Lack of Updates = Workin'

Hello gentle reader. You may have noticed my lack of posts recently. That's because I'm busy working. I haven't had time to post anything substantial, which is why I've been using twitter more. If you want to follow me, once again I'm @aalong64. I'm not abandoning the blog or anything, just making excuses for not posting more.

The short I've been animating for Sonic Bunny Productions, "Bakerman and the Bunnymen" is almost done and I'll be sure to post a link to it here when it's online. It's been fun working on it and Scout Raskin, the director, has been fantastic about giving me extra time to do the shots when my school gets to be too busy.

The Fester Fish shirts are done, and as soon as I get the samples back from the print-on-demand company, I'll make them available online. Get those credit cards ready, folks! I'll also have a separate stock of them in person so I can take them to conventions and stuff.

Finally, I'm almost finished animation college. That's obviously what's taking up most of my time, as I put together a portfolio, resume, demo reel, etc. not to mention finishing all the actual classes. The school has been challenging, but overall I'm glad I went there.

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To Live and Die in LA

A few months ago I watched most of this movie and was bored to death. I don't know why I watched it. It's a completely generic 80s cop movie. I started sketching, but wasn't particularly interested in drawing the characters from the movie. I can't remember if these look like them or not. Probably not.

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More Sketchbook Stuff

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Fester + Space Goose Crew

Quick doodles of Fester and the crew from Space Goose. First Mate Ugly and Dr. Donkey probably shouldn't be overlapping like that-- It looks like Dr. Donkey is riding Ugly's head.

Anyway, if you haven't seen the Space Goose cartoons, they're still on my Youtube channel (here's the first one). They're a bit over-written and the animation is wonky, but they were fun to make and I learned a lot doing them. I miss doing the back-and-forth interactions between the characters in this series. It's hard to do much of that with Fester because he's so dumb.

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Oddry Hepbirn

I was sketching while watching Wait Until Dark a couple of months ago. I love that movie. There are a some stupid aspects of the plot but I think it's pretty effective anyway, and Alan Arkin is amazingly creepy and funny in it. Perhaps I should've drawn him instead, cause this doesn't really look like Audrey Hepburn.

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Bunch of Kids

I'm going to break the sketchbook stuff into individual posts, since that seems to be what most people do on their blogs, and it seems to flow better. Anyway here's a group of kids I've been drawing for what might be an upcoming project.

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Sketchbook Dump 1

My sketchbooks tend to be pretty lazy and scribbly. I mostly draw in them when I'm lying in bed, too tired to fix my mistakes or draw cleanly. Some of the drawings occasionally turn out okay though, and I've neglected the blog lately so I'm going to be sharing some art. This is the first of at least two posts. I used Photoshop to slap in some colour.

Some of these characters may eventually wind up in a cartoon if I can develop a full storyline... I'm about halfway there with it at the moment.

More to come! Also, a few basic Fester fish T-shirt designs are done. I'm just waiting to get some samples back to see how they turn out before I start telling people to buy them.

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