Today's Warm-ups

some of todays warm-up doodles while watching Poltergeist, and Legend starring Tom cruise. I love that Darkness character (Tim Curry).
Very quick and sloppy, just wanted to keep the marker moving. They are not pretty but always a learning process.

Planet 51

I don't normally do movie reviews, but I just got done watching Planet 51 on Blue ray. This movie was a lot of fun and the cg animation (the real reason I watch any of these type of movies) was exceptional. I just ordered the art of book from Amazon.com to add to my collection of Art of books. The character designs were reminiscent of other movies and cg we've seen before,
The Rover in the movie reminded me of Pixar's Wall-E


Some of the Aliens reminded me of The Inhabitants of the Odd World franchise,


Here was a homage to Spielberg and E.T.,

and this character reminded me of a character design I did years ago,




here is my guy,



We artist are all influenced by the same thing it seems, however, intentional or unintentional, imitation is still the best form of flattery. As they say, Great Minds Think Alike. I can't wait to see the sketches and character designs in the book. If your interested in purchasing the book or DVD visit the links on this post.