Happy Halloween!

I hadn't touched anything on the Izzy project for a long time, but there's a strangeness in the air on Halloween so I thought I'd carve up a little treat.

What Might have been...

Here are a handful of sketches and designs that I haven't posted, in all the flurry over the last several months that we've so lovingly called "Izzy." They are design explorations, that ended up not being chosen for finals...but they were valuable, because they helped us get where we needed to go.
Anyway, have a look. Hope you enjoy!













And above, some quick screen grabs of the models that our tech team is putting together.
For now, time for bed...
Soon, some new sketches--hopefully.

Izzy Learns a Life Lesson

Hopscotch from Anthony Holden on Vimeo.

Some more animation tests for our senior film.

More Explorations

Some more explorations into character development and design for our senior animation project at BYU. The film's in an interesting place right now, since our story crew hasn't nailed down character personalities--which ends up being fun for me, because that means I'm free to do designs all over the place, but it's not exactly great for meeting deadlines. Luckily we're only in the beginning stages.
Right now, we know there's a girl and a rhino...and that's about it.
Anyway, let me know what you think about what you see!

Gals and Rhinos

Well, it appears as though the month is drawing to a close already...where does the time go? I haven't posted much lately, but I don't want you to think that that is because I'm being lazy or anything. I've just been busy working on a crazy deadline for work, which is good because work=food=my wife and baby are happy=I can keep drawing for fun.
At any rate, our group at BYU has begun work on our animated short! It's about a little girl and a rhino, so I bet you can guess what I've been drawing non-stop for the last little while. I don't really have anything clever to say right now, so I'll just get to it:
All of what you see here is marker and photoshop (except for the two watercolors and the one collage, which is entirely photoshop). Hope you like seeing the exploration--leave a comment and let me know what you think!