super rugged

Dennis and the Down-The-Street Killkennys

2011-11-15T08:38:00.001-08:00

Heres my film for the Calarts 48 hour lockdown, I ended up spending about a week on mine on and off.

2011-11-04T15:22:00.000-07:00

Here's a sculpture I just finished in John Mahoneys class (wed clay and sculpey for the teeth:

4th year november update

2011-11-03T18:40:00.000-07:00

from history of fashion class:

each week we have to illustrate a different decade, ^ that is from 1930s

i've been having a ridiculous amount of fun in Jon Klassens class. I stopped doing textures work during my 1st year because of time constraints, but man...textures are way too much fun to give up. I also had to give up type after 2nd year...LOVE THAT SHIT TOO:

^ Assignment was to illustrate a book cover. All the textures were from a buddha board.

^ Assignment was to do a long pan illustration

^ Assignment was to use our own textures and make an illustration. All the textures were from a buddha board as well.

More to come soon if I can get my shit together.

Thru The Same Receptacle

2011-09-01T03:14:00.000-07:00

I made a film! I found a towel and two clips and thought they looked like somethin. Then I hung a tubelight through some hangers and shot this in my closet. And there's some stop motion in there too...

and here's a GIF

IN THE DEEP

2011-05-26T15:15:00.000-07:00

3RD YEAR FILM

Coming off the heavy project I did last year, I intended to do a fun POV short about getting drunk along with other things... Anyways, I got discouraged early on because I talked about it to others. So I decided to focus on visdev this year, which I don't think I want to do anymore. Mainly because story is the shit.

Here's some art from the film

Color concepts

2011-03-25T17:11:00.000-07:00

I got sick one day last month and i did these

ok now back to work

2011-03-15T16:21:00.000-07:00

FLMSCENE0214

2011-03-01T22:52:00.000-08:00

FILM STUFF< SCENE FINSHD RECNTLY.

CHECKOUT

SHIT I DONT HAVE TIME TO ANIMATE

2011-02-22T15:37:00.001-08:00

2011-02-04T16:24:00.000-08:00

i did another. phil helped me out with some perspective stuff with the eyes. THANKSFIL

2011-02-03T02:45:00.000-08:00

We just went yesterday

PRISON DRAMES.

2011-01-30T13:00:00.000-08:00

I dreamt i was in prison. And from my dream to you - prison is terrible.

I got sent there because of something I did in 92-93, (I was about 4) apparently Toyota filed a suit against me and I was sent to prison in my current age of 21.

I brought my cellphone with limited battery life. and the guard was the student store lady - before we got tucked in she said "on behalf of 89.7 and me, i love you so much. put away your cellphone, the bills are expensive!" also this was limited security which means we got ten minutes of time in a hotel beds before we were sent to our prison cots.

WORRIES REALIZED IN PRISON: 1. Can't finish my film. 2. I wouldn't graduate with my class.

PROS REALIZED IN PRISON: 1. I would take up lucid dreaming. 2. Two years in prison means an endless amount of time writing something!

Here's to sleeping too much - cheers!

MJ

PS: The lodge was transformed into a prison facility. Whats my dream trying to tell me?

Octopus Concepts

2011-01-22T14:44:00.000-08:00

Here's some stuff from over break. I got pissed off one day, so i went crazy on some concepts for this shapeshifting octopus in my film. This is just a starting point - I'd kill myself if i animated these.

Film Color Exploration

2011-01-05T17:53:00.000-08:00

Last night I decided to figure out some colors for my film this year. Theres a bunch of routes I think I could've taken in terms of my palette, but ultimately I want to work with some more desaturated colors and see how that all works out.

So this started out for my film and then turned into what weird ass colors can I make work together. I noticed a lot of the images had similarities to weird 80's paintings - the kind you'd see in the old barber shops that never decided to remodel. Also, japanese style creeped in there too.

I'm not sure what direction I'm going to go in, but this is fun as hell. Question: does anyone have a job doing this ridiculous shit?

IM BORED AS HELL

2011-01-01T15:12:00.001-08:00

probably inspired by this

IN THE DEEP

2010-12-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

kris told me i should be drawing. I told him I've been relaxing and being lazy and actually coming up with story ideas. I'm doing a film about something in the deep sea. And so far I've come up with like 5-10 ideas. (I say 10 to make me feel better) Here's a dumbass idea that I wrote down and made into a comic. So fuck you kris and here's what you made me do.

