Hey Guys,

So for the past few months I’ve been working with a team to develop a Screenplay format writing program. It’s called Scripts. The app isn’t on the Appstore just yet, we’re still working out all the bugs. If you’re interested in a free copy of the app let me know! Stay tooned!

Thanks,
Steve

Things are (hopefully) about to pick up with What A Prikk, so we’ll see what happens.

Anyways, I figured I’d just post the full intro for What A Prikk for you all to enjoy. If you like what you see let me know!

Steve

p.s. Gnomon is the shit!

I am SUPER excited to start monday! I signed up for 5 10-week traditional courses! I’m taking Acting For Animators, Figure Drawing, Character Design, Storyboard and Perspective. I wanted to a variety of different classes because while I’vebeen animating in flash, I want to get back to basics, so to speak. I’m really looking forward to the classes and being in California for 10 weeks and I’ll be blogging about my adventures! If anyone else is taking these courses drop me a line! Cali here I come!

Steve

Hello all

I’m looking for an iPhone programmer to help me bring my iPhone UI to life! I have created the entire UI in photoshop so you would just need to code it and create it. It’s a creative word processing type app but the details are hush hush at the moment. If anyone is interested or knows someone who will be able to help, drop me a line. Yes, there is a budget! Email me at stephenstudios ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com

Thanks!

Steve

p.s. and yes, it’s very much a CREATIVE app!

p.s.s. Image above is not my app.

C’mon, of course not. I’ve recently decided to re-design my Ace & Aqua characters. The new designs are much more natural cartoon drawings. The designs I had in my Ace & Aqua short were way too “perfect” and I wanted to have a design that felt natural and looked like the sketches I made, not the perfect vector clones I made over those sketches… I’m surprised at my progress. The drawings on the left are from 2006, the middle ones 2007 and the new ones 2009. I wonder what they’ll look like in 2011. The left and middle designs had a perfect 1 line around them so I decided to give something more natural and went with some tapered lines that surprisingly make a HUGE difference.  Too bad I didn’t have these designs for my first short… no need to despair

-Steve

p.s.

Hello everybody,

Yesterday I received an unfortunate letter in the mail. I didn’t get into CalArts. I would like to thank everyone who wrote me a letter of recommendation for taking their time out of their busy schedules to do so. A big thanks to Fred Seibert, Eric Homan, Gabriel Valles, Thomas E. Van Dell, Kat Kosmala and my animation teacher at school Mr.Karen.

While I didn’t get in, I’m not going to let it effect me too much. My plan B is to take the year off, go to life drawing classes religiously, continue freelancing, and try to get work in-studio in either NYC, CA or any other state with a job. Thanks again for everyone’s support, and I’ll be re-applying next year!

Yours Truly,

Steve

Once upon a time in 7th grade I drew a dinosaur monster lizard thing. I looked at it and was soo proud of what I had drawn, I thought it was great. Fast forward 5 or 6 years and I decided to take another try at it. I wanted to see how I would have drawn the same exact character if I were to have come up with it today.

It’s amazing to see how my work has evolved over the course of 5 or 6 years. I can only imagine how my work will look in a few years!

I’ve only recently been doing some website design and coding, and it’s a far stretch from animation. It’s another area I’m dabbing my paintbrush in, and soo far it’s great! Above are two websites i created I hope you like them, and if you need a website, you know where to reach me!

Steve

My friend Alex Soria started his own business a few months ago! A flash tutorial business. Sure there are tons of tutorials out there, but Alex’s business idea is definitely different than any other tutorials available! Here’s what he has to say.
“My name is Alex Soria and I started noticing the web was full of Flash tutorials in English. Being Mexican, I was upset that there was not nearly as much content in Spanish. In July of 2008 I started FlashFacilito.com, a website devoted to Flash video tutorials in Spanish. The tutorial topics include a lot of design, drawing and animation. I have received great feedback with over 5000 people on my subscriber list. There have been sales in over 10 countries including: Mexico, US, Spain, Argentina, Colombia and more. Aside from the website, my YouTube account has over a thousand subscribers and over 30 tutorials. I enjoy teaching and I hope I expand my businnes to other software platforms in the near future.”

Check out the tutorials! They’re great!

Steve

It’s been a while since I posted. I recently created a title sequence for the movie Return To Sleepaway Camp. I posted it below. Additionally I created a logo design for the company Go2Sho and created an animation for them as well. I hope you enjoy! (btw, there are little hidden things in the videos.. Canu find them all? )

p.s. it’s my 18th Bday! Thanks Mom & Dad!