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New Blog Address

2010-03-31T21:39:00.000-07:00

This is my old blog address, hopefully in a few seconds you will be redirected to the new address. Or you can click here.

If you were following me before, my followers have been cleared, and you will need to add me again. See you on the flip side!

Few Animals

2009-10-25T21:10:00.000-07:00

SketchCrawl first time!

2009-10-20T22:56:00.000-07:00

So, I attended my first sketch crawl, and am just now getting around to scanning posting some of my drawings. It was allot of fun, I think I will try and do it again, whenever they do it again, if I can.

There was some sort of italian fair going on, that's where the princess comes from as well as the masks from a booth at said festival. The guy above, well, he was just very focused on finding the coolest possible way to sit without his shirt on. The ship below is a bit of a cheat, I drew this on treasure island a couple days later.

Quick Post

2009-09-08T20:47:00.001-07:00

sketch

2009-06-18T17:20:00.001-07:00

New Header!

2009-06-09T11:23:00.000-07:00

I have a new blog header thingy, I hope you like. major props (haha, props) go to miriam for the idea of super doggy with heart underwear!

Edit: fixed the border, but now there is a gap at the top, hmm...

I have a New Reel!

2009-06-01T00:54:00.001-07:00

Jonathan Holt - Demo Reel 2009 - v1 from Jonathan Holt on Vimeo.

Watch it! It has cool music! :-D

Sketch

2009-05-23T23:36:00.000-07:00

So school is over. Looking for a job and starting a new life. Just have to keep sketching I guess. who knows what the future will hold! I'm exited :-)
So at my sister's school, they play Quidditch apparently. A couple kids and a couple adults, some balls, brooms and pvc pipe for goals is all they need for a good afternoon match. Jolly good :-P

Thesis!

2009-05-03T13:44:00.000-07:00

Vimeo: LINK

Direct Download: LINK

Shot Progression

2009-04-27T19:12:00.000-07:00

I dunno if this is the best way to animate, but it is one way I do.

Click here for a MOV version

Poster

2009-04-19T15:51:00.001-07:00

Ringling tradition to do a spoof poster. Here's mine :)

Couple More Stills

2009-04-16T11:08:00.000-07:00

Process

2009-04-12T08:52:00.000-07:00

I was pulling together some of my stuff that I had laying around from coming up with the look and feel of my thesis and decided to throw them together real quick.
Unfortunately I'm missing many of the intermediary steps, I was trying to work quickly and would often overwrite old files and not think to save the many tests that I did. But hopefully this gives you an idea of how I went about trying to refine the style.

From left to right it pretty much goes from early source material. Early tests to see what I would want to shoot for. Then tests in Maya, seeing if i wanted to go with a slightly shaded look, with drop shadows, or if I wanted a purely surface shaded look.

Little bit of thesis

2009-02-09T13:51:00.000-08:00

These are still in progress, but this is the direction I am going in.

Some December Sketches

2008-12-28T17:32:00.001-08:00

I have a website!

2008-12-18T15:42:00.000-08:00

http://webspace.ringling.edu/~jholt1 that's the site, click it! Sorry the movies are so big, I'll get those down to size soon. Oh, there will be a links page too, i just need to update everything first

Still WIP!

2008-05-07T14:05:00.001-07:00

But I thought I'd post it anyways, this is basically still second pass

Portofolio Blog

2008-04-27T14:41:00.000-07:00

It lives! LINK

Lip Sync is Done! (mostly)

2008-03-08T11:24:00.000-08:00

Here you are: Click!

I'll try and get a friendly version up later

Tell me what you think! both the pluses and minuses, esp the minuses ;-)

A Place's sound

2008-01-31T15:06:00.001-08:00

You know how there are songs, or bands that seem to evoke, or even define, the feeling of a place or person? Like, for me, M83's "before the dawn heals us" is Los Angeles, or at least the popularized version of Los Angeles. This, Spoon - I Summon You, is Rome. I love running across these songs, cause they are hard to find. I wonder how many others there are undiscovered...

More DFA

2007-12-22T09:45:00.000-08:00

I finally "finished" meaning I need to move on and stop working on this. lotta detail, I like how this turned out overall, kind of an experiment, would do things differently if I were to do it over, think I learned quite a bit on this.

P.S. I tried to make a sort of cut out paper look on this, sort of last minute, but I like it overall. I say that becuse its hard to see on the small version, so click for the bigger version :-P

some animation

2007-11-26T12:47:00.001-08:00

Gimme 2 weeks, I'll have some more of the animations and the stuff like that.

pushpull natural
inout

Daniel Patrick Lane

2007-11-17T21:34:00.000-08:00

He has a blog and never told me. I had to find it linking through other people's stuff! How degrading, but now he on my blogroll so all is well. You need to keep me informed of these things! ;-)

Emily meant something else

2007-11-02T00:32:00.000-07:00

So Ignore that stuff I said before :-P, here is the line version

DFA

2007-10-30T12:43:00.000-07:00

So, I'm not totally happy with the way this came out. I had something in my head, color-wise, that never really materialized despite huge amounts of help from Miriam and Emily, thank you both a ton! Overall though, I like it, I think?

Anyways, this is a really high res image with a lot of detail i nthe background etc that gets lost, so, yeah, I dunno why I'm saying that. Enjoy readers, whomever you are! ;-)

Some DFA

2007-09-30T21:49:00.000-07:00

Some more figure stuff

2007-08-04T11:35:00.001-07:00

Some more Drawings

2007-07-23T14:44:00.000-07:00

Some Figure Stuff and some sketchbook stuff.

Some Figure Stuff

2007-07-22T14:35:00.000-07:00

Sorry if some of the pics look skewed or weird, these were taken with a camera then perspective shifted in photoshop.

Summer Figure class!

Reel

2007-05-24T11:16:00.000-07:00

Reel for year two of RSAD, oops, sorry, now we are RCAD. Should I change my blog name!? does anyone care? Also! A link to higher quality version, plus an accompanying website, hurrah!

Sit Stand

2007-04-16T21:10:00.000-07:00

Click Here for a Higher Quality Mov

Head Turn Exercise

2007-03-02T11:19:00.001-08:00

Jump Exercise

2007-03-01T08:47:00.000-08:00

Robie

2006-11-03T08:08:00.001-08:00

He is complete, I never want to see his evil face again.

Primitive Theatre

2006-10-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

As submitted to my instructor.
Link

Lower quality google video:

Primitive Theatre

2006-10-17T20:38:00.000-07:00

This is what I've been burning the midnight oil for. It's due friday so I should have a fully rendered version then.

First post.

2006-10-15T09:04:00.000-07:00

At Jay's behest I have created this blog as a documentation of my schooling at Ringling. Does that sound official enough? I think I shall start things out with some videos of a visit to RSAD by one of my favorite artist...OF ALL TIME. Yoshitaka Amano.

P.S. I am sorry for the low quality shaky footage, it was so much cooler in person :-(

Amano Painting a moogle

Amano Painting a villian from Final Fantasy - Amazing

Amano Paints Vampire Hunter D