Character Design Blog Interview

Well this is exciting.  The nice fella over at the character design blog interviewed me.  I'm so flattered to have been granted such an honor.  A big thank you to Randall Sly.  
Click here to take a look!
Cheers.

Diner Film Opening Titles

Started to composite some stuff in After Effects for the film...and then this happened...
Accidentally made these pretend opening titles. Just a bit of fun.
The music is from the Grim Fandango soundtrack, composed by Peter McConnel, and is owned by LucasArts. Not me.

Fourth year film

Here's a very obscure sneak peek at my fourth year film!  This is Ralph, and he works at a diner.  That's all I will say for now.  More tidbits coming soon.

Dog and Duck

Sharky

Faux Vintage Movie Posters

A few weeks ago, we had the Character Animation Gallery Show here at school.
I planned on doing a bunch of paintings, but ended up making a bunch of posters instead.  I had so much fun, I couldn't stop.  They are just silly faux movie posters, meant to have a vintage look.  I printed them out and roughed them up, and that's what you see here.

 Of course I had to make one a musical.

And here's a bad cell phone picture of my setup at the show.

Small Pig Boards

This is a segment I boarded from a group story project last semester.  This little pig is in search of some mud, and makes several attempts at finding a replacement.  This was my take on one of those attempts.

Phantom story sketch

Maggie Smith Sculpture

I did this for sculpture class on a whim.  I had to sculpt something, and having just started watching Downton Abbey I thought it would be fun to try and capture Maggie's likeness.  Also, she is one of my favorite actresses of all time.

I had hoped to get a more caricatured result than this.  It was fun nonetheless.  The whole thing is about 9 inches tall or so.

Robin Hood doodles

Months ago, I bought a 1932 copy of Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert.  I finally started reading it and it's fantastic.  I could hardly put it down last night, but I did manage to do a few sketches while reading.  I splashed on some color in photoshop.

Moon over Griffith

Tried to capture the view of Griffith Park last night, as seen walking down the road from the observatory.
The Hollywood sign wasn't lit up for some reason.

Wealthy Widow

Digging through drawings from last year.  For a Hansel and Gretel assignment; here is one of the ideas I had for the witch.

Baby Owl

Searched baby owl on google...

Maggie Smith Sketch

Sketch for a possible sculpt. Can't wait to try.

This pig built his house of sticks

From my three little pigs project.  He is a Physical Education teacher at the local high school.

Raoul

Raoul from Phantom.  It's so hard not to make him super boring.

La Carlotta

A few explorations of the character of Carlotta.

Christine and the Phantom

Space Vampire

Little Ghost

Setting Sail into the new year

At a favorite local coffee shop back home:

Happy Holidays world!

I really haven't made a holiday card before.  Seeing as I'm at the point in my life where I actually know a lot of people, I slapped one together.  Have a splendid holiday everyone!

Stargazing

Cactus

Another dumb TVPaint thingy from a little while ago.  Just trying to get comfortable with the program.  Music is from the Grim Fandango soundtrack.


Cactus from Michael Herrera on Vimeo.

Christine Daaé_02

Some more sketches of Christine.

River Crossing

Here's a little test for a project I'm working on.

Phantom Poster

Decided to make a mock movie poster for Phantom.  I tried to keep it minimal and theatrical.

Christine Daaé_01

Here's a look at some of the work I did for my Visual Development class this semester.  I chose the Phantom of the Opera as my story and had a lot of fun trying to find some fresh and interesting ways of telling the story.  Here is one of my sketches of Christine.

Pen, Marker, Photoshop