Friday, December 25, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Panda Punch
Just watched Kung Fu Panda. Even though I'm a traditionalist, I think it's one of the best animated movies of all time. It has a great design sense that is consistent, great story with a lot of heart and good life lessons, it's funny and the performances the animators gave are stupendous, the subtleties in the voices actors readings are translated beautifully. Some of the best acting in animation ever.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
He's Batman
Here's a storyboard sample I whipped up tonight. Not sure if the hand in the 2nd panel is too big. I was trying to exaggerate the perspective but I thing the frame might be too wide to do it as much as I did. Any thoughts? (Click on the image to see larger)
Storyboard Samples
Just posted Storyboard samples from a submission test I just took. You can CLICK HERE to see the storyboards.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Animation Reel 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Disco Stu & Marge
Monday, October 26, 2009
PORTFOLIO Oct 2009
Two posts in one day! Holy Cow! Well, not a cow, a tiger. Here's a drawing from my newly organized PORTFOLIO. A lot of what is on here is in it, but if you're curious go to www.joshuataback.com to take a look.
Moe Skip
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Green Lantern sketches
I'm still chugging along on the comic book. Not really ready to post anything from that yet. Here's a couple doodles for a few weeks back.
Monday, October 5, 2009
ANTARCTICA LAB
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Lizard walk 1 ruff ruff
Friday, September 11, 2009
Tie Guy
Been working hard on Carter expressions, but they're not ready to post yet. But here's a sketch from a few months back that was sitting in my "Sketches to post" folder.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Hand Drawn Baby
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Comic Frame & Model Sheet
Been drawing a lot instead of posting. Soon I'll post a bunch of stuff I've been accumulating. Here's a rough (or as we say in the business ruff) frame from the comic my buddy Chris Mich and I are working on. Also I got a construction model sheet to where I am happy enough to work with it.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Contemplative Carter
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Carter and Quintin
Here are some studies of a couple characters I'm working on. There's a comic book in the works, more on that later.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Trayceface
This started out as a little cartoony sketch of my lovely girlfriend Trayce. I haven't done much with color in a while and I learned about a couple new techniques in photoshop, so I was itching to to do something. I'm not crazy about how the cleaned up pencil lines came out. It was a small drawing and that's probably why the imperfections show up as they do, and a harder lead may have helped too. But maybe that's part of it's charm. I'm going to pick up some pens and try my hand at inking again, something else I haven't done in a long time. I also could have kept tweaking the color more and more, adding more variations, but I really feel like getting to drawing today. So this is how it is. I may revisit it later.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
The Notes of Carter Rankine
I've been working on some characters from a story that my friend Chris Mich is writing. It's called The Notes of Carter Rankine: Pernico's Plan, and is about a time traveling, soldier-ish scientist. Chris and I went to college together at The University of the Arts, where he majored in film and myself in animation. The summer before freshman year we called each other to "meet" over the phone and spent 2 hours talking about Star Wars and Indiana Jones. I guess this summer marks our 19 year friendship. Over the years we've written some scripts together and I've always enjoyed drawing things that springboard from our brainstorming sessions. I hope to post more from his Carter Rankine story as time goes on. Click on his name above to see what the "Michman" is all about.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Conan of Late Nite
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Let sleeping cats lie
Practically whenever I sit at the computer, like I am now, our cat Jako jumps up on the shelf behind me and meows for me to pet him, like he just did. Here's a few sketches I did of him sleeping on the couch not meowing. I don't know where his other paw was (maybe between two pillows).
Friday, June 12, 2009
Scribble Guy
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Oldies
I drew these guys while on the couch watching TV. The guy with the Yarmulke was out of my head and the bald guy was from a 1 second glance of a guy on commercial. It might have been that guy from America's Top Model.