a fun character sketch

I've been doing a few characters here and there in my spare time, and I figured I would throw this one up for you guys to see.

He somewhat inspired from Charlie Chaplin, and I might even turn him into Chaplin. I've just been doodling here and there to inspire myself for this summer, when I finally learn to animate!!
I can't wait. Ive been anticipating having this time for a while now, and with graduation here, I can finally develop characters and animate them!! YEAH!

I hope you all like him!

Lyle

background painting

yo dudes,

this is a background for an animated short called "This Side Up." (http://dreamdelivery.blogspot.com/) the film is directed by Zane Yarbrough and Scott Vanarsdale, two very talented artists.

This was my only contribution to the film, but I had a lot of fun painting it, and I think it came out pretty cool. The shot starts out focus on the main character sitting on the crate, and then trucks out to reveal all of the packages on top of this boat. To catch the rest, you'll just have to seen the film when it is eventually released.

I hope you enjoy and there will soon be more paintings to come!

Lyle

portfolioooooooooooo...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thanks for sticking around all of you loyal followers and friends. It has been far too long, but I am creating a HUMONGOUS post with all of my work from the last year.

I just submitted my portfolio to the Pixar art department internship program (fingers crossed). I was encouraged to submit by a Pixar character designer who was visiting SCAD, by the name of Daniel Holland. Cool guy. Its so unreal to meet someone like that, because Pixar to me seems like this mythical place, and all of these familiar names that you see everywhere, like Lou Romano, Tony Fucile, Daniel Lopez Munoz. (If you haven't heard those names, l0ok them up and be prepared for amazement)

So here is my portfolio, I hope you all like it. I spent many sleepless nights putting this bad boy together and although it has a few problems I would like to fix, I am nonetheless proud of it.

Thanks for stoppin' in

Amsterdam Red Light District Prostitutes

I have had so much fun drawing these. Talk about awesome subject matter. PROSTITUTES IN THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT!!

I've realized, I really need to start applying some color to these drawings, just to break them up a bit and give each drawing a more unique flavor.

But anyways, thanks for seeing what I have been up to. Hope you all enjoy, let me know what you think.

Lyle

I created this character over a year ago, and you can see him in some of my earlier posts. I really felt like redrawing him again. He is really a lot of fun to draw, and I would love to get a model sheet and turnaround together and even animate him, at some point.

thanks for popping in!

the good old days

These are a couple of character sketches I was playing around with.
For a while Kurt and I were juggling around a few ideas for proposed animations, and these are just a couple sketches I got together for you guys to view. I think they were fun, and I would still love to develop these characters further, and perhaps one day get them modeled and rigged.

And I threw in a couple of good reference photos for fun. What amazing inspiration these guys have!! I absolutely love the stiff poses they were always in, it's almost to good to be true!

Maverick Armature and Sculpture

Yo Yo Gang,

I probably look like the biggest slacker, but believe me I've been staying very busy doing work for two films, and trying to get everything together for Maverick.

As far as Maverick is concerned, it is official, he will be the focus of a short film. That's just about all I can tell you at the moment, oh, and also it is going to be a way cool film.

I'm am in the process of creating a full body maquette of Maverick, which I will hand to a modeler, along with all of the necessary drawings, and he should be modeled in Maya within a couple months here.

Thanks for stopping by, and you know I always appreciate a comment so have at it.

Lyle