Octopus riding a goat.

In a discussion with a friend the phrase octopus riding a goat came up. It left an image in my head that I had to get out.

Pop-up Adventure

For my wife's birthdays (for any holiday really) I try to come up with funny ways I can do cards for her. This year I thought it would be fun to make up a pop-up card. Well several hours later, after scouring the inter-webs, I had ideas for at least five or so birthday cards. I thought once the cat was out of the bag on the pop-up card it would be old-hat so I figured I should just do them all at once. With a little story telling I came up with a cute little way to package a pop-up book to give her (which meant I had to come up with something else to give her as a card). I found some templates for pop-ups here, I then threw them into photoshop and created my own design on top of them.

The title comes from whenever I ask her what she wants for her birthday, or any holiday, she says "I don't know?"
The cover image for this piece I did on my iPhone using Sketchbook Pro.

This pop-up was a witch in a cauldron so I had a bit of changing to do for this one. 

I changed this one from Santa Clause to me.

Drawing Evolution

A Sunday or so ago, one of my nephew's and a niece were drawing with me. My nephew who is 6 did a drawing of aliens versus pirates, who then turned it over to my 9 year old niece to base her drawing of aliens versus pirates on. It was eventually given to me to do my own version of the scene. Here is the evolution of that drawing.

Ride Home

I've done and re-done this one four times. Each time I re-do it I feel I have developed a different style or just improved upon it.

Comic Update

30 Second Short (well 42 seconds to be exact)

Here is my thirty second short that I have been working on for several weeks.  After a string of all nighters it is finally done. I'll post progress and behind the scenes of the short at another time.

 

(I'm working on figuring out how to load a higher res video so it can be viewed in a larger window and maintain integrity.)

Leaf Test and A Behind the Scenes look.

So this week I have my leaf test that I have completed along with a couple of pictures as to how I accomplish my animations each week.

Here the camera set up I have (I'm waiting on getting an actual copy stand so it can be a more permanent fixture.)

 Here are the drawings for this animation, it equals out to 384 frames ( = 192 drawings) All for a total of about 15 seconds of animation.

 Finally here is this weeks animation: The Leaf Test