Jake Black Animation

JELL-O

2011-07-14T13:35:00.001-07:00

Another Z-lunch study.

Z-Skull Statue, Castle Dracula

2011-07-06T15:36:00.001-07:00

This is a prop I'm working on for a project Josh and I are working on, Castle Dracula.

Joker Z-Lunch Study

2011-07-06T15:21:00.000-07:00

Lunch study at work using Z-Brush.

El General

2011-04-12T14:25:00.000-07:00

This was a lunch study we did awhile ago. I was trying to focus on values but it was a toughy for me.

Eskeleto at Bald Mountain

2011-02-19T08:15:00.000-08:00

This is an old drawing I did for Joe Olson's class. I used some Photoshop magic to make it look ghosty like.

Figure Drawing Friday

2010-10-25T13:55:00.000-07:00

Another Friday Figure Drawing

2010-09-10T18:52:00.000-07:00

I Should have finished the hand.

Old Maggie Smith

2010-08-31T08:11:00.000-07:00

This is a fun lunch study we did a bit here and there over the week.

Another Day of Figure Drawing

2010-08-13T19:12:00.000-07:00

Elephino

2010-07-28T12:24:00.001-07:00

Doodles of elephants and rhino.

Figure Drawings

2010-07-28T09:32:00.001-07:00

Thought I would just compile all of these to one image.

Lunch Study 2

2010-04-28T11:15:00.001-07:00

It's amazing how after working on a piece for awhile you stop noticing when something is horribly wrong with it.

Lunch Study

2010-04-26T13:16:00.000-07:00

The title isn't completely honest. This took me around 4 hours. My brother is teaching me how to paint. He makes it look easier than it is.

Gangster

2009-06-22T09:47:00.000-07:00

This is a 45 minute lunch study. It is a character from gangster movie I haven't seen. I believe they call this guy the Butcher.

Holyrood Chapel

2009-06-02T22:21:00.000-07:00

This is a ruin of an abbey church in Scotland. I don't think I did it a whole lot of justice, but it was fun to model.

Star Wars

2009-05-24T11:21:00.000-07:00

Now I'll I need to do is get married and have kids.

Semi Truck for X-ing

2009-04-05T22:19:00.001-07:00

It's finally finished. It took me a long time to texture, but I sure learned a lot doing it.

AK-47

2009-04-05T22:14:00.000-07:00

This was for a friend of mine. He made a short film that I still have no idea what it was about, but apparently it required a model of an AK-47 so I made him one.

Stuff I did on the X-ing

2009-04-05T22:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some earlier models and textures I did for X-ing. I can't take credit though for the spectacular texture on the armadillo Stubbs. That was done by Cameron Taylor.

Itzel

2009-03-22T23:17:00.000-07:00

This is what I have so far for an environmental assignment in Sam's digital painting class. Yarr... I don't know what I'm doing.

Squidy

2009-02-11T07:51:00.001-08:00

This is Squidy. He is an imaginary friend who is very frightened of his owner Todd. Todd is a mean kid and shows no mercy to anyone. Even though Squidy is much bigger than Todd, he is too scared to stand up to him until one day. I'm going to be painting this character for Sam's digital painting class.

General Davis and Itzel

2008-12-19T22:04:00.000-08:00

Character designs for Joe's final.

Joe's Final

2008-12-09T17:29:00.000-08:00

Environment for Joe's final.

Imaginary Friend

2008-10-17T17:09:00.000-07:00

This is Charley the octopus. He's an imaginary friend who is terrified of his owner.

Saint Holyrood Chapel Ruins

2008-09-24T18:07:00.000-07:00

This is a personal project I'm working on. I'm currently figuring out sharers and finishing the model. This chapel has a lot of interesting history with royalty in Scotland.

Cow Skull

2008-09-17T06:31:00.000-07:00

This is a prop for our Senior film that's going to be crushed by the semi truck.

Semi Texture

2008-08-26T14:54:00.000-07:00

This is the progress I've made so far the semi truck I'm doing for a student film I'm working on. It's just in the earlier stages at this point.

Trip to Jackson Hole

2008-08-10T20:56:00.000-07:00

These are pictures I took while we drove through Yellow Stone Park. We did get out of course to take the pictures. There were some other cool things I saw, but my dang batteries ran out.

