peanut brains

New new reel

2011-09-13T00:08:00.000-07:00

Hey, it's a new new reel!! WAAAAAATCHHHH IIIIIIIIITTTTT!!!!!!!

Shark Week!

2011-08-03T14:05:00.000-07:00

Day 2: The sneaky pageal thresher

day 1: the great hammerhead

#365

2011-07-27T01:32:00.000-07:00

a year's worth of crapness!

Updated my reel

2011-07-13T16:59:00.000-07:00

Shot Breakdown:
1-2: characters animated in flash
3: Moom rig by Ratmin (http://www.creativecrash.com/users/ramtin). Ball with legs rig created by me.
4: character animated in flash
5: Bandito model created by Jason Borda ( http://jborda.com/ ). Rigged and animated by me.
6: character animated in flash
7: character animated in flash
8: Simple game character, Modeled, rigged and animated by me.
9: same, plus "Setup Machine" biped. (http://www.anzovin.com/products/tsm2maya.html)
10: Flash animation
11: "Silent lipsync" flash animation
12: Excerpt from my short film, all animation and visual effects by me. ( http://youtu.be/T_y6zTUq1QM )
13-14: Zombie rig and model created at 7 studios. animation by me for "Six Flags Fun Park" on the Nintendo Wii.
15-16-17: Characters animated in Flash
18: "Lobo" Model and rig by me. Based on Bruce Timm's rendition of the DC comics character. (http://www.comicvine.com/bruce-timm/26-7365/images/ )
19: "Robot band" model created at 7 studios for "Six Flags Fun Park." Rigged and animated by me.
20-21-22: Flash animation by me.

Thanks for watching. GIMME A JOB!
Joel "Dudley" Stapley

selections from the last 40ish crapnesses

2011-06-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

HElloooooo. So I've been doing this crapness thing still and here's the ones I like since April.

#344: My friend Allison's monkey...on drugs.

#342: One sophisticated dog!

#340: glowey-eyed-under water-lady... thing

#339: the bomb tree

#336: The flying hellfish! you know, from the Simpsons

#327: Hawk girl fan art?

#324: Catch me

#322: old habits

#321: found some beautiful place and got lost

#318: My friend Megan's dog

#312: My friend Rachel's dog

#310: my friend Jeannine's dog

i'm back now

2011-04-21T15:39:00.001-07:00

#306

#305

#304: I watched 2 seasons of sons of anarchy on netfilx recently

Am Am Ation #27

#303: Carmen, my friend Alison's old friend.

#302

#301: Bean, My friend's dog who is still alive.

AAAAnnnd 300

2011-04-08T00:57:00.000-07:00

so, yeah.... Real long break time.

#300

Almost 300

2011-04-06T17:02:00.001-07:00

Pace...Slowing....

Am Am Ation #26

#299

#298: I'ma get one of these soon.

Am Am Ation #25

#297: Let's just call this an "Accidental homage."

#296

Another week of crap!

2011-03-29T17:35:00.000-07:00

Hey i'm almost kind of sticking to the weekly update thing. Weird.

#295 (continued from #293)

#294

#293 (unfinished)

#292: A memory of Rick Davidson.

#291

I only did 3 this week?!

2011-03-21T12:10:00.000-07:00

It's been a weird week.

#290: I went to Joshua Tree this weekend with a bunch of people I didn't know. Hiked at midnight during a full moon. woke up early to go rock climbing, and an alien probably got me pregnant at the Integratron. overall, it was a success.

#289: he's trying too hard.

#288: Caroliiiiine. from ref: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KwxSAeCh3qw/S6KHGdxyfYI/AAAAAAAAGMo/42orty_CWLk/s1600-h/carolineface.jpg

Crapness update!

2011-03-14T13:09:00.000-07:00

I've been skipping a lot of days due to this mini nervous breakdown I'm currently enjoying. But here's the latest crap!

#287

from ref: http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/photo-police-sydney-australie-mugshot-1920-09.jpg

#286

#285

#284: Gouache WIP.

UPDATED digitally.

#283

from ref: Can't post link but it's my friend Alison in Cinque Terre Italy.

Am Am Ation #24

#282

#281

#280

#279

Another month has past!

2011-02-27T12:42:00.000-08:00

The crapness month in review!!

#278

Am Am Ation #23

Am Am Ation #22

Am Am Ation #21

#277

Am Am Ation #20

#276

#275

#274: Winner

#273

#272

Am Am Ation #19

#271

#270

#269

#268

#267

#266: I made Strawberry Lemon bars for myself on my birthday...best idea ever.

Woo! thanks for looking.

OH RIGHT!

