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Barack Obama Ink and Shadow ::

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

An update to the Barack Obama line test. Now with ink and shadow!

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Barack Obama Line Test ::

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

We wanted to share this rough Line test for the star of an upcoming project featuring our President, Barack Obama! I realize this sounds weird but we’ll be bringing more information when it’s safe to talk about.

When looking at the loop, note the tiny duplicated figure on the top left. One of the reasons I’m not so concerned with facial accuracy for now, aside from the fact that this is a test, is because the final animation will be much much tinier than the large figure featured above. So as this blog post’s terrible pun suggests, there will be many revisions moving forward. But that doesn’t make the process any less fun!

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STABB GUNNER: FROM SCRIBBLES TO FINISH ::

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Here’s a little behind the scenes look at how the Stabb Gunner workflow goes. It’s pretty much exactly like any other comic book team. I write, Courtland pencils, and I ink, color and letter. Sometimes the talented Ashley McCague is kind enough to drop in some base colors for us. Along the way, Courtland and I work out any problems the final page might sprout up as we move to a finish. When we’re ready to actually print these bad boys, we’re going to take a pass at every page, and change anything that stills bugs us after it’s in the bag! Check out the finished page HERE, or just start from the BEGINNING!

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ANATOMY OF A SHOT – CHASE SCENE – PART 04 ::

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Now we have some 3D (built from 2D assets of course) box cars and environmental effects going. Also a little bit of Depth of Field crunching that background. It’s starting to look like an actual train yard!

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Space Bastard Jump Start :: ::

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Space Bastard Kick-off Art

Now that the art for Part 1: PopGun is all but published, I took some time out to create a few jump-start art to get the wheels turning for Jack’s journey in the coming chapters. It should be no surprise that with a title like Space Bastard, Our bastard will indeed find his way into outer-space. Here’s the first of a few jump-start drawings leading up to the second chapter of Space Bastard. Space Bastard - Kick-off Line ArtI’ve always been a fan of how artists like Paul Pope, Mike Mignola and Victor Moscoso. I wanted to do something with a limited palette. The colors were quick. what Joe refers to as scratch drawings from many of our childhoods, but I refer to as (it’s 3 am, I want to have some fun) what can I do with stock gradients in CS3.

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