Graphic Monster

2008-08-02T09:50:00.000-07:00

I was just playing around with an old design I did for fun.

Itzel

2008-06-29T21:42:00.000-07:00

This is the Shaq character I've been working on. I want him to be the villain for an idea I'm working on. He's very intelligent and deceitful.

Technological Nightmare

2008-06-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

There is nothing quiet as terrifying as a great white shark, except for a great white shark that can fly and has a freaking laser gun attached to his head.

Secrets of the North

2008-06-22T21:40:00.000-07:00

This is part of my final for Ryan's class. I'm reposting it because I didn't really like the other characters I did so I took them out. The story is about an Eskimo who becomes friends with a snow monster.

Spooky Trees

2008-06-12T21:45:00.000-07:00

These are some tree models I rendered and photoshoped the crap out of. This is a place you don't want to find yourself on a full moon.

Semi

2008-05-25T21:47:00.000-07:00

This is an armadillo's worst nightmare.

Birdy

2008-05-25T19:07:00.000-07:00

This is a model I did for Seth Hippin. This is based off his design.

Itzel

2008-05-24T14:22:00.000-07:00

This is my first attempt at Z-Brush. It's a lot of fun, but I don't have mental ray to render out a quality normal map so here just a screen capture.

The Xaq

2008-04-18T10:04:00.001-07:00

This is a personal project that is in it's early stages right now. This is the Xaq.

Golfer Dude

2008-04-14T14:42:00.000-07:00

This is a work in progress. In the process of texturing now.

2008-04-14T11:47:00.000-07:00

Who said Utah wasn't Pretty?

2008-02-24T23:09:00.000-08:00

I love to go up into the mountains and breath in some fresh air. It's peaceful. The only thing you got to watch out for are those mountain lions.

Alcatraz

2008-02-24T22:55:00.000-08:00

This was as close as I got. Nobody else wanted to go.

Moab

2008-02-24T22:40:00.000-08:00

These are pictures I took on my last trip there, except for the last one which has me in it of course. This is one of my favorite places in the world. I love to mountain bike, hike, camp, and fish there.

Painting with Light

2008-02-24T21:34:00.000-08:00

These were fun to do. It was like using magic markers for the first time.

Procrastination

2008-02-24T20:35:00.000-08:00

This right here is the definition of procrastination. The day this photography assignment was due two dudes were left with no choice but to do a portrait assignment together. As you can see, it was quite early in the morning. We got the assignment done, but unfortunately, we forgot to change before going to class.

Armadilla

2008-02-06T23:01:00.000-08:00

This is one of my attempts at a female armadillo.

Nuts

2008-01-15T20:22:00.000-08:00

This is a guy who loves nuts.

Secrets of the North

2007-12-17T13:24:00.000-08:00

This is my final for Ryan Woodward's character design class. I'm still working on the story for the characters.

2007-12-13T21:00:00.000-08:00

This is my idea of what BYU will look like in the future.

2007-12-10T15:36:00.000-08:00

This is one of the environment thumbnails I did for Ryan's class. I blew it up and threw on some quick color. Quick and dirty.

Yeddy

2007-12-05T19:42:00.000-08:00

A very mis-understood beast.

Emulation

2007-11-30T08:51:00.000-08:00

This is an emulation assignment that I did of Shane Glines work.

Terminator

2007-11-29T12:17:00.000-08:00

Here is a project I'm working on for one of my classes right now. It's still a work in progress.

VIP

2007-11-27T15:34:00.000-08:00

This is my attempt at a modern cartoon style.

Gargulous

2007-11-24T11:25:00.000-08:00

This is my gargoyle bat character with some changes and fixes suggested by my teacher, Joe Olsen.

Gargy the Grumpy

2007-11-12T20:33:00.000-08:00

This is a gargoyle slash batman man. He doesn't get along with Bruce Wayne.

HFAC satelite

2007-11-11T21:54:00.000-08:00

This is a more technical drawing done with ink and marker for Joe's class. We were given the assignment to draw some landmark on campus and I chose the HFAC satelite.

sketches

2007-11-07T08:35:00.000-08:00

Some sketches of things on BYU campus.

Force of Nature

2007-11-07T08:27:00.000-08:00

This is a 3d rendered version of the toy design I did for Joe's class.

