Gordon Pinkerton

Senior Thesis Film

2011-05-12T00:15:00.000-04:00

Well, here it is! The culmination of my 4 years here at Ringling College of Art and Design.

Hunted - Gordon Pinkerton - Ringling Thesis 2011 from Gordon Pinkerton on Vimeo.

I hope you like it! Now I'm off to Moonbot Studios to start my life!

End of Senior Year

2011-05-01T16:26:00.006-04:00

So I've finally finished up my time here at Ringling College of Art & Design and I'm looking forward to getting out into the industry! Here's my modeling reel upon graduation:

Gordon Pinkerton Modeling Reel 2011 from Gordon Pinkerton on Vimeo.

I'll be posting my senior thesis film soon too, so keep an eye out!

Morris Lessmore

2010-11-25T02:31:00.003-05:00

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.

Over the summer I had the great opportunity to work with some amazing artists out at the newly created Moonbot Studios. Here's a teaser of the project we worked on while I was there! I got to do animation and TD work (mainly facial rig stuff.)

Thesis!

2010-11-20T23:19:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts, just busy working away on thesis! Here are my two characters rendered out... Hope you like them! I'm really enjoying bringing them to life, can't wait for everyone to be able to see it.

Starting Something New...

2010-06-03T00:11:00.004-04:00

So! Just started work at Moonbot Studios and I couldn't be more pumped! It's just such a great atmosphere and all the people working there are so energetic and excited! Just a really great environment!

So while we're waiting for our new space to be completed (which is looking awesome by the way), we're couped up in the pharmaceutical labs upstairs. Pretty much a room about the size of the average living room with 6 animators, 3 artists, brandon, a vacuum chemical booth, an eye rinser, and an emergency shower. Think of THIS but with a bunch of artists working all around it. It's kind of our metaphorical "starting out in a garage" story... but funnier. We also got moonbot lab coats...

Lip Sync!

2010-04-05T22:08:00.004-04:00

Here's my Lip Sync project for CA class! It was a lot of fun modeling and animating this character. I really tried to exaggerate the facial shapes... but still wanted to keep a flesh-and-bone feel.

click:

Old Figure Stuff

2010-03-27T00:34:00.006-04:00

Hello! Just working on putting together a portfolio and thought I may as well put up some figure work from last semester!

Pushing and Pulling

2010-01-25T14:16:00.003-05:00

So it's been a while! But here are my two push pull assignments from last semester. The first one uses a more naturalistic approach in style, where as the second one is much more exaggerated! Hope you like them!

and the links!

Natural!

Exaggerated!

Concept Time!

2009-11-28T21:01:00.005-05:00

Here's a one minute long animatic for our concept class. I did mine about a hermit living at the bottom of a well. I'm pretty pleased with it... just wish I could have another 30 seconds or so to really milk some of the shots for what they're worth.

and the link to it:
Click Here!

Hope you like it! I'll post some of my computer animation stuff very soon!

DFA!

2009-10-21T00:37:00.006-04:00

Here's come of the stuff we've been working on in our Drawing For Animators class

Cool character designs!

and a self caricature (to be turned into 3D next semester)!

.... aaaaaand back to work.

Junior Year!

2009-09-15T01:14:00.005-04:00

Hey! So junior year is in full swing and I figured I should put something on here!

Here's a quick silhouette animation exercise we had a few weeks ago.

And hi-res:

Click Here!

There are definitely things that could be fixed... but gotta move on! Feel free to crit.

Summer Sketching

2009-07-22T02:24:00.003-04:00

Busy summer! Going back and forth between Ringling and Texas has given me ample time to sketch at the airport! Always fun.

I need to get out of the habit of always doing profiles of people... as always, crit welcome. Or just a friendly hello!

-Gordon

Sit Stand Complete!

2009-04-13T00:20:00.004-04:00

Hello! Sorry for the long departure there! We've been pretty busy lately working on this last project, a culmination of modeling, rigging, and plenty of exercises over the last couple months. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out and am already looking forward to next semester!

And as always, the hi-res version:

Click Here!

And just for fun...

The humble beginnings as an animatic

Meet Theo.

