Click to enlarge please. The background is painted, with shadows and colours tinkered in Photoshop. Oscar has a pavement texture applied to his skin so it looks more like he's made of rock. This is how I want the entire film to look. Expect the film to be completed by 2010 =P
Monday, January 22, 2007
R.P.S: First completed frame!
Click to enlarge please. The background is painted, with shadows and colours tinkered in Photoshop. Oscar has a pavement texture applied to his skin so it looks more like he's made of rock. This is how I want the entire film to look. Expect the film to be completed by 2010 =P
Friday, January 19, 2007
BOOM!
This poster for Rock Paper Scissors looks like one of those cheesy action movie posters. I spent a good few hours on it just today, and it's the first proper piece of artwork I've put together this year. Also, here's a doodle I've also posted recently at Deviantart, but drawn sometime in December. It has a bunch of me daft little character creations on it. These pictures are also the first time I've let you see the Paper character of the film. Ooh.
Speaking of DevinatArt, I've decided to try out the Prints thing they have going, seeing as it's free and all. So if anyone's intrested on having Make Tea Not War on a coaster, Afro Lady on a Magnet, Manga-Gaga on a mug or this new Rock paper Scissors art on a mouse mat, feel free to part with your green here.The soundtrack for R.P.S is one step further to being completed now, thanks to my mate David Spencer, who helped me out with two SFX I simply could not make for the film myself. This guy is a marvel at sound production, I swear he'll be working in feature films one day (Here's a sample of him just producing sound just for the fun of it). He's currently taking commissions including artwork and voice overs, at darn good rates. Did I mention that his darn good at voice acting too? He helped me out a lot on a project I was making years ago called Sonic Switch, and is especially good at voicing Dr.Eggman. Much better than whoever currently does the official voice in the games, at least.
Holiday photos Part 2: New York
Not so many to show from New York, as I was too busy shopping to take photos! I did, however, pop into a place called MOCCA: The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, who were currently doing a exhibit on Saturday Morning cartoons (and I believe it's there until May). Here's some photos of what they had hung up on display.
This looks like it's a cel from one of those Flintstones Winston cigarette commercials. Also: CAPTAIN CAVEMAAAN!
Gah, I remember having dozens of these little bastards.
And a few more to wrap things up at MOCCA. Most of the cartoon art on show wasn't really stuff I'm a fan of (and hell, if cartoons like Spiderman and Fantastic Four are supposed to be the 'golden era of TV animation'..seesh.), but it was worth a peek.
I didn't actually take many other pictures other than that. Here's the hotel we stayed in, which looked great in the lobby, but had pretty dingy rooms with dodgy 100-year-old heating that actually made me ill one of the days, it was so hot.
Rockafella Center, where everyone was queuing to go on the ice rink on New Years eve. BIIIIG Christmas tree. Like Anaheim, everywhere was too packed to really do much on New Years Eve, plus most places were actually shut by 6pm. That's about it. Much smaller lot than yesterday eh? Oh well.
First up, they had a few Golden Era related pieces, including posters for Tom & Jerry and Heckle & Jeckle shorts, and some nice Looney Tunes stuff.
John K would love this Yogi Bear map of Jellystone Park.
Speaking of John K, they had a cel from Might Mouse: The New Adventures, and a sketch from Ren & Stimpy (I'm not sure what episode).
John K would love this Yogi Bear map of Jellystone Park.
Speaking of John K, they had a cel from Might Mouse: The New Adventures, and a sketch from Ren & Stimpy (I'm not sure what episode).
Some modern Cartoon Network stuff mixed in with the old.
Gah, I remember having dozens of these little bastards.
I didn't actually take many other pictures other than that. Here's the hotel we stayed in, which looked great in the lobby, but had pretty dingy rooms with dodgy 100-year-old heating that actually made me ill one of the days, it was so hot.
