Eh, not for kids, FYI.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Ancient Egyptians- Underwater Spino

Another one of my favorite pages!

Trade paperback coming out in January HERE!

Costa Rican Futbol- Saprissa beats La Liga


My uncle Humberto, who passed away this year, can't be happy in heaven right now, as his(our) beloved Liga Deportiva Alajuelense loses to their most hated foe on our home turf!


Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Ancient Egyptians value study notes

It's important for me to annotate my value studies for the colorist, because there's some stuff that just needs to be documented in a manner other than visual.

You can pre-order the trade paperback HERE

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

One of my favorite color final pages from Ancient Egyptians

Once it a while, it comes out just right:)

The Ancient Egyptians trade paperback comes out January 7th!
I'll start posting links so all five of you can order it!

Monday, December 21, 2015

Ancient Egyptians value study- keep track of the main characters

I try to mark the characters that the audiences need to focus slightly differently so they are easier to discern.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Ancient Egyptians value study issue 3

I know the trees are outrageously out os scale, but once in a while you've got to have a little Kong Skull Island mixed into the story.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Ancient Egyptians issue 2 value study



The Guatemalan Star Wars trailer

As a latino, nice to read/hear that Poe Dameron, one of the new characters in the movie, is from Guatemala:)


Dang, it's so cool to see the Millennium Falcon back:)

Monday, December 7, 2015

Apollo 13 storyboards 033

Almost done posting this sequence, thinking about what's next, and I do have a few more cards up met sleeve:


Thursday, December 3, 2015

It's dinosaur Thursday!




The first pic is of the animatronic dinosaurs being brought in for the 1964 New York World's fair.

The second one is just pretty darn cool.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Another arrow fest

Today you'd have to draw all of these movements and motions in different, separate panels, since storyboards are not constructed as final documents, but rather assets for animatics.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Apollo 13 storyboards 031

All of the arrows on these panels just confuse me these days, lol.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Monday, November 23, 2015

Ancient Egyptians Trade Paperback publication


It should come to all five of you that the Ancient Egyptians TPB is coming out with a wrap-around cover. I like it that way and it honestly keeps the ads off of the back cover.

This baby drops on January 6, 2016, and here's a link to where you can order it.
Dark Horse will mail it right to you:

Ancient Egyptians trade paperback link!

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Two for Wednesday- a storyboard style contrast


I thought it might be interesting to post two storyboard panels from two different shows, in this case Apollo 13 and Muppet Wizard of Oz, just to beta sense of the style and contrast that storyboards need to have from show to show.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Two for Tuesday: Muppet Wizard of Oz storyboards


A couple of vaguely nice shots of Dorothy and Toto making their way into Munchkinland.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Another Hulk animated series storyboard


The name of the show is so silly that I won't mention it, but here ya go.

Back to more Muppet and Apollo storyboards tomorrow.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Harryhausen, Gwnagi, and me


Anybody that knows me understands how much I like Valley of Gwangi, and here's a short documentary on the picture.

Enjoy the weekend, you won't get it back!

Everything you'll ever want to know about a shark attack and were afraid to ask...


Anybody that thinks shark attacks are slow and agonizing like in the movies- well, just watch this!

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Disney dinosaur mystery

I drew this twenty years ago for the disney dino movie, totally forgot about it and yet found it on the internet.

Strange.

This might be a Spinosaurus, ironically.

Apollo 13 storyboards 028

God this drawing's horrible. Looks like a milk carton lining up with a spark plug.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

What's up with all the arrows?

Directional arrows in storyboards are things of the past, and dates this board panel. Now storyboards are used in animatics, which makes them unnecessary.

Friday, November 6, 2015

New Japanese Star Wars Trailer

I usually do not post on Fridays, but here's a Japanese Star Wars trailer with new footage:


Warning! Spoilers.


Thursday, November 5, 2015

Mediocre!


Immortan Joe would find my storyboards of this movie to be mediocre!

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Ancient Egyptians, issue 2, page 5

I like everyone to get an upclose look at how mediocre my art really is.

Apollo 13 storyboards 024

This is the docking sequence, which I think is shot-for-shot what the film shows.

Monday, November 2, 2015

More Apollo 13 storyboards

I'm going to start off November by posting a few storyboards from the docking sequence:


Saturday, October 31, 2015

Happy Halloween from Fuseli and Dreyer

First, the original piece, entitled the Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli, circi 1781:


And now the painting's influence in the silent film by Theodor Dreyer (one of my favorite vampire films) titled Vampyr:


Yes, the old lady's a vampire!



Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 29, 2015

My favorite Monster movies (some of them anyway)

The Thing (1982)


Alien (1979)



Predator (1987)


Aliens (1986)



Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1979) remake



An American Werwolf in London (1981)

Sam Specter- Cover in progress


Notice how the scanned roughs are in their respective places, and how I am starting to digitally ink the characters, though on individual layers so I can reposition as needed.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Ancient Egyptians, issue 2, page 7

I'm not crazy about the perspective on the Carcharodontasaurus' tail in the bottom panel.

Sam Specter's floating haunted house


I imagine the plumbing would require some imagination as well!

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Ancient Egyptians, issue four, page 20

Thought some of you might want to see how the inked pages look before the color process sets in.