2012 San Diego Comic Con

another great week/end geeking out with old friends, making new ones, and becoming, once again, a little too familiar with the late night shwarma scene.

really happy for my friends mike and vicky and their booth/book/art success: extracurricular activies! i can only imagine they got less sleep than myself with all the work they were putting in. congrats!

some highlights, good and bad:

- realizing mondo posters wasn't a 'walk up and buy' situation, and there was a rube goldberg esque set of procedures that started with a tweet and ended up with a poster in your hand (if you were lucky and in proximity.)

- getting on board with the protocol at mondo after missing out on the mononoke poster, and grabbing a vania  zouravliov game of thrones piece.

- meeting and chatting with kevin tong for a bit, then coming away with 2 new posters and a t shirt.

- taking a quick snap with mike and jerry from penny arcade followed up with a walk by high 5.

- creating a 'mysched' on the comic con website for thu-sun, then after 20 minutes trying to access it in the hall due to an overcrowded 3g network and plethora of 'free wifi here' failed connections, giving up and going to none of the panels.

- meeting the super cute abby dey at dsp.

- finding out the art of blizzard was NOT being sold as a comic con exclusive.

- not getting a chance to say no to the incessant red wine glass refilling at the palm restaurant for the disney social. then realizing a bottle too late that if i don't drink from the glass, then they won't refill the glass...

- bowling

- still managing a hard rock patio drink in the middle of the day amidst lines, lists, and men with earpieces.

- losing out on a madelynn hug for a nathan fillion photo.

- hong's awesome leica.

- booth sitting with derick.

- barely waking up sunday, managing to get a cab, then in a damn-his-lead-foot, artificial fruit smelling state of nausea, forgetting all of my posters in his cab only to realize it when he was already long gone.

oh sd. you can be so cruel.

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MIB3

mib3 is out!

working on the show was also a blast, and keeping with tradition i was surrounded by fun and talented people. vance kovacs, raj rihal, henrik tamm, paul ozzimo, chris ross, tully summers, jason mahakian, kasra farahani, clint wallace, kevin loo, joe hiura, dianne chadwick, maya shimoguchi, richard bloom, doug harlocker, gina mauro - yes, yes, yes! congrats to everyone who worked on the show!

i've uploaded some of the work i did, as well as some concepts that didn't make the cut and some older versions of the headquarters. lots of credit also to the set designers for their solid work. jug it! (go clint go!).

pensketch.com/gallery/mib3/

more avatar work

so i finally got around to jpg-ing, resizing, and uploading the miscellaneous 190 or so sketches, doodles, illustrations, props, costumes, paint overs, textures, rejected concepts, etc - that i worked on for avatar. it only took me 4 years. some definitly more 'exciting' than others (read as navi_bowl_variation 157A totally rocks navi_bowl_variation 154cd!! omg!), but i've gone ahead and included the non descript and less interesting pieces anyhow. i'm trying not to be too selective since it was my first show and i can accept the growing pains visible in the work. :)

pensketch.com/gallery/avatar/

happy friday!

THORSDAY!

THOR comes out today! treat yourself to some aussie norwegian man god fun and get out there! i'll be checking out the 7pm showing tonight at the sundance kabuki. unfortunately they're only showing it in 3d, but the reserved seats and booze service will help me cope. i've also updated my website and gallery thanks to the friendly, yet slightly costly wysiwyg at www.squarespace.com.

i worked as an illustrator on thor for about a year and helped in the preliminary design of asgard, odin's tower, heimdall's observatory and some other environments and set dec. it was a lot of fun and i was in the company of some very talented individuals. i can't speak highly enough about the production designer, bo welch.

oh and the thor 'art of' book is out. along with some of my work you'll find some incredible art from my talented friends: ryan meinerding, charlie wen, michael kutsche, vance kovacs, raj rihal and kasra farahani to name a few.

some of the stuff that didn't make it into the book i'll have up in my gallery. you know, for the net-street cred and such...

as you were.

HAPPY THORSDAY!

 

Kicking off 2011 in Mammoth Lakes, Ca

happy new years everyone! i had an amazing time getting fresh tracks in mammoth with friends and fam. the search and rescue effort to find a lost compadre aside, good times were had by all. also got to spend some time with a new board and really enjoyed the results. the 2011 burton sherlock for powder, park and president.