Rockafella Center, where everyone was queuing to go on the ice rink on New Years eve. BIIIIG Christmas tree. Like Anaheim, everywhere was too packed to really do much on New Years Eve, plus most places were actually shut by 6pm. That's about it. Much smaller lot than yesterday eh? Oh well.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
So, howabout them photos? (Part 1: Anaheim)
You know, I completely forgot to upload them. Doh! Well, here they are, with a bunch of details on the holiday too. Why not? You know the drill: click to enlarge. First up, the Disney California Adventure Park.
This was some shop near the front of the Park, that specialised in animation stuff, like the Treasure DVDs and artwork that was traced...I mean drawn for you while you wait by a artist on one of those funky desks. This shop was linked to..
The Disney animation area. Mainly just a bunch of interactive computer things, but a bit nicer than the Florida one. A bit ironic that they have all this stuff telling you how they draw the films, then have Talking with Crush, a real time computer animated character interaction show within in. Overwise, at least they had a load of nice illustrations set up in one of the rooms. Doesn't the bottom right one remind you of Castlevania, or is it just me?
Muppet Vision. I've lost count of the times I've seen this show at Florida, but it's never gotten old.
Monsters Inc ride. Cute.
The centerpiece of this park is not the mountain bear, like Disney would have you think, but this huge seaside style area is, complete with a traditional roller coaster (that's great fun) and a big ol' ferris wheel, of which I would NOT recommenced the swinging seats to anyone, nasty. It's like the theme park we have down the sea side here, but with better weather and not filled with chavs.
Holy shit! The Cars appeared! Oh man, they were real and everything! McQueen is trying to bite that kid's arse! They were all queuing up to get skid marks in their signature books! Ok, I kid, but they were actual modified cars made to look like the Pixar characters, which was pretty awesome.
The bear mountain thing, which had one of those family water rides going around it.
The Paridise Pier looked even better at night. Riding on that ferris wheel at night when it's cold on a swinging seat was NOT a good idea. Not that the non swinging ones were even open. The two days we were there rides in this area were shutting down every so often. We got onto the coaster once though.
Now on to Disneyland, the original park. Just like Magic Kingdom in Florida at Christmas: too many people in one place, especially Fantasy Land, which we barely touched because it was just so full of people. Fast Passes became the only way to get on anything, including the fantastic Indiana Joe's Roller Coaster.
Wow, Sleeping Beauty's castle is MUCH smaller than Cinderella's back in Florida. Maybe she ought to wake up and shake some more cash out of her prince for a bigger one. Still, these photos perfectly displays just how busy it was.
Toontown. Not a lot of rides (just Roger Rabbit worth having a go, although it was a little disappointing), but plenty of photo opportunities. Lookit me go!
Solution to getting away from the crowds: walk into the Mickey Mouse cinema. In here they were screening six Black and White Mickey shorts on separate screens, including Plane Crazy. Mickey at his tail pulling, cat swinging, parrot abusing best!
Solution #2: Walk into the History of Disneyland museum. In here they had a bunch of illustrations and models, along with a screening starring Steve Martin (Man I hate that guy. He tries too hard.), and Donald Duck trying to kick his arse. I was really rooting for him to cobbler the twat, but hey, apparently the first day the park was open it was 100 degrees and 5 times more people than they expected showed up! Sounded familiar as soon as we walked back outside..
Here's some pictures of the stuff they had in this museum. I like the character artwork they had on display, as well as the Small World models. Speaking of which..
Much like the other park, the main centerpiece was tiny compared to what was at the back of the park: It's a small World. In Florida this ride is tucked away, but here it's MASSIVE, a real showcase. Every 15 minutes it would open a door revealing the time, and characters would walk out around it. Of course, we never got onto the thing, as the queues for it's were around 2 hours long. Not that we wanted to hear that music, and the outside of it was more entertaining as it is, especially at night..
When every 30 minutes, all the lights on it would shut down, and it would perform this musical projection display that makes the Sleeping Beauty castle weep with envy. Quite an event, and as I said, it did this every 30 minutes. Fantastic.
