A new Ronin Dojo Community College DX mini saga is now in production. We're almost finished recording. Scanning storyboards for animatics and what not. In the mean time, here are some designs for some FBI agents.
I'll post more goofiness as it comes in.
Super NinTENdo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke man I couldn't picture robot rights
Usually it takes me forever to make fliers (flyers?) but this one I rattled off pretty quickly. These bands aren't ska but I can't resist drawing a dude in a black suit, shades and a pork pie hat. . . cadillac. . .yeah, the boy's a time bomb!
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:
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 So here's a regular outdated post.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.
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.
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.