A 7 page comic to promote my upcoming game project, VariaClash! This will serve as the basis for the story-mode opening cut-scene (though the final two pages will probably be different for each character).
Drawn on paper (with pencils, then inked with brush-pens and Sharpies), then vectorized with Inkscape, and lettered and half-toned in Krita!
'Tis the season! Just thought I'd draw up a quick little picture of my favorite Christmas mascot, the Krampus! Here he is getting ready to jump down the chimney and discipline some less-then-well-behaved children that aren't getting much from Santa.
Drawn on paper, with pencils, sharpies, and brush pens, colored in Krita!
Anyway, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Io Saturnalia, Cool Yule, a Festive Winter Solstice, and Season's Greetings to all of you out there! And Happy (late) Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and anything else someone might celebrate this festive time of year!
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Hello everybody! It's that time of year again, and this year I have a few Halloween treats for you all each Wednesday of October so be sure to check back each week.
This week it's the adorable Alexandra the little witch posing with some jack-o-lanterns. In addition to being part of my Halloween Gallery, you'll also be able to see her in action in my upcoming indie fighting game Variaclash!
Drawn on Paper (pencil and ink), Colored in Krita.
Big update about my game-project: "Variaclash".
All the fight mechanics are in, we got normals, specials, supers, ring-outs, counters, dodges, combos, etc. I'll be refining them as I go, but it's time to focus on character creation for awhile.
And, since I figured out how to Glaze animated GIFs (I really recommend anyone who posts art online look into Glaze), I just wanna show off some animations I've been doing for the first of many selectable characters, Captain Garbage!
"Some say he's the valiant superhero who defends the city from evil with the power of garbage. Others say he's a crazy trash-obsessed hobo who lives at the dump and thinks he's a superhero. Perhaps he's a bit of both..."
Moves (May be subject to change):
Trash-A-Rang: 🢀🢇🢃🢆🢂+P
Trash-Bash: 🢂🢃🢆+P
Trash-Dash: 🢃🢇🢀+K
Banana Peel: 🢃🢃+K
Double Knee Bash: 🢂+SK
Slide Kick: 🢆+SK
Dive-Chop: 🢆+SP (in air)
Hyper Attacks:
Trash Can-Non: 🢃🢆🢂🢃🢆🢂+P
Trash Dash Bash Crash N' Smash: 🢃🢆🢂🢃🢆🢂+K
Dumpster Drop: 🢃🢇🢀🢇🢃🢆🢂+P
It's that time of year again! And, it's been awhile since I unveiled a new straight up creepy character drawing for the Halloween Gallery (Ghoulery?), so here is my new creation: Funnybones the Skeleton Jester!
I'm actually thinking of doing a short comic or animated cartoon about him (maybe in time for next Halloween).
It's finally here! The Box-Bot Boogie animated special I promised years ago is finally available on my Newgrounds and YouTube channels and right here on this website!
After presenting it as my thesis film for Temple University's Film and Media Arts program (Yes, I graduated!) and it's screening at the diamond screen film festival, I'm proud to present what I hope will be the first of several Box-Bot Boogie animated episodes.
Been working on a fighting game project in the Godot game engine. Finally got together the basic template/structure for one. These two crash-dummy-like place-holder characters can kick, punch, jump, duck, throw, and perform unique special moves with the classic motion inputs. Plus they each have a life-bar that depletes as they take damage and a winner is declared when someone runs out of HP and is KO'd.
Now it's just a matter of creating characters and fleshing out the mechanics. I've got a sketchbook full of ideas!
A little Halloween special using paper cut-outs in a 3D environment. A bunch of ghosts are terrified by a possessed trick-or-treater who chases them through a graveyard. This was my final for "Animation Workshop" (a class that focused more on traditional animation techniques rather than pure CG) this semester and I thought I'd do a fun little combination of paper cut-out animation in a semi-3D digital environment.
All the animation is real paper cut-outs, but they were scanned into the computer and combined with digital backgrounds in 3D space in Blender. My professor really liked the combination. Enjoy this year's Halloween Special!
Hey, I know it's been a long time since I updated anyone on the animated Box-Bot Boogie special that I promised years ago. Well, that's about to change! I'm pleased to announce that I'm finally working on the special as my BFA final project at Temple. This behind-the-scenes video above was presented at the "Soft-Where" exhibit at the Diamond Film Festival at the Temple University Performing Arts Center.
By the end of the next semester, I hope to have the whole special finished and ready to present! Frederick and Zoki are back!
One of the cooler classes I have is "Animation Workshop" where we get to make short animations in all sorts of media. I have three exercises here to show you. The "Self Portrait" was traditionally animated on real paper. The "Raindrop on Leaf" was digitally drawn in Photoshop. And the "Lion Dance" was rotoscoped in Krita from a short video I took of a Lunar New Year event. Enjoy!
This was just a short intro to an illustrated podcast presentation about Creepypasta (another class project). I thought Halloween night would be a good time to share it, and I always like to post a little something on Halloween.
Happy Halloween all!
(Obviously, I have no claim to Slenderman or The Skin Taker which each belong to their respective creators.)
(Given that I'm desperate for money at the moment) I just want to inform everybody that I'm taking art commissions. If anyone wants some original artwork done by me, here are my current rates...
Physical drawing on Bristol Board: -Pencil Sketch $7 per character (or Background)
-Inked Drawing $10 per character (or Background)
-Full Color Drawing $20 per character (or Background)
-Digital Drawing: -Black and White $5 per character (or Background)
-Full Color $15 per character (or Background)
-Full Comic Pages, Animation or CGI:
-Negotiable (depends on a lot of factors about the project).
If you're interested, just comment on this site or message me on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram etc.
This was another class project, in this case my film-sound final. As such my assignment was to create all of the sound effects and ambiance myself (I even used bird-calls for the dinosaur sounds). As such, between that and the live-action short (my videography final) that was due the same day, the animation is kinda rough and not as good was "Wyrd Sisters" was. But I needed to meet my deadline and the assignment was about sound, and I think it's a fun idea. Basically, it randomly occurred to me one day that with their large size and stubby arms, a T-Rex would make a horrible waiter, so I thought I'd make a cartoon out of it. So I hope everyone enjoys it.