LANK

MAYA!

2010-12-14T12:13:00.001-08:00

2010-12-13T20:34:00.001-08:00

2010-12-13T18:55:00.000-08:00

FOR THE WINNER

2010-11-25T14:21:00.000-08:00

Color Script

2010-11-21T21:52:00.000-08:00

We're doing color scripts in Lisa Keene's class. Here are some different color ideas over the story of Hansel and Gretel. We could redo the story and place it in a different setting than the original - so I placed it in India.

Closeup

2010-11-17T01:07:00.001-08:00

I'm going thru a block, so I've been scrounging the internet for new stuff I haven't really checked out. I ran into some old school Japanese Graphic Design posters. A lot of their color choices are desaturated and are really out of the ordinary, but they somehow work. I wanted to mess around with that idea and spin a Japanese flair onto it. I wanna keep messing around with this desaturated palette...

48 Hour Films

2010-11-14T18:50:00.000-08:00

Ol' Mikey

This was Maanav's attempt at making the fastest film ever. I think, without technical complications and finding out the whole adobe suite cs5 sucks - I did this in about 3 to 4 hours. I did the animation in like 40 minutes. Also, I have no idea how I got the idea.

Yves Got the Invite

I scrapped my 48 hour film idea that I worked on Friday and Saturday and I did this. I liked the idea of doing super quick and shitty. I got inspired by alanthebox and The Cask of Amontillado, which I just found out was a Poe short story. I think I read it in my sophomore year of high school and I wanted to do a play of it - but then I forgot.

Either way, the 48 hour weekend is my outlet for me being an idiot. Because every other day, I'm a very articulate and well thought out person. I have medals for these things.

Yeti Crabs

2010-11-10T23:46:00.000-08:00

Messin around in photoshop with some scanned in textures. this is based on yeti crabs

Animation

2010-11-08T21:52:00.000-08:00

I've been learning how to finally animate this year!

Here's some tests I've done this semester.

ISSTHEFUTURR

2010-10-26T14:40:00.001-07:00

layout class

Repost

2010-10-17T05:08:00.000-07:00

I'm gonna repost this album I found a couple years ago from I forget where

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mstoll/2214592640/in/set-72157603779992640/

I drew a lot in the last couple days

2010-09-24T16:31:00.000-07:00

We had to draw ourselves for Phil Ryndas character design class

I got carried away doing some abstract paintings

These bottom two are for Lisa Keene's class. I had to illustrate Rage and Tranquility.

OCTOPUSSY

2010-09-20T11:58:00.000-07:00

This is for all the homies that couldnt make it back this year

2010-09-06T03:12:00.000-07:00

2010-09-05T15:31:00.001-07:00

man. thats a small thumbnail. click it and it gets bigger

HELOHELEOELEHELLOHEELEO

2010-06-30T18:41:00.000-07:00

Dinooos

2010-06-29T22:16:00.000-07:00

haBAAAAAAAAAAARGH

Mokey Agin

2010-05-30T22:39:00.001-07:00

Monkeys

2010-05-30T21:57:00.000-07:00

Portfolio Work

2010-05-17T00:29:00.000-07:00

Here's some background work for my film this year.

I put some more work on a new blog for my portfolio

http://www.msandhe.blogspot.com

2nd Year Film

2010-05-04T13:35:00.000-07:00

Here be my second year film, Some Shangri-La

Music by Gilberto Gil - Can't Find My Way Home

Thanks to Pat, Mike, David, Ryan, Skyler, Jeff, Tyler, Nelson, Andre, Amanda, Jim, Kris, MomDad, and movies.

2010-04-17T09:55:00.000-07:00

I just found this on my computer

FINAL FILMMSCNE_02#223

2010-03-23T19:23:00.001-07:00

/mYFILMM2YR_DNE5-01

PRVIWHAVFN

FINAL FILMMSCNE

2010-03-04T18:47:00.000-08:00

/mYFILMM2YR_DNE4

Illustration

2010-02-01T16:28:00.001-08:00

This originally was an assignment to make a DVD cover. I wasn't pleased with the BG so I replaced it with hellfire.

2010-01-06T17:03:00.000-08:00

SO DAFT DAFT DAFT.

