I’m currently wrapped up in a really busy few weeks in my day job at the quarry, and I’m also working on a big pitch for some freelance job that– trust me– you do not want to hear about. So there’s not a lot of real production going on right now, and not a lot to write about in the production log.

So instead I’ll post a few more old drawings, just for the hell of it.

Here are some storyboards and a screen grab from one of my very first animated projects– an ecard for shockwave.com. Chad Strawderman and I used to animate many things for shockwave at our web animation studio, Goldhouse Creative.

This one was a Mother’s Day card involving a very ugly baby bird. Mothers are nice, aren’t they? Hi, Mom! You’ll notice that the sketches look waaaaaay better than the final piece. Someday I’ll figure out a way to not ruin my drawings by inking them.

Work in the Mystery Work in Progress continues. But depending on how things go over the next few weeks, there’s a slim chance I’ll have a kind of big freelance job to do, which would set back the short another couple months! On the other hand, it would also fund the short. So that would be progress in a way… we’ll see…

Here are some more old sketchbook pages:

More background research!

Last summer I bought a cheap toy camera at a toy store in Florida. It’s a Holga-like thing that takes 4 pictures in rapid sequence on a single frame of 35mm film. The view finder is a little plastic rectangle that hinges on from the top of the camera, and the lense is cheap plastic. So 90% of the photos come out complete crap. But the other ten percent are nice research for the Mystery Work in Progress.

There needs to be a kind of dream-like haze in this cartoon. These photos are not exactly the right look, but they do have a certain feeling. I’m trying to get a piece of this action in my backgrounds. (see the previous post about background research)