Starscream's Shiny Old Paint Job

I did this as a warm-up a while back and then finished it for my lovely wife who is in love with Starscream.

Commission Time!

News:

Spill.com is dying, and with that, I will be jumping back into the freelance world.  I am versed in traditional animation, flash and toonboom.  Let me know if you need anything!

Contact:  

For commission questions and freelance work, or anything else, you can contact me at:

TylerRichlen@gmail.com

Commissions:

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Cheery Holdiays abound!  At this time I am taking commissions!

Artwork:

Pencil art: $30 Dollars

Add a character: +20(per character, I will make deals on teams)

Inks: +40

Digital Colors: (traditional art comes with a high res digital copy for your printing pleasure) +55

Any artwork to be used for commercial use will be charged differently.  

Animation

Pencil test(Sketched keyframes for flow testing): $40 per second of animation.

Key framing(high end pencil art): $30 per frame

Animation shot on 2s at 24fps: $120 per second

Animation shot on 1s at 24fps: $240 per second

Full color digital animation(no BG) at 24fps: $120 per second(due to design and rigging)

Full color digital animation(with BG) at 24fps: $240 per second 

Animation Demo Reel

Spill.com T-Shirt Limited Time Only!

So, shit is happening at work and its a good thing.  And this is the start of my rejuvenation.  I was starting to lose the passion and I think we are heading in the right direction now.  I will get to be less cryptic in the next month or so.  For now, here is a T-Shirt I did the artwork for.  Get it while you can!

The fantastic text was supplied by my amazing coworker and fellow artist Peter.


Spill.com T-Shirt

The Room IS Stretching!

Its finally finished.  Piece one of four.  I may tweak it a bit, but this is it for now.

Is the room stretching?

Part 2 of the mash-up art between Marvel and Haunted Mansion.  The finish line is in sight!

Waspinator

I love Waspinator.  I don't know why.  I honestly shouldn't.  He is a whiny, cowardly moron but at the end of the day, he was my favorite character from the Beast Wars Cartoon and because my buddy Braden mentioned Beast Wars, now I am drawing him instead of working on my 8 million other unfinished projects.  CURSE YOU ARTISTIC ADHD!  CURSE YOU!!!!

WIP O' DOOM!!

As the all caps title denotes, this is my WORK IN PROGRESS O' DOOM!!!  Its Starscream Prime in G1 colors.  The way it's supposed to be.  I haven't done a background yet because I am both lazy and suck at backgrounds.  But it's going to happen or else.  Or else what?  EXACTLY.

Is the room stretching?!?

I haven't gotten to do anything for me in quite a while, so now I am.  I'm starting with the Stretching Portraits from the Haunted Mansion with a Marvel twist.  So here is the line work with a quick set of flats from Flash before I drag it into Photoshop and paint the background and add the touches to the line work to make the whole thing look painted.  I added a thumbnail of the original for simple comparison.  I hope y'all dig it!

3 Dollar Bill Cover Webcomic

So, here is a strip I did for a buddy of mine, Eric Matos, at 3DBDotCom.com

I've done a strip for him before and I always put my stupid character into the strips.   I may very well someday put up my own strips that he stars in(I actually have around 60 finished strips I just never used with my guy).  In any case, this is how it turned out.  Now get your butt over to 3DBDotCom.com and check out his stuff.  Its pretty damned funny.

RIP Jim Kelly

Some crappy news hit the web today.  Actor, martial-artist and all-around good-guy, jim Kelly died today.  So here is a homage to Black Belt Jones.

Spill.com of Future Past

So, unfortunately, Spill.com hit a few speed bumps recently and the crew and I are scrambling hard to try to pick up the pieces.  We lost some really great guys and some great creators and content, but Spill will find a way to carry on.  In leu of the turmoil, a spillio mentioned drawing Korey and Cyrus into the cover of Uncanny X-Men #141, with the cancelled and hiatused shows as the bounty wall.  So here's what it would look like in my mind.  I'll probably play with the faces a bit if I get time to clean it up, but this is as far as I got for now.

Weight Lifter

So, I went to a weight lifting meet a week ago, to support a buddy of mine while he picked up shit that would rip off my arms, and saw a man straight out of a cartoon.  When I saw him, I swore to myself I would "Draw that strange lookin' dude, dammit."  So I did.  And just so you know, I had to do it from memory, but I swear that's what he looked like.  The proportions are spot on and his hair was that big.  I thought it was going to get up and fly away at some point, perhaps snagging a small child from the audience to eat.

Frankencastle

Ah, the wonders of cleaning house.  I just found a vinyl character that I had picked up at Target during Halloween.  So I finally did what I had planned to(before losing it in a never ending pile of stuff).  I present to you...  THAT GUY!

Oz the Great and FLYING MUTHA^&%*N' MONKEYS!!!

Disney.  Flying Monkeys.  Its elementary my dear vodka.  Hmm...  I should probably put down the glass...

Star Wars Uncut on Youtube!

I have finally started using my youtube channel for animation, so look out for more in the future.

Star Wars Uncut on the TUBE

Star Wars Uncut: Empire Strikes Back Part 5

Here it is!  The final product, in all of its animated glory!  I hope y'all dig it!

You can watch the higher-res version of this and check out all the other cool animations and geek work, for the upcoming second installment of Star Wars Uncut, here:
Star Wars Uncut: Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars Uncut: Empire Strikes Back Part 4

Here comes more!  Its time for stills!  Basically, these are several of the key-frames from the finished animation(and one background, just cuz.  You're not the boss of me!  I can do what I want!)  The full animation is coming!

Star Wars Uncut: Empire Strikes Back Part 3

Heeeere's Storyboards!!!!  Threw these down as quickly as possible so I can finally get to actual animation.  I'm getting ahead on work, so hopefully I will be able to dedicate the weekend to spearheading this project.

The Notes are actually for me, in case I can't figure out what the scribbles are when I wake up.  It is 3 AM after all.  Who knows how truly coherent I am right now.  Blah.

Star Wars Uncut: Empire Strikes Back Part 2

Okey dokey...

Here are a couple of backgrounds for the short and a quick shot of the ATAT from the scene I am working on.  Much much more to come.