Yogi at Yu+Co

Worked on this Yogi Title Sequence at Yu+Co Studios in Hollywood.
Heres the Cartoon Brew Post.

and you can check the full title sequence on Motionographer here..

               

        

I Also wanna say Yu+Co was a very cool studio to freelance at.
Perfect location, and an awesome Staff..

Recut my 2D reel =)

2D Animation Reel from Joshua Dotson on Vimeo.

2 updates in one week! "BAMMM!!" take that Mr. Postman!!

Can't show the animation on this.. so here's some -BG/Stills.
The short is titled "Ghost Stories" via short live action film "Spout"
kind of a short within a short.
- directed by Alex Munoz.

BUCK - NIKE - USC

This is kinda old news but I came across it as I was updating my reel.
I was a very small percentage of the animation actually seen.



BUCK

PORRIDGE "The Prince of the Blue"

I've been working on several freelance gigs lately and heres one thats pretty cool. I asked the director of the project (Christian Ortega) if I could show a few things from the animated part which is in my hands. Heres the trailer which only shows some live-action clips.

Careful..Some of these may hurt your eyes!!

Ok so enough of those agonizing storyboards.. here are some BG's that I played around with last semester. The last one is actually from my film.. and Robots on the cliff is a "Kuembuck" throwback.



Put on your Stunter Shades!








BG from "Optimistic Illusions of a Fool"

here are some boards from "OPTIMISTIC ILLUSTIONS OF A FOOL" ( The original cut)

These boards are like a hybrid mix of pencil and Cintiq. I guess thats what happens when you don't plan things out well and you change your story a million times. Anyway I wanted to add some gray tones in the boards so I didn't have to think about lighting and stuff later on. I ended up finishing some of the boards completely by Cintiq when I made changes.I'm not gonna post the whole story but heres about half...













Heres a few BG Teasers. Once again BG asistance by Mr. Jason Boech. Check out his Blog damnit. http://jboesch.blogspot.com/. I'll post more BG stuff later.

Prelude to "Optimistic Illusions of a Fool"

So most of you probably seen my new film in the OPEN SHOW. What you didn't know is that I changed the story like 10 times during the semester and slapped shit together at the last minute. In the Original film idea I boarded a flash-back sequence of Terrance & good Thaddeus back in Vietnam. At the end of that sequence Terrance steps on a bomb and we jump cut to him actually waking up at the wheel of the bus about to hit that monstrous BIG RIG. Here it is.. the original drawings are pretty ruff but later on I added some grey tones in Photoshop.

So I just graduated and I finally feel like I can breath. AhHhhHhhhh!!! My film along with few other were mentioned on CartoonBrew.com. Check it out!

heres the link
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/ten-calarts-student-films-from-2009.html#more-13658


I got tons of work I still wanna put up from my new film so check back in soon.

I am so done with this film.. The last few scenes are done in flash along with some After Effects Sprinkles..And here it is. Enjoy!

Hit the HQ button on the youtube screen!


Most of the Backgrounds in "VooDoo Carnival" were done by mixed media including Pencil,Prisma Color, Marker, Pastel, and Photoshop.,



Pencil Sketch,




Pencil Sketch


Color Version,


The Cast..
Staring "Bobby T"









Film Stills,

I have lots of new, very different work and I promise I'll update this puppy when my film in finished!