Yearly Archives: 2011

Hauling in the Nets

Posted 2011/12/26 by Sterling

This afternoons iPad doodle is of fishermen pulling in their catch. My dad was a fishing guide so I have…

Still updating

Posted 2011/12/26 by Sterling

I’ve done a lot of work on the site these last few nights but still have ways to go. You…

Whistler Mt. Doodle

Posted 2011/12/24 by Sterling

Just a quick iPad doodle, from memory, of the top of Whistler mountain.

Jolly old Saint Nicolas

Posted 2011/12/24 by Sterling

finished painting this years family christmas card. Peace and love to everyone out there on the internets.

Major changes in the works.

Posted 2011/12/18 by Sterling

Sorry for the mess. I’m in the process of upgrading the sites.  Its going to get messy for the next…

The Girl in the Pink Pajamas

Posted 2011/11/06 by Sterling

By far the most difficult hurdle I had to overcome while sculpting this model was learning how to hold and…

Widowmaker

Posted 2011/11/06 by Sterling

A zombie widow sculpt I made in zbrush 4r2 using the new dynamesh sculpting option.

Peace in the Valley

Posted 2011/11/05 by Sterling

I painted this ArtRage painting on my iPad at B.C. Womans hospital while my wife was in labor with our…

Wiley and Rudie

Posted 2011/11/02 by Sterling

I have been very productive the last few weeks but haven’t had a chance to post about all of my…

Stanley Park Thumbnail

Posted 2011/08/19 by Sterling

Silas fell asleep while we were at the park yesterday. I had the iPad with me and made this thumbnail…

Mountain Railway Painting

Posted 2011/08/16 by Sterling

It was an exciting morning. I discovered that the good folks over at ArtRage added script recording to their iPad…

The secret passage

Posted 2011/08/15 by Sterling

This is a rough pass on a silly sequence from my Dick and Don project. The set up is that…

Don, Rough Zbrush Head Sculpt

Posted 2011/08/15 by Sterling

Recently, I have resurrected old characters like Don here to see what my adult self would do with them. In…

Wild Horses Doodle

Posted 2011/08/08 by Sterling

A doodling I made while listening to Cory Doctorow's lecture on copyright law at Siggraph Canada. With that in mind…

Messy Paintings with ArtRage

Posted 2011/08/03 by Sterling

Today we were testing speed and the painting apps mess factor. Not trying to make anything too special our goal…

Programable Paintings

Posted 2011/07/28 by Sterling

ArtRage Studio Pro is the newest weapon in my digital painting arsonal and quite possibly the most powerful. The selling…

Scared Dog Pose

Posted 2011/07/24 by Sterling

I spent a bit of time working in ZBrush Last week posing several old models. This dog model is one…

Hermit Crab Sculpt

Posted 2011/07/24 by Sterling

Herman is a hermit crab character based on a series of doodles I made in my sketchbook while in Hong…

Redwood Paintings

Posted 2011/07/21 by Sterling

I was on the road this last week. While waiting for delayed flights, meetings to begin, and hangovers to pass…

Beached House Painting

Posted 2011/07/06 by Sterling

Painted this on my iPad while on a road-trip up to Vancouver. Its imagery from my Wakefield project.

Underwater House

Posted 2011/06/28 by Sterling

Todays iPad painting is an underwater take on Wakefield's house. In the story Wakefield and company drift around the ocean…

Yellow Sketchbook #7

Posted 2011/06/28 by Sterling

Just finished Scanning my last sketchbook! There is a lot in here so I will have to follow up this…

Father’s Day Backyard Painting

Posted 2011/06/19 by Sterling

Made the long drive up to Cloverdale today to have a father's day BBQ with my folks. We picnicked in…

Healdsburg Plaza Painting

Posted 2011/06/18 by Sterling

This afternoon I found myself with the rare bit of free time on my hands and decided to make the…

Thick Headed Boy Font

Posted 2011/06/15 by Sterling

New! I made this free truetype font on the iPad using iFontMaker. I registered it creative commons so no worries,…

Sea Serpent Drawing

Posted 2011/06/12 by Sterling

The massive sea serpent made short work of the whalers and their long boat.

