Matt Kvamme's Sketch Blog

I'll just leave these here for now...

2010-12-26T19:03:00.002-06:00

2010-05-15T14:18:00.001-05:00

Kill the Lights

2009-08-19T09:41:00.005-05:00

It's been up for awhile now (and I haven't posted in awhile) but here is the Britney Spears music video I got to work on. Now hopefully the Robbert Bobbert music video (and various other projects) will go online for me to post.

Walter

2008-11-29T01:34:00.003-06:00

Picture time!

2008-11-25T03:27:00.000-06:00

NorthEaster

2008-11-19T05:31:00.002-06:00

If you happen to come across a NorthEaster (newspaper) look out for the Maude Hair Salon ad I drew. Two different ads will run in the next couple weeks. These are the ones I helped Jerry out with. When I get ahold of a copy I'll make sure to snap some photos.

I A...pol...ogize a Trillion Times...

2008-11-03T02:20:00.011-06:00

I started sketching tonight and thought I'd try my hand at the
11 Second Club challenge this month. By some strange voodoo magic, the character I was sketching looks almost exactly like the character speaking in the audio clip... weird. Either way, I started my roughs and created a good amount of assets.

I'm Sorry Miss Jackson...

2008-11-02T02:46:00.005-06:00

Break it down now...

2008-11-01T17:27:00.000-05:00

Tiny, Small, Not Big...

2008-10-30T02:48:00.008-05:00

PUNY's new comedy short is up online. (On the front page of YouTube even) Check it out below...

It was animated by Amanda Peters, characters were designed by Mitch, and the storyboarding was done by Mike.

When PUNY's next secret animated project is complete. (Which could melt your face with a heavy dose of unbearable cuteness) I'll see about posting it up here. I've been lucky enough to animate a sizeable chunk of it thus far, and I'm hoping for more.

I hope to figure out the airdate for YoGabbaGabba episode I helped with too. While only about 10 seconds of animation, it'll at least be on Nickelodeon!

Newspapah

2008-10-18T02:26:00.009-05:00

Last quarter, I helped Jerry and his partner out with one of their Advertising assignments. They needed to put together a mock ad campaign for an actual hair salon with a budget of $2,000.

Part of the campaign included comic-style newspaper ads to promote the salon. I volunteered and drew up five strips, while Jerry did the copyrighting for it.

Turns out that the salon liked their work alot. They would like to use the strips as actual advertisements in one of the local papers. Here are two of them.

-- Don't mind Jerry's spelling error below.

Lets see... I also have a couple drawings to post. Will throw up one tonight. Scan the rest tomorrow-ish.

This is a possible character design for something at PUNY. Will talk about it more as it starts to come together. The drawing is rough, but that doesn't matter. He'll be animated and will look alot more polished and detailed then.

I'm also going to update the blog design. Phase 1 (New Banner) is complete. Will hopefully have everything figured out and up this weekend.

Dear Miss Winehouse,

2008-10-16T01:30:00.000-05:00

2008-10-15T21:58:00.001-05:00

I figured I needed a new facebook pic. Photos are cliche. Am thinking about doing a series, of people I know.

Shoe-la!!! (sounds like voila! ... get it? its a pun.)

2008-10-01T21:32:00.002-05:00

Yep, I finished em. Wore em, got them dirty already... oh well. That's the life of a shoe. My feet thank you.

So far, so good.

2008-09-30T02:05:00.003-05:00

I actually finished them tonight, but will instead throw up a pic of them before they were done (about halfway). That way I have something to post tomorrow! clever huh?

Tonight, on the web...

2008-09-28T23:51:00.005-05:00

Welcome to Part 1 of 47 in our gripping series. Watch as Matt destroys a perfectly good pair of shoes. We're sure that by the end we will make a fatal drawing error, forcing him to never where them in public.

2008-09-28T03:00:00.002-05:00

My new desktop picture...

...walaaaaaa!

2008-09-27T16:46:00.004-05:00

The youngens.

2008-09-09T00:32:00.002-05:00

Wow, wow, wow.

2008-09-06T07:49:00.017-05:00

I know, I know. Its about time I updated this. So, here a bunch of sketches I decided to scan in. I'll try and throw up a ton more this coming week too.

Flash sketches

2008-06-05T00:40:00.004-05:00

Ketchup Conspiracy

more tomorrow? ...maybe so.

Intro to Video

2008-05-28T00:01:00.002-05:00

Our final for Intro to Video is a 4-6 minute short film. Part of the final is to make a 11x17 poster of the film. This guy here is the centerfold for the poster.

