Thursday, May 23, 2013

Penguins! Escape is now in the App Store!


Go to the iTunes App Store to see the latest game I worked on. Penguins! Escape is a mobile version of a PC game that we gave a serious facelift to. A big Thanks goes to Ronnie for braving the poorly organized original 3D files to update our little penguin animations and re-render them at a size that is more compatible for retina display.  Jeff Remmer also helped out with some new background paintings.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Goon rough. Pin Up

I'll work on it some more tonight. Try to have something kind of finished tomorrow to add to this slot.
The monster is going to be a four eyed Frankenstein. I accidentally arrived at that from some cut and paste adjustments. I always liked drawing stitches in Frankenstein's head.
Gotta do the monster now.
I'm going to ink the rough above separately in Manga Studio.
Using that rough original. 
The pencils are based on looking, transcribing, and as usual, I lost something.
Finish
Played with Levels. 
The one on Ebay will have no level adjustment

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Monthly Meeting Of Oklahoma Comic Creators






NW 59th and May.
Chilenos Mexican Restaurant
(had to replace the Facebook Url photo)
This is better.
My video as grabs.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Howard Chaykin on Carmine Infantino

It may have been Tom Moon posting a lot of the Hal Foster Tarzan strips.
I must have picked out at least three things that I know Frazetta directly cribbed.
In fact, it wouldn't surprize me if part of his process wasn't getting into his Foster Morgue as he started to work up ideas.
And you guys know I worship Frazetta.
Going to add a tone layer and a "blacks" layer.
Need to touch up some cats. Stew on it a bit.
Get rid of some tangents.


Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Interesting Anime Software


Live 2D

I got a brief demonstration of this at this year's GDC. Pretty cool tech and seems to make a game with true Studio Ghibli-style art a real possibility. You might have to click a few links on the page to find something in English.

Edit: Adding this clip I found last year of Qumarion, a bipedal maquette that can be posed and hooks up to your computer via USB



Qumarion

Sort of a more mainstream update to Tippett Studio's Digitial Input Device. I definitely think this is cool, but not sure you could use it to animate. Would be great to block in key poses, though.

More Qumarion:



Then there's this...

video


Tuesday, May 14, 2013