Finished..For now...

Ok this dude is coming along and I def wanna animate him, but as work gears up I may or may not have time, but keep a look out. This guy needs a name. hmmmmmm?

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One more

I still wanna make more tweaks but this is where I ended today.

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VRAY and Mudbox

So I never used either of these programs, but it was a slow day today and this is what I got out of it! this fun old dude. I have to say I have a crush on Mudbox now.

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Cowboy

LiL richard pryor and a LIL Morgan Freeman. :)

Old Man

I drew this guy a while back, but thought it would be fun to paint him up.

Few more Paintings

Still breaking in the new Wacom. :)

New Painting

So with my time off I ordered a intous 4 wacom tablet( I was close to buying a cintiq but dude thats just too much money and with the economy how it is now i BETTER SAVE DAT MONEY!) Anyway heres a painting of a dude who does'nt care about money cause he just steals it. :)

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New Daily

:)

One more :)

Old Heroes MAG

Thought I would have a lil more fun with the image I made this morning.

Old age

So this morning I decided to do a lil flash clean up of one of my scribs. Its an aging super hero whose ice power is starting to form just a weak dust mist. :)

Daily Scrib

:)

Nother Morning Scrib

:)

Morning Quickie

:)

New Scribs

Spline Doctors Challenge

This was so fun to be a part of, the winner can be found here SplineDoctors Site! and the other entries along with the winner can be seen here Animations! again it was so much fun and I am ready for my next clip. :)

New Doodles.

Man all this time locked away trying to get better at my character animation, I forget to just sit back and draw, so I am trying to change that.

Almost There!

Ok so I have been working on this thing nonstop and having a blast! Its at the point now where I need to go in and clean up some things and maybe push some expressions.But overall I really dig where it is goin. I can not wait to see all the entries for this.

Bale Rant WIP *Bad Language Warning** from don dixon on Vimeo.

Spline Doctors Challenge **Warning Bad Words**

So the guys over at SplineDoctors.com are having an animation contest where the challenge is to animate to the Christian bale rant. This is my ref and what I have so far, no real facial stuff yet and I have the feet goin into the ground at some point that needs to be cleaned up. But here is what I have so far.

Short Clip Still a Work in progress

Reference FILM

Huggies Ref FILM from don dixon on Vimeo.

Early Pass

Huggies Work in progress from don dixon on Vimeo.

Final

render from don dixon on Vimeo.

New Afronaut Model WIP

Not done but slow and steady...

New Times

Pretty close

I have about 11 days left for the contest, so I will prob go dig back in and see where I can refine some areas, but for the most part its looking ok to me, I wish I had pushed the acting a bit more but after listening to the audio this is what came out so there it is.

FINAL from don dixon on Vimeo.

Work In Progress

This is Shot one of a work in progress for the 11 sec club, month of JAN.

Untitled from don dixon on Vimeo.

Work In Progress

Still tryin to polish/tweak this one, but its getting there.

BA BA BA BEAR

Durd!

Ok so I am about 90 percent done with Durd, I have a friend/co-worker who is a sound designer, and musician and he is taking the temp track I made and adding some sound effects and music. In the meantime I am trying to polish out the bumps and humps on the animation. I hope people dig it, and if they don't well then there is always the next short I work on! GO OUT AND VOTE!

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Ouick Doodles

I am tryin to get use to drawing straight into the computer b4 I decide whether or not to invest in a cintiq, here are some which wacom drawings. I wish I had more but I have been soo busy tryin to bust out my short Durd. More to come I hope.

MOre funnNN!

New Stuff!

So I had a few days off of work, and it was nice to just fuck around and do my own thing so here is some new stuff! The durd character is something I am cooking up for a little short short short that I am gonna bust out, I also made a cute little soundtrack for it, so keep a look out.

ANother free RIG

More Fun with free RIG!!

Fun with free Rig

Just some fun during some break time. D

Goofin

This was a ink sketech I posted not to long ago and to kill some time today since its slow I did a quick speed paint over on him.

Loans

I added the final to this post. Not really happy with it but its late night fun.


Have you ever recieved threats from collectors or owed a loan? It feels like they got you by the balls for life, and you know what? They do, but I have the gift of art and the gift of a funny sense of humor, so THis alfalfa looking dude is my alter ego, a crazed looney that does nothing but go forth and detroys creditors, loan officers, student loan companies, banks, why does he go forth and do these killings? Its for the kids. ;) ALl kidding aside I think I will take one more pass at this before I can fully call it done.