2011-01-28T03:29:00.001-08:00

Ooops! ummm... this MONTH in Pre Sleep Crapness! I'll try to update more often, I swear. So click on them, they get bigger.

#265

Am Am Ation #18

#264

#263- my favorite this month

#262

#261

#260

#259

#258: From ref: http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=318&ptp_photo_id=natgeo:9363017&size=550_art&m=1296153311.0

#257: anticipation

Am Am Ation #17

#256

Am Am Ation #16

#255

#254

#253

#252

#251: "I am only pretending to be a squirrel"

#250

AM AM ATION #15

#249

#248

#247: please ignore this one!

#246: Future animation?

This week in Pre Sleep Crapness

2010-12-26T15:55:00.000-08:00

Oh hey I have a blog!? weird! So I do this pree sleep crapness thing on facebook every night. I used to post them here too, but it was too much to post it in two places. I mean, can you imagine uploading the same picture on two seperate websites? I'm out of breath just thinking about it! So instead, I'm going to post there every night as usual, and then at the end of every week I'll post everything from the week here. sound good? ok. here we go. hopefully I can make stick to this.

#245

Am Am Ation #14

#244

#243

Am Am Ation #13

#242
ref. http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/9896/sunu.jpg

#241
ref. http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/9896/sunu.jpg

#12

2010-08-28T20:14:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to Ben Larson, who Co-directed this, and to Colin Jennings and my former roommate Stephanie. And Kyle Macknight can go screw himself.

#11

2010-08-19T01:15:00.001-07:00

Uhhh....I just posted this on the wrong blog. now my family has heard my song about my ding a ling. I'm gonna go puke.

But anyway, I used to be able to sing. Not so much these days, it seems. This is embarrassing. And also about no one. honest.

#10

2010-08-12T10:47:00.000-07:00

Summer's almost over. Extra sadness.

OH YEAH!! oops.

2010-08-08T12:49:00.000-07:00

Forgot to post these here. I'm so stupiiid.

#9

#8(belch)

#7 "Drugs" (this thing is about taking drugs)

#6

2010-07-15T23:01:00.001-07:00

#5 AKA the worst so far.

2010-07-09T17:40:00.001-07:00

Week 4

2010-07-02T21:47:00.000-07:00

Almost forgot to post this here! how dare I!

"week" 3

2010-06-23T09:36:00.000-07:00

"week" because it was really 3 hours. Again I worked on a film for a week and decided I hated it at 7pm yesterday, the day it was supposed to be finished. At that point I made this.

uh...it's like, totally a metaphor...for uh... stuuuuffff. it's supposed to look like this.

Week 2! (of "film a week.")

2010-06-15T22:31:00.000-07:00

Hello people. not as "done" as it could be. But "done."

"ANIMATION"

2010-06-08T23:21:00.000-07:00

"1 "film" a "week" all "Summer!"" has begun! On June First I decided to make a "film" (by which I mean a series of sequential images that tell a story) every "week" (by which I mean on the 7th day, I post, finished or not.) all "Summer" (by which I mean June 1st through September 1st.).
This one is the very first. ENJOY!
I'ma do my best to keep at it. WISH ME LUCK! only 11 more to go!

Also #70 ;)

Animaallmost here!

2010-06-08T04:42:00.000-07:00

but here's a few more pieces o'crap.
Which I will just tell you, imaginary readers, are still's from my first of 12 ""Films" for "Every" "Week" of the "Summer!"" which will be posted tomorrow!
#69

#68

#67

MOAR!

2010-06-05T19:07:00.000-07:00

Really, animation coming soon.

#66: is a lie

#65

#64: "The Sheriff." Latest version

#63: is a bird

#62

2010-06-01T02:37:00.001-07:00

I hate the feeling that I'm drawing the ssme thing over and over and over...

Moar

2010-05-31T19:46:00.001-07:00

#52: Teaser for upcoming animation.

#53

#54

#55

#56

#57

#58

#59

#60!!: another teaser

#61

#'s 47-51

2010-05-20T15:28:00.000-07:00

#47: "outcast of outcasts."

#48: a shameful embarrassment.

#49: color key for some animation I'm working on

#50: "Metal that is less heavy due to lower gravity, but will still adequately rock you."

#51: "Cyborg Jones doesn't love you"

#46

2010-05-15T02:56:00.000-07:00

#46: rampage

#45

2010-05-14T03:21:00.000-07:00

and also there will be animation posted soonish.

#s 41, 42, 43, 44

2010-05-13T03:28:00.000-07:00

preeee sleeeeeps
#44: "HI GUYS!"

#43

#42: i'm not doing one tonight.

