unfinished shippy things and bob

I was working on these a while ago, then stopped, then forgot, then started again, then forgot again, and now they're just sort of sitting there and they may or may not be finished at some point.

This always happens. I start painting mechanical thingies with many legs, so I paint one leg, then realize I have to paint all the others and I go all hamlet and start getting existential with a skull. It's kind of hard to be existential with a skull when it's wearing a silly winter hat though.

painty stuff

Onoes.
Some studies from the last month or so.

I think I need to add 'lips' to the list of things I am terrible at. It's okay, I hear I got some purty lips myself, so maybe this is life's way of balancing these things. You can't have purty lips and be able to draw purty lips. That's a sure-fire way of opening rifts in the space-time continuum. Then again, I suspect sneezing too loudly may open rifts in the space-time continuum.
Not really all that sturdy, that space-time thing.

NINJA EDIT BECAUSE I JUST DID THIS AND I AM A NINJA.
Wait. Wat.

film color test

Here's a color test for something I'm working on.
I don't think it's going to change much from this. Maybe a bit more texture, but overall it's got the dull colors I was looking for. I'm not entirely sure whether or not to texture the light areas on the character - right now I'm leaning towards no.

LUCHA!

OH GOD IT'S DONE
After all this time. Four years since I started. Wait no, scratch that, five years. Holy crap. I am the world's slowest animator, or maybe it took that long pondering how to end this cinematic masterpiece. Actual production was a little less than two weeks I guess, but we can't discount all that ponderous pondering.

Volume might be a bit low, or maybe it will explode your ears. I have no way of knowing. If you don't hear humming in the beginning, it is too low. If your house explodes and everything you love is set on fire, it may be too high or the world's most unlikely coincidence.

Blogger is being a dick

So this post shall remain forever until the Blogger God decides to let me delete it.

storyboard panels

Onoes. I spent all that time drawing the dude running, then I realized like 80% doesn't show up on the animatic (that is also why he has a gigantic head in that one frame). I can't let a moderately mediocre (wot wot) running-dude-background-spinny thing go to waste.
Especially since I forgot to take out the recycling this week, so this would be like forgetting even more garbage in my apartment.

Widescreen is fun.

Nike shoe

Apparently I take eminem lyrics too literally. Or maybe I should just wait until he finishes the sentence.

Also, you may have a gif. HAVE IT.

I don't know if gifs work on this thing. Maybe they don't and you can't have it. Which makes it very awkward, because I just yelled "HAVE IT" in a very commanding manner, and I'd hate to think I have doomed you to an existence of scrabbling at the screen attempting to have it when you can't, in fact, have it.

ey wot

wot.

Goosebumps

Turns out if you google search for geese fist bumping, nothing turns up. NOT ANYMORE.

Effects test

Or not.
I got caught up animating the dude and forgot I just wanted to test out the effects, and by the time I got to that point, my hand hurt and I was lazy, so uh, I have no idea what it's supposed to test now. Teeth maybe? Those came out nice. Except you can't see them because it's super low res. Rest assured, they are there, and they are wonderful. That's why everything else isn't, because I want you to focus on those beautiful beautiful teeth. That you can't see.



Also someone needs to explain to me how the hell TVpaint does resolutions, because I'm either really bad at math, or the proportions thingie is broken. Wait, I am really bad at math. Bloops.

TVpaint render test

Onoes.
The animation is a bit rubbish, but I just wanted to test out shading in tvpaint. It is interesting.

Eventually with non-rubbish animation it might be rather nice, but I feel that the rubbish animation market is booming these days, and I must get in on that rubbish animation action. Try saying rubbish three times fast. It's the most scottish you'll feel all day, mostly because if you're like me you'll just start making 'arsh' sounds and spitting everywhere, which is as close to being sean connery as you can get.

TVpaint animation test

Onoes! It's a bit rough, but I wanted to try out rendering in TVpaint. It's pretty neat, although it takes a lot of getting used to. Also I screwed up the framerate because I hadn't noticed it reset itself to 30 halfway through but now I know, and knowing is half the battle. The other half is the part where there's blood and guts everywhere, which you'd think they would mention more often.

Ye olde storyboard

I was spelunking in my old boxes and I found an old storyboard that was kind of awesome. It had these dudes in it.

I have yet to decide what to do with it. Maybe I will make it, or maybe I will turn it into a pretty origami butterfly. Although considering how horrible I am at origami, that would probably end up summoning an elder god and ending the world as we know it (and that would be a shame because we still have a year to go before the horrible paperclip invasion of 2012). So uh, yeah, if you see giant ethereal tentacles in the night sky, it's probably just me folding papers horrendously wrong.

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

Or people with horribly specific bone deficiencies who are very tolerant of bad dentistry.

Robut night

The night of the robut.
Well technically of the one robut and the other two robut looking shippy ship ships.
The point is they are metal.
Not like headbanging metal though, the material. I don't think you can headbang if you have no neck.

I got annoyed with this one after a while because I made it too small which made it a pain in the ass to detail with the brush I like (and switching brushes is IMPOSSIBLE. It's like terrorism, once you give in, THEY WIN. Those filthy brushes).

It's kind of hard to define shapes when you don't know what the shapes are. But goddamnit, I did it anyway (just don't look too close).

Clouds are the best.
THE BEST.

Rocks, Death, Schwarzenegger and Naked Ladies.

It appears I have not posted anything but comics on this here blog.
THIS IS NOT A COMICS BLOG. THIS IS A BLOG BLOG. It contains many things which are not comics. Want proof? Here's proof. Proof in your face.

IN

YOUR

FACE

(press face against monitor for the full effect)



Half of this is on deviant art, half of it isn't. Which is where? You may never know, for my ways are mysterious and I am counting on you to have the attention span of an ADD goldfish.


FACES! A very secksy mans who was a pain in the ass to paint. Also, AHNOLD!

Rocks! And things that may or may not be trees!

DEATH! But no pale horse because, man, screw horses.

Naked Ladies! I'm not sure what the policy is on naked ladies on bloggy things, but I have seen other people with more nakedness so I WILL TAKE THAT CHANCE. FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE NEKKID ON THE INTERWEB. CAPS CAPS CAPS CAPS.
CAPS.

I rock at titles.
That was possibly the most accurate post title ever conceived.
I should get a prize.

page 20

That is not snow.
It's actually sand.
Fact: Cuban clouds are made of sand.