As mentioned before, I got to finally participate in LoopDeLoop@Loop again this past month. Here's some proof (with Building Toss on the top right there):
In other news, here's a doodle to represent how thesis is making me feel right now:
Word on the internet street is that new Otherworldly Mystics tapes are coming in very soon, so look for some of my logo work on that shortly.
... as well as some special announcements hopefully, I just REALLY gotta get crackin' on my thesis film.
No, I'm not leaving this behind. I'm still using Blogger as my main 'website' and home to more formal posts about my work. But I wanted to point you visitors in the direction of my Tumblr because I've been using it to post doodles and stuff that I normally wouldn't post here. Some examples:
Also, I've got business cards now, gonna have a few on me when I go to New York ComicCon next week. Though I suppose it would be good to just carry a few on me at all times anyways, since I've been asked if I had business cards before.
So if you want one... come find me I guess? I'll be that awkward guy walking around...
True facts. I'm just really busy with assorted school work right now: a short film, sound design projects and a movie poster that needs to be drawn and completed by next week.... point is I'm busy, and I hate that I haven't had the chance to do as much free drawing as I'd like to....
Last day of vacation, so as promised like before, here's my final film from spring semester of my first year at SVA: Pat E. Puss the Platypus in "T.V. Time"
This film, in all honesty, is the result of laziness. It wasn't storyboarded like OctoCop (which makes an appearance), and quite frankly I grew tired of the character even before I started the film, I can't even explain how I feel now.
But, the film itself, is basically a clip show, the main two of which have some explaining to do. "Dear Journal" is a parody of Brad Neely's Baby Cakes, starring myself, and basically is me venting about my first year. During the making of the film, I managed to get in contact with Brad via e-mail and discussed his process and he was very helpful, hence the Special Thanks credit at the end.
The longest segment is a special little short called, "Doctor vs. Doctor," and it's special because it's actually a re-shoot of the first animation I ever did. It was also made shortly after Matt Smith was announced as the 11th Doctor, hence him appearing in his promo shot outfit; I assume this would be his first stint as a Doctor then, since this is from 2009, haha! And yes, I still have all these cutouts.
And now for some history, Pat E. Puss was and is so far my only character created to appeal to other people, as it was an assignment specifically made for me by my high school art teacher.
Some early drawings of Pat from 2007; the ones on the left are the first ones, when I first settled on making a platypus character.
The final assignment I handed in, 18"x24" painted in gouache.
But yeah, I think the whole aspect of the character being made for other people's appeal and not my own is probably the main reason why I have no connection to the character anymore. Unlike Derek Goldfish or the character in my 2nd year film, I have no personal connection to Pat, and I think the time spent not thinking about him has made me stop liking him even more...
As promised, here it is, my first year, first semester film OctoCop - "Night Off". Originally created in June 2007, OctoCop was actually made by accident while trying to doodle something else in my Math class, and I just kind of went with it. Since its original creation, and subsequent comic and short film, I've been very much against posting anything online, but it's a new year, and quite frankly, it needs work:
Unlike everything I post nowadays, this was animated on paper, with just pencil, and unfortunately the method used to capture and edit all of it wasn't that great. But it was my first short film, so it is what it is.
The original OctoCop drawing, where he was apparently land-dwelling...
Some drawings and a comic created shortly after the initial drawing in 2007.
And lastly, pages from the started, but never finished, OctoCop comic. This was to be about 20 pages. It was all roughly laid out, around 10 pages were finished in pencil, and just a few were inked. I never finished it due to a busy schedule from portfolio reviews, and by the time I wanted to get back into it, the titular character's, Derek Goldfish (there's a lot of explaining to do), design changed too much.
OctoCop was a really big deal to me back in 2007 and 2008, at the time, it was the most intricate story/design I had done, and really changed how I looked at storytelling and character creation. Of course, looking back now, there were a lot of flaws, but that's the learning process I suppose.
