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Standing in support of our creative brothers and sisters of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. If you are a film artist or related and a part of Local 8... threads.net/t/Cup8nKwv4FG/…

Happy Monday! #chinchilla #cuteanimals

Finally saw Nimona last night… all I can say is Bravo!!! So inspired to see animated movies like that alongside Spiderverse & GDT’s Pinnochio telling solid entertaining stories with a fresh visual appeal! Enjoying and supporting movies made by human artists, writers, actors!

Stephen Colbert gives a shout-out to The Animation Guild, which will have an opportunity to negotiate a more fair and generous contract for animation workers within the next year.

Happy Wednesday! I’m going to start posting more about designing for animation and for your own stories! This was for DW's Bee Movie. First in B/W, then modified in the color. Characters designs by Nico Marlet and Tony Siruno! More soon! #animationart #conceptartwork #Beemovie

Does the world keep getting more interesting?! Inspired by the UAP hearings...here are some Martian design ideas I did for Disney's MARS NEEDS MOMS. The amazing Dermot Power created the cute kid design. #characterdesign #animationart #conceptart #visualdevelopment

What makes a good concept design/visual development painting? The most important thing for me is to use all your tools like instruments in an orchestra. If the visual symphony is in sync, you get effective STORYTELLING and emotional connection.Who’d like a process video ?

What makes a good concept design/visual development painting for animation, live-action, gaming, or publishing? Let's consider the power of COLOR in visual storytelling. I think of my lighting design as a melody and the arrangement of color as its notes.

Sharing art and insights about creating stories and art for stories! Effective color design as a portrait of emotion. From Pixar's Inside Out, Joy & Bingbong pass idea stations. Color is used to convey hope in one and uncertainty in the other. More soon!

Sharing insights on creating stories and the art for stories! This is an example of using the absence of color to evoke tension and dread in a film noir style. It's from my book TIMELESS from HarperCollins! #conceptart #animationart #kidlitart #childrenbooks

Using atmosphere to enhance , scale, motion, and the emotional barriers between characters in Disney Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur. More storytelling creation and art insights on the relaunch of my website and YouTube channel! #conceptart #artdirection #visualdevelopment #pixar

This makes me sad and angry.

What makes good character-driven design for animation? Like with a character design, I set out to find the character of the place or the character/emotion of the story moment in the place as the driving principle. Dr.Facilier's Lair for... Princess & the Frog!

Designing heroes and villains for Disney's Princess & the Frog. A powerful tool to employ is contrasting characteristics of personality, shape, performance, and details. Helping others to make stories and art-relaunching my website and Youtube channel soon! #conceptart

Hey there, I hope you're having a great week! If you are in the SF Northbay area on Saturday, come say hello for a book and art signing at the Charles Shulz Museum, where I'll be the artist-author guest for their Second Saturday Cartoonist series! schulzmuseum.org/armand-baltaza…

My character and story-driven designs for Mamma Oddie's home in Disney's Princess & the Frog! #characterdesign #conceptdesign #animationart #visualdevelopment #princessandthefrog #artdirection #disney #teachingarttohumans

I’m beyond excited to be amongst these fantastic storytellers and artists, and I hope you’ll come to see us at Lightbox Expo!! #lightboxexpo

Halloween colors! Here are some spooky and colorfully imaginative design paintings I created for Duncan Studio for Lego's THE HIDDEN SIDE. The schoolhouse in the real and GHOST world! With wonderful Art Direction by Ken Duncan and Chris Sauve! #conceptdesign #visualdevelopment