Morris Stuff

11-12-10

Hey dudes,

We are previewing the short today!!!

...that means I can share a bunch of work I did on it.  There is tons to show, and I'll be sharing more int he next week or so, but I grabbed a few things that I really dig for now.  It was a great challenge designing for miniatures, and then learning how to build them (eeek).  I can tell my mother that all those years spent in middle school playing Warhammer 40k weren't wasted.  What I put together is sort of a concept to execution of the backgrounds we made for the short.  Since we were mixing live action miniature and cg the real challenge fell on our tech department to bring the film to the final look, and I can't unfortunately share any of THAT yet, but I have a bunch of art.

so enough of me rambling, I've done a lot of talking about this thing in the past few weeks.  Check out the stuff, hope ya'll dig it!  Here is what has been eating up my life for the past year and a half.   To give you sort of a scope of the work, these plates (backgrounds)  represent three of the over 200 shots in the final film.

Library Interior

Book Bed

 NOLA set

The website is up and everything too.

http://morrislessmore.com/

thanks for dropping in!
-Tamte

more than art

4-26-10

Howdy,

I've been doing more than art recently, and my internet presence has been deteriorating because I'm not sure how to post presentations I'm making on development pipelines, or all the emails I've been writing back and forth to potential hires, or the mounds of notes I have on the story I'm developing. I've been busy, but this blog isn't the venue for lots of it. I'll add that to the list of things I'm going to fix. I guess being part of a start up means, that sometimes the needs and hats I wear wont be artistic ones. I actually enjoy some of the organizational stuff.

It reminds me of what it was like to get "Illest of Ill" off the ground. I guess it's all preparation for something.

However, some art slips out the side when we have story time at Moonbot and we are talking about the comic I'm writing...

I blacked out the names of the characters,those seem to change the most frequently. The character design process here is like a bouncing ball. Everytime I approach it, the bounce is shallower and closer to the final design. That last batch of drawings/notes Bill and I did were mostly about her silhouette and her legs. A woman's legs are truly a thing of wonder, I can't seem to get everything I want to into that line.

art is so much freackin fun!!

thanks for dropping by,
-Tamte

Life Drawing

3-13-10

Hey folks,

The Moonbot guys and myself have gotten some local life drawing sessions going. It's been great to see all the local Shreveport art folks come out the woodwork to do some drawing.






thanks for stopping by
-Tamte

EDIT::

after doing some internet trolling I stumbled upon these art sites.....you know how sometimes you forget what the internet is like. Well these were a nice cage rattling for me. I'm floored.

cool stuff

http://www.julienblanc.com/

http://rakgadjet.fullmecha.com/

http://nyayay.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

http://abra.x0.com/abra/home.html

http://www.tartelin.com/

http://tomatika.daa.jp/

Mural Painting

10-13-09

joe demonstrates the finer points of core shadows

Hey Folks,

The animatic is finished and we are ramping up for production, and a little bit of relaxing. The attitude here is infectious (in all the best ways) and as we plan to bring more people on board, buzz words like, Moonbotradio, new studio space, and minatures fly around the studio.

On top of that Joe and I were commissioned to paint a mural at Shreveport's next hot spot. It's called "City Bar", and it promises to be a pretty killer place. Riding the wave of psuedo art-deco and Dick Tracey this is the digital comp that Mr. Bluhm-ers and myself came up with.




it's been a new challenge for us. wish us luck!! Thanks for droppin' by

-Tamte

Siggraph '09

7-31-09

Welcome,

Recently, in Shreveport there has been some tasty stuff cooking, it smells good, and now I can finally share some of it!

We are poised at ground zero of the creation of a brand new Animation/VFX company dubbed "Moonbot studios", a division of a larger fledgling entity named "LouD Village".

"siggraph promo flyer"

Though currently small, the projects already in production have a lot of promise and energy. The team is a tight group of industry vets united by a common interest to create something new, potent and interesting.....that and the general creative jitters! I feel like this could turn into something great, and I am honored to be involved.

Since the state of Louisiana began providing the film industry with huge tax cuts. There has been an influx of films coming to places like Shreveport to make their movies, and the number is growing. While our new studio works on it's debut animated short we are planning a trip to SIGGRAPH 09 in New Orleans to promote/recruit.

...SO, if you are planning a visit to the convention make sure to stop by booth #2900 and chat one of us up. We would love to talk to you about what we are working on, where the best creole food is, the best hot sauce, and you can get yourself a caricature by the unimitatable Joe Bluhm. I hope to see you there!

...and here is an unrelated drawing as well

"pumping station"

thanks for dropping in,

-Tamte

(logo and flyers copyright Moonbot studios 2009)