Progress of There will be blood

Still not done with the color but heres my progress.

There will be Blood

Old drawing but it kept staring at me saying, "Paint me." "Paint me." So The painting shall begin :)

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Kung Foo Awesomeness!

I recently went to the movies and saw Kung Foo Panda, and damn was it good! The story was great, the characters all stayed true to who they were, the jokes all fit the film and wasnt just pop culture references. It was fantastic, one of the great challenges I have been faced with at work is animating a large creature that has weight and power and still able to be somewhat dexterious. To see this panda with its fluid movements with flawless weight shifts and wonderful timing, I was inspired and jealous at the same time LOL yea I can admit it I get jealous! I left the movie feeling happy and yet again reminded as to why I wanted to become an animator, watching people laugh and react to the animation and the characters was such a treat for me. My hat goes off to all who worked on the film and specifically the animators! I will continue to strive for something as great! GO see the movie! :)

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Old Shizznit

So I was playin with my cam a few days ago and took some pics of some images that were too big for my scanner, pictures are not the best quality, I should of invested in the better cam. :) but I thought I would post these for the hell of it. :)

Indy

So from time to time I have this gig where I do graphic work or illustrations for FYI Magazine In Dubai, This image was suppose to go on the cover of their next issue, but because of timing constraints and my work load with my full time gig, things did'nt pan out, but I figured I would still post it to show you guys :) I saw the movie this weekend, it was ok, a bit cheezy at times :) Anyway hope u dig it!

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edie sedgwick

Ok so I have not been good at posting, I cant really show the work I have been doing animation wise, but I had to post something. Truthfully, I have been partying my ass off looking for the first and only Mrs. Dixon :) But I recently rented factory girl about the life of Edie Sedgwick, and for now she is my girlfriend, and this image is inspired by her, just a fast little doodle, but I think its cute! More to come!

Werd!

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Gainesville Rocks!

Ok so its not a drawing but I promise to get some new sketches up soon, I have been so busy with getting settled in here in florida, and making new friends, learning how to animate using motion builder, which rocks btw! I really wish I could show some of the stuff I am working on, its very exciting and fun, And the models I am working on look so kick ass, not to mention the great rigs, I have never worked on such cool looking characters and its such a blast bringing these guys to life and animating them doing cool shit. I guess you will all see them when we finish our game. I am learning that life is about progression,not being afraid to try and go somplace new. I love the town here, Dallas was not the place for me, and this just confirms it being here, I have met some great people, I love coming into work everyday.And you can feel comfortable being yourself and speaking your mind without people bending out of shape. I look forward to showing off some new personal animation as well as some new sketches. Be back soon!

Creature

I did this a while back and I thought I had posted it on my blog but I think it use to be on my now non existant website.:) (one day I will make a new one!) But I really always liked the design of this character and the shapes I used on it seem really fun. A buddy of mine use to always tease me when I drew creatures because I would pose them as if they were super models, and I think this is one of them. But its one of my favorites and since its not on my old website and it appears I never posted it up here on my blog, I figured I would post it now, since my scanner is packed and I cant really do anything new just yet.Hope ya like it!

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Drags Work In Progress

Still not a very strong modeller but I figure what the hell, I gotta keep myself a little busy before my big move. So here is drags, a work in progress.

New Doodle

I have'nt been drawing much but tonight for the first time in weeks,I did this little drawing while watching Real world Road Rules Challenge LOL, the show is so stupid, yet I was compelled to watch.

NEW JOB!!!

Today I accepted an offer to work as a character animator for game play and cinematics for Ignition Entertainment out in Gainesville Florida. I am really excited to begin work there, very nervous and hope that I do not let them down. There is a lot of talent in this studio which can be very scary! But I am gonna give it my all. I would say I am gonna miss Texas, but that just would'nt be true. LOL

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Shot out to MOMS!

I always speak of my dad's influence on my becoming an aritst, and I realized that I never give props to my moms. Never has there been a womans' bold presence of guidance and support, then what I got and still get from my mom. To be an artist, and to be an animator, I think you have to really know how to see people, and how to sympathize and empathize with their emotions and ideas. My mother is a queen of this. Never once did she stop me from trying to become and artist, and when I ever fell, and still do, she brings me up, and reminds me that everything I got in me, my will and determination to be stronger with each day, came from her. Creativity I may have gotten from my pops, but love and respect for the thngs I do and create, is all about moms.

