DreamGiver on Vimeo

DreamGiver from Tyler Carter on Vimeo.
A regular night of dream delivering turns into a literal nightmare when a boy's book of ancient mythology comes alive and dreams become nightmares.



Visit the directors website at: http://www.tycarter.com/



For a behind the scenes look at the making of DreamGiver, check out: http://vimeo.com/26914928

DreamGiver is now online for your viewing pleasure.  It is the combined efforts of a fine group of artists from Brigham Young University.  The film has played in hundreds of festivals around the world including the College Television Awards "Student Emmy", Cannes Film Festival, Anima Mundi, Comic Con, Adobe Design Competition, Angelus Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, SIGGRAPH and many more!  

I hope you enjoy it!

Some work from Pixar's Cars 2

Hope everyone is having a good holiday season!  I know I'm enjoying the abundant chocolates and delicious eggnog :)

In 2009, I was an intern at Pixar and had the opportunity to work on Cars 2.  The team was fantastic and I learned a great deal from so many artists.  Here are a couple concept paintings of the Tokyo bathroom scene.

Layout done by the amazing Nat McLaughlin

Have a great week!

Happy Holidays!

This year, we are babysitting our friend's labrador retriever over the holidays.  I made this for the cover of a greetings card, however, my wife didn't like it so much....so I'm posting it here!  I thought it was funny.

May you have a wonderful holiday and happy new year!

CTN Wrap-Up...Thank you:)

CTN was an absolute blast!  It was fantastic to see everyone and meet new talent.  In fact, the up and coming talent is quite incredible.  In looking through portfolios, I had a "ponder moment" about  the incredible industry in which we are all a part and the creative minds from all over the world.  Each artist creates their own vision (built up through background, experience, and hard work) to eventually collaborate with other artists' visions to make a film, game or product.  What a great time to be an artist!  There is so much going on!

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who came by during the expo.  It was the highlight of my trip to meet you and finally put a face with that blogger icon!       

Just before the doors opened

Jake Parker and I posing for the paparazzi

New Print

Im gathering together some highlights from the CTN expo and trip to LA.  Ill have them up soon.  In the mean time, here is a new piece I've been working on.

CTN Expo-Booth T-34

The CTN expo is almost here and I'm getting anxious!  I'll be at booth T-34 with my friend Jake Parker and look forward to all the awesome talent exhibiting this year.  Come drop by and say hello:)  I'll have high-quality prints and DreamGiver DVD's. There are limited numbers so come quick!

Are you planning on attending? Drop me a line

Color study on shapes

Sometimes I like to take to shapes and just explore the qualities between the two.  In this study I focused on the colors and their relationship.

When I look at it...It kinda reminds me of Nickelodeon GAK!  Loved that stuff

Color Study

I've been playing around with some palettes from Scott Christensen.  This was a loose interpretation of one of his studies.  It still needs a lot of work but I learned a bunch in the process.

October is Inktober!

October is Inktober!  Tune into Jake Parker's site for posts and links dedicated to filling the month full of INK.

Hunting for Dinosaurs

I must admit...I am a sucker for dinosaurs.  Since I was little, I've always loved them.  You can imagine how my life changed when Jurassic Park came out.  It was like a childhood renaissance.  I had to wait nearly 3 weeks after it came out to finally see it.  Because it was PG-13, my parents wanted to check it out in advance.

This is a piece I started awhile back and haven't done much with since.  The idea is a dino hunter of some type of mech like tribe.  Remember Turok the Dino Hunter?

More to come.

  

The Reading Tree

Just doodling some ideas tonight.

My wife had a special tree near her house in Sandy, Utah.  She used to go there with her dog and read novels and climb up its branches.  I'm looking around New York for my own tree!

Sketches

Some new sketches, concepts and a quickie:)

DreamGiver at Comic Con!

Hey Guys!

Just wanted to write a quick post. If you're headed to Comic Con this week, come check out my film DreamGiver! It will be playing Thursday at 4:20 PM as part of the official shorts program.

