Keeping up with PDF's

Also color correction for matching another printer, got to keep this straight in my head.

Fortunately, Color Images in Burbank has been keeping me straight setting up a print project. Next goal is to get OTM #2 out before the end of July.



Also finally got high speed at home. Gotta update the website next.

Happy 4th gang!

Over the Mountain # 2

Almost ready, still shopping issue No. 1 around to more comic shops.

I have to be better prepared the next time I approach a comic shop cold. I was hoping to make a sale at Golden Apple, but they said only if I could could get in with other artists when they make their personal appearances...

Definitely have to work on that!

Sunset

This has kind of an Autumn feeling to it, and I did it on May 31st.
Just a ruff sketch colored in Photoshop, lot of lasso tool and radial blur filter for the sky. Herman Bear and friend admire the sunset at the end of a long day.

Being useful...

I found this at http://www.thesantis.com/khxc/ccp0-prodshow/99102620.html

Its the cover of a Little Golden Book my Grandparents kept at their house when we came over to visit. It got thrown in the toybox, and eventually disappeared. The story was about how Felix the Cat visited a farm, and how he was having trouble fitting in. He finally became the Medico for the farm animals when he found out he couldn't give milk or pull a plow.

I hope my services to my fellow artists at the Animation Guild Computer Lab and Woodbury University are a useful in a similar way.

simple Guy 04

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simple Guy 02

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Trying Screencast.com for tutorials

Does it work?

Blend Shapes in Maya

Hi, for some reason I couldn't get this video to upload. Maybe it was too big, but look for it on Vimeo. Let's see if this link works.

We'll use simple, but solid modeling in Maya to create mouth movement for your characters. Later, we'll import a soundtrack and try to do some lipsynch.

Using Blend Shapes in Maya for mouth shapes from Rosko on Vimeo.

Art Lessons...

Here are some cool links to artists I knew practically nothing:

Milton Glaser, best known for his I(heart)N Y logo, (copyright Milton Glaser)

http://www.areaofdesign.com/americanicons/glaser.htm






And Ronald Searle, illustrator/cartoonist for the New Yorker;(copyright Ronald Searle)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle








My friend Faris told me about them.

http://visualdiaries10.blogspot.com/

I'm still interested in design, wild characters and composition -

Things have been either too quiet, or too negative around here.

Dig it!

Richard Williams survival guide - Micro!

One of my teaching partners, Tim Ingersoll put this page together from the Richard Williams book. If he was trapped on a desert island, and he could have only one page from the book, then this would be it.

Check it out.

Oh yeah! Copyright Richard Williams.