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A highlight from yesterday`s day at the office:

ALSO ON MY MIND:
- Found a new apartment for my missus and me. How big is it? ITS SO BIG, I ALREADY LOST THREE PAIRS OF PANTS AND ONE CAT IN IT WHILE JUST VISITING ONCE!

- Flash CS5 is terrible and 5.5 is even worse (crashes more then a drunken hollywood star)

- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu exams are coming up I have no idea if my escapes are anything to write home about

- Poor summer movies, none so far (Super 8 is the exception) has been amazing and they all seem like old wrinkly party balloons clinging to the ceiling

- Not eating dairy is difficult when ice creams smiles everywhere

- Working on a big comic project and FLESHING OUT characters to work with that have enough meat on them is sweat & tears like labor

- some podcasts around drawing/comics/animation for the interested:
http://www.paperwingspodcast.com/
(they just had a special about character development)
http://drawntoday.blogspot.com/
(a bit more centered around painting dragons and how to sell paintings of dragons)

Just some doodles from the current sketchbook. I`m thinking about how I should develop a big story and its good to remember sometimes that everything should start with fun drawings.
I get trapped in “story structure”, “what does the character want” and those kind of things and forget to just have fun with creating fun pictures.
And Batman is there too.

Joan Sfar wrote about this story stuff ON HIS BLOG recently and I think he makes excellent points.
AND SPEAKING OF JOANN SFAR
I just stumbled over the “Making of Le Chat du Rabbin” videos on Vimeo.
They are well done, not trying too hard to “just sell the movie” and I`m impressed on how they are able to mix 3d, traditional Animation and digital 2d.
It looks fluid and timeless.

And seeing that they just took loose reference from the actors instead of using glued ping- pong balls to do animation, is always great!

Good day!

Here is some recent work, from two different comics, missing its words, panel borders and greytones
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And I`m currently on a “classic movie” trip.
I felt a bit lame-o for having a giant “No-I-have-not-seen-that-one-yet” hole and decided to go through IMDB`s Top 250 List, watching everything that was made between the 1940′s and 1970′s that I have not experienced yet.
It did took a bit of BITING THROUGH in the beginning but I`m getting into it and I`m always surprised when old jokes have “kinky” stuff in them or when James Steward says something genuinely funny.

One of those movies: DR.STRANGELOVE.
Amazing film and I really cracked up at the end, when Peter Sellers is able to make the actor who plays the Russian Ambassador (the big guy behind him), fall out of his role and grin.

Here is Sellers, playing Dr. Strangelove and everything is fine and stern.

But haha, that was too much for the russian! He cracks up in the middle of the scene.

Looks at the side of the camera for a split second and WUPS, back to his stern demeanor.

WELL DONE MR. SELLERS and HOLA MR.KUBRICK, intentional or what?

I started working on a couple of short Comic stories that will be soon in print and here is some mixed idea generating poop from that:

 

THAT ALSO REMINDED ME
that I forgot to plug some great Comics that I got at TCAF.
 
Koyama Press ruling the world:

CAT RACKHAM

-> More here

LOOSE #3

-> more here

MONSTERPARTY


-> more here

HILDAFOLK

-> more here

PAYING FOR IT


amazon link

And this super fun sketch by Adventure Time folks Phil Rynda and Andy Ristaino

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