Way back when, circa 2003(ish) when I was in the height of art school, I took many animation classes.  I have mostly ignored my animation training since.  But wouldn’t you know it, I ran across all the scans from my character animation class.  I lost the VHS with everything compiled on it, and the source files vanished into the ether, so I had not seen these things pretty much since 2003.  Well, it occurred to me with my shiny new flash I should be able to re-compile these bad boys and take a gander.  They made me giggle.  I thought I’d share.

First up, the project titled: Nice

I think the goal of this was to show two characters where one helps the other. The fella on the left is sad he only has 1 nipple. The wide fella on the right has 3 nipples, so he decides to share. All rejoice. Technical back-end, I busted out my long lost actionscript knowledge to make the movie pan slightly to the left. The effect is worthless and took me over an hour to figure out. It was totally worth it.

Secondly, the project titled: Fight

I think the goal of this was to show two characters where one does not help the other. Clearly there is an angry drunk man, and an annoying fella who never learned to dress himself asks the old man to whack him in the face. Everyone probably won.

SO there you have it, two animation things that have not seen the light of day in probably 7 years. I have a few others, that I might post if I can find the sound files that go along with them (these two are sound free).

I think I will post a recap of all the Some Tiny Teeth paintings for any given month, once that month is over. So here are all the paintings I did for February. Clicking them will take you to the other blog.

So there you have it. 7 paintings for February, all 5×5 acrylic on canvas.

If you were to hop into the sort-of-way-back-machine to October of 2009 you could witness the marriage of two of my very good friends, Chris H. and Lindsay (links over on the side there).  Now they have about a millions pets, so I decided I would paint their two dogs as them as a now very late wedding gift.  Here they are:

Atari/Chris on the left and Twinkus/Lindsay on the right.

And now for bigger versions!

Atari/Chris Acrylic on Basswood. approximately 5″x7″

Twinkus/Lindsay Acrylic on Basswood. approximately 5″x7″

This is for the Super Awesome Art Challenge blog.  It is a game where the goal is to feed the bird. I just got my copy of flash, and this is what I needed it for.

I think I will post a recap of all the Some Tiny Teeth paintings for any given month, once that month is over. So here are all the paintings I did for January. Clicking them will take you to the other blog.

So there you have it.  8 paintings for January, all 5×5 acrylic on canvas.

I painted some christmas cards this year. 4 to be exact. They were a bit late getting finished so they turned into thank you cards as well. They all look the same. Here, all 4 of them together and below and lone one bigger. Snow is harder to paint than I anticipated.

4.25″ x 5.25″ (I think) Acrylic on paper.

This year, being 2010, I am working on a side project. The project involves painting 100 paintings over the next year, at two per week, all 5″x5″. Since it is its own thing, I gave it its own blog apart from this. I call it Some Tiny Teeth: http://sometinyteeth.com *If it doesn’t load, the DNS stuff might not be all the way done, it should be totally golden by Tuesday morning at the latest

Here is a graphic to go along with it:

I’ll probably post a monthly update here covering what I did over there.

Here is a quick painting test on a maple hardwood panel, untreated, so paint directly onto the wood.

It is an interesting surface to work on.  Super absorbent, more so than paper I think.  I might use this stuff more often, time will tell.

5″x5″ acrylic on maple

Oh, and I guess this is the first thing I painted in 2010.

I don’t know if that is true or not, but that is probably irrelevant.  What is relevant is it’s time for another addition to the super awesome art challenge blog.  This month the subject was ‘Dancin’ King’.  So, I think with that said, this is reasonably self explanatory.

Painted in photoshop.

I was asked to put a small painting in a show full of lots of small paintings.  I was given a canvas and given free reign.  I’ll post info on the show when it opens later.  Anyway, this is what I made.  It has no title yet but it will.

6″ x 6″ acrylic on canvas.

Underneath the above painting was a failed start to another painting. I stopped it and started over because something about it reminded me too much of something in the old cartoon Rocko’s Modern Life. I may have just been being paranoid, but I didn’t like it. As it stands the new thing I painted, I like better than this old thing anyhow. So yeah… Here it is, the old thing before I covered it up:

6″ x 6″ acrylic on canvas.