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!

Rey's theme

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

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.

Merry Christmas from Raphael

School of Athens by Raphael

No, Raphael was not a Ninja Turtle.

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!

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

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!

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.

Twin suns

My favorite Star Wars moments- Chess scene

My favorite Star Wars moments- Jawas sell the droids

There's a couple of reaction shots from R2 here that still crack me up.

My Favorite Star Wars moments- Battle of Hoth

Ancient Egyptians value study- transition to red sequence

The so-called 'red' sequence is definitely hit or miss.
Either all five of you loved it or hated it.

My favorite Star Wars moments- Yoda talks about the Force

Ancient Egyptians value study: Sauropod stomp!

My favorite Star Wars moments- Luke meets Vader

Ancient Egyptians value study- sunrise

Ancient Egyptians value study- the Thursday edition

Also, an important plot point reiterated here.

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.

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:)

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

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.

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.

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

Ancient Egyptians issue 2, page 19

Happy Thanksgiving from Salvador Dali

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The helium gag was my idea, if I remember correctly, lol.

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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!

A negative but honest Ancient Egyptians review

I respect the candid nature of this review. Not every review has to be brimming with praises, and this one's an honest one:

CLICK HERE!

Rats+munchkins= Ratunchkins

30 days from today

Not going to the midnight screenings, but I'm all over this like cheese on a pizza.

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.

Two for Tuesday: Muppet Wizard of Oz storyboards

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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Happy Monday, everyone!

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.

Mediocre!

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

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

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

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More Apollo 13 storyboards

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

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!

Some unintentional but still very scary old halloween photos

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.

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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!

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.