Toaster Dog Animation

Derby Girls Works in Progess

2012-01-05T13:07:00.001-08:00

MEDUSA!

2011-12-31T18:07:00.001-08:00

I know it ain't Christmas time yet; but...

2011-10-28T00:15:00.000-07:00

Here is a little Santa that I am doing for Milwaukie Santa He's nice Santa that will be decorating his house to the max and collecting food donations for Oregon Food Bank.

The BandMates!

2011-10-06T17:25:00.000-07:00

This is a comic book cover I did for TheBandMates.com A rock n roll plush toy line owned and operated by my good friend Micheline.

Game Art Tests

2011-09-14T11:23:00.000-07:00

I recently had to take some tests for a game company in San Francisco. They gave me a Splash Page design test and a Character Design test. Here's my results...

Sun Cap Financial- Logo Animation

2011-09-09T23:04:00.000-07:00

Scottish Rebels!!

2011-08-24T15:36:00.000-07:00

My buddy Jerry asked me to redo his fantasy football logo. He's a HUGE Braveheart fan and his team's name is Scottish Rebels. I drew this up and painted it today! Here you go amigo!

Mock GI Joe figure card.

2011-08-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

I did this for my good friend Tony Knight who I've know almost all of my life. We grew playing GI Joe together. He was kind enough to send me a jar of his family's amazing marinara sauce. This was my Thank you card to him.

Creature Concept Practice 2

2011-08-14T19:08:00.001-07:00

Creature Concept Practice #1

2011-08-12T16:50:00.000-07:00

A Little Work In Progress

2011-07-19T10:48:00.001-07:00

An Oldie but Goodie.

2011-06-06T14:57:00.001-07:00

Here's some more vector art that I did about a year ago.

More to come soon!

Motion Comic Prep-Artist

2011-06-05T13:26:00.000-07:00

I was lucky enough to land a job with Double Barrel Motion Labs and have been working as a photoshop artist for their motion comics. Now that some of these are out it's nice to be able to post up here some their work. Now I was only a prep-artist on this project which means I made sure it was ready for animation. None of the animation is mine. I REPEAT none of the animation is mine. I will comment that it so awesome to have the chance to work on these projects. My photoshop skills have become extremely proficient ever since I have landed this job. Here's a little taste of what I worked on last summer.

Game Art

2011-06-05T12:13:00.000-07:00

These are some my concept designs. I worked on these last year at Liquid Development in Portland OR. It's nice to finally be able to show this work off. The objects on the bottom are Comparsion Items and is NOT my artwork.

Concepts Designs for Zynga's Mayan Treasure Game.

These are the "containers" final vector stage (Wine Bottle not shown; was not part of my portfolio)

These are Vector Images for Frontierville.

These were other miscellaneous objects I worked on.

2011-06-05T11:53:00.000-07:00

Here is a Parralax Shot I am working on in Flash. I tried to use the VCam AS3. It looks like it's too much for Flash to handle. I'm going back to animate the background.

Seeds Of Opportunity

2011-04-20T11:01:00.000-07:00

This is a short I help out with over at Happy Trails Animation. I worked on some of the backgrounds, did all the storyboards, and worked on inking an animation. This project was a total blast to work on thanks to such a great crew! Thanks to Andy and Amy Collen, Heather Neishem, Jesse Jones, Gary Hogue, and Mike McKinney. You're all so great to work with!

Some Animation!!

2011-02-21T10:23:00.001-08:00

I have been meaning to post this one up for quite awhile now!

Portland Wheelman's "Pioneer Century" poster and bike jersey

2011-01-30T19:07:00.000-08:00

I had recently did some poster art of Portland Wheelmen Touring Club's annual Pioneer Century ride. I was so excited when the told me the poster artwork was going to be added to this years bike jerseys. How awesome is that!

Here is the poster art...

Here is the final approval on the bike jersey and arm warmers...

For more information about the Pioneer Century ride or the Portland Wheelmen Touring Club visit there website at http://pwtc.com/

Red Velvet Character Design

2010-12-24T12:04:00.001-08:00

I did these back in my Saint Cupcake days. I always wanted to do something cool with her.

Eat Me cupcake

2010-12-24T11:59:00.001-08:00

A little something for the wife.

