stoked to have been included in the 2024 Toon Boom Studio Showreel (2 years in a row - yay!) and looking forward to sharing the new styles that I got cooking...

Final render in Toon Boom Harmony for a recent dialogue scene...

Process for recent stop motion hybrid project - commercial spot for biological food product sourced extraterrestrially for human consumption in the year 2088 by corporate overlords VEIL Conglomerate. [Produced with Michael Vickner - Software used: Dragonframe, TVPaint, Toon Boom Harmony, Adobe Creative Suite] #animationprocess #stopmotion #dragonframe #tvpaint #toonboom #toonboomharmony #adobecreative #animationart #commercial #analog #cannedfood #product #compositing

Happy Holidays and best wishes to all! Here's hoping the protection payments are on time and the paradox absorbing crumple zones are up to code in the coming new year....!  (tried out the new update from TVPaint Développement for the ink & paint on this after a long stint doing vector art in Toon Boom Harmony)

Another quick little process video of rough animation through to final render in Toon Boom Harmony for a recent little acting bit in order to prep and get a better handle on the close up for a more complicated dialogue scene involving this same character... #traditionalanimation #2danimation #characteranimation #toonboomharmony #animationprocess #acting #paperlessanimation

Scratched this out before midnite and threw some digital slop over top to celebrate my favorite holiday with two of my most favorite films as a youngster. Just learned that there is a 'Ghostbusters: The Video Game' that Aykroyd says is "essentially the third movie"? Gotta get my hands on that...

 #Ghostbusters #IvanReitman #study #DanAykroyd #HaroldRamis #BillMurray #ErnieHudson #Zuul #PeterVenkman #sketchbook #sketch #RayStantz #EgonSpengler #pencil #pencilandpaper #Halloween2023 #scratches #drawing #Slimer #ProtonPack #DigitalInk #WinstonZeddemore #digitalpaint #StayPuftMarshmallowMan #VigoTheCarpathian #digitalpainting

Took some time from animation work to scratch out a Beetlejuice pencil sketch and threw some digital slop over top. Definitely a film that stained my brain permanently as a youth... #beetlejuice #timburton #robtharp #michaelkeaton #harrythehunter #neitherworldwaitingroom #rickheinrichs #sketchbook #sketch #handbookfortherecentlydeceased #pencil #study #pencilandpaper #Halloween2023 #scratches #drawing

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 18 prompt: Flaming Carrot - Bob Burden's carrot creation gets mashed up with a Sam Keith style take on ol' Flame Head (FYI - Burden was also born in Buffalo, NY) #kayfabetober #kayfabetober2023 #Screwball #FlamingCarrotComics #BobBurden #MysteryMen # #study #Aardvark-Vanaheim #RenegadePress #DarkHorseComics #ImageComics #MarvelComics #inkdrawing #inking #GhostRider #Flaming Carrot #Sam Keith @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 15 prompt: Hulk - just a little time to pour over Bruce Timm's interpretation of Wolverine first appearing in the pages of the Hulk (had to tape up some extra paper to get the claws on there) #Hulk #Wolverine #study #kayfabetober2023 #kayfabetober #BruceTimm #MarvelComics #studies #comics #blueline #pencil #Col-Erase #PencilandPaper #sketch @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 15 prompt: Berserk - every panel of Kentaro Miura's manga is a masterpiece - his monsters uniquely terrifying... #Berserk #Guts #kayfabetober2023 #sketch #kayfabetober #KentaroMiura #StudioGaga #YoungAnimal #Guts #DarkFantasy #manga #panel #DarkHorseComics #blueline #pencil #redline #Col-Erase #PencilandPaper #study @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 15 prompt: X-Men - variant cover for when the X-Men encounter Frankenstein's Monster (gotta throw Wolverine into the mix)  #X-Men #Frankenstein #kayfabetober2023 #kayfabetober #GeorgeTuska #SamRosen #Beast #Cyclops #Wolverine #MarvelGirl #MarvelComics #blueline #pencil #JeanGrey #Col-Erase #PencilandPaper #study #sketch @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 14 prompt: Kaiju - riffing on the Katsuhiro Otomo tribute to Moebius' Arzach with Ed making a cameo appearance rocking Homerzilla cosplay... #Kaba2 #Kaiju #kayfabetober2023 #inking #kayfabetober #KatsuhiroOtomo #Arzach #Moebius #Homerzilla #EdPiskor #Gojira #Godzilla #TheSimpsons #TreeHouseofHorror #JeanGiraud #CopicMultiliner #PenandInk #study #sketch #inkdrawing @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 13 prompt: Comic Strips - refreshing to revisit all these great artists for Friday the 13th 

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 12 prompt: Roid Rage - took the opportunity to analyze some Bernie Wrightson behavior... #RoidRage #kayfabetober2023 #kayfabetober #HeavyMetalMagazine #Dreadstar #CaptainSternn #HanoverFiste #RoidRage #KitchenSinkPress #CopicMultiliner #PenandInk #inking #study #sketch #inkdrawing #berniewrightson #RunningOutofTime @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 11 prompt: Marvel Zombies - a resurrected M.O.D.O.K. haunts his zombified arch-enemy Captain America (only time for a blueline drawing - barely got to the other zombies behind cap) @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 10 prompt: Nintendo - Luigi's Haunted Mansion for the Halloween Season (even though those new Zelda games are two of my favorite things). #kayfabetober2023 #kayfabetober #Luigi #Nintendo #Luigi'sMansion #Boo #Booigi #Boogie #ghosts #HauntedMansion #BooGhosts #inkdrawing #inking @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe

#cartoonist #kayfabetober Day 09 prompt: Outlaw - Faust. Struggling to follow after Tim Vigil's technique on this one and remembering all the times my pops had to "allow" the comic clerk to sell me these issues from behind the counter as a youngster  #kayfabetober2023 #kayfabetober #Faust #TimVigil #DavidQuinn #NorthstarComics #RebelStudios #LoveoftheDamned #JohnJaspers #inkdrawing #inking #study @jimruggart @ed_piskor @cartoonist.kayfabe