Room with a View Painting

Posted 2011/06/10 by Sterling

An iPad painting of wakefield's underwater house. I made it while flying over the pacific ocean on my flight out…

The White City

Posted 2011/06/01 by Sterling

Above is an painting I have been working on for the last few days. Not Steadily but in short little…

Dragon Character Designs

Posted 2011/05/29 by Sterling

Below are some exploratory character designs from the "Dragon" project. Most of this designs are about four years old and…

Dragon Paintings

Posted 2011/05/29 by Sterling

Here is a collection of concept paintings I made for the Dragon project. All were painted in Photoshop.

Thesis Art

Posted 2011/05/28 by Sterling

I had a pretty clear visual idea of what i was going to make and jumped straight into the animation.…

Cub Scouts Pack 213

Posted 2011/05/28 by Sterling

"We spell scouts S-C-O-U-U-T-S which makes us a completely different autonomous organization." - The Scouut Leader An improvised comedy about…

Sketchbook circa 2002

Posted 2011/05/27 by Sterling

This sketchbook was made while I was a student at USC Animation. It is dated 2002. There are a lot…

Wakefield Art

Posted 2011/05/27 by Sterling

I really should have a lot more work to show for this project. It has lived in my head for…

Dragon Trailer

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

Dragon is the story of a poor street sweeper in an ancient Himalayan city who sets out to clean up…

Congaline boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

There was a time when Space Chimps was being tossed about as a possible musical. This was one of the…

Ham Goes to NASA boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

This is a lost space chimps one scene. The greasy salesman character, I believe his name was spyro gyro or…

To Catch A Falling Comet Boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

Comet returns to earth and Huston catches our falling star.

Jetpack Chase Boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

These are the roughs for the big jetpack chase scene at the end of the Space Chimps 2. It’s particularly…

Looking for a Comet

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

In this scene from Space Chimps 2. Comet has taken off in a rocket and the rest of the gang…

Dick and Don Storyboards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

In this scene Dick and Don, two american tourist, have just escaped from prison, and discovered to their surprise that…

Boomerang

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

Boomerang Girl is a film idea I was playing with a few months ago. The basic idea was to do…

Macau tree

Posted 2011/05/25 by Sterling

Went to Macau this last weekend. I had the iPad with me and made this rough painting of a tree…

With a little help from my friends

Posted 2011/05/25 by Sterling

Major thanks to my good friend Sam McMullen for all of his help and patience in moving things around the…

train 360

Posted 2011/05/23 by Sterling

Taken on the train to Hong Kong.

Reorganizing the Library

Posted 2011/05/20 by Sterling

The site has built up enough posts that it is now time for me to reorganize all of the information…

Rainy Day Time-lapse

Posted 2011/05/13 by Sterling

Turned my camera towards the dreary landscape and was rewarded with some interesting footage. The Tola Harbour is well protected…

Silas gets a game card

Posted 2011/05/13 by Sterling

Just finished painting Silas' memory game card. Here it is fresh out of photoshop.

Ma On Shan Painting

Posted 2011/05/12 by Sterling

looking out the apartment window in Ma On Shan, over looking Plover Cove Reservoir with Pat Sin leng mountain in…

Lightning Storm

Posted 2011/05/12 by Sterling

Half sleep waking I mechanically stumbled through the dark and rigger a quick time-lapse setup

Virginia gets the icon treatment.

Posted 2011/05/12 by Sterling

The wife was the first to get the Icon treatment. She is a harsh critic of these sort of things…

New Profile Icon

Posted 2011/05/11 by Sterling

in the spirit of updating things created an new profile icon. Nothing out of the ordinary, just the usual suspects,…

Little iPhone pop-up bubble

Posted 2011/05/11 by Sterling

Just added a swell iPhone pop-up bubble to the mobil site, so folks can add the web app to their…

The new mobile site is up and running

Posted 2011/05/04 by Sterling

Having been in Hong Kong for the last few weeks I couldn't help but notice that my site didn't play…