Underwear-clad Misty Misty, the character that I’ve been working on for my first Synfig animation, has been only dressed in under garments since her inception. I know that I want a 50s/60s look for her, but so far I haven’t come up with anything. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing around with ideas […]
A friend wanted me to paint this advertisement for Diet Coke. They did new limited edition packaging geared towards women with an ad campaign that has these big-eye puppets. I took a break after I discovered that the script was corrupt for the file and I wouldn’t be able to replay the painting. Fortunately, I
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Excited about new technology In the spring, I saw the video below unveiling the new Sketchbook Ink. I was psyched to think that Autodesk has made an app for the iPad that’s resolution independent vector painting. I read the reviews and saw that the only export options were image files and not SVG. For me that wasn’t
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Starting from a doodle This little guy was created out of being bored yesterday. I don’t know if I’d use him for anything, but it was fun to just play. ArtRage Woes I received an error again when trying to run the script for this illustration. It seems that when the illustration gets too much
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Painting at the National Gallery Today I had lunch with my friend Denis who works at the National Gallery. After we were done with lunch, I wanted to take a look at the George Bellows exhibit on the second floor. Before I got to the exhibit, I took a pit stop and spent two hours
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Stanly Cumberbun is the new character on the block So with all the work on Misty, I thought that I can’t be the only man in her life. I came up with a new man by the name of Stanly Cumberbun. I’m not sure what his character is going to be like. I’m thinking of
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Giving Misty a voice Yesterday morning I thought it would be fun to test the mouths that I recently created for Misty. I tried to make it all happen by using open source software. I needed to find a voice for Misty and discovered Jenny Mayhem. She’s a up-and-coming singer/songwriter has real talent. I downloaded
Progress! So Misty is finally getting her facial expressions together. I still need to work on the body, hand and feet charts, but she’s getting close to being complete. Layout software troubles I have been trying to make everything in open-source software, but I think I may be hitting the wall. After I collected all
Misty needs a nemesis—enter Kitty Nikkers While I’ve been working on the different mouth charts for Misty—which I need to post—I started to think of a nemesis for Misty. I came up with Kitty Nikkers, her mother. Kitty is an old DC society woman that’s put off by her daughter’s career decisions and lifestyle. She
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After spending the past week working on how to make libraries in Synfig, I finally was able to start working on all the different body positions for Misty. I’m hoping to get everything drawn in the next week. I may rethink how I originally constructed Misty once everything is drawn. I think I may be
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