One Last Christmas Drawing

2010-12-22T00:35:00.001-08:00

I did this for a friend of mine, a little inside joke between us.

Santa Baby!

2010-12-21T08:49:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!!

2010-12-11T18:08:00.000-08:00

Here's this years Christmas card! Happy Holidays folks!

Long Time No See

2010-09-26T14:27:00.000-07:00

Well since I graduated I have been pretty busy working with Happy Trails Animation and Double Barrel Motion Labs. In my spare time I have been working in pre-production for a pitch that I doing which will soon be posted here. In the meantime, enjoy a pin-up!

Thanks!

The Dief and Rico Movie Review Show

2010-04-02T19:01:00.001-07:00

Here are some character designs for Andrew and I's Movie Review Show

My Portfolio Website is OFFICIALLY UP!

2010-03-16T11:57:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I finally finished my portfolio website! There still might be a few little things to add, like contact, and resume' . But overall it's done! Please check out my site! www.toasterdogdesigns.com

PIRATES!

2010-03-11T11:13:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I was sitting around all day waiting for work. I thought I'd break in our new tablets and practice some painting.

A Little Something for the Dief.

2010-01-28T00:46:00.001-08:00

My good friend Andrew Dieffenbach and I were hangin' out and sketching the other day. He had a fun idea to take an old 70's Blaxploitation film and animating around the audio. Here's a quick painting on the main character TNT Jackson.

Works "Art Happening" Poster

2010-01-14T19:13:00.000-08:00

Burlesque Girl Sketches

2009-12-14T09:32:00.000-08:00

A quick sketch and some photoshop speed painting.

A little work in progress...

2009-12-13T10:05:00.000-08:00

I'm workin' on some new business cards again. Here's the first of them.

ALL HER PETS ARE EVIL! #001

2009-12-12T21:59:00.000-08:00

"ALL HER PETS ARE EVIL"
Years back I sketched out a picture of a cute girl with a bunch of evil animals around her. I called it, "all her pets are evil" For the past few years I always liked that concept. Right now I can currently writing a script for these characters for a flash short.

Figure Drawing!

2009-12-12T21:46:00.000-08:00

I did these years ago while I was a student at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. I still think it's some of the best figure drawing I have done.

It's Freaking Cold!!- My Belmont SKETCHLINGS!

2009-12-12T21:16:00.000-08:00

Hey again! This past week it's been pretty dang cold up here in Portland, Oregon. The temperture has been in the "teens" all last week and most of this week. So last week I was working over at Saint Cupcake's SE Belmont location; as some of you know is inside a really cool shop called "Noun". I really love working at this location because it is so inspiring. The bonus is there is a little more down time there which means I get to sketch it up!

BE MINE IS FINALLY DONE!

2009-12-12T16:03:00.000-08:00

Hooray! Art Institute of Portland's 3D Production of "Be Mine" is finally finished! It was a great experience! I was in the 5 Week Pre-Production class on the concept design team. Here are a few of my sketches from pre-production.

Concept Design for "The Machine"

and now...

"Be Mine"

Be Mine from Art Institute of Portland on Vimeo.

A few of the Time Bandits Boards

2009-10-01T20:36:00.000-07:00

I painted these in Flash and Photoshop, right now it's still in it's Flash-O-Matic phase.

The idea was that the Bandits had made there way into France during WWII. They have a scheme to rob the museums before the German Army gets there hands on the goods.

More Time Bandits

2009-10-01T20:26:00.001-07:00

These were my character designs that I based my Flash Libraries off of.

Time Bandits in Flash

2009-10-01T20:19:00.000-07:00

This was my Storyboarding Project last spring, or at least I think it was last spring. I have always wanted to see a 2D version of Terry Gilliams Time Bandits. Here were some of the sketches and boards.

Welcome to Toaster Dog Animation!

2009-10-01T10:27:00.000-07:00

Hello my name is Danny Rico! This is my senior year at the Art Institute of Portland as a student of the Media Arts and Animation Program. My primary focus is PreVisual Development and Flash Animation. In the past year I began working in the animation field. I spent last summer (2008) working for Flying Rhino making Flash Character Libraries, and currently work for Scarred Artifacts (check out thebandmates.com). My other mildly-mannered job is at Portland Oregon's very own Saint Cupcake.