Too many kittens.

Hey,

Here's a quick pic of Cat Woman. A friend of mine is getting married so he asked me to create 7 drawings as gifts for each of his groomsmen, which I thought was a pretty cool idea. The Cat Woman drawing was actually a mistake because I was supposed to draw a Black Cat instead. In fact, I'll throw in the Black cat picture as well.

The others were the Hulk, Thor, Hardcase, Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe, Nova, and some character called Goku.

It's that time of year...

Just reminding everyone to have a safe and happy holiday season.

Fanboys!

Forget waiting in line for the PS3, I'm getting in line for this one NOW! I wonder if it will be G rated so I can bring my 5-year-old???

Fun Site Alert!

Just found out this site and it has alot of cool stuff on it with a slant toward comic books. If you like Drawn! then you'll REALLY like the Sandbox!

Creepy Star Trek Alien

A whole planet half filled with these guys. Then the other half with the black strip on the other side. Now we're talking creepy

I win the Star Trek challenge.

Here it is. My take on a Star Trek alien. I don't like to toot my own horn, but I feel that I've really captured the horror, the cunning, the sheer freaking creepiness of an alien invader. I would have put fangs and tentacles on it but I felt it would have detracted from the other worldliness of it.

Brrrrrrrrr. I just gave myself the creeps.

The Star Trek alien challenge!

So from time to time I try to come up with what I call "Star Trek" aliens.... they don't have anything to do with Star Trek except that, like the vast majority of ST aliens, these aliens start out with a human frame... in other words I'm sketching out alien make-up ideas.

Oh, and I threw in one of my kids in there as well. Can you guess which on is my daughter?

Animated Gif Anatomy

Like the caption says, if you have CS, ImageReady isn't necessary.

All you need is a PSD with layers that have animated elements.

Correction on the wording when you click the right corner of the animation window. It is MAKE FRAMES FROM LAYERS

There is some way to use the same background and use the alpha to just animate over the same background but I donb't know how to do that.

I always have to duplicate the background and merge the changing animating element into it.

If you figure out how to make the back ground always show with a sprite overlay. let me know .


Update

I figured it out. You select the base layer and then click MATCH FRAME ACROSS ANIM

Tuesday GIF Robot

I like the graininess of pushing the color down and pushing the lossiness slider way over. The actual painting looks quite a bit different.

I Got My Copy Of NEGADON The Monster From Mars

No review yet. Just wanted to show Rick we both made it into the extras portion of the DVD. Showing the menu and how it leads into the fade in / out slide show of the art gallery and how the credits look.

Genesis Flashback

Since there are a few Bluesky alum that come to this site I thought I would point this out....

http://www.mania.com/52760.html

I noticed Vectorman and Vectorman 2 are on there... it's nice to see that those old games live on!

Gouachey Paintings

Work has been S-L-O-W. So slow that I got the chance to clean up my room, dust off the gouache and play a little. I haven't painted in three years so I'm a starting out simple. Mmmm. Love the smell of gouache. (it tastes good too!)

In both cases I started with plain illustration board and no preconcieved ideas. Just laying down the paint and seeing what happened.

Working with Marty

I added a new one by an animator named Tod Ammmons. I think Jeff knows him. He used a digital toshiba notebook. I wouldn't mind pressing the undo.

Now I've added more Marty Caricatures

For Scott with LOVE

Hey Scott (or anybody else)

Here's a series of

Bobby Chiu YouTube How-To videos

. They might help you with the coloring of your stuff.

Idle Doodling at Work

Bleu Pencil