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[Jun. 5th, 2009|12:02 pm] |
The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations, so please read carefully:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. What you get is what you get.
2. What I create will be just for you, with love, or at least with gusto.
3. It'll be done this year.
4. I will not give you any clue what it's going to be. It will be something made in the real world and not something internetty. It may be weird or beautiful. It might or might not be edible.
5. I reserve the right to do something strange or quirky, but I promise not to embarrass you in public. I also reserve the right to do something fairly predictable and boring, but with, you know, thought and love.
6. In return, all you need to do is post this text into a note of your own and make five things for the first five to respond to your note.
This offer is null and void if I do not see you post your own note to pay this forward.
Have fun, kids. |
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| Momocon |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|08:35 pm] |
I keep forgetting to mention here that I'm updating my webcomic over at Little Reading. I don't really have any plans for it; I'm just going to update it once a week and see where it goes. My sketchbook is filled with more ideas than ever see the light of day, and so the webcomic site is a perfect dump for all the cartoons that wouldn't be appropriate for my deviantart page.
This weekend is the big event of Momocon in Atlanta! Everything has been put on hold for this event, but the results will be worth it. The artworks Cassandra and I have put together will be a formidable force; much more so than our previous attempts. We might even turn a profit! After I get back there will be a flood of children's book work, Media Disorder, and webcomickry, in that order of priority.
Here goes nothing! |
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| Less Internet |
[Mar. 7th, 2009|07:52 pm] |
Cassandra and I actually canceled our internet a few days ago, and it seems to be going okay. Right now I'm posting from SCAD's library, and while it worries me that I can't respond to email as quickly as I used to, on the whole thing's really aren't that different.
Cassandra and I decided to part ways with the internet for monetary reasons, considering that AT&T's rates went up to $70 per month. Paying for food and apartment comes first, so we dropped our most expensive luxury item.
One thing's for sure, though; without the internet we're finally getting around to watching some of the anime we've had sitting around. |
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| Top Gun |
[Feb. 25th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
And now, without warning, I present to you my interpretation of the best movie I have never seen, the one that shaped my high school years in a very special way:
( Top Gun ) |
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| MERRY... oh, wait... |
[Jan. 18th, 2009|03:05 pm] |
Finally finished coloring my Holiday Funfest entry. I've been working at it for over a week, now. I should have had it finished about three days ago, but work has been really piled on lately. Ex Libris has been giving me near-full-time hours since I joined, which I can't really complain about considering that I could use the money.
Strangely, working full time hasn't impacted much the amount of drawing I've been doing. Regular work hours cause me to utilize my spare time more productively, what little spare time I have. Cassandra's had the same experience. Both of us have gotten a lot of stuff done in the last week. |
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| Here it is. |
[Jan. 9th, 2009|11:37 am] |
My year's resolution is to have perfect hair at least half the time, if not more! If my hair is long, it must form a perfect sphere of manliness! If it's cut short, then... well, there's not much I can do with short hair. I am confident that this goal is achievable, partly because my hair is already magnificent. Perfection is a mere combing away.
I also have this other, less interesting goal is figuring a way to make money from art (pfft!), but I won't bore you with details about that one. The hair is much more important. |
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| Hello there. |
[Dec. 19th, 2008|12:51 pm] |
Cat and owl.
This was my first exposure to Edward Lear. Cassandra is using the Cat and the Owl poem as inspiration for her Christmas card design this year. |
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| Back in SC |
[Dec. 14th, 2008|01:08 am] |
New painting! This christmas card design is about 10,000 times better than the first one:
Next I want to paint a bunny! Then I need to get started on a Holiday Funfest piece for starmen.net.
Tomorrow I help Kevin move, and then the day after that will be sushi time! |
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| Hooray! |
[Dec. 4th, 2008|08:53 pm] |
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Happy Birthday to me! |
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| PK Art |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|01:30 am] |
I've posted a comic over at the Starmen forum. The post is here. The comic is here:
To understand the comic you only need know that when you play Earthbound you have the option of naming your own psychic attack. The game doesn't really depict what the move might look like; it just shows a flashy graphic for a generic psychic attack. So this is my version of what a "PK Art" attack might look like. |
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| Stuff |
[Nov. 24th, 2008|10:51 pm] |
Yesterday Cassandra pulled out my old computer from high school, nicknamed Satan. We were looking for an old music program, which I've wanted to transfer for quite some time but have been unsure as to how to do it. Anyways, I finally got around to it, and not only transferred the midi-making program but also brought over all my old art files. It felt like reclaiming years of my life; everything I produced in boredom during the old days has come back to me!
