Flash Back to Foster's

The Annie Awards are coming soon, so I thought I'd put up some work from the show that allowed me the chance of nomination.

Robot walking round 1

Here's my attempt at a walk cycle. It's still rather stiff and I need to refine it more, especially the arm that is closest to the viewer. The robot's head moves a little too much right now.

Robot Throwing Ball & Catch

So here's a piece of animation I tried to do with a character and a ball. It's decent. Some parts are slightly stiff, but I think I'm getting the hang of things slowly.

Organic Modelling Round 2

This is better than the first attempt earlier. It's starting to look a lot more human. lol!

Character Animation Between 2 Emotions, Round 2

I can say it's improved since the last one. It's still stiff though. He looks like Wallace from "Wallace & Grommit"...

ANNIE AWARD NOMINATION !

I found out through Facebook,(of all places) that I was nominated for Individual Achievement Category for "Production Design in a Television Production"!!! Of course this doesn't guarantee I'll win, hardly so, as competition is stiff! But, I'm excited that I even got a chance! Thanks everyone for all your support and well wishes!

Character Animation

After working on this, I see a bunch of things I'd like to change, so it's still a work in progress. But I'm actually enjoying the animation process in maya much more than I did when I tried animating in maya a few years back. I think I finally understand the process better. Keep tuned and I'll have more stuff up soon.

Creepy Eyeball!

I'm working on an eye that has a realistic depth to it, the other was like a contact lens, the pupil was on the surface of the lens.

scary head!

So, I'm trying to learn Maya and here is a model I'm trying to do of my son. It's coming along, but still has a LONG way to go! I'm hoping I can get some hair on this bald boy and do some facial animation on it once I'm satisfied with the look of this model.

Trying my hand at Z-Brush

I took a class in Z-Brush. At first I didn't like it. I'm used to modelling in Maya. But I got the hang of it towards the end and was able to produce this.

Spooky! Just in time for Halloween

These BGs are for SuperNews

Exterior

Interior

Boston Harbor

White House Bedroom BG design

Watch it Here:

Jabba's Palace BG Designs

watch it here:

Record Store

Battle of Trenton

Buckingham Exterior

watch it here:

Versailles Interior

Buckingham Palace Interiors

Throne Room

Versailles Exterior

Landscape Background

My Childhood buddies

I played dolls with my sister growing up. I made all the dolls clothes back then

I made this little Bulldog pup doll way back in High School, his name is Joey

I haven't done anything artistic lately....

Except for this... (man I look oooold...hehe)

An all out fondant cake with edible Wubbzy, Widget and Walden
I need a life! ;-P

Wow! Wow!

We saw this display in a little store up in Mammoth Lakes! We got so excited about it!

 

Thanks Teri!

For my last day, and for Art Director:Martin Ansolabehere, Teri Shikasho was so thoughtful and brought us very lovely bouquets to congratulate us for finishing. (last ones standing in Preproduction...hehe)

BTW, Martin,if you read this, CONGRATS!!! On the Jetix Greenlight! Sooooo Awesome!

 

Forgot about this!

I'm putting my Portfolio together and came across a few more.

Signing Off

Sayonara Imaginary Friends....and real friends too. It's been a wonderful experience to be a part of this Crew. Thanks everyone!

Janice Kubo signing off of Foster's...over and out!

p.s.-I think I will be doing some Freelance for CN's new Shorts Program. Stay tuned.

Just a Hall in Foster's Home

Older Background

More BG colors

Once Again, Layout by Dave Dunnet,
Cleanup by Tim Allen,
Color by yours truly

Here's 2 more

I'm in my last week here at Foster's! It's been a great ride, and I'm sad to see it end.

Sneak Preview

Here's one of the BGs for The Long Form we're finishing up. Can't tell you anything about it, other than it's GREAT!

some new backgrounds

Hi I'm sorry I don't post my very own stuff lately... these "day job" things have been keeping me busy. More from Fosters. As usual, Dave Dunnet is the Master Layout Artist. And Clean-Up by Tim Allen! Thanks for looking!

Foster's BG Color

Here is some of the BGs from the very first show I got to color all the way through. The BG Layout designs are by Dave Dunnet, who is amazing, and CleanUp is by Tim Allen.

It Aint Over til the...

OK, normally, it aint over til the fat lady sings, right? But how about if they showered us all with cinnamon rolls...why not? Everyone will be the happier! I thought I'd capture my strange, yet happy thought...

"Treasure" for Wubbzy!

I did some Color on this music video. I couldn't find the final thumbnails for this from my computer, so some of it is different than the video...Bob Boyle gave me lots of pointers. He's amazing! Thanks Bob!

