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Gratuitous Studio Shot

After many years of long-distance wishing (five long years), I was able to add a Cintiq to my digital studio. The Cintiq line of computer drawing tablets have a built-in display so, when you draw, it happens directly underneath the pen. Press lightly and get a thin line. Push down more firmly and get a thicker line. It’s a type of magic not found in Apple’s iPad.
Pictured here is a frame from a new comic I’ve began called “The Joker and the Thief.” New posts to tumblr on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Nanowrimo 2012

Ah, yes. I remember this. Having participated (and failed) Nanowrimo 2011, I found a few more tricks that allowed me to hit (nay! surpass!) the 50,000 word mark for 2012′s contest. Trick #1: ask your carpool buddy to drive each day and use that hour to bang out 1,000 words.

Caturday.


from Instagram: http://instagr.am/p/QRF-Q/

Dog days in the studio


from Instagram: http://instagr.am/p/PFAlR/

SpriteDance iPad App: Importing Your PNG Drawings

SpriteDance (Developer’s site | iTunes) is an animation-composition app for the iPad with these features:

  • Import your own background (called a stage)
  • Import your own characters (called dancers)
  • Drop characters onto the stage
  • Move the timeline’s playhead, create a keyframe, reposition the dancer; repeat.

From there you can export the animation as a Movie in your Photo Album, send to Youtube or save as Quicktime (and save it to your desktop via iTunes File Sharing as a 1024×768 MP4)

Great stuff. But how do you get your own drawings in there?

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Old Men Lightsaber Duel

In a country far, far away (France) two retired Jedi drop-outs battle for the right of way on the road.

The Star Trek A-Team

“In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”

Hair: A Wookie’s Natural Resource

I think this wookie needs a cookie.

From 1971: The Power of Ten

A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.
Made by the office of Charles and Ray Eames for IBM (1971)

Strombo Talks About The Impending Metered Internet