2009-02-24T17:43:00.006-05:00

Busy semester! But lots of fun! Here's a turn around of my Sit Stand character I've been working on in Computer Animation. I've spent the last month and a half creating him and doing some short animation tests. Enjoy!

Aaaaand to see all the texturing goodness, check out the large version:

Click Here!

The start of a new semester!

2009-01-13T00:43:00.002-05:00

Hey! I'm super excited to kick off this next semester, lots of great stuff to do in my Computer Animation classes, so I can't wait to dive in! Here's something I did near the end of the break... I kinda wanted to do a bit more with it, but now that classes have started I know I won't have a chance to play around with it much. Crits welcome!

Another Semester Down!

2008-12-11T17:24:00.008-05:00

Can't wait to spend some time at home!

Here's what we've been working on for the last couple weeks in my CA class,

and the hi-res version here:

Watch Me!

What's that smell???

2008-10-23T23:51:00.006-04:00

Ahhhh primitive theater done! I'm pretty happy with the way the lighting and texturing all worked out, but I kinda did some last minute stuff with the animation that I think I could've polished off more if I had the time. But oh well! It's done! On to Mr. Penguin!

Big version here:

http://webspace.ringling.edu/~gpinkert/access/cg220/gpinkert_prim.mov

p.s.- Please critique if you have the time!

Woohoo CA!

2008-09-22T22:25:00.007-04:00

Yay Ball bounce! I can't wait to start primitive theater!

Or the big pretty version here...

http://webspace.ringling.edu/~gpinkert/access/cg220/gpinkert_BBounce.mov

Panther!

2008-09-08T16:23:00.003-04:00

Another quadruped walk cycle for traditional animation, Gary challenged me to do it in perspective this time, which proved to be a bit tricky but a lot of fun!

The quality kinda sucks... but if you go to youtube you can watch it at a higher quality

2008-08-25T20:22:00.002-04:00

Classes started today! I just had Traditional Animation II and we hit the ground running with quadruped walk cycles

Jungle Explorer

2008-08-21T09:30:00.003-04:00

Hey, been really busy with RA training and stuff, but I finally had time to do this little painting last night. I can't wait for classes to start!

Sketchin'

2008-08-06T22:07:00.003-04:00

Here's some medievalish houses I sketched up over the past day or two. I'm messing around with shading and maybe adding a touch of color now... just having fun

A little redecorating

2008-08-04T01:12:00.004-04:00

Just to keep you on your toes. And heres a caricature I did for my friend who's birthday is this week (I really hope she doesn't randomly come checking out my blog... I just felt like I needed to post something after I changed the look of my blog...)

p.s.: Laura if you see this... SURPRISE!!! HAPPY early BIRTHDAY!!! :D

Gestures

2008-07-30T16:08:00.000-04:00

I was looking through old sketchbooks and found these gestures I did near the end of last semester and I thought I might as well put 'em up!

Troll Stroll

2008-07-27T15:00:00.000-04:00

I was having a brain fart and couldnt think of anything to do, so betsy suggested doing this. I'm really liking Painter now!

Fun with Painter

2008-07-21T15:34:00.000-04:00

So I decided to try using Painter instead of photoshop for a change, and if it weren't for all the annoying glitches, I think I would like it a lot more. I really like how the brushes look. Soooo after I painted it in painter, I took it back to good ol' photoshop and played around with paper textures and all that good stuff.

(it looks a bit washed out on here... boooo)

Weed Warrior

2008-07-02T22:37:00.000-04:00

Hey this is just something I did a couple of weeks ago before I came back to Ringling to be an RA for the pre-college. just thought I'd share! I've been kept pretty busy here so I haven't done too much art :( but I have busted kids for making out and stuff, so it evens out haha

Summer Fun

2008-06-01T18:33:00.000-04:00

Hey it's been a while! Summer's going great! I just wanted to finally dump some stuff on here to keep it going

Just a jeep. Fun to do.

I wanted to practice a bit with 3 point perspective, I got kind of bored while coloring though so it's unfinished... but it was still good practice.

I've been trying to find a good style of digital painting I like, and I think I finally hit on something in this quick sketch. I'll have to keep on working to figure out how to apply it to different subject matter and stuff, but its a start.

And a self caricature, just for fun. And a slightly rendered version to work on skin tones...

