Mr. Blobby

Only those who know of true fear know of Mr. Blobby.

Triceratops with Rocket Launcher

Oh and before I forget this is the Dinosaur themed pic I made for the Comix Thing, which is also the 5th in the 'Animals Packing Heat' series. At first the rocket launcher wasn't shooting off but it looked a bit bland so I added those effects in as well as a babby Triceratops, daww.

More Comix Thing photos!

..taken by other people! Within this flickr folder of photos taken by Keo (who had a table for his comic Moo & Keo there) is a snap of me and Stacey, check it outl!

and here's one of the Tuke next door to us (and Stace peeking over)!

Thanks for taking the snaps Keo!

UK Web + Mini Comix Thing 2010, yesterday.

So yesterday was the Web & Mini Comix Thing, and as you know for the first time I had a table set up myself there. Stacey tagged along to keep me company: hopefully it didn't bore her too much but she killed some time by doing some awesome watercolour art which people looking around kept peeking over to watch ("Is that Count Duckula? I loved that cartoon!").

Posters stuck up on the wall behind us, and one of Tukes massive posters. Also dragged the old Make Tea Not War boards from 2005 with me, lol.

Also I booked my table right next to my mate Tuke who was in his usual spot for the third year running selling his ace Genma Visage comics, and I also got to meet Wonchop, Xyionan and some other people who recognized me from DeviantArt, so that was cool.

I did pop around to see some of tables (My Cardboard Life, Squid Bits and Life Ain't No Pony Farm) and got all these bits and bobs but otherwise I didn't really look around much because obviously I was there to sell things!.

The anthology was a bargain this year: just £2 and it has a lot more pages than last year, and look! A couple pages with my art in it! A bit lazy i know: I did start to draw up a Dinosaur themed comic but...it stunk. I did however make a new Dinosaur related Animals Packing Heat image for it, I'll be uploading that online soon.

Setiing up was the most fun part: tons of badges, Lucy Lolly DVDs, and a portable DVD player set up running me films.

Unfortunately I think it was a bit of a quiet day which is a shame. A lot of people were saying it too, so it wasn't just my store that was lacking in customers, though it did get a bit busy about 1-2pm. This probably may of had something to do with the weather not being all so great though in that University hall with no windows all day we couldn't tell either way.

More badges, and prints, lots of prints!

A few prints and badges sold but sadly the Lucy Lolly DVD didn't really gain much interest at all. Either way I made just about enough money to pay for being there so it could of been worse. Oh well, or the more to sell online! I'm looking to set up a small paypal shop here soon-ish, and I'll ship anywhere, so if anyones interested keep an eye out!

Some people walking about took photos of us and the store so if those pop up online somewhere I'll link over to them, as I didn't really get any photos of ourselves bar one of Stacey, but lets just say it was an excuse to get that sombrero out again!

Comix Thing: 2 days to go..

Oops, I forgot to do one of these yesterday! Oh well!

Just a bit more info on the DVD, with a photo of the inside. Each DVD comes with a free sticker of a random scene from the film and has all the DVD's contents listed inside the case. The disc art is set within Lucy's stomach! I've tried to make this as slick as possible but have also put in in a nice thing case so it won't take up too much space on your shelf. There are even commentaries for four of the five films!

Comix Thing: 4 days to go..

..and this time we have big badges! There's just these two designs but there are plenty of them to go around! The make tea not war image text had to be completely re-drawn to fit the circle and I got this cute little drawer to store them in.

Comix Thing: 5 days to go..

..and here are some badges! There is 8 designs of these lil' badges in total, including one based on something that will be part of Tea N Crumpets 2. These were great fun to design and I'm really pleased with the results!

Comix Thing: 6 days to go..

Another photo of some of the stuff I'm taking with me..

Prints! I have 11 designs in all, one of which is exclusive to the Comix Thing! The 'Animals Packing Heat' will also feature in this years Anthology. As much as I would of liked to have come up with a unique comic for it, I didn't come up with any great ideas as my comic writing skills are rather rusty. :E

Comix Thing: 7 days to go..

Gonna post a photo of the stuff I'm taking to sell every day running up to the event next Saturday at Mile End in London. As you can maybe tell I'm really looking forward to this, being my first ever convention table thing like this.

First off, the Lucy Lolly DVDs! I probably made far too many of these but I can always sell any left over another time (maybe even online). Oh btw, the winners of the Lucy Lolly Fan Art contest have been announced over at DeviantArt, so copies of the DVDs have been put aside for the 5 who won. Glad to finally get these DVD sorted out as I started working on it sometime in 2008 and put it off for ages, but doing the Comix Thing has kicked my arse to get it done! There's around 22 minutes of content in total, so I hope people think it's good value for money!

Lucy Lolly Art Contest: Voting time!

So the entry stage of the Lucy Lolly art contest on DeviantArt lasted a lot longer than originally planned so people could get their entries in on time, and now with Comix Thing looming it's time for members of the website to vote for their favorite. If you're signed up to DeviantArt, go check out the entries and vote!

Speaking of Comix Thing, I'm getting everything ready for it now including hundreds of badges, DVDs of Lucy Lolly and prints. It's very close so I gotta hurry!

Southend Film festval ident

The Southend Film festival website is now live so I can talk to you about this piece of animation I made for it, which can be found on the website's front page.

I worked on this between December and January using Flash and Premiere Pro as I often do. The latter program was used for the odd visual effect but also to soften and add a little grain to the flash animation (of which you sadly cannot see in the video online) so it didn't look too flat.

You may recognize the character that stars in this: it is a re-design of Reet, who for the last 5 years has sat on the front page of Tea N Crumpets, only now he is completely green and has eyes! The simple background scenery is made up of parts of the festival logo. It was a fun project to work on, I particularly enjoyed making all the squishy sounds for it!