If you have time, please check out the short music video on the Wubbcast:
http://www.wubbcast.com/episode/32

The Red Riding Hood video afterwards is not related!

Thanks!

Cave with a Giant Chicken nest

So this is another Foster's BG that I colored...this one is pretty dark... Layout is another beauty by Dave Dunnet.

Color for Foster's

Here are 2 of some of my first color stylings done for Foster's. The Layout is by the amazing Dave Dunnet. I've done more color as freelance before, but this one is different in that it was supposed to have a completely different feel than the regular show. Call it Psychydellic! I had lots of fun with these. I'll be doing Color Styling fulltime from Oct. Wish me luck!

Wubbzy! Mr. Cool!

I you have time, please check this out!

http://www.wubbcast.com/episode/13

I did the color keys for this Music Video. Bob Boyle directed me personally and gave me revision ideas. Thanks Bob for a GREAT experience!!! It was a LOT of fun! The show after it with the duck puppets is NOT related... It's rather nauseating... although my son liked it... hehe

Rhinos

I'm taking a class called "Animal Character Design" with David Coleman, he's AWESOME! I'm really trying hard to push myself towards a looser style, and much less realistic that I'm used to. We were drawing Rhinos in class and I was trying to get different styles and feelings.

Maquette for Mike

This is a maquette I did for my friend Mike Williams. He's doing an animated short of this Character named Bigelow. He's clown that wants to be a Lawyer. Thanks for being so patient with me on getting this done Mike! If you click on this image you can see the complete turnaround. (although the resolution sucks)

3D stuff

I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted anything new... I've been sooo busy at work, home and freelance! Anyhow, I'm also taking a class in Maya, and I created this Interior using the software... The Lighting is still in the works and so are the colors.

Mural of the past

I dug up this mural just for the kicks of it. It's done on a wall in a Bridal Room of a Church. It's approximately 18 wide and 8 feet tall in real life. Hope you like it!

Eaton Canyon sketch

I took a workshop with Nathan Fowkes who is an AMAZING Vis Dev guy at Dreamworks since Prince of Egypt. He taught us some great stuff during a 2-1/2 hour lecture, then let us roam out at the park to try our hand at the new wisdom he shared with us. Here's my attempt.

Happy Belated Halloween!

I made this punkin on Halloween, it's Eduardo! He's scared of Halloween, especially the pumpkins, because of the pepitos...lol...just a tribute once again to Foster's!

Here's an oldie

I was looking at some old stuff that I have...and thought, hey some of you may not have seen my sculptures. Here's on I did based on a book called "Red Wall". It's a kids' book and they have an animated series of it, but here's my take on Cornflower after reading the book. If you want to check out more, you can see them at my Maquettes and Figurines link on the side.

Farie Frankie?

Here's the fairy that I drew a while ago, I finally painted her. Her red hair is a tribute to Frankie on Foster's.

Whoa Horsey!!!

I was feeling funky, and YES, it's supposed to make you feel queeeeesy!

Hey yah, we've got somethin new here!

my son Hiding

I painted this one in Oahu,inspired by all the lively green tropical foliage

Hibiscus

Here's an attempt at watercolor in many YEARs... I painted this Hibiscus that was right outside the window at the Guesthouse we stayed in Oahu. I gave this piece as a gift the the Host family.

Close up on the bird in the air

You'll never see this bird so upclose in that boat in paradise scene, but I like this bird, so I'm sharing

more stuff

This is a background, prop(boat), character(bird) design I'm doing for a Christian group. I did the color too. The ocean has no waves because that is going to be animated in Flash.

This is my tribute to Kaguyahime, the story I told you partially on my intro. This piece is IN PROGRESS. Hopefully, I can post a few more versions as it progresses

Scenic background

OK, I tried posting this before and it was turning out really weird, finally figured out that the file was saved as a cmyk instead of rgb, and that's what was causing the crazy psychadellic colors. I did this piece for a friend who wanted a cool BG for her pins. I put up the sketch version and the final with the Pins super inposed. The pins are supposed to be major collectors items, each costing approx $25+. She plans on selling these prints of these backgrounds and having customers mount their own collector's pins on them.

Samurai Dude

Yes, patronage to my heritage. This one's kinda old, I'm hating the color now.

Fairies

These are kinda old, but what the heck.

Out of my mind

Here's some stuff out of my crazy mind.

Monkeys

Ooo Oo, Ah Ah! That's what my son would say if he saw these sketches.

Reindeer

Rudolph was hot in LA.

Impala

Here's some sketches of these delicate looking creatures.

Elephant

Here's the Asiatic Elephant, this gal rocks back and forth all the time.

Giraffes

Here's a few sketches of a baby giraffe.

Here's some Camel sketches, nice rump?