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March 21st, 2008
05:05 pm
So I already wasn't posting anyway, but now there's a stupid internet strike, so I HAVE to post if I'm going to maintain my cred as an internet rebel.
There's a concert tomorrow at the glassworks in Louisville, KY at 8 PM. There will be something, like, a hojillion bands there, but most relevant to myself, Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears will be doing their thing. Even more relevantly, there will be a sneak preview of the music video for "Imitation of the Sky" which has been being worked on for a while, and I think is far enough along that I can afford to talk about it a little more openly.
The video is not done yet, so this is kind of an "in progress" preview that will probably not be made a very big deal. It doesn't have too far to go though, so fairly soon it will (hopefully) take the intertrons by storm. I think it looks pretty neat.
If you're not in the Louisville area, you're probably better off waiting until this hits the net at large in April. If you are in Louisville, odds are you already know about this and are going, in which case I'll see you there. If not, well then, shame on you, you jerk.
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October 29th, 2007
03:23 am - Happy Halloweeeeenalmostbutnotquite
So, the old live journal. Seems to be falling into... a bit of dis-use? And hey... I got a good... two of those requests done before vanishing from livejournal land. So that's good. I might get back on them at some point.
But between then and now I have graduated from college, moved home, dealt with nice family drama, went to a contest in California, and started work on my first sort of "freelance" animationy directory type... deal.
Yeah, I'm directing a thing. No, it's not Little Kitty Jam Jams. I'm actually not sure if we're allowed to talk about it before it's done, so I won't go into details, but most of you probably know exactly what I'm talking about anyway.
So, just to show that I'm alive, I'm gonna stick a screenshot from it up here. It's sort of pretty, and does not actually give very much away.
So yeah, we're fine. Everything's Fine. We're all fine here. Now. How are you?
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April 9th, 2007
08:47 pm - Yub yub.
Requested by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) blueeyedgirl519
I almost didn't do this one because I was all "ugh, Star Wars? Really?" But then I thought about how Ewoks have no idea how to drive anything at all, and how delightfully suicidal they are, so I went ahead and got it out of the way anyway. I doodled this in pencil, and it is colored entirely in Flash.
Keep the requests coming! I'm going to try to put one up every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but we'll see how that goes. And just so you know, I'm not doing any more Star Wars. Unless it's really really cool / funny.
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April 6th, 2007
02:12 pm - The Scottish Centaur!
Requested by larnsturt.
I was going to actually draw him holding a caber and drinking whiskey, but it would have looked stupid. Trust me when I say that this centaur is doing it in his heart, and as often as possible in his free time. When he's not busy being freaked out by his own chest hair and nipples.
BONUS!
Comment, in quotes, with what you imagine a Scottish Centaur would scream in alarm! You have to phonetically spell out his horrible accent, or it doesn't count!
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April 5th, 2007
10:19 pm - Free Art, anyone?
Commission Post!
I am taking Commissions for art. Right here, right now.
You do not have to pay for this art (So I guess they aren't really commissions. Hm). I need to pad out my portfolio, and have decided, for kicks, to draw things, for you. Even if I don't know you. You don't even have to have a livejournal account.
Just post here and ask me to draw something, and I will draw it! Cartoony, realistic, rendered, architectural, comic-panels, animated gifs, whatever. I am going to select whatever requests are cool, and I'm going to try to do one a day every day starting tomorrow, Friday, until I run out of good requests. Bring it!
The faintest of conditions! If you request something exorbitantly complicated or ridiculous I probably won't do it (unless nobody else requests anything). I will do Fan Art, but only if I'm actually a Fan of the thing in question, and would rather it not be the bulk of what I do as I am looking for more original, portfolio stuff. So feel free to request it, just know it's gonna fall lower on the priorities of what I do. If you want a comic keep it to 4 panels maximum, if you want an animated gif, make it a loop. Don't post any scripts here. Animation fun comes later.
Everything else is fair game! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! I will try my best not to suck.
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March 4th, 2007
05:58 pm - Hey there, baby. Did you miss me?
So yeah. Remember these guys? I haven't drawn them, especially in any context in about 2-3 years.
