My secret arsenal is an infinite, ageless inkwell.

Film update

2010-09-21T13:01:00.000-07:00

Update over at my senior film production blog! Puppet fabrication is underway!

Senior Film Blog

2010-05-19T09:32:00.000-07:00

Made a blog specifically for updates on the progress of my senior film! It's located here: http://into-purgatorio.blogspot.com

Animation Test - Growly

2009-07-02T21:08:00.000-07:00

Animation Test of a friend's red wolf character:

Blue pencil: sketches and layout for a digital painting

2009-06-16T10:51:00.000-07:00

Going to take the scan of the top one and paint it digitally. Learned in Platinum that there is a bar type hangout where all the gym leaders, frontier brains, and elite four people hang out plus anyone that they've deemed worthy enough of inviting, and of course your character is one of them. I thought it would be an interesting place to hang out. Loki seems concerned there with my dour attitude though.

The rest are just some blue pencil (and some not) sketches; grumpy pokemon trainer me, Roark excited to have found a fossil, scheming Illusion head, and some sketches of my weather fascinated espeon, Spade, as well as two-bit the lucario.

The Land of Live Oaks and Spanish Moss

2009-06-10T22:58:00.000-07:00

Some giftart for the wonderful Kesame of her character Esk; complete with my own southern spin of Live Oaks and Spanish Moss.

Dogs through the fog.

2009-06-09T11:52:00.000-07:00

Colored up some of those Silent Hill doggies. These two being a Doublehead (left), and a Sniffer (right).

Here, have some Silent Hill sketches.

2009-06-07T21:26:00.000-07:00

Super excited for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, if you can't tell.

Sculpts

2009-06-04T13:17:00.000-07:00

Here, have some recent sculptures:

Lickilicky for GManLuver of LJ

Arcanine and Cubone for GuardianPhoenix of LJ

Shiney Politoed for CaptainKirby of LJ

To spin the Whirlpool Galaxy...

2009-06-03T21:14:00.001-07:00

The visual aid for my final project in my astronomy class here at SCAD. Longworth's prompt for the final is that we can do anything we want so long as it somehow involves astronomy and our own artwork.

I LOVE looking at photos of galaxies. They're beautiful, and I remember years ago the first time I saw the hubble deep field shot of all the HUNDREDS of them together made me feel so very insignificant. it was so humbling. So naturally one of my favorite moments in Okami (which has a lot of astronomy type things in it) is the scene where you have to start the whirlpool galaxy spinning. The colors are so vivid.

So I painted this in acrylics on a 16x20 canvas trying to mimic the quick, loose brushed style of the game. The galaxy has touches of glow in the dark paint at its nucleus and the stars and arms and some of the ripples in the whirlpool also glow teal.

Artwork © Keri Stone
Okami © Clover studios

Stairs?

2009-05-31T01:28:00.000-07:00

Animation II final. T-rex had to climb and then descend stairs.

2009-05-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

The rex turn is a resubmit in 2D of what I failed to be able to accomplish in Maya. The run cycle is something leftover from last quarter that I forgot about!

Stompy stompy

2009-04-27T23:22:00.000-07:00

New stuff from animation II. T-Rex walk cycles with a character that another professor built for our class.

Sidewalk Arts Festival 2009

2009-04-26T18:54:00.000-07:00

So it's Sidewalk Arts time again in Savannah, and my buddy Chelsea Kubesh and I teamed up and went out to the park to draw. Here are some in-progress and finished images of our squares!

For the record, that's Chelsea in this picture, not me.

So it's Sidewalk Arts time again in Savannah, and my buddy Chelsea Kubesh and I teamed up and went out to the park to draw. Here are some in-progress and finished images of our squares!

Ball bounce in Maya

2009-04-23T16:21:00.000-07:00

New animation.

Maya bouncing balls. I think they look awful, and that I am a terrible animator in maya. The only reason I'm posting this is because it's decent compared to some of the other crap that I've tried to animate this quarter. Moral of the story? Keri is a terrible animator in Maya.

"Come and test me, test me"

2009-04-12T23:21:00.000-07:00

To prove I'm not dead (but sick! and busy with schoolwork), have some uncleaned linework for a WIP I may or may not finish soon.

There's a rumor goin' 'round death row.

2009-03-19T08:04:00.000-07:00

Here, have some fanart for Superjail. Ignore the random wolf head drawn in one, and the random dates and notes drawn on others. These came out of my sketchbook for an animation course, so there are a few out of place things.

I've become completely fascinated with the art and animation style for this show. It is very "stream of conciousness" styled, and full of so many well-executed animation references as well as very complicated sequences of animation. You can't not appreciate it. To top all of that off, it is completely done in flash, which blows my mind because it NEVER has the look of a flash cartoon. keep it up, Augenblick studios.

Maya work: Here thar be monsters

2009-03-18T18:34:00.000-07:00

This is the original painting that the following dragon model was based off of.

These are all involving a fish model I had to make from primitives. Some are lighted, some are just colored:

This is a test involving wrapping a photoshop image around an object in maya. I chose a photo of a wolf skull to wrap around a sphere:

Flour Sack Smackdown

2009-03-17T10:32:00.000-07:00

Some of you may have already seen this, but for the record, I think it should go here since it's one of my better animations to date:

The prompt for our final was to have a flour sack character (who was to be animated a little bit like Carpet from Aladdin) approach a box, look inside the box, and react to the contents of the box.

The timing on my walk/run cycle at the beginning when he jogs up to the box is a bit off and lacking some weight, but other than that I'm quite happy with the result. From quick storyboards to pencil tests to the final product, this animation took two weeks and a grossly large stack of animation paper. Animation students kill the rainforest. :V

If you'd like to view the rest of my youtube content, feel free to go here: My Youtube Homepage

Testing the blogger waters

2009-03-13T19:14:00.000-07:00

Testing the blogger waters with a small sketchdump.

First up, a sketch of me doing what I thought I'd be doing this weekend... except it suddenly went from being beautiful and 80 outside to miserable, windy and about 56. Bleh.

Sitting on my bed one night and staring at the mirror on my closet door. My animation I sketchbook needed more work from life.
I love any excuse to draw a creepy Illusion head.
My best friends' dog, Sirius. he's adorable, and we love him.