Disembodied Moustache

I recently ended 2 years of employment with Apple as a Pro App support advisor to get back to freelance work. I gleaned a great deal of useful experience during that time, and leaving was a difficult decision during a tumultuous economy.

I suffer from a common affliction where I can’t idle for long without picking up the nearest writing utensil and unleashing nonsensical sketches on an available drawing surface. While at Apple, often during meetings or monotonous support calls, I would lubricate my brain cogs in this manner — it actually helped me stay alert and attentive. During these spells I’m not really thinking much of what I’m making, I just let it happen.

After the jump, I’ve posted a selection of these ballpoint-on-notepad drawings scrawled whilst at the fruit company (most have enlargements if you click ‘em):

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Since I set up a Vimeo account for the CartoonSmart/ToonBoom contest, I decided to upload some older contest entries as well. These are both from an annual (but now defunct) 48-hour music video making contest assembled by the Alamo Drafthouse theater homebase here in Austin. Descriptions are given on the Vimeo pages for each video.

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I submitted an entry to a CartoonSmart contest… and I dun’ winned it! The contest was to “Recreate at least 15 Seconds of Your Favorite Non-Animated Movie”, utilizing the original audio (and “re-create” open to wild interpretation.)

The prize was a license for the Pro version of the ToonBoom Animate software, and you had to use the regular version or a demo to produce the entry.

You can view the submission page/discussion here:
http://vimeo.com/groups/animatecontest2/videos/13836741

…and here are the rest of the entries from the competition:
http://vimeo.com/groups/animatecontest2/videos

View some draft sketches, after the jump.

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My last post was from December of 2007. No good. That’s about to change, y’all. Polish them eyeballs and earholes.