Ahmad's Art Blog

Still Animating...

2012-01-26T13:52:00.001-08:00

Snapshot of a basketball animation I'm working on... When I have between 5-10 seconds worth I'll post it on youtube. For now this is all you'll see for a while. Animating with so many levels of color is a first for me. There's the base color, highlight, and shading. Fun stuff

doodle

2011-12-31T05:29:00.001-08:00

Samurais WIP

2011-12-25T19:30:00.000-08:00

Just For Fun.

Thesis and Website

2011-12-13T12:52:00.000-08:00

http://www.ahmadphilips.com

The thesis can also be viewed there along with a demo reel

Animation and Life Drawings

2011-10-04T20:35:00.000-07:00

Thesis Update 8

2011-09-03T22:53:00.000-07:00

Been working on the animatic for my thesis. Almost have it done. I'll probably post it on my thesis website, but not here. For now here's another quick scene I did recently. Please ignore his disappearing act at the end. I'm too lazy at the moment to fix it.

Thesis Update 7

2011-08-13T06:05:00.000-07:00

Thesis Update 6

2011-04-29T19:45:00.000-07:00

Glad the semester is over. This one seemed to take forever. Gotta fix my production art and maybe get some animation in this summer. Looking forward to it :)

Thesis Update 5

2011-04-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

You can view the rest of these at:

https://sites.google.com/site/ahmadpthesis/animatic-blocking

Thesis Update 4

2011-04-25T07:53:00.001-07:00

Concept and Production 2

2011-04-25T07:49:00.001-07:00

Did the characters. Amy did the bg. Randy did the bottle

Concept and Production

2011-04-13T15:26:00.000-07:00

For my class with Susan. Amy rendered the backgrounds. I staged the background and did the characters. They're supposed to be small btw.

Thesis Update 3

2011-04-07T12:11:00.000-07:00

Hilarious Chinese Student Short

2011-03-28T09:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/student/the-big-girl-by-he-weifeng.html

For any who may be interested

Thesis Update 2

2011-03-24T11:13:00.001-07:00

Thesis Update

2011-03-23T07:11:00.001-07:00

some select screens from thesis in progress.

3d project

2011-03-18T18:18:00.000-07:00

done in lightwave.

spring break

2011-03-10T09:25:00.001-08:00

Gotta get stuff done...

3d and 2d

2011-02-25T17:19:00.000-08:00

It's been a while. So here's some stuff from school. The first one is for an animation I'm working on :). The second one was characters for a game concept. The last one is a mock ad for juice splash( aka minute maid)

2 things

2010-12-29T12:50:00.000-08:00

Some Animations on Vimeo

2010-12-10T12:22:00.000-08:00

http://vimeo.com/17649843

http://vimeo.com/17649917

http://vimeo.com/16657825

Some stuff from my motion graphics(Adobe Aftereffects) class... not related to the pic above.

self portrait

2010-11-02T17:03:00.000-07:00

khalidi done

2010-10-19T16:45:00.001-07:00

Got bored doing the portrait so started coloring the assassin...

khalidi in progress

2010-10-14T10:47:00.000-07:00

A Sketch

2010-10-13T20:56:00.000-07:00

I've been working on this assassin story, on and off, for a while. He's gone through some different looks but I'm kind of leaning towards this one for now...

Concept art for Don and Charlie

2010-10-05T19:45:00.001-07:00

Animations and character designs

2010-10-05T19:35:00.000-07:00

angry flour sack

sad flour sack

walk cycle

character Design

2010-09-27T19:00:00.001-07:00

Trying something different

Lebron is a Joke

2010-09-19T17:39:00.001-07:00

Book Cover Maybe

2010-09-13T20:15:00.001-07:00

Keannu Time!

2010-09-07T15:38:00.001-07:00

trying to do more cartoony designs

2010-09-01T20:43:00.001-07:00

Some stuff

2010-08-28T09:42:00.001-07:00

A lot of Quickies and a Book cover WIP

2010-08-22T12:27:00.000-07:00

August 19

2010-08-18T21:24:00.000-07:00

Just messing around

lanscape + kobe wip

2010-07-25T20:19:00.000-07:00

I'm starting to like my new method of rendering in photoshop. For you veteran photoshoppers it's probably obvious and not the best method, but It gets me quick results and maneuverability. I have base color layers with multiply and lighten layers above where the actual rendering is done. In the past I would do just about everything on one layer. Like all the skin rendering done on the skin layer and all the clothing rendering on the clothing layer etc.

A Few Things

2010-07-22T21:17:00.001-07:00

Some character sketches, a quick denzel sketch, and the finished illustration I was working on.

character design in progress

2010-07-12T20:28:00.001-07:00

illustraiton done

2010-07-05T21:06:00.000-07:00

I like how it turned out

Illustration In Progress 2

2010-07-04T20:18:00.000-07:00

progression

Illustration In Progress

2010-05-05T09:47:00.000-07:00

some new some old

2010-05-02T12:47:00.001-07:00

iconography

2010-02-25T15:56:00.000-08:00

Done primarily in Illustrator, but I changed the tints in photoshop.

I've been thinking of some headers to make for the blog. So expect one relatively soon.

Commission Piece

2010-01-31T01:33:00.001-08:00

It's been 2 weeks since he last contacted me, so the hell with it, I'll post it. Took maybe 15-20 hours total. Got some good input from people so I like it more now.

Character Designs 2

2010-01-22T20:36:00.000-08:00

Character design sketches for my 3d character modeling class. I like how they turned out.

portrait

2010-01-17T15:23:00.000-08:00

Portrait Album Cover

2010-01-04T20:19:00.001-08:00

commission pieces

Character Designs

2010-01-01T14:17:00.001-08:00

Some Basketball Illustrations

2010-01-01T13:53:00.001-08:00

Some Portraits

2010-01-01T13:49:00.001-08:00

A few that I did of my friends:

500 business cards for 10 dollars

2010-01-01T13:40:00.000-08:00

A friend pointed me out to this great discount. It could end any day tho.Link

Philz Portraiture

2009-12-31T15:03:00.000-08:00

I'll do portraits for whoever of whomever for 25 dollars. All portraits will be sent digitally over email at the original size and resolution(300dpi). These portraits are from the bust up. A full body portrait will cost a little more.

You can email me your requests at

philz.portraiture@gmail.com

You can find more examples and additional information in the gallery at this link

Invite your friends :)

I only accept paypal

Demo Reel

2009-09-14T10:05:00.000-07:00

Brunswick Internship

2009-09-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

The overall concept is to use a monkey who will interact with the 5-10 year old bowlers. He will express his happiness or his dismay depending on whether it's a strike spare gutter etc;. The overall tone is bright vibrant highly saturated colors, whether in an actual jungle or not.