Dumpy Time

Practice...

I'm watching Jeremy Vickery's Practical Light and Color dvd from Gnomon...and it's a lot to take in all at once. I thought I'd try my hand at painting some subsurface scattering. I discovered that it's actually kinda hard. So I decided to start from the beginning. It helped, but I've still got a ways to go...

Another old shirtless man.

Maybe it's weird that this seems to be becoming a theme, but to be honest, I wouldn't draw them if it weren't so fun.

Quickie

Just a quick sketch tonight. Good ol' MS Paint.

Finishing what I started...

Finally had some free time to finish a song I started at the end of last year. I'm into re-arranging videogame music from games I played as a kid. So I rearranged some music from Mario 3 and Mario 64 into a little ditty I called "Submarine Dream." Freshly posted to my MySpace music account this afternoon. I plan on submitting it to the panel of judges at OCR to hopefully get it posted as an official OverClocked ReMix. This one's definitely better than my last one, so things are looking good for that, I'd say. :D

By the way...two months after the comp is finished, here's my entry for Oswald. :P

Westerns?

I've been watching a lot of westerns lately. Unforgiven, 3:10 to Yuma, Tombstone...all for the first time, too. This has clearly made an impression on me. Oh, I also read Doug Tennapel's "Iron West." That probably only made it worse.

It's a muck monster.

Crazy idea: what if the next Zelda game is a western? I mean, American style--I know he was technically a cowboy in Twilight Princess, but American cowboys don't wear girdles. They wears chaps. And ponchos. Also, the thought of him wielding an Epona .45 makes me geek out for some reason.

Sleep can wait, I guess.

Super quick update before I hit the hay...

Finally got transparency working...but only in the renders. No idea yet how to view those in real-time.

The comp ends January 30th. Only three days left, and I still need to rig and pose!