CGARENA INTERVIEW

I was recently asked to do an Interview on CGARENA.com and it has just been posted, so if your drinking coffee and want something to read besides politics or what Britney Spears did today,lol you should check it out!

CGARENA.COM INTERVIEW

Zapp & Roger

Imagine being 5 years old and watching your dad and his twin brother in the garage building a 7 foot tall robot surrounded by electronics and weird gadgets all made by your dad, Thats what Zapp and Roger take me back too, every weekend I would watch my father make robots jamming out to Zapp and Roger and the Jackson 5 and Earth Wind and Fire, it was good times, and when I hear this song it takes me back to those times when Imagination and fun was always around, I would see my dad create something from his head, and thought how awesome it was, and with the music it just added and extra flavor and excitment that to this day I take with me, So thats why I have Zapp and Roger playing on my blog! :)

Old Stuff!

I have been so busy I have not had any time to do the normal amount of drawing I usually do! So with that said I am posting some old drawings, some use to be on my old website, which is another thing I never have time to do anymore is update a new website, and some are just drawings I thought would be fun to post.

The Afronaut Render

This was a fun thanksgiving weekend, I rented tons of dvds, season 2 of Weeds was phenomonal! I ate with a co-workers family and had a great time. And I made this bad boy image of none other then the Afronaut,flying on his Hover Afro Pick fighting in the deep ghettos of space! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

Afronaut Render

This is a test render of a image I am working on with my Afronaut character.

Back In Blue

This was another spot done for the Mavs, I did the character animation, the enviorments and kick ass lighting was done by Brian Cole, Rigs Created by Jesse Sandifer. I think it came out great for the two weeks we had to put it together! Hope you enjoy! Rock OUT!

AfroNaut

Started this a few nights ago, Work in progress.

Win Some, Lose Some

So I almost got a gig designing characters for a TV Show, but did'nt land it, But I thought I would share this with ya!

3d World Magazine

What up peeps! My image The Majestic(Best Friends) is in issue 98 of 3dworldmag.com
in the exhibition section,I tried to drop hints to try and get the cover but baby steps! :) Pick it up if ur rich the damn mag is expensive, or if ur in borders check it out! later tater!

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Avery Family

This was done for one of the Dallas Maverick games I worked on at Green Grass Studios, It was alot of fun to work on and really cool to see it play out at one of the games, The models/rigs and enviorments were created by my fellow Green Grass peeps! I did the storyboard and Character animation for this one.

Old Sound Clip with Animation and Character Face Lift

Been workin on this one for a while and went back in to push it more, to make it more exciting I changed up the model from what I had way back.

MY AWESOME CLIP!
FreeVideoCoding.com

Oct 11 Second Club

Here is my October entry for this months contest, I hope you like it I had a blast working on it!

MY AWESOME ANIMATION CLIP!
FreeVideoCoding.com

3d total making of article

They just posted my Making Of article on3dtotal.com Of my Best Buds/ The Majestic illustration. So check it out!

Changing the World

I don't know if he will change the world, but its obvious we need some kind of change, and I would like to see this man given the chance. So show your support and check out barackobama.com
Donate 25 bucks and if you can't then spread the word to those out there who can send some finacial support!

Don

Squirrel

I have been kinda lazy, so to just have suttin to post here is a squirrel I did a while back and did nothing with really, well one really bad animation, but we will pretend that we did'nt. Happy Monday!

