animated painting

For the next turbo sketch, I decided that it'd be fun to see it animated. The idea of committing a month or so (on and off) to a spur of the moment drawing appealed to me. Its like Noah's Ark meets the civil war meets the A team. I once again joined forces with composer, sound designer Kyle Blanton Ross http://www.mindasaportal.com/index.html. Its kind of an excercise, kind of an experiment, kind of fun to see these different elements smashed together into one flu nighmare inducing animation.

commercial

This summer I had the pleasure of designing and animating this spot while working for Yozux studios (http://www.yozux.com/) It kind of felt like making a 48 hr film at Calarts, except for work. A couple of scenes were taken out; one with a french WWI soldier and a nurse, as well as one with 2 astronauts. But all in all it ended up being pretty epic... like The Highlander...but with loob... If your under 9 yrs old, you probably shouldnt watch this.

Throwbacks

These are some sketches from a trip to Italy back in 2004. I loved me some R. Crumb back then.

Swees cheese

Cheese your own adventure dudes.

The Revolution

The revolutionary war and some rats... and some robots and monkeys... and some aliens, you can't forget the aliens...

MashUPs

These drawings were done fairly quickly. The coloring, however took quite a bit more time. In doing the coloring, the stories of what is happening in the drawings came out alot more. This was very interesting beause the initial drawings are stream of conciousness. The coloring and refining of them bring out these common themes and ideas, its like a turbo psycho-analysis...

Yeti, set, go!

Sunha and I painted a yeti getting abducted by an alien in a suitbot. The robot was painted by me and the yeti was all Sunha's.


the persistent alen.


the reluctant yeti.

Evolution

A quick animation study done in Corny Cole's class. In an attempt to dissect the nature of human evolutionary trends. I found that the animated medium was of value in our quest for truth ok.

LIFELINE

The cover

designed by Barney Patterson

The film

Lifeline from Andres Salaff on Vimeo.

Some stills






concept drawing


the factory





the professor


the morphing


very early story beats


some storyboards



This is just some of the preproduction process of "Lifeline," my fourth year film at Calarts. I could never have finished this film without the help of my amazing girlfriend Sunha Yoon. Check out the website http://lifelinefilm.blogspot.com/

screwy doodles II

The Tale of Hastings Von Brindlethorpe

Out of work due to a drought, Hastings Von Brindlethorpe created the worlds first "unbailer" which sent all of the hay that he had bailed back throughout the field, allowing him to continue working. One day he slipped on a banana peel and fell into the machine, sending him into the murky waters of the great unknown.

a little sci-fi

Heres a couple of images for the project I'm thinking of for my film this year. Still in the research phase...

the art of parenting

I was asked by my sister in law jen to draw up the cover for the next issue of the magazine where she's the editor. I agreed, then thought about it for a couple of seconds. And then went back to eating my sandwich which consisted of swiss cheese and turkey breast. I had also put mayo and mustard on it; which I was opposed to for several years, but then regained a fondness for the both of them together... But thats neither here nor there.

Garuda

the flyer


la pelicula


some animation

some boards


Here is the group project that I worked on during my exchange at L'école des Gobelins. The group consisted of Nicolas ATHANE, Meryl FRANCK, Alexis LIDDELL, Maïlys VALLADE and myself. I learned a lot from my group and feel lucky to have met them. I worked on story boarding and animating the film.

jet pack man

Ive been on a jetpack kick lately. Why is he wearing a bowtie? because hes a scientist from the 1920s. This was a little character for cg class. Ill try and post some of the assignments later.

Th00d for F0ught

heres a quick guy i made for petes sake: bon appetite!

look out dude theres a bird there

heres a little drawing i tried using the old wacum tablet: its a flyer for a my buddy quentins dj set: he has a visiting artist come and draw on the tablet and its projected onto a big screen; cool concept:

screwy doodles/ dudy noodles

Here go some doodles I thought I'd share with you since sharing is an important part of life and I don't do it enough on my blog. These 2 guys I saw in new york hanging out. The rhino was in paris. Which, I might add is a great city and I'd suggest visiting if you get the chance. But enough generalizations. Its pretty much just like the Anthony Waller film American Werewolf in Paris

prepare to die

prepare to die
envoyé par sandwichhands

A little flash excercise done while at gobelins. Please be weary of six fingered swordsmen...

the pirahana factor

A bunch of us made some 48 hr films at calarts, the word was pirahna. Its not a cookie, its a fig Newton.

The Deadline

The Deadline from Andres Salaff on Vimeo.

The Deadline is my second year film from Calarts. It is heavily inspired by the writings of Latin American surrealist writers Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar. I was exposed to their works while I was studying Latin American Literature at the Ohio State University before attending Calarts. As usual the story went through many phases before reaching the one that was made, its was far trippier before and maybe a little less comprehensible, believe it or not. The final outcome ended up being a competition of sorts between the two writers as to who can finish their books.

Nate's Poem's illustrations

THE KEY A


Some sketches I did for my friend Nate Fish's poems.

birds...yea

Greetings all! This, my first post is a drawling I did back at Calarts. Currently, I'm residing in Paris doing an exchange program with l'ecole des Gobelins. Its been great so far and Ive gotten to meet some really cool, talented people.