I'll also scan in and throw up some newer sketches too.

2008-05-14T12:10:00.000-05:00

2008-05-12T03:06:00.002-05:00

Character designs and a Lugian from AC. Time for bed.

Captun Amayorica

2008-05-07T15:50:00.001-05:00

I doodled up another drawing on Graffiti.

2008-05-03T13:35:00.000-05:00

These sketches have been brought to you by Amtrak.

2008-04-01T00:33:00.009-05:00

These are sketches from my horribly-uncomfortable train ride back from North Dakota.

Who ya gonna call?

2008-03-18T20:51:00.000-05:00

2008-03-15T03:36:00.003-05:00

This is a frame from a quick animation for one of my finals. The class is Acting for Animation... Our final assignment was to take a scene we performed in front of the class and translate it to animation. Considering how much time we're given, its turning out pretty good.

Its about an escaped convict who leaves a package at a woman's front door. She answers the door, takes the package, and goes back inside. He sneaks in, sniffs her hair and eventually gets beaten down by her. Girl power.

Miss-spelling words is both clever and creative. trust me.

2008-03-06T04:28:00.006-06:00

Me and couple buddies will be starting up a Flash animation club at school next quarter. We all get to sit down and draft up the entity's "constitution" this weekend. I don't think it'll be nearly as groundbreaking as it was in 1786, but will definitely involve some sort of caffeinated beverage and/or potato chip.

The group is primarily focused on teaching students how to use flash for animation purposes and giving tutorials on various different things. We want to show students how to make good tradition animations through Flash.

Our school is pretty focused on their 3d dept. Except for Mike Owens introducing the program to us, we're not really shown or given the time to learn it in school. The whole 2d dept at our school is kind of shanty. Oh well.

I set up a blog for the club ahead of time... nothing on there now (except for a sweet logo) but hopefully soon. There we'll be able to post info, club schedules, student work, ect. Purdy neat.

Flash skribbling

2008-02-21T00:25:00.002-06:00

Oh poop.

2008-02-17T23:19:00.003-06:00

How most of my creative thinking turned out today.

Intern'd

2008-02-03T00:31:00.000-06:00

I have the opportunity to intern at a local studio... PUNY Studios and its super awesome! Pcha! Currently the studio is putting together a (super secret/hilarious) cartoon pilot. I get to help out with clean-up, touch-ups, and coloring in Flash. Its super exciting (Not just regular exciting). I can't wait until its finished, so everyone can see.

This is their crazy/cool website. It has a demo reel of their past work, along with other info. They've done work for Cartoon Network, Target and recently struck success with Yo Gabba Gabba!, a Nick Jr. cartoon.

Besides school-related work, I probably won't have much time to work on anything else. But I'll try to update this like I usually do... I'll be helping out at the studio for the next 2 months or so.

PUNY Studios
www.punyentertainment.com
www.punyblog.com

Dolphin Graffiti

2008-01-30T11:26:00.000-06:00

either lasers or cameras... I picked cameras.
(its got a little extra blubber on the bottom there)

Sketchbook upload

2008-01-25T23:08:00.000-06:00

Just some recent sketches from my sketchbook.

Yep, I've been slack'n.

2008-01-22T05:40:00.000-06:00

I've always wanted to create a full-length comic. Except that I've never known where to start or had an idea solid enough to run with. Even though I've been forgetting to update this site, I've been chugging along with ideas.

I was also asked to submit some drawings for this quarter's Main Frame, the Ai's school news-booklet-majigger. My creature design was accepted. High five. Here's an old Spiderman doodle too.

Haven't forgotten about the Doodler-animation either (The red guy below). Just taking a break from it for the time being. Have everything in line for that one, just a matter of finishing it.

Coming along...

2008-01-14T11:03:00.000-06:00

I posted two pics yesterday. The bottom is about 50% done, and I'll post that animation when its complete. We'll have to see where the cowboy goes from here though.

Cause I wanna be a cowboy, baby.

2008-01-13T16:16:00.001-06:00

New Projects

The last metroid is in captivity...

2008-01-11T03:50:00.001-06:00

Decided to get rid of the lineart and darken the colors up. This is maybe 3 hours in? Haven't been keeping track for this one.

Scouts honor

2008-01-04T21:11:00.001-06:00

1987

2007-12-26T02:08:00.000-06:00

Haven't updated in awhile now. Mostly because i'm on winter break back in North Dakota and am relaxing. I have been working with flash since then, but nothing will start to roll out until I get back to the cities.

