Jeff Martin's Portfolio

Jam Sandwich!

2011-09-12T23:59:00.000-07:00

Sooo, It's been a while since I posted. I'm sorry. I probably say that a lot. I've just been really busy with work. I'm back at Big Bad Boo working on a show called 1001 Nights. Lots and lots of long hours and weekends being destroyed...

On the side, when I do get some free time, I am working on 2 animated shorts. One is what I have been posting in the past (The Family Mart and the interior layout). I am still working on layouts for that short. They take time because I'm working on a small graphire3 tablet that frustrates me and makes me not so motivated to work on layouts. I dream of one day owning a cintiq and working on these layouts to the best of my ability.

The second animation short I am working on is going to be a fun flash style cut out short. I would eventually like to make a short once a month and put it on youtube and vimeo. I drew up some characters and it's going to be about these funny little mobsters during the prohibition in the 1920s. It's going to be really stylized and snappy animation. I will be collaborating with some my 2 friends I am working with at Big Bad Boo. They also have ideas of their own. We will hopefully be alternating on what short to work on together each month. I'm excited about this because this will be our "own" stuff and not some company's we are working for.

I'll post up some of the character builds soon for the mobster short, but in the mean time here is a chick eating a jam sandwich.

April Showers

2011-04-06T20:52:00.000-07:00

I just finished up working at Bardel Entertainment on a show called Bob's Burgers. I am looking for new work and I'll hopefully find something soon, because I gotta pay my rent. ;P While I look for work I am also working on my background for my animated short. I'm about half way done colouring the Family Mart store. I really can't wait till this BG is done! I want to do more colourful BGs rather than technical ones right now. This one has been pretty technical and I am looking forward to just painting and not really thinking to hard. In the mean time I put together some WWII soldier portraits I sketched.

More to come soon!

Second Scene

2011-01-17T13:40:00.000-08:00

I finally finished drawing the second scene. It took me forever to figure out and remember what and where all the stuff is usually found and located in a Family Mart. Thanks to my lovely wife, Aram, I was able to get lots of reference photos for products and things inside of the store.

Next step is colouring it. I have a feeling this is going to take a while too. But once this layout is finished the rest will go much more quickly.

Business Cards

2011-01-03T10:45:00.001-08:00

I made this business card for my sister. It was a Christmas gift for her. She is an amazing makeup and special effects artist!

In other news, I finished working as a graphic artist and I'm now looking for new work.

Life Update

2010-12-12T19:33:00.000-08:00

I haven't updated in a while. I am still working on the layouts for my short. I'm still working on the most tedious one. I decided to print it out and draw in all the details with a pencil and then scan it back in. It's much faster this way. I wish I had a cintiq!!!! haha I finished drawing all the bottles in the coolers (pop, water, beer, soju, milk ect...) Now I'm drawing all the candy and chocolate in the aisle. I'm also drawing noodles... Once this layout is done, I'm going to be so happy... haha

On another note. I didn't want to update without a picture. This is a model I was working on during the past summer. Never got to finishing it. Maybe I should? I was going for a cartoonie look. It's a German soldier from WWII. I had fun building all the gear on his webbing. I am a WWII fanatic and can't get enough of it. Maybe I will work on this again once I purchase a nice computer that is powerful enough to render out some images. Other wise, I'm going to stick to 2D stuff for a while.

OHH and by the way. I have a job now! I'm doing graphic art for a TV show studio near my house. I get to work from home too. It's a pretty nice paying job with no stress and lots of time to work on my own stuff. So I'm rather enjoying it.

Progress

2010-11-07T00:48:00.001-07:00

I drew this guy up today. I have been watching Boardwalk Empire. It's a pretty awesome show and I'm hooked now. I am also working on the animated short each day. When I wake up till about 5pm. I'm working on a layout of the inside of the FamilyMart now. It's a tedious layout. I'm drawing in every detail, every product and item in the store. I'm almost done the drawing and will soon be colouring it. :)

Animation Short

2010-10-25T11:02:00.000-07:00

This is a BG scene from an animation short I'm doing. Some of you might know where the setting is from looking at the picture. I've had this idea in my head for such a long time and now I'm finally getting it out. It feels good! I'm working on all the BGs at the moment and soon I'll start my rough animation.

The short is going to take place in Seoul, South Korea. I've lived there for a while and I just want to capture the feeling of the city.

Animated Shorts

2010-10-05T11:27:00.000-07:00

I have started working on an Animated short I have been wanting to do for a while now. I've completed the animatic and I am now working on the layouts with a good friend of mine.

I have an idea for another short. The picture above has something to do with it. I want to start on the storyboard for this short soon. I have to get in contact with some of my friends that wanted to be apart of this short as well.

The short I am currently working on is going to be traditionally animated since my home computer is not powerful enough to render nice looking 3D images. This short is going to be deep and filled with feeling and emotion. The layouts are going to be ultra detailed. (hopefully) ;) I'll post more on this soon.