#41: metronomy

#39 and #40

2010-05-09T04:01:00.000-07:00

I stayed up way too late for these 2. the first is a collaboration between me and my buddy Kyle.

habit: formed.

#38

2010-05-07T04:32:00.001-07:00

#37

2010-05-06T14:24:00.001-07:00

meh.

pre sleep crapness (#36)

2010-05-05T02:37:00.000-07:00

So over on facebook I've been posting these drawings that I've been drawing every night before I go to bed. It's been nearly 36 days straight, and I figured I'll start posting them here too. (I'm working on my next few films now too, by the way.)
here's #36

AWSOMENESS POOOOOSSSSTTT!!!!!

2010-04-05T13:18:00.000-07:00

This is something I've been trying to finish for the last month or so. It's a test case for a lot of projects I want to do. I'm pretty pleased with it. EnjOOOOYYY!!

Dudley Finally Does It! from Dudley Stapley on Vimeo.

another pre-awesomeness post

2010-03-30T14:33:00.001-07:00

at least one more of these before I post the awesomeness.

Pre-awesomness update.

2010-03-28T15:01:00.001-07:00

hello people. I'm about to finish something that I'm, so far, very happy with. But it's been a while since i've put anything up so i thought I put up some random crap sketches I've done lately.

meh

nobody

Re-designing a character from "A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell." (Possibly an upcoming project.)

girl in a coffee shop

what will you choose? huh? there is no middle ground here, no grey area. what's your answer? i'm counting to 10.

P.S. happy new year!!!

Comic?!

2009-12-23T17:08:00.000-08:00

2 randoms

2009-10-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

used a brush pen last night. fun times.

I may color them later

Scenes from the show

2009-10-14T17:28:00.000-07:00

The show was pretty dang great. Thanks to everyone who came and baught stuff. Here's some pictures!!

People!!

People!!

People!!

People!!

And most of the artists!

and since this is my blog I'll post my pieces.

This one SOLD!!(I can't believe it!)

This one PLAYS!!(I haven't pluged it in yet though, it might explode...really.)

OOdles of NEWdles

2009-09-30T23:01:00.000-07:00

Oy, have I been busy. Kind of.
A) I'm putting on an art show!
ROCKET ROLL!! Art inspired by the books and movies nerds love, and the music that makes everyone look cool. (so, sci-fi + Rock and Roll.)
here's a quicky poster.

If you can't see or read the image, the show is on October the 9th at 7:30 at the BuckWild gallery in Venice. So please come and bring friends if you're in LA. Bring a hot-rod, or a pack of cigarettes rolled up in your sleeve, or a light saber, or a 'too cool for school" attitude.
One of my pieces is a (hopefully) functional electric guitar. Here's a work-in-progress shot.

(it's a rocket ship, get it?)

Contributors include
Nathan Stapley
Daniel Stone
Robert Iza
Nate Villanueva
Phil Rynda
Shane Corn
Kristen Campbell
Sal Carrasco
Brant Rotramel
David Parker
and (quite possibly) more!
Maybe these guys will post some of their pieces on their blogs... hint

B) New Cartoon!

It's pretty sloppy, I know. But I just wanted to post it along with the news above. Episode 4 is not even close to being done. So don't look for it soon. Hopefully with it I'll post a dumb short that I'll be getting back to work on after the art show.
C)SECRET NEWS!! It's new! you can see it! but I'm too embarassed to point it out to anyone. See if you can find it!

So most importantly, COME TO THE ART SHOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!

"that probably won't happen"

2009-05-12T00:54:00.000-07:00

yyeeaahhhhh, "every month or so" translates to every 7 months...holy crap. and this is going to be a let down gang, i'm sorry, but here's number 2!!

I promise it won't be another 7 months before I put the next one up. honest. and the next one will be better too...

It begins

2008-10-11T00:56:00.000-07:00

So, this is the start of my new hoby. I'll be doing this as long as I can keep it going, which is hopefuly FOREVER!

I give you, Episode 1.

Eehhh? Episode 2 is just over 1/2 done and I'll post it when episode 3 is just over 1/2 done. The adventure is just begining!Stay tuned and we'll see how fast I can get them done.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Mo-cap vs The real kind (3D animation)

2008-08-19T12:04:00.000-07:00

So the people at EA Canada are doing these "meet the characters" shorts for their game Facebreaker. I think they were excited by the ones that Valve is doing for their Team Fortress 2 characters and wanted to make their own. Unfortunately there is a huuuuge difference in the quality of the 2 company's shorts. I think the worst thing Facebreaker has going on are the characters themselves. They are all just kind of boring, one dimensional, simple, overdone stereotypes (among the black characters there's a DJ, a "bad ass" and a voo doo preist "quite complex, he comes from Africa"..eh). Beyond the dumb premise of an audition, the writing is aweful. A failed attempt at candid moments that don't work because the actors (both voice and in the mo-cap suit) are trying soo hard to fake those moments and reinforce the stereotypes.
Here's one of EA's new spots

Now Valve, next the more appealing character designs, the better looking lighting and textures, and terrific animation, their writing is great. It's genuinely funny. Rather than trying to force the characters to try and be funny, or to make fun of them, they gave them natural personalities that just ARE funny.