Hard Times

So no unfinished drawing today, or new 3d animation, just me putting my thoughts down. Its been a really hard couple of months, I packed up a nice comfy life in chicago, a place that just embraced my from the second I packed up my lil ford focus and left my moms house for the last time, and entered the city. Granted it took some adjustments, just like I am hoping it will here in Dallas. I hope. Its just been really hard, and things come out of nowhere and just knock you on your ass. And you go home with nobody to talk to about it, nobody to tell you its going to be ok, its just you, alone, alone, alone. LOL that shit is hard.But I remind myself every day why I took this step, why I uprooted one life to try for another, and its for the very reason that if you stand still your not living. My father taught me that, and anyone that really knows me knows that I don't exactly have the best relationship with my father, He has been in Korea for as long as I can remember, making toys doing his thing. No matter what though he taught me how to dream and to keep my head up, and is why I am a animator today, and is why there is a thriller pic on this entry. When I first saw thriller I thought wow!! How did they transform MJ into that wolf!? I wanted to know! My Dad Showed me, he grabbed a dictionary and in the lower corner he drew a normal mans face, then on to the next page, and the next, slightly distorting him as he went. The end result was a wolf man. He then sat it in front of me, flipped the pages and I was fucking trippin out! I was hooked. He took a simple flipbook to explain the process of what I was seening in thriller. Why am I bringing all this up now? Inspiration, I need it, and the fact that I am going to michigan for a reunion this weekend, and on the way back I am going to see my father for the first time in about 6 years. So with these upcoming things, I find myself thinking about life, and hard times and why it is I do what I do? Why am I this vulgar sometimes funny, twisted, animator? How will I handle the almost for sure hard times to come? I look forward to sitting down with my father and having a beer with him and talknig to him about this shit. I am not the best writer and this probaly will make no sense when I go back and read it, But like I said, its just me putting my thoughts down. The thoughts that won't get me arrested! Those thoughts I keep to myself! LOL

11 Second Club

So with the death of 10 second club, comes the birth of the 11 second club! Here is my entry as of today, no clubbing or drinking for me, with 14 days to go I may do some more polish on this one!


MY AWESOME ANIMATION CLIP!
FreeVideoCoding.com

Drags

So my boy Robin Robins Blog Did a kick ass painting of a dragon, so it inspired me to do this little guy.

Best friends

So I had a tough long ass week! But at the root of it all, at the end of the day, I have a best friend, who in fact is'nt around now, but thanks to technology he is always a text mgs away. I have tons of friends, but the ones that really mean alot are the ones that remind me whats really important and to alway keep my head up and strive for greatness. The ones that will challenge me and not let me just hear what I want to hear. The ones that you can, "Crawl through a river of shit, and come out clean" - Redd quote from Shawshank Redemption, talking about his best friend Andy.

So Thanks!

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Proposal WIP

Work in progress, I actually forgot about this and since I have not been animating at home much, I may go in and play with it this weekend, but just in case I don't and end up on a date, :) here is where I am at.

Excellence Award

So I wake up this morning to find that I got front page on 3dTotal For my Cowboy Worm and fish Image for the CGTalk.com Challenge "Strange Behavior" Very Cool!

Animations

Since I am in Darwin mode I have'nt any new sketches and what not, but figured I would post some animations that I continue to toy with. :)
Animation 1
Animation 2

Time for the next level

I am taking a break from posting on my blog to post on a new one, I am begining work on what I hope is going to be something as great as it is when I see it in my head, The blog is a motivator for me to keep going! To tell my story and get it done right. Hopefully I will acheive this goal. Please follow me and continue to inspire me. http://darwinthedreamer.blogspot.com

Back in Black!

I just turned 29 yesterday, what the hell! Last time I checked I was 15, where does the time go? I am on a rampage now! Changing, losing myself, losing bad habits(smoking!), losing doubt in my skills, losing all the shit, I am gonna rock out! Become a better man, make great art that makes people smile! I laugh at the cloud of 30 looming over my head! :)

DONE and DONE!

Strange Animation

Well I am done theres still about 87 days left for the challenge on cgtalk, but I want to get started on some new things, so it was time to put this baby to bed! I am really pleased with how it came out, and its given me the confidence to move on to my next challenge, trying to make a short, right now I am just going to take it slow and try to get some designs out and make some models, who knows what the future holds, I can be such a lazy ass sometimes! Anyway back to the fish! Here is their story: The Story of John Worm a rough and tough worm who has escaped danger and had his run ends with many fishermen. He is tough and energetic and very fast! With a makeshift holster he carries with him a fish hook, fastest worm in the Majestic Sea! With him is his bud Colt the most friendly fish in the Majestic, also the most talented, he can escape any situation, which makes him a perfect match for John Worm. They are freinds on a quest for the golden sea horse, a master of the ways of the Wild Majestic Sea, when they meet him they will learn the key to unlocking the gateway to the underwater(what is belived to be myth) town of Gold and Sea dreams, where they will live fruitful lives as adventures of the Deep Majestic Sea.