I did stumble upon something kind of interesting on Wikipedia earlier today. I searched November 21 and under notable births I found...

...a spanish football player named Jesus Navas. Just thought I'd share that.

But, it's time to go to bed (2am) and there is plenty of post-holiday shopping ahead.

Done with Finals, finally!

2007-12-14T02:14:00.000-06:00

Haven't posted anything in a week or so. Decided to put up some work from past quarters at Ai. Finals ate up most of my time this week. In the end, my creature design turned out great and so did my 3d-modelled human head.

I could have worked harder on my last maquette, but I wanted to focus more on my creature. I didn't see much point in wasting clay on a pointless maquette. One that I would present to the class for 5 minutes and then never have a use for.

I'm glad I spent the extra time on my designs. Its definitely going in the portfolio, in its current form or some other. I've started working on a seperate maquette, that I can sculpt and not rush.

Over break I'm gonna be working on a beefing up my demo reel with flash animations. I'm also entering into a flash bumper contest with a buddy of mine. It needs to be 5-30 seconds long and the deadline is Jan. 21. Sounds easy, but the animation and design will have to be impeccable. Grand prize is $2,000 for the open category and $500 for students. Will have to see how well it turns out and decide which we'll enter. Heck, if I could do this year round...and earn money doing it, that'd be great.

I'm also working on a new portfolio design. Something in the lines of the new logo above. But, the art dump begins...

3rd Quarter, Class: Advanced Drawing for Animation, the assignment was to create 5 self portraits (10 drawings total) each in a different art style.

3rd Quarter, Class: Digital Imaging, assignment was to texture a wooden crate with a logo. (Cardboard boxes shipped in wooden crates?! HA!!! the irony!!!)

1st Quarter, Class: Drawing and Perspective, assignment was to draw a portrait of someone of our choice. Feeling lucky punk?

2nd Quarter, Class: Color and Design, part of our final project. self portrait.

Creature Design

2007-12-03T17:55:00.000-06:00

This is part of my final project for Character and Object Design. We have to create a creature. Which includes 5 colored drawings illustrating the lifestages of the creature, 1 drawing of skeletal structure, 1 drawing of muscle composition, and 1 final colored illustration.

The creature is a fast moving desert carnivore. Using its speed, it will tackle its prey. This is it in its adult stage of life.
The design was influenced by gorillas, rhinos, and bison.

I haven't settled on which color scheme I want to go... it'll probably be one of these two.

The top illustration is the beginning of my final illustration and the bottom is one of the 5 lifestage drawings. I'll make sure to put up the rest of the designs when they are finished.

Mario 2

2007-12-02T16:17:00.000-06:00

Mario and Luigi...real life working men.

Saved the file luckily... here's the progress so far. I added some grime to the characters. Plumbing isn't necessarily a pretty job... so I intend to dirty them up even more. Expect facial hair stubble, sweaty arm pits , and unknown stains. I also put in a temp background for now.

Ok... gotta go to bed, now.

2007-12-01T01:52:00.000-06:00

I've busy coloring all kinds of drawings tonight. So here I am coloring my Mario picture, after spending 2-3 hours on it... I decide to piece together stages of progress. After its complete I then save over my file, eliminating all the layers I was working with... which made it incredibly clean and easy to color before. Not a good thing. :( I need to go to bed.

Zomboy!

2007-11-30T22:14:00.000-06:00

In high school I toyed around with the idea of a zombie teenager, or at least something along those lines... out of it came Zomboy. Come four years later, I now have a working script for an animated short revolving around the idea, and I've started to flesh out the artwork and characters.

This is Adam. He, himself, is not a zombie. He is a shy kid with a small group of friends. His twin brother, Eric, is the most popular kid in school and a flesh-eating zombie.

Fanny Pack Hero!

2007-11-26T22:36:00.000-06:00

UPDATE: For some unknown reason, our video submission was uploaded wrong (or that is the conclusion we've all come to).

We submitted the entry 3 hours prior to the deadline and followed all the contest guidelines. Right after uploading it to Ziddio (the site where the contest is held), George uploaded it to YouTube with no problems. A link exists to where the video should be, but the video doesn't load.

At first, I thought that it was just being verified for appropriate content (no spam, porn, ect.), but 2 days have gone by and its a no-show. We can't resubmit it now that the entries are closed.