I have more sketchbook stuff buuuut I need to scan it all in. Expect more soon!

2008-04-24T20:49:00.000-04:00

Hey we've been doing a lot of experimenting with walk cycles for the past couple weeks, it's really fun and I feel like I'm learning a lot! Here are two of them...

2008-04-02T21:24:00.000-04:00

Wow. Sorry its been forever. I've been pretty busy and the internet here isn't great so it makes uploading stuff kind of a hassle. Anyways... I'm just gonna post a bunch of stuff I've done since January. Hold on tight!

Start off with some fun! This was the first flour sack I did. This wasn't the very final one (as you can see the background kinda disappears in the last couple frames) but its good enough to give you the idea!

And the second flour sack which was a lot of fun to do!

Ok now a break from animation to show you some of the first things I painted with my new tablet. I don't know how I lived with out that thing now.

I took a Figure Drawing workshop with Vilppu over the break which was a lot of fun. Here are some 10-20 minute drawings I did. He was really focusing on muscle and bone anatomy, so I didn't really spend any time on the faces. I still need to work on proportions too...

Here's a project from my Communication Design class that I liked doing, the assignment was kinda weird... something with using symbols and metaphors (get it? seeds of destruction!)

And the mighty Dung Houy, named (but misspelled) after our 3D teacher last semester.

STOP!.... its gophertime.

Here's my character for traditional...

And here's a practice jump...

And another jump!

And finally a digital painting I did over the past week!

YO HO HO!!!

2008-01-06T22:54:00.000-05:00

Well here's a moquette of Lenny the pirate! He was one of three pirate moquettes that I modeled but he had the strongest pose, so I painted him up and gave him a name!

YAR!

2007-12-14T21:40:00.000-05:00

I've been doing a lot of characer sketches over the last couple days so here's some of the stuff I've come up with! Enjoy!

Procrastinating

2007-12-03T20:43:00.000-05:00

So I have this drawing project that I should be doing... but instead I ended up just doing a bunch of stuff in my sketchbook. I hate when art classes interfere with my art. Here's some schtuff.

Basically going for the tall dark and scary type you hear about in the horoscopes

I stuck it to the Man and used oil pastels to color up this sketch. It was my first time to ever use them, kinda fun! but I definitely need to practice with it

Random creature drawing. I really need to improve my imaginative drawings of people and creatures. Sorry the quality isn't to good, it was really late at night when i took this picture and the lighting isn't ideal for photos in my room, but I think you can get the idea.

And well, these weren't from yesterday, but I decided to put them in anyway. Theyre 30 second -1 minute poses from FEWS on Friday. Again sorry for the poor quality and somewhat rainbowish backgrounds. While my phone is awesome at taking pictures outside and with natural light, its not too good at shots of artwork.

Sketchbooking

2007-11-18T02:31:00.000-05:00

Brandon Oldenburg (cofounder of ReelFX) came over from Dallas this week to do some presentations and what not. He's an awesome guy and ReelFX is looking like a very promising company. It'll be interesting to see how they develop over the next couple years.

Yes, I actually got inspired by a stick I found on the ground.

Random landscapes from the Ringling Museum and the bayou

So we're sitting around and somehow we start talking about Ninja Turtles and how all their names were Renaissance artists and Avner said it would be a cool way to learn your art history if they had a TV show for the real artists... like Da Vinci! I painted over this in white ink and I was going to use color pencil on top of the ink... but I kinda like the flat look. Any suggestions? comments?

Hands and Animals. And some more hands...

2007-11-06T00:53:00.000-05:00

Just a sketchbook doodle from a while ago

We went to Jungle Gardens the other day and sketched some animals! One flamingo kept attacking Josh's shoe... annoying to Josh maybe... but it gave Betsy and me a good opportunity to sketch a flamingo up close! Thanks Josh!

And finally my figure homework.

First Post!

2007-10-20T20:03:00.000-04:00

Here's a piece I did in highschool that I really had fun doing... too bad it got lost :(

In my higschool GT English class we had independent studies where we pretty much made our own projects, so I made some miniature models. This one was made of insulation board, newspaper, sand, and posterboard.

Art History

Random unsuspecting victims of my sketchbook at lunch one day.

Me! for a 3D "self portrait" project.