Empty Jar Productions LLC

As of last week, I made Empty Jar Productions an official company.

All works presented on this site are owned by me. Any future works, animated, or otherwise will be done under my company name, and bear the (yet-to-be illustrated) new logo.

All Rights Reserved to Empty Jar Productions LLC

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Back from a long absence

My, my. It has been a while hasn't it.

Well, I've returned and this time with a definitive schedule. Since work keeps me working pretty long hours during the week, I've decided to start doing weekend posts. Every Saturday sounds pretty good. I'll be posting some of the stuff I've been doing at work (the stuff I CAN show). In addition I'm committing myself to working on some personal projects that have been in the queue for a while now. Most of these are series' of concept work that I've been wanting to do, but there's still the matter of that lip-synch animation I mentioned in the last post. I'd have to use the cintiq at the office If I wanted to get that started.

There's also a post I've been working on has to do with some common themes I've noticed here and there regarding "A hero's journey". Often times I see stories in which a protagonist must face a rival, face himself, face his antithesis, and finally face his ultimate nemesis. There're also the matter of color association. The hero is usually blue, the rival red, and the antithesis black. I talk about this in depth later.

As usual the posts are gonna be pretty broad: works stuff, personal stuff, casual sketches, or just a topic I feel like addressing. The first the thing I'm putting up are some of the work I did for the Paperdoll music video. We at Anthem Groups have been working on that for awhile, but other projects have sucked up a lot of time. All that's really left to do is compositing and as soon as thats done, the video will be online.

Here's a link to Paperdoll's website just for a frame of reference.
http://www.paperdollband.com/

On the project, I was an animater and lead character desginer.

The music video is aquatic-themed with all the band members being represented as fish. There's also a lot of fun archtypes in the video, which you'll see shortly.

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.