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So here’s the last design in our series of cute, yet vicious little critters. Again, this little guy started with Sarah’s Sketchbook version (top) and then I did my version in Flash (bottom). First this dude blinds you with his obnoxious coloring, then he slimes you to keep you from getting away, then he eats your brains! Munch, munch, munch!
We did it! We achieved our goal of making it through the entire alphabet -- that means a Monday Morning Motivators exercise for every letter! I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling pretty good about this achievement. It’s the little things that keep us happy!
Another big THANK YOU to everyone who suggested a theme over on our Facebook page! We really appreciate your support!
With that, we’ll be taking a break from our Monday Morning Motivators for a little while, but you can always check out our previous exercises if you get bored. Hey, why not give one a try yourself? If you do, feel free to post it over on our Facebook page for us to check out! We’d love to see what you come up with. ;)
Anyway, here is the final alphabet letter theme… “Z” is for ZOMBIES!!!
Here’s the third design in our series of cute, yet vicious little critters. This little dude was really fun to draw! Sarah nailed his look pretty much on her first sketch (top), then I had my fun with the blue lines and color mock in Flash (bottom). I wouldn’t mind having this little guy hanging out in my garden -- of course, I guess I’d need to start a garden first, but anyway… ;)
Mark brought up a good point today... Did you ever notice how Yorkshire Terriers kind of look like Ewoks? Well, they do! I didn’t realize it before, but after sketching them today I found it easy to end up with something resembling an Ewok. Anyway, this week’s Monday Morning Motivator’s theme was chosen by Nataliya Platonava over on our Facebook page. Thanks again for the adorable suggestion!
It looks like we’re coming to the end of our alphabet exercise with next week’s theme... anything starting with the letter “Z." So anyone who hasn’t made a suggestion yet should drop us a line here or on our Facebook page. Become a fan, suggest a theme, and if we dig it we’ll draw it.
For those that don’t know… MMMs is our weekly exercise where we pick a theme and spend the first hour of each week sketching. The sketches can be loose or tight, but the point is to work out the weekend stiffness and draw something new.
Now without further ado, we present... "Y" is for Yorkies!
This character is the result of yet another fun exercise I did for the Design-A-Character group over on Deviant Art. The idea behind this challenge was to design a character based off of a provided name –- in this case, the name is Galin Modric.
So many things came to mind when I heard the name... a dark-ages wizard, a soul-stealing grim reaper, or a sci-fi bounty hunter (just to name a few). I chose to go with the latter. So, here you have it... Galin Modric, sci-fi bounty hunter extreme! Enjoy!
Is it a blast from from the past or a visit to the future? Either way, a little over a year ago we posted about our work on the Tier Drop! animated teaser. I was put in charge of painting the backgrounds for this production, so I thought I'd share some of my work.
First up, is the "Future Alleyway!" Seeing as our main character really only travels "two days" into the future, I just needed to reference some current alleys. ;) So I went with your standard dirty alley, which I found to be humorous since we expect the future, even if only two days into it, to be better, brighter and more wonderful.
Next up are my layout lines, which I drew in Flash and filled with blocks of flat color. We sometimes do this to choose our colors, then we'll take this into Photoshop and paint the shadows and highlights, etc.
Last but not least, here is Mark's original animatic sketch. As you can see, he laid out the very basic shot and I had to actually define and embellish all the background details.
Here is the second design in our series of cute, yet vicious little critters. Again, this guy was started by Sarah in Sketchbook Pro (top) then tweaked by me in Flash (bottom). All of the designs in this series were concepts for a game where little critters like this would be attacking you!
Xenopus may not be a highly-skilled warrior princess, but it is a highly-aquatic frog native to Sub-Saharan Africa. This week’s Monday Morning Motivator's theme was once again suggested by Michelle Costantini over on our Facebook page! Thanks again Michelle!
Next week's theme is anything that starts with the letter "Y," so anyone interested in making a suggestion can drop us a line here or on our Facebook page. Become a fan, suggest a theme, and if we dig it we’ll draw it.
For those that don’t know… MMMs is our weekly exercise where we pick a theme and spend the first hour of each week sketching. The sketches can be loose or tight, but the point is to work out the weekend stiffness and draw something new.
