Yeah I've Been Busy

New posts as soon as I clean up the images.

COMICS! IT'S ABOUT TIME!

I've been compiling journal comics for some time now, just so I can update with as safe amount of backlog. Problem is now those comics have become outdated! I think what I'm going to do is post the most recent ones and create an archive of the oldies that have never been seen.

Well, I Graduated College...

I guess updates are inevitable.

My Guilt Just Grows and Grows...

I got an internship at Midway Games (how the heck did that happen?!) and while my productivity level is about the same, scanning and posting stuff has only gotten harder. On the plus side, my current sketchbook, Barnabus, is almost filled! I'm giving it until the end of the month, at the latest May 18th, which is the day I finally flippin' graduate!!!

I can't seem to find the white background version of this one.

These are just to prove I've been doing junk and not just laying in bed, which is really what I wish I was doing.

I'm Terrible at This...

Geez, I need to give myself blog deadlines or something. It's one thing to be unproductive (which I'm not, I SWEAR!), but I just never bother showing my stuff. Maybe it's an innate fear of failure. Or pickiness. Or I just end up reading or drawing instead of posting....yeah, I think that's it.

I doodled this in math class. African? Japanese? Afro-Japanese? Who knows what's influencing me.
One thing's for sure: Parachute pants.

This started with the lead monster being doodled at the Field Museum (inspired by an Eryops, I think), and eventually lead to this. I'm now developing them in an assignment for my Producing class.

In recent news, I'm slowly learning after effects. Sometimes I just wish I could get along with a pencil and some animation paper, but we are living in the 21st century. Plus I like photoshop too much to give up on technology. I've also got a new storyboarding and concept development gig on top of a comic that's still in the development stage. Thank god storyboarding for APS class is done. I mostly just do poses and animation checking in that class now, and a keys and animation here and there.

Oh, and I redid my final for Alternative Strategies in Animation. I'm still editing it, but....

This is a clip of the original charcoal portion. Called "WakeUp!", it's a mixed media piece. I reshot the opening portion using cutouts on a multiplane rather than a flat paper puppet with joints (too rigid), and added a chalk portion. The whole thing is timed to the beat of the song "Wake Up and Smell the Millennium" by Nobody. I'd post it, but don't have the rights to the song. I'll get around to it. It's a very upbeat song.

It could be egocentric, or I could actually be that great.

Wow, have I been lazy lately. Tonight is New Years Eve (and also the big bro's b-day), and I've made up my mind to finish this sketch book and start the new year with a fresh one. Normally I finish one every season, but this one was started waaaaay back in August. What a disappointment!

Here's a few noodle doodles from the current "Ghosts inna Drawer":

Surfin the Sofa: aka "Crazy from Sickness"

Right now I'm in preproduction for a non-school related short animation. The project name is "Sokoke", and I plan on it being a mixed media. It will involve scratch and paper animation on a multiplane. The whole idea is based around characters having the heads of endangered species. The main character herself has the head of a Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew. I'm also still working on a project I started in my Alternative Strategies in Animation class, but didn't complete by semester's end. Oh well, it's still a really fun project. Titled "Wakeup!", it's another mixed media with paper cutouts, charcoal, scratch, live action, and a background animated in Photoshop. There's something about animating a character dancing that's incredibly stream of conscious. I'll post what I have done soon.

Other than that, I've been playing around with editing short clips of music and dialog to use for character animation. I'm trying to practice animating mannerisms and subtlety. Well, as subtle as animation allows. A friend of mine created a stop motion short in my apartment and gave me a whole load of leftover Sculpey clay, and I've been playing around with that too.

Peace Sells

ARGH! Animation Production Studio is stealing all my time! Winter break is coming up though, so more updates soon!