Hair-py Birthday

Today was my birthday, so thank goodness I'm just making this post before midnight. If you haven't noticed, my profile picture and the top banner have both changed because... aside from doing new things like text design, or coloring... I tried my hands at being a barber, with the first victim being myself:

So, to coincide with my new look, I made a new banner using the techniques I taught myself when making "Paper Who," and yes, there's more of that style in the works; in fact I laid out something over a month ago, but haven't gotten the chance to finish it. If the bannerat top of the isn't suitable enough for you, here's a bigger more detailed version:

If you're curious, I donated my hair to Pantene's Beautiful Lengths hair donation program, which makes wigs for women undergoing chemotherapy.

Also, updated my Twitter and YouTube pages; though the latter is less noticeable.

Paper Who

And now for something completely different, in honor of the season finale of Doctor Who. It's a puppet version of Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor, inspired by the opening sequence from The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

Parts were drawn in Flash, then placed in layers in Photoshop, with textures added. I originally wanted to do something like this for that Snake and Yoshi picture, but couldn't figure out how to tackle it at the time; and going by what I did with this, would have never fit it into my work schedule.

I really like how this came out, despite the hours of work that went into making sure everything pieced together well, and hand-cleaning the textures to match the parts. But, I suppose all that hard work shows, and if enough people like this, I may try more pieces in this style... we'll see.

But about that finale, so. damn. good.

UPDATE: In other Doctor Who news, I (along with Matt Marblo and THE DOCTOR!!) can be seen in the latest episode of Doctor Who Confidential, or at the 2:50 mark of this clip from the episode uploaded by the great Doctor Who fan site, Blogtor Who.

DOCTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRR!!!!!