Skrib, have you been moonlighting?

Below is a link for a game that looks remarkable like one of Skribl's robot paintings...

http://www.insanelytwistedshadowplanet.com/

Nicely animated and pretty to look at, I think this is a winner... assuming that it plays as well as it looks.

Watch Farrah!

This is a really funky marketing video made to generate interest in one of the games that Vivendi Mobile (the company I work for) has put out... it's kinda fun.

incrediblemachinepresents.com

Cover (First Pass) for my Lulu Sketchbook

I've got the sketches set up in a PDF format. Six by Nine. I need to add another three pages, Intro, a little blah blah, and maybe go through it another time and change some of this and that. It'll be a bunch of very rough doodling.

I'll continue with the cover. I'm changing the Type and probably some layout stuff. Get rid of some of the simple rectangle stuff. But this is a quick lazy pass. Sketches that can be found inside the book but with the addition of color punching them up.

More 'Surf's Up' goodness

Here is a really nice interview with texture artist Mike Yazijian.

Cool Comic Book Drawings

Here's a San Diego artist who's comic book style I like quite a bit, but I've never heard of him before. Surely one of you knows him though. Tons of cool drawings on his blog:

http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/

Anatomy

click the headline to go to a cool site. Move the mouse over a drawing and it fades the anatomy overlay in and out over the model. The rest of the site is worth browsing as well. Some Gold from work.

Picture is just a skeleton I figured was a lion. From the same set of sites.

Star Trek Meets Monty Python

Mr Toy

From an old comic book.

Click the arrows to read the art. The first page is unreadable because the background color comes from this web page, not the black of my other webpage

Clive Barker short story roughed out animatic

Cool Clive Barker story where a guy has his car overheat and strands him in the middle of the desrt. Out in the desert he just makes out some sort of group trucking along on foot. He makes his way toward them,,, and here I may veer from the story. i don't reemeber. i may have added the device of near Rattler strke to explain why he'd be so distracted he'd get very close to the group before he realizes it's a parade of MONSTERS. One chases him back toward the car and when the opportunity to pounce on him presents itself, the monster bounds on by and instead attacks his car, which explodes. It runs to the closest town while on fire. My "short" ends on that point. Not much to see. Just more aborted Flash work i did to teach myself Flash.

Tog and Ty

Just further experiments. Tog and Ty is a supernatural story. A girl and her magic cat. Bad animation but it'll get better.

Junkyard Split

Use the little arrows at the top left to move forward through the storyboards of this pitch idea.





Publishing this as an experiment. I may do a lot of Flash File publishing on the blog if it works.


Well, It kinda works. Click zoom in to see more detail on the art. You can scrub the drawing area around to look at the text etc.

LULU for NO cost Graphic Novels

Can there be anything more revolutionary than being able to publish books with vanity press size print runs and not having to spend a cent?

If you want your own copies of the book you pay about as much as any other customer. Buy 50 of your own graphic novels to sell at the CON for about a 13 percent profit.

Let Lulu and Amazon sell them and split any moneys made with LulU.

I talked this over with a guy at work. The picture I posted is from the top graphic novel of the site. Shawn Stiles huge sketchbook. S Curves.

The idea you no longer have minimum orders where you sell ten percent or less of a bunch of books and have the extras for the next 20 years. That's over. This is just a PDF file they keep on file and use for printing as orders come in.

Anyway, check it out. I'm excited about the idea myself.

My friend Yongwoo let me have this interesting data when we went to Stuart Ng's bookstore.. Check out his Blog by going to my Blog and clicking on ECHOFORM

Click below or click the headline to go to Lulu.

LULU

Comicon 82

What's that they're selling? Looks like magazines or something. Where's the toys and Dvds and games and masks and weapons.

Photo by Alan Light. Who I'm sure I've met at some time or other.

25 years ago. Pre Tag even. That's old

Comic Con 1982...

Found pics of Shel at this Flickr account.
Check out the link for more way-back action!


Alan Light Flickr Photoset: Comic Con 1982

LA Myth: Meltdown Show

So when I was at the Comic Con I ran into a former Cal Arts student of mine and he invited me to enter a piece for a show he was planning at
Meltdown in Hollywood. I said yes but wasn't sure if I could pull off a piece in time with work, family and the wii. So the Friday before the show I kicked myself in the butt and cranked out a 'lil gouachey 'sumpin 'sumpin. Not the greatest but at least I got into the theme. It even got a write up in LAWeekly!! (look I'm all excited like a little school girl)

Hulk head study

Just a quick ZBrush 3 Hulk head study using the Cintiq. ZBrush 3 is great - so many fun and handy tools. A lot of stuff I'd like to do differently, namely switch out the painted-on eyes with an actual eye model (that's why there's no specular sheen).

Heads

Heads.

Princess

This a gouache painting I did yesterday for a four-year-old girl who has cancer. She likes princesses.

People have LOST their minds!

Frilled Lizard

He's big, He runs funny