1. 18 Jun


    Always pay attention to emoticons. Made in sketches app.

    Always pay attention to emoticons.

    Made in sketches app.

     

  2. 17 Jun


    This was me a couple of days ago, much to my shame. There’s just no excuse for this. Done on the Sketches iPad app.

    This was me a couple of days ago, much to my shame. There’s just no excuse for this. Done on the Sketches iPad app.

     

  3. 16 Jun


    So I know today is Father’s Day but my wife reminded me I had made this on Mother’s Day and told me I should put it up here. So uh… Happy belated Mother’s Day to all you moms out there? And happy Father’s Day too.

    So I know today is Father’s Day but my wife reminded me I had made this on Mother’s Day and told me I should put it up here. So uh… Happy belated Mother’s Day to all you moms out there? And happy Father’s Day too.

     

  4. 15 Jun


    Space Frog Man… Trying out the new sketches app on the ol’ iPad.

    Space Frog Man… Trying out the new sketches app on the ol’ iPad.

     

  5. 20 May


    I was cleaning up my cluttered desktop and found this rough comic from a few years back. Since I haven’t posted for a while, might as well post this. Has the joke aged well?

    I was cleaning up my cluttered desktop and found this rough comic from a few years back. Since I haven’t posted for a while, might as well post this. Has the joke aged well?

     

  6. 7 May


    Somewhere inside my subconscious is an animal that devoured all the Saturday morning cartoons and SNES games I ever played. It just pooped this.

    Somewhere inside my subconscious is an animal that devoured all the Saturday morning cartoons and SNES games I ever played. It just pooped this.

     

  7. 6 May


    aarnimation:

    This shot was a ton of fun to do. It wasn’t storyboarded this way (it was much simpler, just him looking at her head then looking up), but Jeff and the Laurens thought we could have more of a character moment here, so they left it to me to figure out.

    After a while I realized that since Estefan can do anything, I’d try thumbnailing the wildest poses of him examining her head and trying to come to grips with her baldness (and come up with an idea of how to do her “hair”).

    The shot ended up being about 17 seconds longer than originally intended, but I’m happy to say that everyone loved the new story beat, and it made the cut.

    This was my 2nd favorite shot in the film. Aaron Ludwig is the MAN, folks.

     
     

  8. 4 May


    aarnimation:

    Our senior class film, “Estefan,” was a TON of fun to work on. I was lucky enough to be Animation Lead on it, and as a character animator I couldn’t have asked for a better film to work on. Tons of fun, great story and great characters. Thanks to Lauren Oppenlander (the creator of Estefan), Jeff Call (the director), Lauren Taylor (the producer), Scott Gwynn (art director), and the awesome faculty at BYU’s Center for Animation for the opportunity.

    Last year, right after we finished, we submitted it to SIGGRAPH, and lo and behold, we won the prize for Best Student Project!

    Also, this past week, we found out that we took first place at the College Television Awards, for BYU’s 12th Student Emmy!

    Congrats to everyone on the crew. I’m super proud of this film.

     
     

  9. 23 Apr


    I wish I had an action figure like this.

    I wish I had an action figure like this.

     

  10. 25 Mar