The list includes old video game sprites, music files, graphic design work, sketches, 3D modeled stuff, all of it crappy and wonderful.
Getting all that stuff transferred was a pain in the ass, though. Satan has no cd burner, no ethernet ports, and while it has USB ports I can't use them because the computer lacks the proper drivers to run a USB key. So the solution I found was to transfer the files on 100 mb zip disks to another computer which had both a zip drive and cd burner. This computer was running windows 98 and, to make things more fun, it liked to arbitrarily shut down. Unfortunately, this same computer corrupted the Studio 4 program (the one which makes midi files), so I still don't have a working copy of it.
Tomorrow Cari comes into Columbia and hopefully Thomas and I will find time to cook a Rich Kid Stew. If we do I'll post pictures. |
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| John August |
[Nov. 10th, 2008|04:10 pm] |
I'm posting this mostly for my benefit, but the thought occurs to me that someone else may find this interesting as well.
This is the website of screenwriter John August, who has writing credits on quite a number of big hollywood productions. He has information on his site relevant to anyone interested in learning how to write screenplays, including some sample scripts you can download.
John August came to my attention because I dug up one of his screenplays in Special Collections. Back in 1997 he wrote a 120-page script for a film adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time. I don't think this screenplay was ever used because the last WIT film to come out was in 2003, and he was not listed as a writer on that film.
Anyways, I loved the book, so now I'm scanning the script to make a PDF file for later printing. My plan is to eventually storyboard this sucker and maybe land a job in that field, if I'm lucky. |
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| Lil' Bit of Animation |
[Oct. 30th, 2008|08:28 pm] |
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I completed a walk cycle with my old character Schnooks. I've often drawn him in a funny walking pose, but I've never shown how he could actually move. With those big feet and short legs it's hard to imagine how this guy could ambulate across a room. |
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| Exciting Exciting Exciting! |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|05:28 pm] |
First off, I've got a demo reel finished and uploaded. It's pretty big (40 megs), so be warned. Later today I'll throw it onto the website.
Also, I may have a chance to meet with Pixar! There will likely be steep competition, but I shouldn't pass up this opportunity to be seen by one of the two largest animation companies in the country. They've come to SCAD to give lectures and meet with students for potential entry-level employment.
Also giving lectures today are Scott Kurtz and Dave Kellett. I only got to watch Scott's demonstration, but I am proud to say that he demonstrated comics making on the Cintiq using my own pen! His magic has now infused my pen with comics-making skill. Cassandra and I will see the two webcomickers again tomorrow when they give a talk at the Trustees theater.
Being an alumn is actually more fun than being a student. I am still attending many SCAD functions and meeting with SCAD faculty and staff, but I am no longer an invited guest. I am a party crasher. That right there is a whole new level of coolness. I've been there, done that, and now I hang around simply for my own amusement. And because of unemployment. Some people are just too cool for jobs! |
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| Website |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|07:38 pm] |
Made some changes to the website. The page feels a little more cohesive now, and you don't have to scroll down that huge logo before you get to the content. Were it not for the cartoons and demo reel page I'd feel that the site was ready.
I applied for my first animation position at Copernicus, the company responsible for animating John Kricfalusi's new show, The Goddamn George Liquor Program. It's a shot in the dark; I'm not really expecting anything to come of it. Moving to Halifax would be interesting, though. |
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| Senior Film is Back On! |
[Oct. 5th, 2008|05:25 pm] |
Yesterday I completed my first scene since graduation. Today I'm at Montgomery working on more. At the current time I have 16 scenes completed with 11 on the work table. Even at a relaxed pace of finishing 1 scene every 3 days I'll have the whole project animated by the end of SCAD's winter quarter! I find that reasonable, considering the end of summer quarter had me finishing a scene every day.
Cassandra and I are trying to plan a visit to SC within the next couple weeks. Now would be the time to do it, I think, before I get a job and suddenly have a work schedule making trips difficult. |
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| New Picture! |
[Oct. 2nd, 2008|08:01 pm] |
Woo hoo! I'm very glad to have this picture finished; it's been haunting me for about over two weeks now. This one is a continuation of my study of John Bauer, hence the little gnome-like fella. I tried to pay attention to color and composition in particular, though a lot of Bauer's style sneaked in as well.
My work output is slowly ramping up. Each day has resulted in a little more drawing than the one before, and with that picture done I now have a relatively clean plate. I'm going to fill the void with animation. Tonight I'll rough out a schedule for completing my senior film. Smaller scenes will be completed first and I'll build up to longer ones.
I'll also start up again on Media Disorder drawings. |
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