This creature is called a Kartack. It's deadly can opener shaped mouth is it's primary hunting method.

Whatever world it is from it's prey are larger slower moving creatures that I would say resemble a hippo or elephant. The Kartack can charge it's prey with short bursts of speed. It's legs are not designed for speed. They are designed to pivot the head and neck up with tremendous force. The idea for the Kartack is to charge from the side connecting with the ribs or pelvis. It lowers it's head like a bull and when in position rams it's head upwards jabbing it's lower hooked horn in-between ribs. Then It immediately thrusts it's head back down connecting the top hooked horn around more ribs. Thus locking the the prey from going anywhere. From there it uses it's powerful front legs and neck to more or less rip out the side of the rib cage killing or injuring the prey enough to resist fighting. From there the Kartack has easy access to the innards for a meal.

 This is a sketch I started a few years ago for a character/creature design class with the intentions of taking it to a full rendered picture. I finally came across the sketch last week, scanned it in and finished it. It took roughly 4 or 5 hours to complete scattered over a weeks time. It was done in photoshop with a wacom tablet.

Every so often I get an idea that seems to fit best as a comic strip. Sometimes I even act upon them and create them. This one below is actually a few years old but I thought it would be nice to post it.

My passion to do cartoons has actually been around for awhile. In fact I may have already peeked in my career. I actually have had two cartoons published when I was 13 (note: error in paper says age 11).

It has been awhile since I have posted. Life has just been busy and keeping me from working on animation and the website. Got a little free time to update and throw down a sketch from awhile back. I hope to get back on track soon for the short as I am much farther behind that I was hoping to be at this time.

Here is walk cycle done from a project that I was working on a while back. I still have plans on finishing it one day but I had the wind knocked out of my sails. Someone (albeit badly animated) had beaten me to the punch. Not once but actually twice. Two animations came out around the same time with a short similar in concept. One was an opening for spike and mike and the other was  just on the web somewhere.  The worst part I have been working on this project "intermission" for quite some time now. The idea was created far back as 1994.  The reality is, you snooze you loose. I kept restarting the project for either new found technology or simply knowing my skills had grown and I could do it better. However it was a monstrous project to take on for one person.

ink and marker sketches of some hands.