Griffin Sketch (super fast)

I posted a video of me sketching a design for one of the BRINE griffins. Here it is:

New Tutorial

I just posted a new basic cartooning tutorial on Youtube. Unfortunately I had to record it on the junker PC I own instead of the shiny Mac. Oh well.

Checklist of Things

Hey everyone,

It's funny how I seem to update this thing in spurts. I'll try not to leave everyone hanging for a month and then randomly update three times in one day. Although, sadly, that probably is more suiting. 

Anyways, I'm working on three projects (four if you count the continual BRINE animation). And I'm internally trying to prioritize them. One of them is a collaboration project I've shelved for probably close to a year that really is almost finished and just needs that last final push over the hill. It's another childrens book--this time about a whale, and it was written by my good friend Pat Buecheler.

So I think thats first on the list. Partly because it sort of has seniority over the others, but also because its nearly done anyways. Next up is a graphic novel that I've outlined and written partially. It has a lot of potential and could be something I could finally use as an excuse to get a table at the Pittsburgh comic con. It would be a metric assload of work, but I think is probably the project that deep down I most want to do. And then we have ANOTHER children's book that I wrote (or am in the process of writing anyhow) about evolution. It would be aimed at kids about eight or so--a bigger project by far than what I've done in this arena--but I wanted to put something together that would be the polar opposite of those awful tracts religious people hand out to try and decrease the overall level of human knowledge in the world. Call this the project I feel I have a moral obligation to create. 

Oh and I just remembered I also have plans to put a little web comic together. So that's another one on the pile. Plus whatever freelance I can snag. Well, as the Patrician says "Don't let me detain you."

Episode 3 of BRINE is "Featured Animation" on Mytoons!

Lookee here! Episode 3 was promoted last night to the front page "Featured" section of MyToons.com. 

And here's the post on MyToons:

Episode 3

BRINE 3: Enter the Reefen

BRINE 3 is finished--a little early I admit. Originally this was going to be an eight minute or so episode, but I broke this one in half so the first episode (3) is an introduction to some new characters and the other half is going to be a big huge monster battle.

You may be saying "early??!" That was another factor. I've spent about a year working on this between freelance jobs. At 3 and a half minutes I was happy enough with it that I put it up on Youtube. Enough delay right? Episodes 4 and 5 should not (hopefully) take nearly as long to complete. I've mastered a lot of aspects of putting these together that were new and odd to me a year ago.

Today's sketch is sort of a photoshop experiment. I was messing with pressure sensitivities and line weights. This is the result. It looks a little like one of the Gorillaz characters. This was not on purpose. I do like the color scheme of muted green and yellow though, and I might use something like that coming up. I even gave his skin a sort of sickly shade. 

Some New Sketches

Sketchy II

What's all this then? Looks a little like a future incarnation of a Spraktor Suit. 

Sketchy

New sketch for Episode 5 (6?). A race of creatures called the Wandigarians. Big plot pivot:) Anyway, enjoy! 

Hey kids. Nothing new to report today, just continuing to work on BRINE 3. I'll probably have some new sketches or backgrounds soon. Meanwhile, check out my friend Jer's site http://www.youmeandsteve.com . It's a webcomic loosely based on Jer's college experiences (which incidentally is how I met the guy). Good stuff!

I'm Back.

To anyone out there who may have been anxiously sitting by their computer since February: "I'm back." BRINE 3 is almost done. You might say, why, you've said similar noises before! Ah but did I have storyboards then!? NO. Read em and weep:

Sam in 3D

Some of the sequences in the next episode are going to be done in a cell shaded 3D look. Here's a look at the model for Sam, so far.