Evil Goat

2007-11-05T16:22:00.000-08:00

Leader of the Northern goat armies of the dreaded ash forest. He's magical powers are awesome.

Chicken Holmes

2007-11-05T16:13:00.000-08:00

Cybot

2007-11-01T21:15:00.000-07:00

I'm in the process of rigging the character, but here is the model with it's texture so far.

Construction Manager

2007-10-29T21:37:00.000-07:00

Robot managers are far more efficient and never complain.

2007-10-23T15:50:00.000-07:00

Here is my hero and nonstereotypical villain for Ryan's class. Who would of ever thought that Batman was going to get it from a baby seal.

The Summoner

2007-10-19T17:50:00.000-07:00

This is a drawing I did in Joe's class. Inking and markering it was fun but I'm not very good at it.

2007-10-17T12:09:00.000-07:00

This is a character of Dan Akroyd, but that isn't all that characterized. I mostly just gave him a huge head. Cone Heads.

2007-10-10T14:36:00.000-07:00

These are line drawings for Ryan's class of the silhouettes we did.

2007-09-25T20:27:00.000-07:00

These are some fun assignments we're doing in the Drawing for Animation class taught by Joe.

2007-09-25T14:57:00.000-07:00

These are silhouettes for Ryan's character design class.

2007-09-14T21:53:00.000-07:00

This is Cybot the cycloptic robot. He's a concept I did and am now modeling.

2007-09-11T10:17:00.000-07:00

Here are my hill billy and french maid designs for Ryan's class.

2007-09-06T09:08:00.000-07:00

These are some rough sketches for possible models

2007-08-16T15:22:00.000-07:00

This is the monster, Fish Hook, fighting the brave knight, Sir Blackenite.

Ever Watchful

2007-07-20T07:26:00.000-07:00

The gaudian never ceases to be on the look out.

The Gaurdian

2007-07-15T19:55:00.001-07:00

This is a concept I'm working on. He's a bodygaurd and ride to those he serves. His race are loyal servants to who ever they are oathed to serve and are great worriors.

Fish Hook

2007-06-28T16:25:00.000-07:00

This is a concept I did for a 3d animation I'm working on.

My twin's head

2007-06-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

Model of my brother's head without hair.

Gundam King

2007-06-16T02:26:00.000-07:00

Model of the Gundam King.

The Tale of Sir Black n' Knight

2007-06-16T02:21:00.000-07:00

This is an animation I did of my Brother getting eaten by a dragon. I usually don't like to animate, but this was definetly the exception.

Tea Gone Cold

2007-06-16T02:19:00.000-07:00

This is where Vader and the Emperor drank their tea in the morning.

Fierce Dragon

2007-06-16T02:18:00.000-07:00

Fierce version of dragon.

Alien bug battle scene.

Figure Drawings

2007-06-16T02:13:00.000-07:00

More figure drawings.

Snow Speeder

2007-06-16T02:12:00.000-07:00

This is the snowspeeder I did to go along with the Walker.

Imperial Walker

2007-06-16T02:10:00.000-07:00

This is my first big modeling project I did in Maya. It was something I always wanted to do.

More Figure Drawings

2007-06-16T01:53:00.000-07:00

Figure drawings

Trilo and ceramic carving

2007-06-16T01:50:00.000-07:00

Before doing animation related art work I was into traditional stuff. This is a ceramic sculpture I made of a huge trilobite I found in my backyard. Below it is a carving I did in a ceramic jar I did.

One Star General

2007-06-16T01:48:00.000-07:00

Here is a head of a general. I was thinking of General Patton.

Clay Dudes

2007-06-16T01:46:00.000-07:00

These are some fun quick sculptures I made with super sculpy.

Bomb Frog

2007-06-16T01:41:00.000-07:00

This is a concept design I did with a sculpture I made of it afterwards. I couldn't fit the arms on there.

Clay Man

2007-06-16T01:34:00.000-07:00

This is an anitomical sculpture study I did.

Sir Black n' Knight

2007-06-16T01:30:00.000-07:00

This is a model I did of my twin brother Josh. I made him into a knight so I could animate a dragon I modeled eating him. And by the way, doing that animation was a delight.

Traveling in the "Desert Mountains"

2007-06-13T16:21:00.000-07:00

This is the black knight who fell in attempt to slay the dragon king of the "Desert Mountains."