Another gooddun was the Hanuted mansion, mainly because at this time of the year they do it up with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme, complete with the Oogie Boogie man et all. Oh man, I've got the whole films songs stuck in my head again now.
Well, that ought to do it for now. I'll post photos from New York next time. Hurray!
This was some shop near the front of the Park, that specialised in animation stuff, like the Treasure DVDs and artwork that was traced...I mean drawn for you while you wait by a artist on one of those funky desks. This shop was linked to..
The Disney animation area. Mainly just a bunch of interactive computer things, but a bit nicer than the Florida one. A bit ironic that they have all this stuff telling you how they draw the films, then have Talking with Crush, a real time computer animated character interaction show within in. Overwise, at least they had a load of nice illustrations set up in one of the rooms. Doesn't the bottom right one remind you of Castlevania, or is it just me?
Muppet Vision. I've lost count of the times I've seen this show at Florida, but it's never gotten old.
Monsters Inc ride. Cute.
The centerpiece of this park is not the mountain bear, like Disney would have you think, but this huge seaside style area is, complete with a traditional roller coaster (that's great fun) and a big ol' ferris wheel, of which I would NOT recommenced the swinging seats to anyone, nasty. It's like the theme park we have down the sea side here, but with better weather and not filled with chavs.
Holy shit! The Cars appeared! Oh man, they were real and everything! McQueen is trying to bite that kid's arse! They were all queuing up to get skid marks in their signature books! Ok, I kid, but they were actual modified cars made to look like the Pixar characters, which was pretty awesome.
The bear mountain thing, which had one of those family water rides going around it.
The Paridise Pier looked even better at night. Riding on that ferris wheel at night when it's cold on a swinging seat was NOT a good idea. Not that the non swinging ones were even open. The two days we were there rides in this area were shutting down every so often. We got onto the coaster once though.
Now on to Disneyland, the original park. Just like Magic Kingdom in Florida at Christmas: too many people in one place, especially Fantasy Land, which we barely touched because it was just so full of people. Fast Passes became the only way to get on anything, including the fantastic Indiana Joe's Roller Coaster.
Wow, Sleeping Beauty's castle is MUCH smaller than Cinderella's back in Florida. Maybe she ought to wake up and shake some more cash out of her prince for a bigger one. Still, these photos perfectly displays just how busy it was.
Toontown. Not a lot of rides (just Roger Rabbit worth having a go, although it was a little disappointing), but plenty of photo opportunities. Lookit me go!
Solution to getting away from the crowds: walk into the Mickey Mouse cinema. In here they were screening six Black and White Mickey shorts on separate screens, including Plane Crazy. Mickey at his tail pulling, cat swinging, parrot abusing best!
Solution #2: Walk into the History of Disneyland museum. In here they had a bunch of illustrations and models, along with a screening starring Steve Martin (Man I hate that guy. He tries too hard.), and Donald Duck trying to kick his arse. I was really rooting for him to cobbler the twat, but hey, apparently the first day the park was open it was 100 degrees and 5 times more people than they expected showed up! Sounded familiar as soon as we walked back outside..
Here's some pictures of the stuff they had in this museum. I like the character artwork they had on display, as well as the Small World models. Speaking of which..
Much like the other park, the main centerpiece was tiny compared to what was at the back of the park: It's a small World. In Florida this ride is tucked away, but here it's MASSIVE, a real showcase. Every 15 minutes it would open a door revealing the time, and characters would walk out around it. Of course, we never got onto the thing, as the queues for it's were around 2 hours long. Not that we wanted to hear that music, and the outside of it was more entertaining as it is, especially at night..
When every 30 minutes, all the lights on it would shut down, and it would perform this musical projection display that makes the Sleeping Beauty castle weep with envy. Quite an event, and as I said, it did this every 30 minutes. Fantastic.
Another gooddun was the Hanuted mansion, mainly because at this time of the year they do it up with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme, complete with the Oogie Boogie man et all. Oh man, I've got the whole films songs stuck in my head again now.
Well, that ought to do it for now. I'll post photos from New York next time. Hurray!
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