Demo Man

Sniper

But I should talk about why i hate mo-cap. Can you see in the Facebreker video that the Russian guy and the fan-boy move like a skinny guy in a costume? Those are big guys. their arms, and fan-boy's gut, should have more weight to them. Nothing new or insightfull on the subject, i know, but these videos and the Soul Calibur IV endings that gametrailers has been posting are just perfect examples of how bad mo-cap can completely take you out of an animated scene. It's the difference between watching the Incredibles versus watchning the old Power Rangers episodes. It's the Difference between watching Steve (the fan-boy) take a puff from his imaginary asthma inhaler and the demo man's salute before he blows everyone up. The Difference between Moltov's spastic last laugh and line of dialouge, and the sniper checking his blind spot and using his blinker.

I don't know why I'm talking about this. I think it's just getting to me because I want to see more things like Valve's Meet the Team series (I want to meet the pyro) and I want to do something like that for the game I'm working on, but i don't want it to end up like Facebreaker. And I don't want other companies to do it unless they're going to do it right.

(also, i know i said I wouldn't post again until i had awesome animation to show off, but this was bugging me. plus, those Valve things ARE awesome animations. And i'm almost done with some animation of my own, so next time, for sure, you'll see some animation from me.)

crap...I suck

2008-07-08T23:26:00.000-07:00

so I've been spending a lot of time starting animations and not finishing them. I told myself last time I posted that i wouldn't post until I had some animation to show off, well guess what...it's been too long, and I feel like i could put at least a little something up, even if it's not animated.

Now, I promise, I won't post again until I have some animation to show off. So be prepared to not see anything for a looooong time (weep).

quickies

2008-02-01T13:38:00.001-08:00

Happy new year!!

2008-01-29T20:43:00.000-08:00

I've decided that the new year doesn't start until my birthday...which is today!! well, tomorrow, well the 30th.
any crap. I made a little dude out of sculpy and paint.

Flashity flash flash

2007-12-13T15:24:00.000-08:00

YOooooo, I don't do color in flash that often. But I've been looking at Pascal Champion lately and he it's pretty inspirational. So here's a couple of quick anims.

OOoooh Color!!

And because this Joke is never not funny.

(it's rough, I know. I'll get the rest of those inbtweens in there later)

It's the "guy gets hit in the nuts and then pukes" gag, with a biblical twist! edgy right?
I hope to have more little anims like this again sometime soon.
And if I don't post before christmas, have a merry one.

Haloweeeeeeennn

2007-11-06T13:39:00.000-08:00

I wanted to do a haloween cartoon this year, but just like everything I start, i didn't finish it. but I did make some pumpkins!

VOODOO ZOMBIE PUMPKINS THAT IS!!!!

Happy late haloween y'all

Huzaa for Flash!! (and some other crap)

2007-10-13T13:04:00.000-07:00

SO, I've been working on this little anim for a bit and NOW I can show you some progress on it.
Here are some pre-flash planning drawings

And Here's the animation I've got so far.

(I finally Figured out how to embed a flash movie! I'm lousy with excitment!)

And here's a preview of some things comming up.
PS NC-17! so, I don't know if this is just a New York thing or if it happens elswhere too, but some schools over there don't have names, they have numbers, ie. PS 102. So i thought it could be fun to do a short/story/comic or something about "PS NC-17" the filthiest public school in the county. here are some sketches.

And here are just some extra doodles and crap.

See you soon, with some more flashy goodness.

Filler

2007-09-06T00:30:00.000-07:00

So, I've got some things that are being kicked around in my head. You'll see a couple of them soon. A warning to anyone who might read this with their kids though...(Hi Jen!) Some stuff coming up might not be appropriate for youngsters! but not this though, this is an old sketch I did at work. I might keep coloring it... but probably not, I've got cheerleaders to draw...(that was a hint! did anyone catch it?)

more animation coming soon too, I hope

MORE HEADS!!

2007-08-17T01:31:00.001-07:00

All I ever draw is heads. I've got to get out of this habbit.

