Banjo King

Banjo Pigs with Ballinger! Not quite done yet, but I wanted to share the progress. A class project, but something that I am having a lot of fun with!!! All Hail the King!

Alan Concepts

These are some of the character concept drawings of Alan before we decided upon the previous sketch's.

Common Ground

Here are my two characters for my Jr. Film, "Common Ground". The short fat character's name is Butch. He is a bum that lives outside Alan's (the taller, thinner character) apartment. Every day Alan walks past Butch without hardly noticing him. Once in a great while he'll toss him a penny, but even that's seldom. It's not until Alan loses his job and comes home to literally nothing after a fire destroys the apartment complex that he realizes that he will be learning more from Butch than he had anticipated. This piece is a Stop-Motion Animation. The final film will be up, closer to the end of May.

And....Colored!

This was a lot of fun. I spent a short time coloring it, mostly with textures, and was a good study.

Battles but Forgotten

This being the first post on my blog, I am really excited to see where this takes us! Since you know little about me, I will be happy to give a quick rundown of who I am. I was born in Pioneer, OH and raised there. It's in the middle of nowhere. I attend Huntington University and I am currently studying Animation under Steve Leeper, Bryan Ballinger, Shabaaz Shaw, and Phillip Hall. I hope you all enjoy this blog! 

To get us started, this was a quick sketch inspired by Diablo III. One of my favorite games of all time being Diablo 2, I, like thousands of others, impatiently wait for the sequel. Hopefully it will be released, well, at all. But until then, I will continue to doodle and day dream about it.

-Mike