So I figure, what better way to see if I'm improving than try drawing them again? Only I actually have defined backstories for the characters, and have pushed their styles more than they used to be pushed.
I'd thought this was what I was doing all along, but I wasn't very good at it. Pictures behind the cut.
( Read more... )
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February 12th, 2007
11:07 am - Li'l Kitty Dance Dance
I have no idea what this is, but it's really fun.
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January 24th, 2007
08:02 am - Oh good, Star Wars.
From now on, I'm only posting Art here. If you want to read amusing (boring) anecdotes about me personally, go to the new Will White journal!
So here's some art.
Trying some new junk in photoshop. These are storyboards for my advanced storyboarding class. I did 10 of them, but the other 8 aren't totally done yet. If people like these I'll stick up the rest of them when they're done.
And yes, it's a brief scene set in the Star Wars universe. I was assigned "actors" (and yes I HAD to do Star Wars) but otherwise got to make up whatever I want for the story. That's supposed to be Daniel Craig (the new James Bond) but real people are super tricky to draw, dudes.
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January 7th, 2007
02:23 am - To Double-Oh Seven
Happy New Year!
There are several matters for discussion.
I came down to SCAD a week early for New Years party times with Cari, which was great, but then afterwards there was no internet in the dorms. There's... actually still not official internet here, but other people have moved in now, and fortunately there are some schmucks who have their own internet AND a wireless router AND don't bother to password protect it, so I've beaten the system slightly early. Did you miss me?
This, coupled with the fact that no one has been here, has forced me to actually be productive. For the first time since I started the Senior Project it's actually marginally ahead of schedule! Hopefully it can push moreso, rather than getting put off for other classes and/or video games.
For Christmas I got several nice things, but most prominently a new bicycle from my father. I haven't ridden a bike since probably middle school (but it came back to me like, well, you know) and my New Years resolution is to actually ride it to most of my classes. This should make me the healthiest boy, so watch out, everybody else!
Mostly, my classes this term are, for the first time, all on the same day. I have classes all day from 8 am to 7:30 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays, but no classes at any other point. What does that mean? Four day weekends. Every week.
A lot of people swear by this schedule, but I've been avoiding it because I wasn't sure if I'd be disciplined enough to make proper homework usage of the off days.
But I hope I do, if only because I really really want to get this animated thingy done. Because I keep having other ideas for shorts and characters and settings at a rate that I don't think I've ever had going before, and I'd feel like I was betraying the current project if I started developing another one before I've even barely scratced its surface.
And that's kinda what it feels like.
Ah well. Onward!
P.S. I saw "Children of Men" last night with Spencer and the Goils, if anybody's interested I'll talk about it in the comments, but let's just say it's a candidate for Sad Movie / Happy Movie Night. A really enjoyable flick, but not one I'll watch again casually very soon.
P.P.S. I was only half paying attention to the synopsis of the movie Cari gave me and, from the title, assumed the plot was going to be similar to that of "Nine Months". I almost asked the ticket booth chick for two tickets to "Man Babies". Fortunately, I did not do this.
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December 11th, 2006
12:42 am - eRagon
Does anybody else wish "Eragon" was just a movie about dragons on the internet?
I think I would rather see that movie.
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November 22nd, 2006
10:25 am - That's it! I'm outta here.
Another term bites the dust. I only have two of these things left until I have a college degree. How scary is that?
For some reason this one was particularly taxing. Hopefully the next one will be less so.
Gonna try to get some mondo piles of work done over break on the ol' senior project. Here's a screengrab for anybody who's interested, but that I haven't been nagging constantly to look at (probably not very many of you).
Check that out. I know, right? My layout artist (Joe), and background painters (Whitney and Yael) are doing a ridiculously good job. I better pick up the pace on the animation or they're going to make me look bad!
At any rate,
ATTENTION: People of Kentucky, I am about to hit the state rolling! In... in a car, I mean, I'm not jumping out of it or anything. That would be intense.
Happy Thanksgiving if I don't see you, but I had better see you.
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November 10th, 2006
02:31 am - Not dead, just busy
That post is too long and has been up for even longer! Here's some art from school stuffs.
