Digital Update

I didnt care for the results I was getting with my comic so I am going to use computer generated elements to assist in creating panels-which means putting it aside..again.

But I have my walk complete for an animation project and now I concentrate on the next phase-which is animating fire. It will be my first cg animated fire skeleton.
You can find stills from my experiments in older posts--this is a bit more complicated and I hope to get better results.
Doesnt really serve a purpose other than to look neat.

Happy Halloween.

Comic sketches

Working on a comic.
Here is a sample drawing. I use 8 x 11 paper to do the roughs then will use an 11 x 17 for the final one, assuming I dont get distracted and shelve it. I want to have continuity between faces so the final versions would use some kind of reference--perhaps even a cg model since I can turn them in different angles or alter facial expressions.

More walk cycles

No image this month.
Still working on walk cycles in computer graphics for a particular project I hope I will take to completion. I hate leaving this blog with no entries each month so this is my sorry attempt at fulfilling my goal.

I believe more interesting entries will be coming.
:)

Walk practice

WIP: creating a walk in animation using motion capture and altering it to climb a slope.

Book Art

When I wrote a novel some years ago I painted a cover for it. I was unsure about my painting abilities so I did things in an unorthodox way--I made sculptures of certain painting elements-photographed them-had them made into slides-and then painted over the projection onto cardboard. I think i could have just used photographs without needing to project them.
The painting ultimately was ok but kind of crude. I was looking to imitated 1970s movie posters but I didnt have the painting experience for it. However, with CGI I can come closer to that, or even make photorealistic elements. A case in point is this depiction shown-notice the claws matching the ones on the cover.. This was a self published book--it is now pretty much out of circulation and few copies exist. Trying to find a traditional publisher for it but Arabian Nights is a hard sell, at least among unagented channels.

I may eventually do a complete new cover with all cg elements.

Mutation Sign

Demogorgon

Almost 20 years ago I was experimenting with stop motion animation, and planned a film project inspired by 1920s German cinema. The story featured an inventor who creates a large robot named Demogorgon (pictured). Never did much with it, but did animate a short walking sequence of the robot--which was made from cardboard and illuminated with a couple of grains of wheat light bulbs.