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Happy holidays!

STAND UP SANTA

My sister elle is doing great in Greenfield with her swing jazz group Ghost Quartet. She's been doing some consistent gigging with these lads and had a fantastic turn out yesterday afternoon following this gig.

I'll be sure to post more but in the meantime, dig on this stantard.

Turn Table attachment for Cintiq 21 UX.

This site is pretty cool. A man by the name of Antonio Gonella created a mount for the Cintiq that allows you to practically mount this thing anywhere you want. His blog shows you how he routed the hole and screwed the mount on his desk. Dan Goldman's blog mentions that he had this one customized by Antonio.



The site Turntable is where you can find a more expensive one priced at 199.99 which I believe is a little pricey. I like the compactness of the customized one and hope that it will be made available to the general public.

I hope that I don't seem like a spokes person for wacom, however I felt that this video clip would be cool for artists to check out. It's the mini version of the cintiq 21UX called the 12WX. It has all the primary functionality that the 21UX offers, and is a lot more portable and affordable.



Hagzi-mash

Well It's that time again.... time for the corporate sham to spin it's wheels faster than it did last year resulting in our ultimate demises financially. I try not to spend much around the holidays, but I always find myself broke come January for the appeasement of others.

Thankfully I found a nice healthy block of time to schedule out for yet another Christmas Flash piece that I've titled "Stand Up Santa".

This is an idea I've had in my head for quite some time. It's basically a stand up comedy show in a cartoon format. The age group would definitely be Adult Swim and up and will deepen in it's growth when im finished with the first couple of skits.

But for now, please allow me to show you the progress of the gag thus far.

Santa's all separated out in preparation to become animatiated.


Modeled in 3dsmax 8 and very crudely may I add. Not liking the door but I'm sure to go back in and fix it.




This is how I'd like the final color composite to be. These are just tests to get the environment in mind.

Man...


Done with Photoshop CS3

Holy shit... That's all I have to say. My Cintiq has arrived and this thing is bigger than I thought it would be. I had to clear some desk space to fit this bad boy in my studio. At last minute I thought to myself, I should take out my camera and make a quick little animation of the box opening and the Cintiq popping out. But as you can tell by the short vid I made, I just wanted to open the thing up and play with it.



I have to admit that drawing on this will take a little less time to get use to than the Intuos tablets. It only took a night really. After calibrating the pen and the screen to my liking, I just took off and made a this quickie in Photoshop.

3 hours of noodling around.

This is the closest thing that comes to drawing on paper. I removed the pen nib that is supplied with it and popped in the #2 pencil nib and it blew my mind. A non-slippery surface to draw on put my mind at ease.

I don't have the worlds best camera as of yet so i apologize for the poor picture quality. But here it is in all its glory sitting pretty at my Creation Station.

Well today couldn't be any better. I can actually feel my physical body transmuting itself into an self perpetuating artistic machine. Why is this you ask? Well i just ordered my brand spanking new Cintiq 21UX. It should reach my doorstep 3 days from this post so I'll post back here as soon as that bad bitchum arrives at my doorstep. But in the meantime, I'll have to just stare at this picture of one.


Sweet nectar!

Punch Drunk Snow

Well it's a new year and I got the latest project out in the open and it seems to be doing moderately neato at New Grounds. It's mainly just a single ( well Two) painterly backgrounds fronted by an intoxicated snowman. you can check it out here. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/356862

Leave a comment and let me know what you think.