This started out as a simple walk-cycle exercise from different perspectives. I was reading, "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" by Howard Pyle and decided to change the drawings into the character, Little John. Also, practice with Photoshop making matte-paintings and such.

I started this when I was in Freibug, Germany many months back. Finally got around to calling it quits. I've ran out of inspiration or desire for this project especially after finishing the Robin Hood book. I had some strange ideas of where to take this piece after LJ bites the deer. Things like turning Little John into a robot and eating Robin Hood or doing some sort of Dragonball Z homage.

I don't want to work on this anymore. Here is the shabbily pieced together final.

After a long break from the blog, I thought I'd post this quick drawing I made of the fake band me and my friends are in. In Manhattan, this drunk guy was heatedly explaining his distaste for the United States and in his stupor pronounced it as The Knighted Snakes. So after several minutes of relentless taunting we all came to agreement that this would be the name of the raddest band ever. Once the band gets started, I believe all the show posters will be America and snake themed, you know, to show our pride, for snakes.

Eye Candy Cartoon from Ryan Ortgiesen on Vimeo.

Here is the completed Eye Candy Film Festival cartoon. I worked on it a good amount last week and then took the weekend off to go to Lake Chelan. It was fun, but made me have to work about 15 hours a day for the past four days to finish seventy-five percent of this project. I didn't have time for my Aniboom.com project, so I just submitted this. I don't have high expectations.

I finally have the time to for my website that's been in the works for about ten months and counting. Also, I believe I'm going to start a series of animated shorts based on the life of Thomas Edison. Edison mock-ups coming tomorrow.

Olympia Film Society Ender ender animatic from Ryan Ortgiesen on Vimeo.

A friend of mine from Evergreen who is organizing an animation film festival asked me if I would make an a piece that would end the show. Here's the animatic. Check out his blog, http://blogs.evergreen.edu/tommythompson/ He's finishing up this amazing stop-motion project that he's been working on for the past two years. We were in AA together (Animated Archetypes) a production team at Evergreen, so I like to think I had a small hand in the making of his project. Check out The Eye Candy Film Festival on June 5th at the Capitol Theater in Olympia.

Shooting tester from Ryan Ortgiesen on Vimeo.

So, I've decided to change directions with this project. There's this competition on Aniboom.com to submit an animation under three minutes and other than that, as the competition tagline goes, "anything is possible." I've decided that having this character simply shoot the internet and all of it's terribleness is not very clever nor original. So, conforming to the rules of, "anything is possible", the character will start off reading that quote in a newspaper, and in a fit of anger will venture into the aniboom.com office where he will brutally combat the likes of Unicorns, leprauchans and Jesus, and once they are all dead, will declare that, "everything is impossible...now".

These two seconds took way to long and I still have to complete the matte paintings.

Concept art for the character killing the internet. I've had some interest in my work and opportunities have presented themselves recently. Maybe these drawings will come of something after all.

Kill Internet tester 5-2 from Ryan Ortgiesen on Vimeo.

Whenever I see a Hummer parking I always make sure to stay for a few more moments to check out what the person looks like who's climbing out. Unlike a large truck, which in the very least serve some kind of utilitarian purpose, Hummers serve no purpose, except to make you look like a huge douchebag-asshole. 90 Percent of the time it's a hiked up khaki shorts with polo golf shirt. There's a lot of Hummers in Gig Harbor.

Here is the progress.