I had to make an action squad, and this might or might not double as design work for Jam Jams. Regardless, I tried to push some of my design stuff a little bit. You probably can't tell, but I really sweated and strained over that stupid girl, and I'm still not really happy with how it came out. Woman styles are tough, man.
I'm gonna start posting more random little things like this, I think. Term's almost over, yay!
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August 25th, 2006
12:36 am - My hump my hump my hump!
Storyboard pitch: Completed!
Initial Reactions: Totally unexpected! Whoooooaaah (holy craaap).
Right. So. Here's what happened.
After some drama regarding my internet being a butt this morning, I successfully panicked and got my lovely assistant Lisa to come to my rescue at the last minute (by calling on her lovely assistant, Scott, who e-mailed me the PowerPoint that Lisa had so lovingly helped me put together in days prior).
In the 10-15 minutes I had left before I was supposed to start officially setting up, I succesfully drove to
work, made copies (of all 107 or so pages), scanned the last 5 pages, cut out the 10 panels I was missing from the older Powerpoint, put them in, added an "End" page, e-mailed it to myself, ran downstairs, downloaded it, and pinned 107 copies of said storyboards to the main conference room wall, which apparently was enough to succesfully cover almost the entire wall. I only started about 5 minutes late.
At some point there I think I had a glass of water, and I think that's still most of what I've had to eat today.
I then proceeded to give my pitch on a veeeeeery big screen TV (seriously, this was bigger than I am). Like, 40", at least, freakin' plasma touch screen, so that when I wanted to go to the next panel all I had to do was walk up and touch it. It was like I had changed my first name to "Vanna". The pitch went pretty well. I apparently didn't quite pitch it right for an "action" pitch (I've never seen one of those before! I didn't know they were different!) Allegedly I over-explained stuff some, and it got a bit bogged down in places, but on the whole everybody "got" it.
As a result there was very, very little actual commentary or critique on the short! "Looks pretty okay" was the consensus, which is fine and dandy, but kind of frustrating when you've just spent the last two weeks drawing it. But still, I've just cleared my first really big production hump.
So did everybody just leave? Not at all! In waiting for people to file in, Ezzie had suggested I show everybody my trailer to kick them off, which I did gladly, and explained that the short was part of a concept for this little series I'm working on. Whoa! Everybody was much, much, much more interested in that. So 95% of the questions I got were suddenly a huge number of extremely hard-hitting questions about this action comedy series I've had brewing.
And man! What a wakeup call.
It was really sobering to realize, as well thought through as I thought these beginning phases had been, I've still got a long way to go. It's like...
There I was, clearing this hump. And suddenly I was right there at the top of it!
I had a moment of clarity.
From the top of my hump, I could see the enormous number of humps playing out before me, each waiting in turn with glee for me to run up against it and try to scramble over.
"Shit."
But I fielded the questions pretty well, and everybody seemed fairly pleased with me. The huge consensus was that it's a great start, and I've really got something here. But we need to keep going. The story needs some overhauling still. My art still needs some major overhauling.
Furthermore I've got a week to do any revisions before I suddenly won't have access to their glorious executive copy supplies, and making my own versions of things will suddenly be expensive again rather than free. Crap. I also have to turn that all into an animatic before I have to go home, and then go to school, and suddenly find myself in the middle of production hell!
Why oh why does SCAD make us handle every aspect of the production? Okay, scratch that, I understand why. It just sucks to have to actually go through all the more tedious bits of it.
Ah well! In I go, head first, goggles on.
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August 18th, 2006
02:26 am - Only 2 weeks left.
My internship is nearly drawing to a close. In less than a week I'm going to be pitching my storyboard for an animated short in the main conference room of Cartoon Network Studios. I've drawn about 100 storyboard panels so far, but I need to at least double that number, preferably over this weekend. You know what that means.
( It's crunch time! )
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August 11th, 2006
01:57 pm - I'm stealing a gimmick from Brendan.
Overheard in the cubicle next to mine:
"Did you want this guy to be made out of lava? Or to just shoot lava?"
Was an honest question.
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August 4th, 2006
02:39 pm - Li'l Kitty Pitch Pitch
Hey, remember this guy?
