The Chad Bierdeman Show

Another Sunday Animation

2012-02-06T09:18:00.000-08:00

Here is a Hand drawn animation that I did for fun. Inspiration came from my brother and everything was completed within a couple hours

Current Work In Progress

2011-11-01T11:25:00.000-07:00

This is shot one from the animated short that I'm creating to teach kids with Aspergers how to see and understand facial expressions and body movements. Creating this by myself takes a lot of time and energy, so I'll put up some concept art and other stuff that went into creating this whenever I have some free time available.
This is being created for Dr. Brenda Bierdeman PsyD

Practice Lip Sync Animation

2011-08-14T13:11:00.000-07:00

I stopped my last animation because I was doing some more research and I got some great tips from The Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams and thought it best if I just started over with this new audio. I think it turned out pretty good. Any critics or suggests are appreciated

Blessings and Happy Animating

CG Lip Sync Practice

2011-08-02T14:57:00.000-07:00

I've been working on my cg lip sync abilities this last week or so. I unfortunately wasn't taught a lot about this in school so I have been reading books and researching online on the best way to do convincing lip sync. It's been a lot of fun, and I definitely still have a lot of work to do before my animations are perfect, but I'm moving forward and enjoying it.

Happy Animating!

Some Great Facial Animation Tips!

2011-07-27T12:05:00.000-07:00

New Disney Pixar movie Brave

2011-06-22T19:59:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to the Pixar Wiki page that says more about this upcoming movie

Another Animation Practice

2011-06-16T09:03:00.000-07:00

I have been playing a lot of Uncharted 2 lately, and in that game your character has really good climbing animations/mechanics. So out of seeing those I was inspired to create this.

Happy Animating

Animation Practice

2011-06-14T10:45:00.000-07:00

11 Second Club Animation

2011-04-30T22:01:00.000-07:00

I did this as an assignment for my advanced animation class and Aprils 11 second club as well. I unfortunately wasn't able to get it into the competition in time so it is now just another animation that I've done.

Slain By the Spirit

2011-04-24T14:13:00.000-07:00

Here is a simple animation that I did on a sunday afternoon. It took a couple hours, but I think it turned out well. It's part of my continued short animations to help grow my skills in hand drawn animation. Any critiques or comments are welcome

Happy Animating

Easter dress twirl

2011-04-22T23:33:00.000-07:00

I was inspired to do this animation by a little girl that I saw while I was walking around a mall. She was dancing around in her dress and I thought she had such great character and motion that it would make for some great animation practice.

Peach Fuzz Super Hero Colored!

2011-04-19T18:55:00.000-07:00

Here is my super hero named "Peach Fuzz." He is not 100% colored, but close enough. Plus I was too excited to not put it up

Simple Animation Practice

2011-04-19T17:30:00.000-07:00

The above animation I out of inspiration by a blog that I came across a while ago; which I can no longer find. The idea is to do a simple 2d animation within an hour or so to work your skills and get better and better. This one being my first one, plus trying to do a lot of tricky perspective and camera movement took me maybe two hours. Overall I am pleased with it. It definitely hasn't been gone through with a fine tooth comb, but any suggestions or critiques are welcome!

Thanks, and happy animating

Life Drawing

2011-04-08T12:39:00.000-07:00

Here is a painting that I did in watercolor in one of my figure drawing classes. For that class we had to use any medium other then pencil, so I chose watercolor. I had a blast working with it too! I used a travel watercolor set where the water is in the brush pen and you squeeze it to paint with it.

More of these images can be viewed on my Drawing a Day blog

Peach Fuzz Concept

2011-04-08T09:48:00.000-07:00

This is a concept design for a super hero named "Peach Fuzz." The design of the character is completely open ended. I haven't created his back story yet, which i am working on, but any suggestions/ critiques on the character design and illustration are welcomed.

Matte Painting

2011-03-23T15:27:00.000-07:00

Here is a matte painting that I am working on for a short film that i am a part of. This image is a silhouette of a city on a large rock, and the sun is setting over a sea of trees

Short Film (Notes On) Biology

2011-03-23T09:24:00.000-07:00

(notes on) biology from ornana films on Vimeo.

Here is a great short film that is a lot of fun.

