Rush Rush Rally Racing art for DCJY

Check out this art I did for the guys over at the Dreamcast Junkyard for the latest game to be released on the system. This was Tuesday Night's livestream. Click it to go over to the DCJY blog where you can download it as a wallpaper is various sizes (don't normally put my art out online as big as the biggest wallpapers of this. In case you're curious about the game you can read up about it here.

Tea N Crumpets is back online!

Just a quick update to inform you that Cosmic-Hero.com is back up and running meaning Tea N Crumpets (and Manga-Gaga) are back up too, hooray! Thanks Ace for sorting that out! Just need to re-update Tea N Crumpets as the back up used is missing the most recent update. Will get onto that in a short while.

EDIT: Sorted.

Last night's GagaTelly Animations

The first Livestream last night went down a treat! It lagged quite a bit for some people, but I was presently surprised how many popped in to watch and we had a good laugh! Either way the animating I did was all made up as I went along and the three GIFs above are the result.

The one on the left was the first one I did, a bit cruddy as I was just warming up from not animating anything in Flash for a while. It was christened 'iBuySausage' by someone in the chat for some reason. The one to the right was next, of Vince from Rex the Runt because there's a toy of him by my desk. We had a laugh moving it to lip sync, which ended up with this insane moment:

Finally this one above. Look at that chin hair! It grows in REAL TIME.

Tea N Crumpets is down.

Just so you know, the website is currently offline due to some arsehats hacking Cosmic-Hero.com, which as you may know has been hosting us for some years now. Looks like it's either down temporarily or pulled completely to wipe out the hacked forums, so I might have to find a new host, but we'll see.

GagaTelly! (Live Streaming channel)

Yep, I've set up a live stream channel for some reason. I'm planning to do some stuff on there possibly tonight, so you can watch me draw and animate on me computer, if you're that bored and wanna chat or something. I would also like to stream some video game playing but I haven't quite got my webcam working completely on the laptop yet. When not live (like now) it's playing a bunch of my animations, which is kind of pointless as you can just watch them on Youtube but whooooooooo shut up.

EDIT: Going live any minute now, and probably every other night from 7pm (British time) too, so head on over!

Random Sonic Comic Strip!

I have a bunch of doodles in a sketchbook for what was going to be a Sonic spin off comic for Manga-Gaga. I liked this one amongst them so I decided to re-draw it up in full. Ah, it's just like when Manga-gaga first started all over again (when it wasn't a series a such, just a bunch of daft comics I uploaded to the site for the fun of it.

Booked for UK Web + Comix Thing 2010!

I've visited the event two years running but for next years event on March 27th I now have a table reserved to sell my wares there! Got lots of planning to do, but the kind of things I'd like to produce for the event (and in general) are:

Prints, badges, maybe even posters and that kind of stuff.

DVDs of some of my animations. The Lucy Lolly DVD is almost ready so I could get that printed, and I'll throw some of the other films on it too (the ones I can get away with like the Howdooyoodoo, Fujis and RabRab).

Maybe I could also aim this to be the lanuch of Tea N Crumpets Version 2. If I can get it done in time that is.

Either way this should get me to pull my finger out and start making some new original stuff, so stay tuned!

London MCM Expo, yesterday.

Drew this on the train journey there.

That's right, an anime convention of all things! Well, it was also about video games, sci-fi, comics and other geeky things, but mainly anime. Weird that I never went to one of these a few years back when I was really big into the stuff so after a while of being out of the loop a lot of it went over my head, but I went because quite a few friends of mine were gonna be there and it was a fun day out. Shame I didn't really plan anything too well so I had to find peeps when I got there, most of which I didn't find in the end but I did bump into Euan and ShinKosai, and Stacey manged to find me too, so it was all good.

If I was to go again, I would defiantly pre-order the tickets, darn. I arrived at 11am and was stuck in the loooong queue for about 2 hours. Still, one of the odder queues I have ever been in, what with big lump of the people queuing dressed up ("cosplaying" if you wanna get weeaboo): I saw an awesome Tom Baker Doctor Who, a giant Pac-man suit, for some reason lots of gender swapped Nintendo characters, lots of elaborate Gothic dresses, and being an anime convention...lot's of ladies leaving little to the imagination (so many short skirts where to look agahsahjhj)! Many were holding up signs saying 'Free hugs!', too. Not that I'm complaining, or anything. It was no where near as bad as I feared, you know, like this..

Aliens!

Zombies!

Rabbit girls with carrots shoved up their arse!
(Ok now I'm just pretending I don't know who she's dressed as. She's from this.)

So when I finally got in the place at 1pm-ish it was packed to the gills and massive: never been to a convention this big before. Lot's of stores et up selling anime tat, including one or two dodgy hentai stores (how much of a virgin must you want to be forever to buy a full body length pillow with a naked anime girl spread across it?), but there was also a lot of up-coming video games to play test, a big stage where at the end of the day the cosplayers pranced about on, and some cool stuff like the Ghostbusters car and a Back to the Future Delorean. There was signing booths with Tom Baker and Craig Charles which were a bit of a rip off: you had to buy tacky expensive merchandise before you could get anything signed. Meh, I'm not that fussed about a signature.

The stuff I spent my cash on. was tempted to buy more but I emptied my wallet!

Quite a lot of the anime distributors like Manga and ADV were about selling wares as well as Neo Magazine, and Helen McCarthy who was signing copies of her new Osama Tezuka book, which was one of many things I bought while there along with the 'To Infinity and Beyond!' Pixar book which was surprisingly cheap, and some brilliant Sega themed t-shirts, a cheap DVD of a film I've never heard of that looks interesting, and a poster for an ace Wii game coming out soon.

All hail the Ecto-1. Coolest car ever (the Delorean is a close 2nd).

I didn't get many photos but if you want to see a nice batch of some of the cosplayers check out Stacey's Flickr folder. Even though I'm not a big fan of anime like I used to be, it was a lot of fun and next year maybe I should live out this comic I did a while back for Manga-Gaga..

MAOAM

I don't why the packaging of these sweets has been getting complaints..

Maybe a little NSFW, perhaps? Haha, would this be considered Rule #34?

I know, this is old news (See this article if you don't get it) but I've been sitting on this sketch for a while, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

These sweets are darn yummy btw. Must be all the love that goes into them...

Sorry!