NO! all you need to draw is heads! bodies are dumb! people who draw bodies are PATHETIC!

here's a bunch of crapy heads.

oh... and hey, vigilant reader, did you get a load of those new links over there -->?

The continuing adventures of Mr. Confidence

2007-07-24T00:01:00.000-07:00

it's a comic!

And here's a couple sketches from work this week

oh and hey, remember this guy?

well I did a quick animation test with him. The stupid sound doesn't work though. what the hell. he's saying "i don't know"

A bunch o' stuff!

2007-07-13T22:36:00.000-07:00

I doodle while I'm at work. This is a bunch of stuff from recent times

area 51 arcade machine...with arms!

andrew? maybe not.

this is kind of like synj(look over at my links) I don't think I stole it but I wouldn't be surprised if he has something similar to it.

more to come with this fella

yeah, doodles. I also animate. this is a 3D thing I did a while ago to a sound from the 40 year old virgin. I have some 2D animation to post but youtube is being a jerk. It stole my pizza money and pinched me. anyway here's this

see you next week!

2 sketches

2007-07-05T19:14:00.000-07:00

So yeah, here's a couple of sketches. Baby Davey Jones, and a rough idea of a kid in a thhhhhing I'm writing.

I'll color this one eventually

Kid

More comics to come Later, and hopefully some animations too. Oy, remember how I was going to post a whole bunch of animation here... well I do. ha ha ha.

big purple bunny!

2007-05-11T11:47:00.000-07:00

LOOK OUT!

a couple of "comics?"

2007-05-03T13:23:00.000-07:00

i'm new at this comics thing... hope you like them.. ?

get it? i farted. right? farting is funny isn't it?

UNICORN VERSUS THE DEVIL!!

2007-03-12T23:52:00.000-07:00

I did this for contest at work. I did not win, so I cried.

These are a bunh of doodles i doodled while I was supposed to be working. The yellow ones are more recent(i did them at work), the others are from when I was still in school. Astronomy and French class.

Coming soon, comics!? with at least 1 comic featuring a fart joke!

old yeller

2007-01-19T01:10:00.000-08:00

I (fake)painted that. and coming soon.. UNICORN VERSUS THE DEVIL!

Tiger's acting classes never paid off

2006-12-21T07:44:00.000-08:00

I have been neglecting you, blog

2006-11-16T00:19:00.000-08:00

and for this I give you a couple of sketches

OOhhh, The Secret Lives of pills!

2006-09-29T00:46:00.000-07:00

yup, this is a thing me and my fiends put together for a competition. (we got 6th) Daniel Stone directed, Robert Iza hand painted the backgrounds, and I animated the first half of it. enjoy!

I'm not so crazy...

2006-09-22T01:13:00.000-07:00

Not Like Mr. Williams, but I am done with art school now! isn't that like, totaly crazy? I know!
check this out, It's my demo reel. Character set-up and Animation, that's what I do. yes indeed.

eh? now, who wants to hire me?

Richard Williams is crazy...

2006-09-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

... all animating on ones and stuff. just look at this.

Have a 'Nailed to the floor' weekend!!

2006-09-02T09:45:00.000-07:00

Click here cause I don't know how to embed flash movies!! YAAAAYY

2006-08-18T16:52:00.000-07:00

this is an old drawing cleaned up and put on a shirt(possibly)
Click on the picture to see the whole thing.

Give it a five and win me some money! thanks!

2006-08-11T10:36:00.000-07:00

Sketch Dump

2006-08-03T20:29:00.000-07:00

Oh yeah, this.

This is that thing I was telling you about. I don't really like it yet. His tail fell off or something. And Diane said it looks like a penis monster, I can't entirley disagree.

2006-07-14T17:56:00.000-07:00

I'm Lousy with news!

I'm going to work on brining back the term "lousy," as in, to be full of. Example, "I'm just lousy with pennies, try to catch them in your mouth as I throw them at you, bum!" or, "I hate that guy. He's lousy with things that I covet!" Why am I going to do this? Because I'm reading "the Grapes of Wrath" and everyone in the book talks that way. The other thing about the book that I like is the chapter about the bank monster. I drew a bunch of stuff based on it. here are some that are just lousy with.. blue and white. there's another one I’m working on, I'll post it when I'm done.

2006-07-10T16:27:00.000-07:00

doodle-ee doo

2006-07-10T11:15:00.000-07:00

Everyone's doing it dudley. You should get in on it before it gets totaly cool, so you can then say, "i was there before it was cool." Although maybe I'm too late. Hi people. I suppose I'll put some art here even though I'm not much of an artist. If I can post some animation I'll do that too. I'll try to be funier and spell and write way betta in the future.