Tyson’s Blog

My first submission to the illustration fridays weekly challenge. I apologize for sending this one in at the eleventh hour, but I had a pretty busy week here… as you can see from my previous post on this blog.

Developed as a promotional piece for LetterPress Software Inc. copyright LetterPress Software Inc.

CREDITS:
Story/Idea: Nate Greenwall, Jordan Leary, and Tyson Burnham
Characters and Illustration by: Nate Greenwall
Animation and Illustration by: Jordan Leary
Illustration and Textures by: Tyson Burnham
Music and Sound Effects by: Kinsey Love

This project was an especially enjoyable one to develop. Props to Nate for the great character design, Jordan for his excellent animation prowess, and Kinsey for her auditory ninjitzu. You can also see the video on YouTube here: Popsicle Stick Puppet Show

Now that is what I call smitten! Uploaded from work since my comp at home is not being nice to me.

Created for Illustration Friday.

Just some characters I started to draw at work yesterday.

I have been working feverishly on my website this past week, and despite many distractions I have managed to get something put together in Photoshop and Imageready. With a few tweaks made in Dreamweaver, I have finally come up with something I could at least look at on a browser. I had managed to get it all working in both firefox and internet explorer, but one thing really bugged me. I would have to chop up the tables and things inside that page in order to place any content on it! I don’t want to do that! So I have been scouring the resources on this site to learn how to put it all together in xhtml and css by hand so I can take some control from those crutch programs I have relied on all of this time. this is how far I have gotten. Not much, but it is a start. Now if only there was a magic cure to fix the discrepancy between firefox and internet explorer when using decent xhtml and css.

This door was modeled and rendered in XSI. No textures applied except for one board where I tried brushing some color on it using a weight map. I was mostly just testing out Global Illumination settings, seeing how this would render. I like it so far, except for the really dark shadow in the upper left corner of the door. I may use this as a simple backdrop scene for an animation. I just don’t have any idea what I will put there.