NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS?

I know it's been a while since I've had anything to say on here, I've got myself one of them 9 ta' 5 jobs and it's keeping me pretty busy... Acctually its more like a 11 to 7 job... If I had to spend 40 hours a week somewhere Titmouse Inc is definately a good place to do it!




Although it is nice to have a steady income it has put all of my personal projects on hold for a while...

FUN FACT: Texas used to be it's own country and still maintains the right to secede from the union at any point in time.

THE PORK-POCALYPSE IS UPON US

The Game is out, play it if you know whats good for you!



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FUN FACT: A year on Jupiter is equivalent to 11.86 earth years, but a day lasts merely 9.9 hours.

THE PORK-POKALYSPE IS NIGH!

Screen shot from the intro of our 5 day game project "SWINE FLU: PORK-POKALYPSE"



Our goal was to have it done by Monday evening, its gonna be close, but I think we can do it!

FUN FACT: Swine Flu is less deadly than regular flu.

OMFG SWINE FLU!

Sean Lavery, programmer and co-creator of my most recent flash game 'Pandemonium!' contrived an idea of making a game over the coarse of this weekend to capitalize on Swine flu hystaria... below is a screen shot from our mini project "SWINE FLU: PORKPOCALYPSE"



Our goal is to complete the entire game by the end of Monday... I started working on it two days ago... Stay tuned to see if we can pull it off, I've got my work cut out for me!

FUN FACT: prof·it·eer·ing: The act of making excessive profits at the expense and suffering of others.

TITMOUSE, BLACK PANTHER, & B.E.T.

Hello hello,

Summer is quickly approaching and I am still trying to figure out my plans,
I have been offered a summer job at Titmouse inc. the studio I have been interning at this semester.

They would have me working on a awesome new mini series that would be coming out on BET, based on the well known super hero The Black Panther



When I say it's gonna be awesome, I mean it's gonna be awesome...

This however brings up a tricky problem though... I must choose between a summer dream job in California or spending the summer months with my dream girl in Portland... Poetic ain't it?

A lot of it will come down to if I can find a good place to live for the rest of the summer...

FUN FACT: The term Mad as a Hatter was coined in the 19th century, mercury was key component in the hat making process this resulted in mercury poisoning which cause symptoms attributed to insanity. Even today mercury poisoning is reffered to as "Mad Hatter's disease"

Comic-Con Hammer

So, as some of you may know, for my 21st birthday, I got tickets for me and my girlfriend to go to... COMIC-CON!

For the last couple of days now, I have been working on a prop hammer for my girlfriends costume. She is planning on going as the ever illustrious Ramona Flowers (see below) from the amazing Scott Pilgrim comic book series.




Ramona's weapon of choice in this series is a large hammer. (+2 against girls)


I have a few pictures from the creation process...

The first step was to make the basic shape of the sledgehammer, I did this by stacking 20 strips of cardboard on top of each other. (Alyx's idea)



Then comes the paper mache...



And then the trusty "Stone texture in a spray can" (no joke) and...

Voila!

HAMMER TIME!

A mighty looking, yet lightweight hammer that won't be too much of a burden to carry around all day.

FUN FACT: When George Lucas first dreamed up Star Wars, he envisioned his main character being named Luke "Starkiller" Rather than Skywalker... Oh yeah, and he also wanted him to be a midget.

JULY IS IN THE SHOWCASE!

In the CalArts Experimental Animation program there is an end of the year event called "Showcase" in which the heads of the department choose 12-15 films created that year by the 90+ Bachelors and Masters students.

This yeah I have been fortunate enough to get accepted into this presigiouse line up with my 5 minute film "July." I have been working on it since January of 2007. The film contains several different styles of animation in it such as hand drawn, stop-motion, live action, rotoscoping, stratacut, sand animation, and After Effects.

At the time of the film's creation most of these techniques of animation were very new to me, so I learned alot along the way...

For a taste of what the film is like I'm including some new screen shots and some old ones you've already seen








Fun Fact: on an airplane the black box is acctually bright orange so it is easier to spot in the wreakage of a crashed plane.