Digital Painting

2010-02-28T22:21:00.000-08:00

I haven't painted in photoshop in a long time. So i decided to paint my girlfriend for a Valentine's gift. I really enjoyed it. It's a nice breath of fresh air from working in 3d all the time.

3D Demo Reel

2009-04-27T17:09:00.001-07:00

This is my 3D demo reel. I was in the Digital Animation Program at Capilano University in North Vancouver.

This is my 2D demo Reel from the 2 year Commerical Animation Program I took the year before. Enjoy!

Some Characters

2009-04-17T14:38:00.000-07:00

Drew these up in class. Cleaned them up in Flash and coloured in photoshop.

Another Painting

2008-06-27T12:48:00.001-07:00

Painting

2008-06-24T20:17:00.000-07:00

:) Felt like painting.

Hand Out Portfolio

2008-05-04T14:14:00.000-07:00

This is my hand out portfolio that I was handing out at the grad show.
My computer crashed and wont turn on now, so I had to scan the actual portfolio on another computer.

Art Dump

2008-04-30T18:55:00.000-07:00

Some stuff I was showing at Grad show.

My Demo Reel

2008-04-30T18:25:00.000-07:00

I'm putting my demo reel here for now. It has my number on it. I don't know if thats a good idea.... :/ Cause its on youtube now.

Weekly Illustration - Retro

2008-03-11T18:39:00.001-07:00

;)

Weekly Illustration - Robot

2008-02-19T17:10:00.000-08:00

YEAH!

Digital Painting

2008-02-04T11:59:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illustration - Ourself as a Circus Perfromer

2008-02-04T11:55:00.000-08:00

Im a Hypnotist... XP

Digital Painting Class

2008-02-04T11:53:00.001-08:00

Coloured that Gangsta Chick ;P

Weekly Illustration - Flying Machine

2008-01-22T11:23:00.000-08:00

~~ Blah! :@

LEMONADE!

2008-01-15T10:28:00.000-08:00

I was just drawing a guy making lemonade when I was at work this weekend and I got all caught up in it. I just carried me a way with it... ;)

Weekly Illustration - When ____ Attacks

2008-01-15T10:26:00.000-08:00

~~Yo!
Mine is when EVERYTHING attacks!

Final Layout

2007-12-13T21:12:00.001-08:00

My final layout... finally no more layout...

Weekly Illustration - Christmas

2007-12-11T15:37:00.001-08:00

~~~ Don't take this the wrong way. I actually really like christmas :)

Weekly Illustration - Ourself As A Villain

2007-11-27T10:30:00.000-08:00

Me as a bad guy. ~~~:S

Weekly Illustration - Triplets of Billeville style.

2007-11-13T10:45:00.001-08:00

~~~ >:O

Weekly Illustration - Fear

2007-11-06T15:18:00.000-08:00

The topic this week was fear. I tried to draw my own fear. but I actually couldn't draw it... It freaked me out... So I drew this instead.

Weekly Illustration - Sporting Incident

2007-10-29T12:17:00.000-07:00

~~~ ;)

Layout!

2007-10-24T11:52:00.001-07:00

Amsterdam! The rough and

ThugChick

2007-10-15T17:42:00.001-07:00

~~I got bored at work so I drew some Gangsta Girl ;P

Weekly Illustration! Greed

2007-10-08T22:16:00.000-07:00

~~~A very greedy pooch ;)

HitGirl

2007-09-26T21:30:00.001-07:00

Was hella bored in class. So I drew this crazy chick with a gat.

Weekly Illustration 2

2007-09-24T22:17:00.000-07:00

This weeks topic was 'creepy'

Weekly Illustration#1

2007-09-17T22:49:00.001-07:00

weekly Illustration#1
Junk Food Junkie

Weekly Illustration #1

2007-09-10T11:18:00.000-07:00

Heres my weekly drawing :P
The topic was Davie Street...

Final Model Pack

2007-05-25T15:57:00.000-07:00

This is just the comparison sheet. This was the final Design project In my first year of comercial animation.

Samurai Main character

2007-05-25T15:51:00.000-07:00

This is another Flash build to the Samurai animation I want to work on this summer... This guys name is Aki

Samurai Character builds

2007-05-24T20:15:00.000-07:00

Here is the first character I made for a flash Samurai character package I want to make this summer... It would be fun to animate some ballin samurai fights... His name is Debumaru...

Flash Builds

2007-05-24T20:13:00.001-07:00

Here are two character builds I made for Flash... Hopefully I'll get to animated something this summer with them... haha...

Flash Character

2007-03-18T17:39:00.000-07:00

Did a flash build for a dialog assignment.

Design

2007-03-18T17:24:00.000-07:00

Some more Characters for my final design project...

2007-02-25T12:25:00.000-08:00

I think this is going to be the main character for my final Design project. Still going to work on it. I'll Probably make it simpler. (Lot less lines) haha. Its also going to before the comic! The Young Detective...

Yo

2007-01-07T02:51:00.000-08:00

I gotta blog?