Tuesday, May 22, 2012

LAAFA WORKSHOP: STORY MOMENTS

UPDATE: This class has been rescheduled to Aug. 11 due to a schedule conflict. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding. Please note that I will be doing a demonstration at the LAAFA booth during ComicCon this July. Date and time to be announced soon, but I will keep you posted!





I'll be hosting a one day workshop at LAAFA on Saturday, June 16 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The workshop is titled "Story Moments" and it's geared toward students who want to explore and develop moments for visual development. I'll be doing demos and discussing various topics including basic principles of design for film, lighting, and the importance of reference for film. Hope to see you there!

Friday, May 18, 2012

The Amazing Armand Baltazar!

My good friend and uber-awesome inspiring artist Armand Baltazar has just started two websites. His has a huge body of inspiring work and has started a personal project Collidescape, which looks simply beautiful!!!!!! He's been such an inspiration to me, both creatively and artistically! Definitely check his amazing work!!!


Thursday, March 29, 2012

Artist Help Japan: Sketch!


Well, here is one of my sketches I contributed to the 'Artists Help Japan' Auction. Thank you so much for all you good folks for helping out! See ya soon!!!! Start the Bidding!!!!
-John

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

AUCTION: ARTISTS HELP JAPAN 1 YR ANNIVERSARY


Hi folks,
It's been awhile since I've blogged but I wanted to share an amazing auction with you organized by uber artist extraodinaire and friend Dice Tsutsumi. Dice as well as many artists here at Pixar and elsewhere are auctioning sketches and doodles to help generate proceeds toward MercyCorp, who are assisting those still devastated by the Japan Earthquake 1 year ago.

In the coming week I'll have two doodles to contribute. I'll keep ya posted! Thank you so much y'all for all the love for such a wonderful cause!!!!

Just hit the link below and be amazed at all the beautiful and generous work so many wonderful artists are doing!
Artists Help Japan Auction

Monday, November 21, 2011

Post CTN - THANK YOU!

Just a quick hello and thank you to all the folks I had the pleasure of meeting at CTN! It's events like CTN that help connect and reconnect us to the thing we all love, art and animation!!! Keep creating and keep going forward!! in a few days, hopefully before Thanksgiving, I'll post a blogroll of all those wonderful folks I had the chance to see.

In the meantime, here is a photo and sketch of me done by the incredible James Gurney!!!



This photo is a collective sketch we did with my good friends Leonardo Olea, Francisco Herrera, Florian Satzinger, Greg Baldwin and Dave Guertin of CreatureBox, and Jose Lopez at our post dinner. The greatest guys ever!!!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

CTN 2011

I'll be attending the CTN Expo in Burbank, from November 18-20. I'll be at booth T-04 selling copies of ashcan sketchbooks, "Bits and Pieces".
I'll be there will all my buddies and it should be a another great event. Please stop by and say hello.

You can also download the CTN App for free!

Here is a list of all the attendees:
Pascal Campion T-65
Forrest Card T-90
Danny Wise T-24
Tyler Carter T-34
Shane Glines T-14
Brett Bean T-17
Hanna Abi-Hanna T-27
Ivan Iguirre T-62
Brian Ajhar T-57
Mario Furmanczyk T-49
Katy Hargrove T-73
Frank Forte T-30
Cale Atkinson T-95
Eduardo Avenir T-43
Howard Shum T_94
Chris Ayers T-35
Damon Bard T_91
Andre Barnwell T-07
Ryan Benjamin T-87
Alberto Ruiz T-14
Sean "Cheeks" Galloway T-86
Chris Ingram T-46
Ted Davis T-16
Mark McDonnell T-54
David Colman T-79
Louie del Carmen T-64
David DePasquale T-77
Brianne Drouhard T-81B
Duncan Studio B-26

Jamie Caliri
Craig Elliot T-74
Peter Emmerich T-77
Andrea Fernandez T_02
Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham B-36
Bill Robinson T-71
Sonia Tiwari T_01
Zaruhi Galstian T-25
Walter Gatus T-59
Gentle Giant studios B-32 7 B-42
Ed Ghertner T-67
Ghostbot T-66
Gnomon B-24
Scott Petersen B-09
Steve Gordon T-50
Rudolphe Guernoden T-05
Ryan Hall T-04
Richard Peter Han T-03
Frank Hansen T-69
Thitipong Jitmakusol T-3
Liana Hee T-55
Francisco Herrera T-26
Trey Hodges T-28
Vadim Bashanov and Steven Neary T-22
iAnimate B-31
Bobby Chiu and Kei Acedera T-40 and T-41
Jessika Von Inneremer T-95
Justin Orr T-76
June Kim T-27
Vladimir Kooperman T-61
Trevor Kraken T-73
LAAFA B-10
Stephanie Laberis T_81
Christophe Lautrette T-05
LCAD T-15
White Lee T-68
Brittney Lee T-56
Josh Lieberman T-02
Lettie Lo T-43
Jose Lopez T-60
Joey Mason T-32
Maxon Computers B-26
Wayne Medina T-62
Mark Mohamed T-07
Fabian Molina T-58
Gary Montalbano T-37
Eric Gonzalez and Erich Haeger T-11
John Nevarez T-04
Gallery Nucleus B-46

Chris Oatley T-47
Paul Wee T-31
Kris Pearn T-51
GPixologic B-43
Powerhouse Animation Studios B-25
Jason Pruett T-47
Willie Real T-23
Nicolas Villareal T-39
Reel FX B-17
Rhino House B-16
Rhythm and Hues B-45
Ricardo De Los Angeles T-21
Robh Ruppel T-72
Ralph McQuarrie Gallery
Donnachada Daly T-19
Sheridan College T-96
Stephen Silver T-09
Beth Sleven T-18
Society of Illustrators T-66
Sony Animation B-27
Trevor Spencer T-02
Mark Sperber T-88
Zach Stark T-24
Coran Stone T-48
Sergio Paez T-70
Sherm Cohen T-526
Stuart Ng Books B-4, B-5 & B-6
Marceline Tanquay T-61
The Animation Guild T-10
Renaud Armanet T-06
ToonBoom B-37
Tori Davis T-75
Genevieve Tsai
Robert Tsai T-28
USC School of Cinematic Arts T-03
Valerio Ventura T-78
Mario Pochat T-36
Glenn Vilppu B-07 & B-08
Wacom B-21 & B-22
Walt Disney Animation B-13
Walt Disney TV Animation B-12
Jim Hillin T-85
Woodbury University B-29 & B-30
Mike Yamada T-45
Dean Yeagle B-41
Victoria Ying T-45

2011 Guest List

If I've forgotten anyone, please let me know and I'll add 'ya!