Almost DONE!!!

Ok so its getting there, Changed the color palette to be more western themed, and I think this will really help my mean sea creature in the distance really have some pop!

Da Boys

More progress for the competition, starting to work in textures and enviorment, Still long way to go, I have to model the sharks, and some sort of background elements and texture the worms cowboy hat,and I still have'nt decided on if I am going to keep or get rid of the saddle with the fish hooks. :)

D.

Best Friends

You know the best stories for me are the buddy flicks, yes they follow a very over used formula, two guys from different worlds, nothing alike and yet they bond, when in fact all signs should point that these two shouldn ot get along at all! There is something very cool and grabbing about that to me. Maybe its because I value my friends. Either way that was the basic idea behind this strange behavior competition I am workin on. So here we are more progress!

Don Is Simpsonified!

So I have not seen the movie, but I will soon! Some may know this but I actually seriously got into drawing when a kid in my middle school thought he could draw bart simpson better then anyone! I took on the challenge, and many horrible simpson drawings later and a few ugly Teenage mutant ninja turtle sketches, I was on my way to being, average! LOL Still trucking along! Anyway the simpsons offical movie site has a great spot where you can make yourself into one of the characters! Check it out! So there ya go!

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Stanger Behaivor

So I am pushing my sketch my making a more 3d rendered scence for the strange behavior competition for Making some character design changes on the Fish and the worm, and eventually going to model the gang of sharks. 3d Modelling isnt really my thing, but hopefully I can pull this off! For now here is the fish as of today.

Scales and what not!

I have added more detail and taken some things out, now I am juggling with if I want to model this scene in 3d for the compitition or just be lazy and enter the 2d one! LOL, the fish and the worm are 3d right now but I brought them in photoshop, I am thinking about pushing the models more, modeling the sharks and doing about 80 percent of it in 3dmax right now only maybe 40 percent of its 3d. We will see i guess. :)

More progress

Since there is 98 days left in the competition I am considering recreating this scence entirely in 3d, when i started this the fish and the worm were crudely modelled in 3d to use as a base, then I took it into photoshop. But I am still leary of doing the while scence in 3d, I am terrible at 3d modeling LOL

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More Strange Behavior

This is where I am so far for the strange behavior competitition for Cgtalk. Anyway I am not sure what I wanna do with it to push it further yet, I might actually give it a sepia tone instead to give it more of a old western feel. I really hope you all like it!

Don

Strange Behavior Contest

This is for the CGtalk, Strange Behavior contest, I am going to be doing an image of a worm with a cowboy hat riding a fish into the blue abyss.:) Here is my progress so far.

Monkey See Monkey DO!

Ghetto Fab!

More fun from last night!

OK so Texas is cool! Lots of responsiblitly at the new job, they gave me the title of lead animator, which is a scary thing to me, cause I do'nt want to let anyone down! All I can do is show up and do my best, it seemed to have gotten me this far so we will see what the future brings. The people are really cool and very nice! Texas gets hot and from what I hear its only gonna get hotter! So I will be spending lots of time inside drawing or what not. The Dallas ladies have'nt really taken notice to me yet! :( But oh well. Anyway here is another painting from last night!

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Another Painting

New work

Here is some new stuff! A painting of a girl, a new touched up alien, and A new character pilot I wanna create called the Afronaut, I wanna try and pitch it after the writing is done and all my characters for it are designed. :) I hope you like!

Don

Painting

It has been a while since I posted anything new. I just moved from chicago to dallas to begin a new job, so its been crazy getting back on my feet, I do not have the internet at home yet, so when I do I will post more paintings later.For now here is one from last night, needs some love here and there but here is where it is right now. :)

Animation Reel

Peter Starostin Rig

Working on my animation skills. Got this free rig from artist Peter Starostin.

http://www.dondixon.com/DemoBig.mov

He has a suit

more progress.

More Progress

Progress

Eyeballs :)

a lil less scary, not much LOL but a lil.

Old Model

This is an old model that i am tryin to refine and actually give a body too, I recently learned the proper way to unwrap from a co worker so I began playing with that this weekend.

Anudda ONE!

Big BOY

I should be working right now, drew this at coffee this morning, and painted it at work when nobody was lookin. :)

Took a break from PORN

DOO DADS

TAP TAPPY!