Some vis.dev.

2009-12-29T18:37:00.001-08:00

Just messin around today with some ideas...

Visual Development

2009-12-02T04:56:00.000-08:00

I'm sick and I have nothing better to do!

This is some visual development for my film for this year - I need some mountainous structures in an antarctic backdrop.

Moonchild

2009-11-24T12:15:00.000-08:00

This is my 48 hour lockdown film.

2009-11-23T01:14:00.000-08:00

Assignments for layout class

Pencils

I wanted to try and make a process image of the above two layouts....I think I forgot about taking screenshots 3/4's of the way. Plus this was done over a couple days.

And lots of overthinking.

Inuits and the friends they make

2009-11-23T01:12:00.000-08:00

We were asked to create two characters with a big friend in character design class. I chose some inuits and a mountain beast that uses his arms to use his legs to fly. It's supposed to be real.

birds

2009-11-23T01:03:00.000-08:00

Sketches

2009-11-23T00:50:00.001-08:00

Apes
Sketches and Lifish drawing

Title Sequence

2009-10-13T12:54:00.001-07:00

Pieces from an ongoing title sequence project I've been working on since late summer

Tudor Cardinal Werewolf

2009-09-01T20:15:00.000-07:00

I've been hanging out with Kris too much

Paintings

2009-07-30T21:08:00.000-07:00

Here's some paintings I did tonight on 8x6 canvas acrylic at a life drawing workshop at the artists guild in St Louis MO.

XPTLSFFT

2009-07-19T22:05:00.000-07:00

Gettin busy son.

mundane uses for robots

2009-07-10T00:46:00.000-07:00

dinooo

2009-07-08T03:01:00.000-07:00

AMANDA MADE ME DO IT.

SUMMATIME FADA BITCHS N HOS

2009-06-30T03:22:00.001-07:00

So after the school year ended, I've been workin on crap at home with a shitty scanner. shitty, shitty, shitty. Luckily I have stuff to occupy my time like Planet Earth (and large quantities of The Office). The Deep Sea episode is ON FIR. I decided to do some drawings of these beautiful sea urchins that were on the show. Planet Earth rocks.

Even after school ended, I couldn't leave my vespa obsession. How cool is this one? I wish I could have one to cart around whatever life I have.

This was my first sketch of a vespa that ended up turning into an underwater bike

Birds from the zoo.

OH YEAH. I ALMOST FORGOT. I started a new blog!
I decided to make a movie screenshot blog. FUNISMOVIES .

(Anybody got any good movies to get shots of? I'm lookin to do a lot more posts soon.)

Here's some shit thats ballin.

Saw this on TV last week

2009-06-18T20:14:00.001-07:00

2009-06-17T19:25:00.000-07:00

Wait...other scanners aren't as good as Cal Arts scanners? When did this happen?

FUCK. UPDATES SOON.

KILLMEN (plural)

2009-06-06T00:48:00.000-07:00

OSHI. I almost forgot, Ryan just reminded me.

Killman

and Killman 2 (1/2)

Helvetica Monster

2009-06-04T02:34:00.000-07:00

Basically the whole thing was made using the Helvetica family

STUFF

2009-06-03T19:46:00.000-07:00

(fictitious poster)

(random designs)

(renaissance style self portrait slash emergency calling card)

(mock tumblr blog design, shhh)

The Stuntman

2009-05-30T12:55:00.000-07:00

My first year film

2008-08-26T14:55:00.001-07:00

anthony burillo

2008-08-04T10:51:00.001-07:00

2008-08-02T00:08:00.000-07:00

2008-08-01T09:03:00.000-07:00

WTF IS UP WITH RED?

"The clumsily obese sans type; the blinding white background safely voiding the cutout actors of context. It's a design ploy as low brow as the films themselves--a desperate attempt to simply be recognized. They dance, jump up and down, and scream at the top of their lungs to get a reaction of any kind... since they must realize that nobody is laughing."

LINK

2008-07-23T22:39:00.001-07:00

TITLE DESIGN
I LOVE YOU

http://www.artofthetitle.com/

WIPs

2008-07-22T12:33:00.000-07:00

Up top is just this thing im workin on, only doin stuff in cmyk...sort of.