2011-03-23T09:09:00.000-07:00

I want my sketchbook to look like this!

2011 Demo Reel

2011-03-16T05:57:00.000-07:00

Demo Reel 2011 from Chad Bierdeman on Vimeo.

Some face sketches

2011-03-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

Here are some face sketches that I've done recently. I've uploaded more to my drawing a day blog if you want to see more.

Hopefully come next weekend I will have a bunch more drawings to post because I will be going to New York City for a couple days. While I'm there I plan on finding a nice bench and sitting down and just drawing. I'm also taking the train there. So I will have several hours to draw then too!

2011-03-12T16:54:00.001-08:00

This is a teaser for a new feature film done by the same people that did Secret of Kells. The Secret of Kells was a really well done animated feature length film done by a company called Cartoon Saloon. I'm excitedly awaiting this new film since the last one was so well done.

Drawing a Day

2011-02-16T20:17:00.000-08:00

For those interested I and a couple friends from school are doing a drawing a day. I've created another blog where I'll be uploading my drawings which can be navigated to via the link to the right.

Enjoy, and as always critique is welcome

Concept Art for Senior Project Short Film: Critiques Welcome

2011-01-27T15:40:00.000-08:00

These were accidentally uploaded out of movie Sequence. The numbers identify sequence

4
2
1

Uncomfortable vengeance

2010-03-25T16:38:00.000-07:00

I had to portray "Uncomfortable Vengeance" in a pose. I took it a little further and made this whole little situation.

Drawing a Day

2010-02-20T22:20:00.001-08:00

Drawings for Wednesday and today

2010-02-18T20:35:00.000-08:00

Here's Wednesdays and Thursdays drawing of the day.

The first one another perspective. The second one, (todays) is a man that is being torn apart. I don't know how great it reads. So if you have any suggestions...

Drawing of the Day 2/16

2010-02-16T20:45:00.000-08:00

Another drawing going for a lot of perspective.

A Drawing a Day

2010-02-15T14:07:00.000-08:00

In class the other day we video chatted with the Art director of Cartoon Network, Jeremy. We got see some of his stuff and here his methods of how he does what he does. He then talked about how he does a drawing a day before he starts work. I have always wanted to get in the habit of doing that. So with the push that he gave I am going to try and post A Drawing a Day

Here is todays. I was going for something with extreme perspective. So I went with the ants view of a runner

2010-02-05T06:28:00.000-08:00

Here's something that I have been working on, but haven't quit finished. I was working on mostly getting my colors to create a nice border around objects without having to use a black pencil drawn contour line.

I also simply found this painting to be fun and silly. Who doesn't want to sit on their chimney, petting a fish?

2010-02-04T16:49:00.000-08:00

Also I am participating in a 100 hand sketch marathon thing. http://tenthousanddrawings.blogspot.com/

It's all drawings of hands. A really enjoyable and beneficial exercise.

2010-02-04T16:38:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted much lately, so here are some faces that I did recently...

2009-08-08T08:37:00.000-07:00

Some Fashion Drawings

2009-07-30T16:19:00.000-07:00

Wright Third Caricature Ideas
Sunshine
Luke

Andrew Martin

Finny
Derek Best

Rob
Shick

Vozzie

Pounder
Cheek
Bidding

Chili

Juan
Keeler

2009-05-05T18:36:00.000-07:00

Stop Motion Final

2009-05-05T18:30:00.000-07:00

Drawing for Drawer Geeks Jr.

http://www.drawergeeksjr.blogspot.com/

This is a picture that I drew for a friend using Corel Painter X.

2009-03-31T17:51:00.000-07:00

2008-12-24T11:00:00.000-08:00

Concept Art

2008-11-20T09:15:00.000-08:00

Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. Pro. 24:11

Concept Art for My Animation Final

2008-11-12T21:44:00.000-08:00

2008-11-08T16:22:00.000-08:00

Iron Man

Drawn with Pencil

2008-11-08T16:21:00.000-08:00

Quantum of Solace

Drawn in Sketchbook Pro

2008-10-05T10:23:00.000-07:00

2008-09-29T10:48:00.000-07:00

This was the second walk that we had to do and I was wanting to do a women.

First attempt of making a person walk across the page.

Run across the page.