THE RAT DANCED WITH ALL HIS MIGHT!
FOR IF HE STOPPED, HE WOULD BE IN FOR
A MAJOR BITE!

LIL DON

So Still been lazy, but here is suttin I did for the Outsiders Club a while back. New stuff soon, I just gotta get my butt in gear.

Suttin OLD

And some of that!

This and That!

CUTIE

a view more

heres a view more drawings, one I did was for a new blog I joined, The Outsiders Club. LINK: and the other was just a little doggie i did for fun!

Another Afronaut

More From Yo Boy!

Afronaut Rough Drawing

A few more.

DANCE!

More..

Tryin to Get a Nut

Kids Book

LunchTIme

Morning Drawing

Late Night

Poor

I havent been this poor since college, but I guess the good thing is I cant afford to go out to lunch so I have to eat my shitty lunch in my cube, which gives me a little extra drawing time. So I did these today.

LET ME SEE YA GRILL!!

Sketch from Yesterdays meeting

late night doodle

Suttin else

one more oldie

The old days

So this is an oldie but I really dont have anything to show, thats ready to show, Im workin on a kids book so when that gets along I may or may not put some images up from it. Until then, heres a 3d chick that I did a while back, lost the file for, and all that remains is this still. :)

Another meeting sketch

Bot

BOT CHICK

Happy!!!

Ride that Spaceship!!

Dippity DOO

Yet another Meeting Sketch!

New Reel

just grabbed my anims this weekend and began putting this together.

http://www.dondixon.com/DixonDemoSound.mpg


19.8 megs

A few more

few more little diddys

Ghoul!

Not Finished

I was gonna try and finish coloring this before I went on vacation but there is just no time, I have to do tons of landury and clean my apt, so this is where its at for now. But rest assured I will finish it!

More Progress

just refining somemore

Roughing Things Out

started this in a meeting and have been pickin with it.

Batman

Not done yet but its lookin pretty decent so I decided to post it now before I fuck it up some more. :)

6 days left!

http://www.dondixon.com/FinalDoc1.mpg


Been Pickin at this one some more!

Stuck on You!

Another sketch!

10 sec CLub More Progress

Here is where it is now, and I am pretty happy with it.

http://www.dondixon.com/FinalDoc.mpg

10 sec club progress

Here is where I am at so far:

http://www.dondixon.com/Docc3.mpg

March 10 Second CLub!!

Here is where I am at so far, its still missing the kid, and the whole thing is a work in progress, but here is where I am at right now.

http://www.dondixon.com/Docc.mpg

One more Yoda

Guess I got Yoda on the brain!

Yodster!

Did this one before bed tonight. Love this guy!

Weekend Drawings

Heres a few drawings from this weekend, The afronaut, and a very pissed off girl:)

Mermaid

For my Sista

My sister sings Jazz on the side so I made her this for her Birtday.

Powerful Punch

http://www.dondixon.com/Gazerbeamshot1.mpg

Dooodles!!

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Feb 10 Second Club

Started this one this evening, actually started it on valentines but had to put it away and spend time with my lady. Still needs some love, hopefully I will actually get this one in 10 sec club this time.


http://www.dondixon.com/GateKey1.mpg

New Character WORK IN PROGRESS!!!

Kitty

Quick drawing done today while waiting for a render at work.

We have all done it

Started this one tonight, just an idea i had at the end of work and thought it might be kinda funny. :)The rig is a Free Rig From the great Peter Starostin







http://www.dondixon.com/poot.mpg

SOME OL STUFF!

Some Men!

More Meeting Sketches

STRUT

http://www.dondixon.com/Strut.mov

Chillie

I did this about 3 years ago, never got to fully develop this guy due to some file corruption! But I still have this early test I did one night, my sister made chillie when we were sharing an apt together, and I had her do a voice for the character after we ate our chillie, not the best animation in the world, But as with everything I do who cares, ITs always fun as hell, no matter how good it is! :)




http://www.dondixon.com/chillie2.mpg

Mad

So the only time I ever get any drawings done is when I take lil drawing breaks at meetings or at work, I really need to fit in more drawing time!

3d Alien

So not very creative but I decided even though I love the free rig that I have been using from Peter Starostin, I would make my own simple character to animate with. So here is the model, and hopefully I can give him some bones soon and animate him in my free time.

Coloring

I may or may not finish this but here is the start.