This is an unfinished mock-up poster for a jam over at SatelliteSoda forums - minus the perspective lines. I chose the band Ohmega Watts.

I haven't uploaded anything in a decade.

Batman. But for Kids!

2008-07-22T12:31:00.000-07:00

One of the funniest things I've seen in a long while.

Dark Knight Trailer - redone with kiddies.

2008-06-30T11:37:00.001-07:00

BOND!

2008-06-29T15:44:00.001-07:00

OH GOD. AWESOME.

http://www.epochfilms.com/#reel/10/5
http://www.epochfilms.com/#reel/10/2

2008-06-28T22:37:00.000-07:00

2008-06-27T00:26:00.000-07:00

WALL-E

Go watch it.

I love the lack of dialogue throughout the whole film, its very cute and warm. The use of focus is astounding. Great shit! Lots of shiny stuff!

2008-06-17T11:30:00.000-07:00

2008-06-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

http://andrewbush.net/vectors%202-10-08/index.htm

amazing.

portraits taken at 65-70 MPH of people in cars, taken over the last twenty years.

2008-06-02T17:14:00.001-07:00

2008-05-27T14:58:00.000-07:00

Adverblog did a write up about the wonderful Lacoste website. Badass.

http://www.adverblog.com/archives/003475.htm#more

2008-05-23T23:10:00.001-07:00

BEING PRODUCTIVE IS HARD WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH CANDY.

2008-05-17T15:05:00.000-07:00

N.E.R.D.
Spazz

2008-05-17T00:14:00.000-07:00

I saw this guy

and this guy,

(Ralph Eggleston)

tonight at the Production Art Event at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

12th Annual Marc Davis Celebration of Animation: Drawing on the Future: Mentorship in Animation

2008-05-11T18:41:00.000-07:00

I walked out and into the lobby of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Samuel Goldwyn Theatre) on the 9th. It seemed as if I was coaxing myself into believing that I had been swept off of my feet. With lecturers such as Pete Doctor, Andreas Deja, James Baxter and a name I hadn't heard before - Eric Goldberg, I couldn't help but kick in my geek...but only because I was supposed to. Right? I plan on putting my foot in the door in the animation industry, why not get an early start and get giddy and start acting like some preteen anime fangirl?

I couldn't help but finally convincing myself that I had a sour taste in my mouth. It was hard. I wanted to believe that I was sitting before the greatest innovators, movers and shakers in the animation industry.

The panel would mention over and over again that we were sitting atop the shoulders of giants. Like we as a period of time in history will never be able to accomplish what the Nine Old Men of Disney did in their prime. That whatever we do, we will still not succeed the greats.

In a way, they're right.

The Nine Old Men and their posse will be forever unbeatable - only because they are in a set group, a set ideal made over 60 years ago.

Projectors amplified the work that the Nine Old Men did back in the day. It's all so beautiful! The drawings are fucking awesome! But I couldn't help but shudder when some of the panel would shout out "This is out of our league!" And other such comments. The panel would suggest that our goal is to just barely compare to the Nine Old Men. To be as great as they are, is where the feeling of accomplishment lies.

Not to foster innovation, not to create something new and just as appealing.

I'm sick of this ideal.

To win, you have to copy the greats? Fuck that.

You learn what you can AND MOVE ON.

What should we do when we are able to copy the greats? When we can successfully manipulate and do exactly what the Nine Old Men did back in the day? When we can shake our hands with these giants?

We're here to innovate, to create something new - and more importantly, create something that WORKS.

If we create the image of ourselves as sitting atop giants, how can we ever accomplish anything with them looming behind us watching us work?

The Nine Old Men had no reference to look towards in terms of animation. They were the first to accomplish many of the tasks telling a visual story calls for. The panel , one by one, would come up to the podium and show old clips of old Disney films and then would show clips of work that they've been apart of at NeoDisney.

Each one would then recall looking back at what Frank and Ollie did in terms of animating this or that animal or this or that sort of emotion. They'd slap on the disclaimer, "We only looked at these films as inspiration." But it's simply obvious how much we as an industry look at previous films for reference.

What did the firsts of every entertainment faction look towards for reference? These legends had only very little to reference, the rest was created from scratch. That is innovation, that is what the future is all about.