I'm storyboarding a short animation, just like the professionals do! No more notecards for me, thanks! The Ninja short is officially being replaced by a Li'l Kitty Jam Jams short as what I'm going to try to do for my senior project, even though it will be much longer and probably much more complicated, and I've only got until... August 24th to do all the drawings for it. Ideally I'll have an animatic done before school starts!
But yeah, on the 24th I'm going to be doing a Storyboard Pitch in Cartoon Network's main conference room. And before that, next week, I'm going to finally get to talk to the development department. (I was supposed to talk to them yesterday, actually, but the meeting got post-poned thanks to unexpected Conference Calls and Jury Duty). Unfortunately nobody told me it was being post-poned until I was already there dressed up with a stack of print-outs ready to go.
But it's cool!
I have another week to get ready.
I'm posting this more for myself than anything, but I figure if anybody in internetland is interested... uh....that's... that's what I'm tryin' to do.
So watch this space, and I'll tell you all about how quickly I get shot down, or possibly about a cool cartoon involving adorable kittens and ladybugs and giant world-destroying steam-punk robots.
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July 18th, 2006
09:55 am - Double-you.
"W"
Is the twenty-third letter of the alphabet.
This is the first letter of both of my names, and has always held some significance for me. Recently it's received scorn by being attributed with a political icon that people seem to not like very much, but it's okay, W. You're still tops with me. #23.
By coincidence, today is my 23rd birthday, it's my year of the W. In this year of my life I'm going to finally graduate from college, and probably make a lot of really big decisions regarding my future. It doesn't have any of the official significance that 18 or 21 seem to carry, but I think I like this one the most just for personal reasons.
I haven't told anybody at the office, nor do I plan to. I don't really plan on doing anything to celebrate at all, actually, largely because I'm a couple thousand miles from most of the people who are dear to me. But then I've never been one for Birthday fuss regardless.
Comicon's this weekend, though, and I'm going to be seeing a lot of cool people there, from SCAD, from the internet, from my dreams.
Anyway, so far it looks like this should be a good year.
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July 13th, 2006
03:03 am - Oh no, it's a Cartoon Network update.
( Being an intern is something I talk about at length )
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June 29th, 2006
11:34 pm - What! What.
I'm going to talk about Cartoon Network, I promise, but not right now.
Today I sadly had to say goodbye to Ian and moved into my new place, which is actually a 1 bedroom that somebody else lives in, but they are more of a cave dweller than even I. So... I get the big living room area, which makes it more like I have a studio apartment to myself that somebody else occasionally appears in. It's a chick, her name is Leah, and she seems really nice, so we are probably going to be cool.
But she's never here, so there's no food in the place, so I do a quick grocery store run. No problem! There's one just a couple blocks away. I almost got some real stuff, but was feeling lazy, so I grab some hotpockets™ and the usual "easy stuff". Get home, get ready to dig in and...
the... there... there's no microwave. We have a stove and and oven and a fridge and all that but no microwave. I'm currently baking hot pockets. In an oven. It takes half an hour.
I'm going to have to learn how to actually cook. Son of a bitch!
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June 1st, 2006
04:04 pm - DING DING DING
Year three is in the bag.
I actually had senior standing at the beginning of this past term, but there are now three physical years of SCAD under my belt. Makes it pretty official, I only have one year of this stuff to go.
Oh, crap, I'm going to reminisce for a bit. I'll cut it for those of you who don't want to be bored to tears. ( Snip! )
Now, KENTUCKY, hey! I am going to be inside of you, but very very very briefly. I will be leaving Georgia promptly tomorrow morning, so I'll be there sometime tomorrow late in the evening. If any of you guys in that vicinity want to hang out for a brief period over the weekend, I would like to try, but I don't know how well it'll work because I might be leaving for Hollywood-land as early as Monday-ish. Yikes. That is insane.
Ian: I am going to get to hang out with you soon and that is awesome. Everybody else: I am going to miss you.
This is a sketch journal. Um. I don't have time to draw anything because I'm packing! Crap!
...
Boom?
There, I feel better now. Man, sorry that isn't even complete. I'm totally going to do all kinds of junk this summer. It is exciting like a whoa. Thanks to all of you guys who are full of nothing but support. You're the best.
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