Doodle

Another meeting sketch!

Bots

Did these for freelance a while back, its reject stuff so I thought I would share it.

BUB

Been a while since I posted a drawing. Not the greatest, But I did it during a meeting at work.

3d Beast

I started this yesterday on my lunch break, just messing around and If I ever finish it or do somthing with it, it wont be for a while. I need to slow down and focus on one thing. But it was good pratice just playing around.

10secondclub

Started this one yesterday its for the 10secondclub entry this month, thought I would post my progress. :)



http://www.dondixon.com/MoMoney1.mpg

Paint test

So tonight after work I did a quick paint job on a render of my model, painted some eyes and freckles and hair just to see if i am gettin the look I want. Here is the quick paint test.

Chronic!

My Buddy Mr. Lambe showed me this at work! I had to share it!

Kiddie

Started this guy tonight, I had a kid head model done a while back but lost the file, so begins a new day. This is just a start, Ill post more progression as I move on.

KICK HIS ASS

Started this one Friday, spent today messing with it, as with the others, tweaking will come. :)



http://www.dondixon.com/Fight.mov

So a few artist suggested trying a tighter shot with this clip because of the seriousness of it. I tried it out and here it is.





http://www.dondixon.com/closer.mpg

Stretch IT!

Its pretty late so i just decided this was done for now. As with all these I will revist it and tweak it.



http://www.dondixon.com/Crazy.mov

Updated Version

DAMN RIGHT

Model by Peter Starostin
ANimation by ME ( Don Dixon)

WOODS

This is from a sketch a while back.

Late night snack

Got up for a late night snack, saw this sketch and said color it Don. :)

Glen Keane

So I spoke before on my blog about a drawing my father recieved from Glen Keane, Back when My Dad worked at Atari I guess he ran into Glen Keane ( I think Glen was visiting with Atari) Anyway he did three drawings for myself and my two sisters. This is the one he drew for me. For years we kept the drawings in our encyclopedia under Disney. We were so poor back in those days and could'nt frame them until later. It now hangs in my moms place, for safe keeping. In so many ways these sketches got me really into what drawing really was, between these drawnings and my dad teaching me how to draw Popeye, I have been hooked! So basically I thought Id share the sketch. And Glen if your out there and see this, drop me a line man! :)

LADY

Decided to paint this girl for fun, bit rushed but its late and Im high on Turkey!

DUDE!

Drew him a while back at a meeting, here he is in color!

Captian

Heres another fast painting for fun!

painted

So I had a lil time tonight and decided to play with this guy in color, its rushed but it was fun!

Meeting

Just another lil doodle from a meeting. :)

Another meeting Doodle

Old Lady

Just for fun today!

Update

I have been tweaking and tweaking this in my spare time, though not happy with it, I will keep playing with it a lil longer, before I just move on to the next thing.

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Rig was created by the great Peter Starostin

Meeting Sketches

Did these during a meeting.

Zombie

Little late for Halloween, but oh well.

Trainers

I love trainers, from rockey to almost any boxing movie or tv show around. Why? Cause they are these guys who are always in your corner, preaching shouting for you to fight to go the distance! To deliver! Would'nt it be nice to have that everyday! This ghostly old men of inspiration that root you on in any and every situation! I love trainers!

Painted

Had some free time today so I decided to play with some color, just the head.

Pirate

Well its not done and probally will never get done but Im gonna post it anyway!! LOL.

PIMP

Heres another oldie but I dig it.

Oldies

Interlochen

I had the pleasure of watching an old friend get married in Northern Michigan this past weekend. During this trip I was reunited with a few of my classmates who attended this wonderful school called Interlochen Arts academy. I can't put into words the kind of impact this school had and has on me. It was a pleasure to see these talented people who are now women with husbands, and Men with wives. I knew those guys as sqeaky voiced boys who are now men, and girls who you could totally see the women they would grow to become. And to actually see it was a treat for me. I alway get a refill of imagination and artistic fufillment when I go back there. And watching my friend get married filled me with a new sense of inspiration and excitment. To actually see her in love and starting this new journey was a thrill. I love you Interlochen peeps! Its more obvious to me than ever that its a bond that cannot, will not, no chance in hell, ever break. I am greatful and lucky to have that.

Run Baby Run

http://www.dondixon.com/luckyrun2.mov