Artist's Alley

Here's some Ronin Dojo Community College DX Artwork I've been futzing with.



More to come.


EDIT: Also, Matt has a new blog, or rather A blog: http://frankensteinsninja.wordpress.com/


BUMBLE BEE IS ROBOT RIGHTS!

RDHSDX Fan Sites

So this is already on the For Tax Reasons website, but I'll repeat it here anyways. Me and Matt were searching around the internet randomly for "Ronin Dojo High School DX"- the manga/anime from the 90's which our short IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR is based upon- and we found these old geocities fan sites from like 1997. Check it out, theres:

Michael Hubert's Ronin Dojo High School DX Fan Site

and then

r0nind0j0pr1me's Ultimate Ronin Dojo High School DX Fan Site

It's weird. It's like they both are fighting with each other. I dunno, you'll have to read it yourselves.


www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/301/fan_sites & Robot Rights

Whatever it takes!

So, I've been too busy to plan out an April Fools joke. So here's a regular outdated post. The other day one of my shorts, IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR, was featured on the front page of YouTube.


A big thanks to Channel Frederator for selecting it. And to the lovely Jess Park for taking that screenshot. IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR got like 300,000 more views, so that means like 300,000 more people got to hear Jess Park's heavenly Korean voice because she has the first line in the short. I mean they at least heard that before they clicked to another page or decided to write some hate comments about how we were going to hell. Oh well.

In other news, a mysterious YouTube user made a SWEET AMV out of our animations and a song from on of my favorite bands- the Max Levine Ensemble!



And oh yeah. Degrassi is sweet. Marco and Paige were at my work today.


CRAIG'S SECRET FIGHT & ROBOT RIGHTS

Pop Punk, Who'd Have Thunk

Say whaat- two posts in as many days! That's crazy. So, here it is. In a glorious tribute to my inability to multi-task, here's the long awaited (by me) release of the music video I did for Ben Weasel's "Got My Number". Check it out.



It was definitely a challenge. I worked on it all the while I was working all the IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR related cartoons and the project I did for Jackie Clarke. It's very static and has some very limited animation, which works on some levels, but with music videos where so much of the editing relies on hitting on or moving with beats, the static-ness leaves much to desire. Plus I've realized that drawing small is good for saving pencil mileage, but if you're going to really zoom in on these, they need to be bigger and cleaner. I really wish I could have inked all these drawings, but alas I just didn't have the time.

I might post about my cleaning and coloring process in photoshop for this video, I tried some interesting things. I really enjoy the Vampirella design I made, I want to do a t shirt or poster of her. And the zombie kissing shot is also really fun.


Femme Fang Bites & Robot Rights

MC Tom Callow

Tom Callow's making the headlines on BoingBoing.net today. AKA there's a new short starring everybody's favorite nerds (aside from those three extras in Saved by the Bell) in an exclusive for Boing Boing TV. The highlight is clearly Tim Martin's performance as Barry's Dad. He's great and improvised a lot of those lines. And if you watch past the Michael Bay appearance, you get to see a dark look into the soul of making animation in Queens.



Also I made an IN UR MANGER t-shirt design:
I'm going to start silk screening it onto t-shirts, so if you want to buy one, check out the merch section of the For Tax Reasons site.


Super Smash Masonites & Robot Rights

EDIT: The preview pic for that embedded video was AE bot in front of the tom callow poster, but they changed it at some point. Just to explain why I'm talkin' bout Callow.

It truly is a Global Village

It's my birthday today, and what could be a better surprise than an awesome nerdy video homage to something I animated. Matt showed me this response video to one of our IN UR MANGER vlogs. In the vlog, we had mentioned the concept of nerds LARPing as the Justice League at an Easter egg hunt- and they did it!



So awesome, especially the peeps bit.


Infinite Crisis & Robot Rights's

solidarity

I was abstaining from blogging to show my solidarity with the WGA, but the strike is finally over so I felt obligated to go online and make that joke for billionth time.

I finished some artwork for dcska.com. I'm not exactly sure where or when it will be used, I think it's gonna at least go on some post cards or something. Hrm, how come this jpeg looks a bit washed out. Anyone?

And I'm almost done coloring the Ben Weasel video. This is a still I exported from After Effects. It took me a while to get the color scheme down on this one, I'm still such an amateur at color theory, so I'm still not totally satisfied. I'll get it right one of these days- or die trying.


Writer's Strikes & Robot Rights