Art of Brian Muelhaupt

My entry for Titmouse’s 5 Second Day 2020.

Testing out the animate feature in Procreate.

Wee bird.

Felt like drawing Sydney Greenstreet as the Fat Man, one of the best characters from one of the best movies.

Part 2 of my dino museum skeletons from Half-Shel Heroes: Blast To The Past!

Been sitting on these for a while.  Part 1 of a whole buncha dino skeletons that I did for the museum sequence of the Half-shell Heroes movie Titmouse did in 2015.

Finally put together a new demo reel!  Much of it is work I've not shared directly before from the past few years.  See lots squishy things running around and also some dinosaurs!

Found a seldom used sketchbook under the table with some forgotten sketches.

Weekend doodles with the 4-year old.

My daughter drew a “running star flower” the other day so I decided to animate it for her.  After she saw it, she asked for the stylus and drew big sisters next to the boy, so I animated them too.  I’ve tried to keep the proportions consistent to their designs.  

A couple iPad sketches that have been sitting around waiting for me to post them already.

Kakapo tries to fly.  From my 2018 5-Second Day film.

Here’s another rough walk cycle animation reference that I made for the animators in Hanazuki S1.  This one’s for Wanderer Flochi.  Maroshi’s surfboard ottercats are some of the most fun characters to draw.  

Here’s a super fun new music video directed by allisonanimates and animated by a bunch of super talented folks at Titmouse.  I contributed the animation for the shot at 1:05!

As a director I didn’t get to animate much myself, but I would sometimes get to do reference examples for the animation team.  This rough walk cycle from S1 for Maroshi is one of my favorites.   It’s a lot of fun to try to pack as much personality as possible in a few frames that will be reused many times over.  

This blog is sadly lacking in animation work.  Here’s a throwback to a few years ago.  Some of my Tip animations from the first season of Home: Adventures of Tip and Oh.  Such a fun crazy cute show to work on!

Kinetic pigs.