moxie

he's an elephant.

Creatur: film

4000 feet of film later.... The film has a running time of 72 min. Shot on (2) 16mm cameras. Had to be shot one and a half times due to a re-cast of the main character when the shoot was almost finished and 5 years later, finally completed.

Creatur by Jardon Films will have it's premier in Chicago. It is an Official Selection for the 2009 Chicago Filipino American Film Festival on Nov.8

Now that we're finished making the movie, the hard part begins....distribution and a bunch of legal forms.

trailer 1


trailer 2

creatur animation 3 of 4 test

deadline 2...still gotta tweak this once i get my computer back.

creatur walker test -updated-

creatur animation test. animation 2 of 4..

2 days ahead.

push.

poster

lo-rez images of illustrations that were colored by Camillia for © Dani Dixon.

Figure Drawing

Found a studio in the Mission that has figure drawing classes for 10 dollars for 3 hours. start with a few 1 min's and works up to a a few 20 min's.

1 min. charcoal

1 min. charcoal

1 min. charcoal

1 min. charcoal

2 min ebony

1 min. charcoal

2 min ebony

5 min China

5 min ebony

5 min ebony

10 min china

10 min 3H

20 min 3H and F

20 min 3H and F

Furlee : "Brown Baby"

This is a music video that we shot November '08 for my friend Albert and a young Chicago MC named Furlee, who previously recorded an album with his partner Roper under the group name "The Landlords".

We shot the video, again on our 16mm Bolex. I will be helping promote Furlee in the coming months with this video and designing his album cover. I really like Furlee's style of hip hop, his flow and what he talks about, which made it that much easier to working with him-plus the fact we're from the same district of Chicago where i grew up. check it out!.....for those in the know, dont ask about the movie. we are at the final stretch (which we know, the beggining and end of a project is the toughest) and have prioritized completing it this October for early submissions for 2010 film fest season. wish us luck!

Robert Frank: The Americans

Went to the Museum of Modern Art this weekend to see a Ansel Adams/Georgia O'Keefe exhibit....only to discover this photographer, Robert Frank. Damn! , what a photographer. It was unfortunate that i got a parking ticket (50 fuckin'.00!) so I withheld from buying the book in the gift shop.....got home and googled it. Pictures speak louder than words and Robert Frank really takes that saying to the extreme limit. he was also an experimental film maker.

Production Artist - Graphic Design

...so if my art has changed, it's only coz im learning more. and learning that it takes a whole lot of shit to be an illustrator...if that's what i am?

comic pages ©Andre Dixon 2009

character design for ©Andre Dixon 2009

back to the drawing board

i am now working with two small publishers on really different styles. a previous company that i did a comic has asked for some poster art.

marker practice

...so im in the process of redoing my whole portfolio. and it almost seems like going back to class since some of this are things havent done or things im not that good at. in this case its marker rendering. so before i do anything official i started some warm ups with basic ball, box shading and moved onto some of these early development sketches for characters.

elephant

lion and wombat of 'The Zoo Crew"