for the doodle caboodle. still on the theme of food stuffs. people are a legitimate source of food, right?

shit-tacular storyboards for animation.

uuuuuuUUUUUUUUUGGGGGH! i just spent the last four hours or so doing the line work on one of the backgrounds for this. haven't got onto the making things move bit and this thing is already killing me! there's lots and lots of cool stuff i want to link to in this post but my brain feels way too much like rancid granola for that right now....

character designs!

stuff's been going on y'all. despite being all like 'yah! i'm going to blog the shit out of this blog' this week i have been B-U-S-Y cranking out the last couple of pages of turning tiger and finally, after so so so soooooo long, IT'S DONE! *throws hands in the air like she just don't care*



despite that, it's still go go go. i was at hi-ex a couple of weeks ago (a totally sweet convention up in inverness run by richmond clements, writer of turning tiger. you really should all go). i got to hang with a bunch of really cool cats like Gary Erskine (http://garyerskine.blogspot.com/) , Charlie Adlard (http://www.charlieadlard.com/home.htm) Simon Fraser (http://simonfraser.posterous.com/ -someone remind me to buy the act-i-vate primer. i took a peek at it in the flesh while i was up there and bloody hell, it was prutty) and got to say hi to John Higgins (http://www.turmoilcolour.com/) which was particularly mind blowing. i was working on colouring stuff in and he came over to chat about wether or not he should get a wacom. he had a go on mine, drew this and was thoroughly wireded out by it:



aaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, good things came of it. there's going to be more turning tiger and what i posted way back at the beginning of this post is some prep work for an anthology piece by GM Gordan. MAN, i can't wait to get started on this thing!

ancient history from the new york editorial project. oh my god, the paper in my sketch book doesn't know how to take watercolours.

one thing they really pushed in this project was thumbnailing. god, it's crazy just how far away you can sometimes find yourself from your original idea.

speaking of tangents, it's stuff that kicks ass on the internet time!


the phillips tv people recently released a bunch of short films they commissioned to show of their shiny backlight feature or whatever. i think the directors were given free reign over what they came up with, as long as the short featured the line 'it's a unicorn'. haven't checked out the others yet, but this is pretty badass. so much so that warner brothers and fox are in a bidding war to turn it into a full length feature. huzzarh!

panel from the issue of turning tiger i'm working on. i spy with my little eye flagrant abuse of photoshop effects?

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seriously, we came back looking like a particularly lumpy batch of porridge. seeeeeeeeeeeeee-xy.

this is the first time i've picked up acrylic paint in so long. DAMN, i forgot how much fun that stuff could be. it's so fun to be able to really work into something since with water colours it's totally a case of less being more.

in other news i was all like 'MAN I AM TOTALLY GOING TO FINISH TURNING TIGER TODAY' until i realised i'd LOST the second last page. slow clap. there was a moment of raising the fists to the heavens and yelling 'WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYY' in a manner that was just a little melodramatic but then i started redrawing the page. MAN, i'd forgotten just how much i love doing this shit.

life drawing! gosh, he looks just a little bit like a big, scary, cloven foot clown.

more stuff from new york. for the love of god, don't litter if you find yourself there. some dude tossed a wrapper and ended up being chased down the street by this woman who sounded like she'd swallowed a fog-horn.

most intense man was most intense. we clocked him while in line for the ellis island ferry (oh, we were delightfully touristy). the dude was about three times taller than everyone else there and spent the whole time staring off into space not blinking. it was mildly terrifying.

also making a guest appearance are matt and helen (she likes cake).

PEACE!

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i'm going to warn you now, the production on this thing is absolute balls. also, the spelling gets increasingly funky as you get deeper and deeper into this thing. blame that devil may care attitude that tends to kick in and fuck everything up on the tail end of projects?

but yes. always make sure you take sensible walking shoes. by day two my blisters had blisters. in fact, i think i can rustle up some photographic evidence...

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hoy hoy!

people, be wary of all you can eat chinese. that stuff is a recipe for wicked food poisoning.

aaaaaaaaaaaanyhoo, going to be putting some stuff up from our latest project at uni. the name of the game was to make a story book based on an experience from your life. god, some people put together some really amazing things for this one.