Its a little upsetting b/c I think we had a chance to be in the top 3. (first would probably have gone to another video that was submitted this weekend)

Here is the link to the video.
______

The video entry is complete!
We're waiting for it to be verified through Ziddio.

YouTube compressed the sound really low. The background music is hard to hear, unless your speakers are up higher.

Credits:
Matthew Kvamme - Animation and acting
George Ganser - Filming and editing
Anthony Rooney - Writing

Attack of the 80's

2007-11-25T19:17:00.000-06:00

G4tv's Attack of the Show had a contest for viewers to create a commercial for a fake 1980's video game in 2 weeks (1 of which we knew about). We came up with the idea of Fanny-pack Hero!

We filmed half the commercial in live-action (starring myself and George... which I'll post when its 100% finished) and filled the other half with "gameplay" animation. The video is the animation I put together.

Fanny Pack Hero animation
Uploaded by mdkvamme

Crumby internet-quality as usual. The contest deadline is tomorrow night, 11:59pm. The winner's video will premier live (I believe) Wednesday night at 6:00pm.

In comparison to the competition so far... I'd say we have a good chance of winning. The prize is Live Free or Die Hard on DVD, Rock Band for Xbox 360 (which includes all the instruments and retails for 180.00$), a guitar stand and drummer's seat.

The winner is also entered into the championship contest in February as well. We put alot of effort and time into it and hopefully it pulls through.

More Graffiti

2007-11-23T13:43:00.000-06:00

T-rex Graffiti
Uploaded by mdkvamme

Graffiti has a feature that replays the drawing at mach speed. Problem is that it doesn't have a save feature. So I recorded a video of it.

Happy Birthday to me!!! :

2007-11-21T04:30:00.000-06:00

This is how I spent the beginning hours of my 20th birthday...

Work in-progress: 2:21AM

Completed: 4:21AM
I'm not 100% thrilled with the outcome, but it's done on time :) Now its time for bed. Good night.

Roar!!!

2007-11-20T23:47:00.000-06:00

...A dinosaur I sketched out on Tony's facebook profile with the Graffiti application.

This is a character for my Character and Object Design course. The assignment was to create a character with an event that changes their personality. My story: A rich art snob is arrested for fraud. His wife, with no means of financial support, is forced to work as a lunch-lady.

This is a the mouse I modeled for my Intro to 3D Modeling course. Its still rough around the edges, so I may go back and tidy it up a bit.

Happy Burf-day

2007-11-19T19:42:00.001-06:00

This is an animation I put together for a friend. That friend's name has been removed to protect Liz's identity.

Itza-me Mario!

2007-11-19T12:16:00.000-06:00

I apologize for the quality of this pic. I plan to fully color this sketch. Story: Jerry and I, wearing 3-D glasses, drove a friend to the hospital one night. We became self-declared Heroes.

Here are some snapshots of a clay maquette I created for a class. I based the design on an earlier assignment. While its not perfect, I think its pretty successful for a first time.

I love the I am 8-bit contests. Inspired by them, here's a little sketch I came up with inbetween classes a couple days ago. Maybe I'll get around to coloring it... if I'm really ambitious... maybe I'll paint it!

Lip Sync Test

2007-11-15T03:36:00.000-06:00

Kvamme_LipSync
Uploaded by mdkvamme

This is my first attempt at lip syncing. I've been trying to teach myself how to do it in my free-time and I think, overall, its pretty successful.

Summer 07, Intro to 2D Demo Reel + More

2007-11-10T04:02:00.000-06:00

I completed a lip sync test the other day, but its been a pain to try and upload... the video compression on youtube cuts it down to 4 keyframes and most others aren't any better. I'll keep trying to find something that works but for now, heres a still from the test.

This is the Demo Reel I cooked up for Intro to 2D Animation, Summer 07. I've gone ahead and fixed up parts of this since then. I'm hoping to throw up a revised reel by the end of the month.

Misc doodling...

2007-11-08T18:00:00.001-06:00

Just some doodles from my freetime.

Lip Syncing in Flash

2007-11-07T18:32:00.000-06:00

I'm trying to learn how to lip sync on my own, using various tutorials. This is the lucky character... I'll post more when I make some more progress.

No blogs aloud.

2007-11-04T22:03:00.000-06:00

At the moment, I don't have any new work up besides my nifty logo (see above...) but fear not! Soon this will consume my life. I will blog away for hours on end... telling you (if anyone reads this) every little detail of my life (mostly things you won't understand).

I will forget to visit the outside world. Matthew Kvamme will become half man, half mouse, half keyboard!