Following the screening, there will be a Q & A session!

See you soon!

Jack Jack Attack!!!

Here is more work from Jake Parker's class this last semester. This was one of the best classes I have taken at BYU. Jake is an amazing teacher who can design the *&#@ out of anything....I can say that because I graduated from BYU. *&#@ deciphered is heck. Check out his work: the AMAZING JAKE PARKER

DreamGiver Post 7...for graduation tomorrow!!

Here are a few more backgrounds from DreamGiver...and I'm graduating! The last four years have been more than I could've ever asked for! Thank you Brigham Young University and the Center for Animation!! It has been nothing short of fantastic! If you are looking for a school with top notch teaching, practical tuition,and a great animation/illustration/film program, I highly recommend BYU.....and it also has some cool mountains around it!

Other news, DreamGiver was selected for Cannes Short Film Corner and as official selection in the Seattle International Film Festival!! Congrats to everyone for a great job! It recently received an Honorable mention at this years Society of Illustrators Animation Competition as well.

Thank you to everyone for your support! Especially to the folks here at BYU, my hometown community and those who have left the kind comments via blog, email, twitter, and facebook from all around. It really means a lot to the entire team. We hope to eventually put it up online but need to wait a little longer until film festivals and competitions have ended.

Student Emmy's!!

I got to spend the weekend out in LA to receive a Student Emmy for DreamGiver from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation. It was a fun event and there were a bunch of celebrities who showed up to the awards night. I think my favorite was Elijah Woods!!!! There were also appearances by: Terrence Howard, Jane Lynch, Geena Davis, Darren Criss, Amber Tamblyn (House), Shenae Grimes (90210), David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place), KaDee Strickland (Private Practice), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter), Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory), Aldis Hodge (Leverage), Valerie Cruz (Off the Map and True Blood), Michael Cudlitz (Southland), Jason Gann (Wilfred), Matt Lauria (Friday Night Lights and The Chicago Code), David Ono of ABC News, Jason Ritter (The Event and Parenthood).

I also got to catch up with some of my buddies at Disney and Sony. It was great to see everyone!



Some media coverage on DreamGiver released yesterday!



Some of the DreamGiver crew: Peter Jones, Aaron Ludwig, Tyler Carter, Michael Murdock, Brent Adams, Moy Parra, Gina Chu.



A big Emmy Statue



Darren Criss from Glee



Anikah and I ready to have dinner:)

Props!

Jack and his Farm...with cow

Wizard from Jack and the Beanstalk

DreamGiver Post 6: Serpents Lair!!

Designs and Backgrounds for the 2d sequence of DreamGiver....playing in a theater near you! soon...




Serpent Set 1




Serpent Set 2




Simple Statue Map for After Effects. Because the entire 2d sequence was a mixture of paintings and animation, I had to paint in what the statues shadow side would look like as well planes interacting with light. I didn't know after effects could do so much!!




Deleted Scene



Forest Lurking 2

Bill Perkins Color workshop and a Revamp

It is horrible to hear the disastrous effects of the earthquake and tsunami in Sendai. My prayers and thoughts go out to the people of Japan.


Some 40 minute studies from Bill Perkin's color workshop. If you haven't taken this before, I highly recommend it. Bill is an incredible teacher. Here are some other artists who have posted some great work: Dave McClellan and Simini Blocker.



Decided revamp this image a little bit for a competition here at school....I didn't win but was happy with the result. Thanks for the feedback Dave Dibble!

Thank You!

Thank you to everyone for making the DreamGiver Premiere such a wonderful event! We had over 1,400 people attend and there we're only 1,300 seats!! The stage managers told me they've never seen it so packed. Thank you so much for your support and patience during the making of the film. We could not have done it without you!!!

A special thank you to my friend Bill Perkins for coming all the way out from California. Bill, you are the man!

I will keep you posted on DreamGiver awards and successes....until then, here is some personal work I'm doing at school.