Status Update

As of now, I have officially begun work as a full-time employee at Anthem Design Group. I'm actually writing this at work right now. It's the first day, so not much is going on. My apartment is also fully set up (sans a couch).

I don't know when exactly Inkased will go in sale, but as soon as it does, I'll post the roughs from my Aztec comic. As usual, I actually like most aspects of the roughs better than the final product.

I'm planning to do some lip-synch animation on my own time. I came across some (English) Dragonball voice samples of Emperor Pilaf and Shao. I also have the English and Japanese voice collections from Dragonball GT: Final Bout. I don't know exactly which I want to do yet. I'll post any sketches here.

And BTW, The Dark Knight was indeed a pretty good movie.

Hancock, Halfcocked?

I saw Hancock today and I have to say that it wasn't the piece of crap that I thought it would be

At long Last! A new post!

I've been in the process of renting an apartment, so I been preoccupied lately. I've signed the lease and everything, so by July 11th I should be moved in. Once that happens productivity should shoot up. I'll finally be alone to spent as much ungodly time on my personal projects as I want. That is, of course whenever I'm not working. By July 15th I'll be starting my full-time job as production artist at Anthem Design Group. So far I've only been contracting for them (sprite work, animating, low-poly modeling, and a little illustrating). I'll be doing more of the same, plus learning a little programing.

Now, without further ado, here's that revised 1st page of that Aztec comic I promised. I'll be letting you know whenever the anthology book is available.

Page 1 Inking Draft

Alrighty, here's the inked version of those pg 1 pencils I put up earlier. It kind of a rough draft since I have quite a bit of photoshop editing to do on it. I have to finish some tones here and there, adjust some of the line weights, and make that foliage look a little better.

All the others are done as well, but as a said before, I'd like to keep the rest of the story a surprise for anyone buying the book. You can see last years edition of the anthology I'm submitting this to here. http://groups.msn.com/awertystudio

GLA Continued

Didn't have room for last page (in last post).

George Liquor, American!

Now that I've started this blog, there's no further excuse not try out some of John K's exercises and find out where I really stand. Here's my first foray into the John K school of cartooning:

George Liquor!

These first pics are my final drawings overladed with the originals to compare accuracy. The rest are all the full edited pages with the final sketches and the initial, somewhat failed sketches. As you see, even the finals aren't quite spot on. I may just keep working with these before I attempt the more specific expressions posted on John's blog.

ComicWIP

Well here's a sample from that sequential project I've been talking about. It's a short story loosely based around the legend of Coatilicue, the Aztec serpent goddess. I'm doing it for "Inkased", an annual anthology book comprised of SCAD student work. Since my entry will only be about four pages, I'll only post a sample of first page rather than my original intention of two. I'd have also liked to post all my thumbnails and sketches, but I only have those for pages 2-4. I don't want to ruin anything, so I'll post them up after the book comes out later this year.