Earmouse and Bottle

I'm finally able to share the Nickelodeon short I made last year. It's called Earmouse and Bottle, check it out below.


You can also check out some of the very first sketches I did of the characters a few posts down from here. That way V

Sketch dump

These are all sketches from a couple sketchbooks from over a year ago. I haven't had much free time to go out and sketch in the past year. I've been working on some exciting new projects that I hope I can share here soon.

                                                                      Glenn Vilppu  

 Scary Perry

Apologies for the poor quality images. My scanner is down so I just snapped these with my phone straight from the book.

MVA Poster

A while ago I did a quick poster design for the premiere episode of MVA. I've done a few different designs for that kind of thing, but I turn them in and never see or hear of it again. Last night I randomly found this on the internet. Obviously my concept drawing is on the left, and the real poster on the right. 

The drawing is a little shaky here and there, but it's the concept and composition that was really important. At least that's what I'll tell myself so I can sleep at night.

'Monsters vs Aliens' drawings

Here are some quick sketches of the monsters from Monsters vs Aliens. I've been doing storyboards for the show for a little over a year now. It's been a lot of fun and I've learned a lot.

I did these Susan sketches about a year ago when I started on the show.  Cartoony blobs with one eye are easy to draw, girls are not. Practice helps.

 There is a sneak preview of the show March 23 at 9pm after the kids choice awards. The show officially premieres on Sat April 6th at 11:30am. Go check it out!

Jedi Training

I did this piece for Very Underground during Star Wars week.

Random doodles

Doodles and cartoon ideas

Saw Moonrise Kingdom last night. Love them or hate them Wes Anderson movies always have a great sense of design and a unique voice. Every character in the movie looked like they were designed as if they were going to be in an animated movie. I could have sat around all day drawing everything in that movie, but I kept to the main characters.

Here's the trailer

Vespa Art

These are my two pieces for the vespa art show down in San Diego this weekend.

Happy Camper

Im taking a class called Story Development for animation at the concept design academy in Pasadena with Rad Sechrist. He had a model come in for one of the classes. The model was pretty amazing. He looked like a human cartoon. These drawings aren't even pushed that much from real life.

We had to draw his pose and then add a story element. He made it pretty easy with his fake bird and his explorer outfit.

This background was kind of a cheat, but I couldn't think of anything to put behind this great pose.

Also here is a valuable resource for people trying to learn- Rads "how to" blog

The Boxer

I went to life drawing for the first time at the Nickelodeon studios today. The model was in character as a boxer. The model was pretty good and seemed to give this boxer an entire story arc.