Robo Graff

Below, you have an illustration of a robot graffiti-artist named  Robo Graff from the future, where machines reign supreme. This is an older piece that I did in 2007. It's definitely one of my favorite works, and because of that, I had to bring it back.

B-girl Caricature

Here is a caricature of a tough B-girl with fresh hip hop style.  She is rocking her hair braided on the sides with a Mohawk bouffant. A co-worker of mine inspired this drawing when she came to work with her hair wrapped up like this one day. Janelle Monae and Shingai Shoniwa from the Noisettes also help inspire this caricature. Beat Freakz from ABDC is the inspiration behind her wardrobe.

Cinnamon Tree: Dropped Classes

Here is a finished strip of Cinnamon Tree.

Me and My Old Man

Here is an Illustration I did for a web TV series called "Me and My Old Man." The Idea for the illustration was to have an 80's feel and the design is inspired by the print-work of that era.




Me and My Old Man website

BLOKHEDZ episode 3 Pump Up the Volume

here's the last Blokhedz Mission G episode. It took them a while to put it out but at least they did. Out of all the episodes this is the one that I worked on the most. I helped arranging sets, building objects in 3D, and texturing.



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BLOKHEDZ chronicles the saga of young Blak, a 17-year-old superhero in the form of an aspiring rapper, blessed with the gift of turning rhymes to reality. In act three, Blak and Flash dodge the Wild Dawgs, meet the lovely Essence (voice by Lauren London), and get confronted by a crew of shadow traveling thugs.

Animal Concepts

here are some concept caricatures of humanoid animals. they are all Urban influenced

you got a hyphy stork





A pimpin panda

and a mean looking crow

Cynnamon Tree Comic designs

Cynnamon Tree is an extremely vulgar and kind of political comic strip about four college students that live in a condo complex in the OC. Mark, Eric, Matt, and Ryan all come from completely different backgrounds and have unique personalities. The local kids in the complex that slang and do graffiti visit them regularly. Also the guys that supply the kids, Trammel and Jacob , come by regularly to visit as well. Even though Mark, Eric, Matt, and Ryan are faced with all these distractions at the condo, they still manage to do what they need to do to pass their college classes.

here are some of the characters and art work made for the comic

Created by Eric Bains, Boarded by Kris Wimberly, Colored by Kevin Garcia and inked by Alaia Braxton

Blokhedz

I have been given the opportunity of a lifetime at ImajiMation studios to be a part of something that embodies two of things that I'm deeply passionate about. ImajiMation is trying to do something that no one has done and that's combine animation with hip hop culture. Blokhedz is the first of it's kind and I'm extremely grateful that I have the opportunity to be a part of it.

Here are the first two episodes







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All of the backgrounds were done in 3D. Much of the modeling and UV layout was done in Maya. Our work flow included creating textures using Bodypaint and setting up materials in Cinema4D. All color and lighting and final rendering was done in Cinema4D.

Below are two reels of the work done on the Blokhedz web series. The first is a 3D background demo reel of episode 2, "Paid in Full". I assisted in surfacing many prop objects in this scene by laying out UVs and creating base textures for select geometry.



Next is a reel of work I did on Blokhedz episode 3. I was responsible for the set dressing of King Tubby's store interior and I assisted in the UVing and texturing of many objects in the chase scene such as the parking structure and some store fronts.



Secret Pilot animation
check it out below

Internet Dating

Below is a 3 minute animated short that I worked on at imajimation studios. The client at the time gave us three weeks to put this animation together.

here is what we were able to do with a three week turn around



here are the characters in this animated short. Mickey is on the top left. Kim is on the top right. Marlon on the bottom right and the customer on the bottom left

D-boy Caricature

Below is a D-boy smoking a Black n Mild. I made his lips big and dark so that it gives him that smoker lips look you see on people who smoke cigs way too much. I have the original sketches next to the finish piece so that you can see the process that I work in. Which is working from my sketch book first, once I'm satisfied with the sketch, then I scan the image and finish it in a program like Illustrator of Photoshop.

Monster BoomBox

This is my second attempted at making a monster stereo. I'm a music lover and I've always felt that my music comes to life though the stereo. So here is a caricature of that feeling. I think this would go good as a Boombox screen saver since it has that feeling of a old school boombox stereo

It would seem that a livid song is playing on the boom box right now.

Sketches

more sketches

College work

My first animated short is something that's
not that great but the effort I put into it makes
me feel that it is

It's call
"Graffitti Vandal Nathaniel"
and here it is

here is some of the pre-production work
from GVN.