Citrus Cel!

Sorry for disappearing for a few days there - I was in Florida. Monolith was in a film fest. I got sunburned. It was great.

Sunburn beyond lobster red and into purple people eater territory.

So this weekend I flew down to Jacksonville, FL with the lovely Jodi Puckett to attend the Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival, where my film Monolith had been chosen to play. The festival was great - a whole weekend of awesome animation, awesome people and awesome weather.  Seeing something I made on a big screen in a theater was a thrill, an incredible experience.
I'd like to give a special shout out to Shane and Bill of Dripsblack.  They put the whole festival together - they are truly awesome guys and really did a fantastic job.
To make up for the lack of drawings at the moment, I've got some pictures from reality for your enjoyment.

A palm tree! I'd never seen one for real before.

Jacksonville! I swear we crossed that bridge two thousand times. Or at least twelve.

Star Fleet Academy? Professor X's summer home? Walternate's office? The Future?

The Art of Storytelling - an exhibit held at the Cummer Museum of Art

5Points Theatre. This is where the films were screened - a very cool, restored theater.

Sometimes it was dark out.

Check out that pelican swooping! So cool, you'd swear it was a pterodactyl.

To top it all off, I found the smallest palm tree known to man. Sadly, I could not fit it in my carry on luggage.

 Alrighty, that's all for now.  I'll have some real drawings soon.  Cheers!!

Colorscript

I've been posting a lot of artwork from this project called "Sand" the past few weeks (here, here, here, here and here ) - so I thought I'd elaborate on it a bit.

The story follows a young boy who lives alone in a deserted wasteland, talking to the sun for company. He leaves in search of people, companions, a friend.  Along the way he encounters several creatures and what he discovers in the end is not what he set out for.

Right now I'm developing it as a short, but I'm not positive if that's what I'll end up doing. Maybe it'll be an illustrated book, or a comic, or a massive flipbook, or a series of embroidered pillows. . . who knows?!

Anyways, here's the colorscript - you can get the gist of what's going on here. There will be some storyboards and character designs up here soon. I'd love to hear what you all think.
Cheers!

More Lighting Studies

Here's some more lighting studies. 

Lighting Studies

A few abstract lighting studies for a short film project I've been working on.

Ruined City

This is an environment study for a project I've been working on.

And here it is before color.  This was drawn and colored straight in Sketchbook Pro - no pencil sketch beforehand. The light streams and fog effects were added in Photoshop afterward.

Citrus Cel

So I found out today that my short film, "Monolith" was accepted into the Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival! Exciting times!!!  To honor the occasion, I'm re-posting the film and being really excited.  Special thanks again to Alex Contos for the sound design, Sean Probert for the music and Bryan Probert for helping out with the coloring.  Cheers!!!


Monolith from Tim Probert on Vimeo.
(PS - Watch it on Vimeo to see it bigger and in HD)

Friends

Short Shorts is a series of minute long, loosely animated shorts.  Here is the first, "Friends".  I've posted the storyboards and some art from this before.  The theme music was done by my brother Sean. The trumpet and trombone were played by Mike Marg.

Check it out here, or watch it on Vimeo to see it in HD - http://vimeo.com/17103528
Let me know what you think in the comments!

Dino Concepts

So here are some of the early sketches I've done for the next mini short I'll be working on after "Friends" is done.  It's going to be about dinosaurs. Enjoy.

New Short

Here's some concept work for a new short I'm working on, called "Friends".

Here's the final concept, which is kind of an alternate of the second design.

And some sketches of the big Monster. . .