The Searcher, and The Daydreamer by Ryan Loghry now available on CreateSpace, and Amazon!

Hello everyone! As of last week both of the books I have written and illustrated The Searcher, and the exciting sequel The Daydreamer are available to purchase on CreateSpace (The Searcher and The Daydreamer), and also on Amazon(just search for my name: Ryan Loghry)! I've been working on these titles literally for years now. The Searcher started out as random sketches of goofy characters done while riding the bus back and forth to work way back in 2004. Thanks to Amazon, and their print on demand business CreateSpace authors and illustrators like me can finally take our products directly to the market place. If you can, please order through CreateSpace, the royalties I receive are SIGNIFICANTLY higher if you order my books there (don't ask me why, Amazon owns both websites). I'd like to offer a special thanks to my wife Angela for helping me achieve my dreams. I really don't know what I'd do if I didn't have this creative outlet. Once again thank you for stopping by. -- Ryan

The Searcher's World on Etsy... Update

Hello all! The new store has been pretty successful in it's first two weeks. I've had to hustle to keep drawings on the virtual shelves. I've posted three new drawings, and here is a link to them: The Searcher's World Etsy store. An ironic turtle, adventuresome tree pirates, and a Halloween trick or treaters drawing. I hope you enjoy them, and as always thanks for stopping by.

The Searcher's World on Etsy

Hello everyone. I have opened an Etsy shop in order to raise funds to get The Searcher and The Daydreamer up for sale on Amazon.com before Christmas. I am very close, but need to get the ISBN number for The Daydreamer. If you would like to buy an original pencil drawing, and help an artist reach his goals, please drop by, and please share the link to my store with your friends: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSearchersWorld

Pitching Sequence Third Pass

So here is the last pencil test version of this animation. I've roughed out all the frames I need to create a compelling and convincing animation. It will take me a couple weeks at least to produce the 34 final drawings of the main character, and then I still have to put a little action in the crowd in the background.

I hope you've enjoyed reading about and watching this process, and the end result when I get it posted. Have fun and God bless. -- Ryan

Secondary Pass

As promised here is the second pass of the pitching sequence animation. With my schedule the way it is anymore it took me a few days.

When I was finally able to view what I have here I realized that his back leg lands right next to his front leg, and if he were really throwing a pitch the follow through would carry his back foot way out in front of his front foot. Also, I need to speed up the second half of his motion, to give his pitch some ZIP. SO... I'll need to re-animate the last few frames, and add some more. Then I can get back to the crowd in the background. Once I get that doped out I can start on the final drawings. Easy Peazy.

Pitching Sequence

Here is a pencil test for a new project I'm working on. I threw the background in to make it a bit more interesting for you the viewer. I'll do finished drawings for the pitcher next, maybe add a little more exaggeration, and then I'll draw the crowd a couple times over, to give them a little movement, not much but just enough so that they aren't frozen. That crowd part will probably be take the longest.

I'm going to add a few in between frames to this, but I like the flow of his pitching action, so I don't think I'll make any big changes.

This is a small part of a bigger project I'm working on, a children's book and animation. With digital books/apps being what they are these days I'm excited about adding little clips of animation that the reader/viewer can activate within the story. I'm hoping it will add to the experience.

Speaking of children's books, remember you can still get "The Little Leaf" (written by Jairo Penaranda Illustrated by yours truly) at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. If you have an iPad you can get an interactive version of my book "The Searcher" (written and illustrated by yours truly) via iBooks. As always thank you for stopping by, and have a terrific day.

New Animation Tools = New Animation!

Ice Skating Test Animation from ryanloghry

Hi everyone! Merry Christmas! I've been saving up for almost a year now, and last week for my birthday/early Christmas present I got the rest of the funds needed to get the Production Premium Adobe package I've been needing for a few years. Adobe has finally added inverse kinematics, and what they are calling 3D options, and I'm am very excited about the special effects possible in After Effects(like the snow you see in this animation). So I sat down over the weekend and put this little loop together. I only had a couple of hours to devote to it, but I learned SO MUCH. My hope is to continue to add to this piece, to make it more interesting. Here is the original Christmas card from last year, so you can see the starting point for this animation:

I just had to share the fun and excitement I feel. Enjoy! (P.S. I set the animation up to loop, so don't wait for it to end, cause it won't.