The panelists aren't drawing on the future, their drawing on the past. We may never be up to par to the Nine Old Men, but only because they are apart of a different group of ideals, of nature. We have to put all that Disney shit in a lockbox, otherwise, everything's gonna start looking the same. I may have spoken too soon.

2008-05-10T18:21:00.001-07:00

http://www.javanivey.com/my_paper_mind.html

Holy crap! Animation created with cutout paper, make sure to take a look at the process below the animation.

2008-05-10T18:14:00.000-07:00

Here are some great stop motion shorts made by Aardman for protecting the planet.

http://animalssavetheplanet.com/

2008-05-08T13:38:00.000-07:00

Smokejumpers

If parachuting near the heart of a burning fire doesn’t sound challenging enough, smokejumpers, who combat wild fires in remote locations, must traverse over mountainous terrain, carry supplies on their backs, and be self-sufficient for multiple days. Job requirements include a high level of fitness, mental stability, and extensive safety and technical training. Long, unpredictable hours are offset by rewarding manual labor in awesome settings. Median income for firefighters is $40,000 but varies widely based on location, experience, and overtime.

http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22277/49201-nine-extremely-odd-jobs

AWESOME.

2008-05-05T02:10:00.000-07:00

REDUX!

I figured its about time I remodeled this place. CANDY CANES! And the mold that grows on it!

I have some news.

I got into Cal Arts.

Character Animation 2008-2012

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

2008-04-13T23:29:00.001-07:00

Simply one of the most hilarious videos

2008-04-01T02:47:00.000-07:00

the only thing to wake me up at almost three in the morning.

priceless.

2008-03-31T10:18:00.002-07:00

Cartoon Brew just posted a site with a TON of great title sequences. Very very awesome stuff.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/cool-animated-titles#comment-74384

2008-03-30T19:19:00.001-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mstoll/sets/72157603779992640/

2008-03-29T21:33:00.003-07:00

I kinda had a resurrection today. Since my stay in Valencia, I've been concentrating on life drawing, character design and some script writing. But sadly, graphic design has turned into the middle child - I never wanted it that way. It's not my fault!

All the movie posters, music albums and title designs; packed their bags and didn't leave the key. But since my discovery of Royksopp and their wonderful music videos - I couldn't keep myself from indulging. The Glory Days all over again, I have the most fun when I'm working with graphic design.

So I found one of my favorite title designs:

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

2008-03-28T21:42:00.001-07:00

PEOPLE. I HAVE JUST TAUGHT MYSELF THE RUNNING MAN.

2008-03-28T04:56:00.001-07:00

HILLARY WASNT LYING YOU GUYS.

2008-03-23T13:01:00.003-07:00

Yesterday and very much of this morning was very very messed up. Yesterday Stone and I met the guy who makes Scott Pilgrim (Bryan OMalley)at Meltdown in LA. Then we went to Pen Wards Johnny Cash Beach Party - he made Adventure Time and went to Cal Arts a few years ago. Then we did karioke. My car got towed. And then one of our friends got mugged. But we had ice cream before that.

2008-03-22T11:45:00.002-07:00

I've getting into this band Royksopp from over down there in them there Europe. The more I listen to my music - the more I realize that I'm in love with Brit music like crazy. I caught up with this band from the Geico commercials - the first one (Remind Me) is from the caveman commercials where hes walking on the moving walking thing in airports and comes across an advert. Here's some great videos for the band:

Remind Me.

What Else is There

Poor Leno

2008-03-21T12:06:00.002-07:00

And the worst part about remembering your dreams, isn't that you wake up from them, its that the split second before your dream goes away and you enter reality, you think you're going to wake up in your real bed. With your real home. With your real friends. With your real parents. And that's the worst part - having to remember that you wanted to go home, all before you woke up. And that there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

2008-03-21T00:10:00.002-07:00

Sweet Nivea commercial with a really great, super smooth beat.

Here's the full song

2008-03-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

some frankenstein character designs

2008-03-19T07:30:00.003-07:00

I just had a dream where Viggo Mortensen called me while he was having dinner with is niece in Florida at two in the morning, to comment about the Oscars. We were friends.

2008-03-16T19:27:00.000-07:00

I JUST DROPPED MY GLASSES INTO THE TOILET.

BEFORE FLUSHING.

2008-03-14T02:18:00.000-07:00

this guy rocks

http://edwardjuan.blogspot.com/