Now without further ado, we present... "X" is for Xenopus! Ribbit!
This dude started as a doodle in my sketchbook one night... then I just kept adding lines here and there while at lunch or on the phone, etc. Sometimes it's just relaxing for me to draw without any sort of end plan for an image. Plus, I always love the chance to sketch on paper again!
I added some quick grays for a background in Photoshop. I may end up coloring him in the future, time permitting of course. We'll see...
Today’s post is a look back at a fun Web short we animated for TikiMon Island called, “Cuckoo for Coconuts!” We’ve mentioned it a few times here on the 2A! blog, but never actually got the chance to post it. So here it is!
The animation features an adventure with Monsoon and Ungowa, two TikiMon characters based off of the line of toys from Mezco Toyz. The figures were already in production when we created this short, so their cartoon designs were based off of the existing toys.
We had a blast working on this project, which included designing and animating this short, as well as a series of Flash games and the Tikimon Island website. Enjoy!
We all need shelter; it's a rule of nature. We human's have homes, animals have habitats, and in Sifaka World you can get the best of both with user homes for your animal avatars!
Our user homes started with the idea of a basic hut, with a wood floor and straw roof, that players could customize to their own liking with various furniture items. Below is my initial sketch of the empty hut.
As you can see, the inside of the user home got enlarged from the initial sketch to the color mock (below). We needed to make sure these huts had ample space inside for players to decorate and move their avatar around.
Below is the final base hut built in Flash. Now we’re ready to start decorating…
Players can earn points to buy furniture and other fun objects for their homes by playing the various games on the site. Another exciting option of these homes is you can even invite your friends over. Just think how jealous they'll be when they see your big screen TV! Below are a few screen shots of how we decorated our user home. In the second image you can even see the grid we had to adhere to when designing the user home and furniture items for game play.
Decorating and furniture buying is a fun thing to do -- at least until you see the price tag! I'm still saving up to get a hot tube in my own user home. ;)
Every old pirate has his day and this old sea dog has decided to hang up his cutless and pistols.
In recent days despite Sven Scramm renewing the IK domain name the people that make this game what it is have all played musical chairs at the top hoping to get out that last bit of fun on the highseas of IK. There are around 320 players left in an ever dwindling pool of big and small fish.
Most recently [Ravens] came to an end where most members went to [IX]. Then [Slayer] disbanded after some of their leading lights called it a day. Now, today Little and mark69 left [The Club] in search for adventure with [OS] promising plenty of old style killing.
Here in beautiful France I got to thinking about full retirement from IK. I am old school having grown up in the game back in the long distant past of 2005. I have fought in most of the big wars of IK, I have had an impact on how the game went and have "killed" thousands of players in my many wars. I started as Raul in February 2005 and built a 300 strong alliance interplay called [Firefox]. I ended the game as Skandar. Both the Raul and Skandar names became sort of legends to many players who divided into the "love" and "hate" camps.
My best years on IK was 2005-2006. My best wars was [Firefox] v's [R|M] and [Virus] v's [Nexus]. My favoured players were Tantalus, Ooglak, The_Noose, Stevex, Freedom, Vampire.
From the start IK suffered poor rule enforcement and security resulting in a unique and messy type of game play as cheats exploited the game to their advantage. The biggest negative impact on IK was the account buying which saw noobs using cash rather than skill to enter the top ranks.
My thanks to Tank for giving me one last opportunity to fight on IK in the [The Club] war against [Slayer] which saw our alliance beat [Slayer] and their allies.
The two best alliances will always be for me [Firefox] and [Virus]. I also always had a great admiration for [Crow].
I started IK as a kid and now I leave IK as an adult. Many of us have grown up in IK but all good things come to an end. I thank everyone, both friend and enemy who made my time on IK so interesting. Have fun with what is left of IK and I hope someone will write the story of the closing months of the game as sadly this is my last blog entry.
The following YouTube video was my favourite one I created that recorded the elite team of [Virus] at the zenith of its reign in IK.
This is a scene I made, to practice some 3D/Maya Animation. It was mostly done by using key frames and not much tweaking of splines in the Graph Editor. Maybe I can find a good tutorial somewhere about giving more punch to the animation by tweaking the splines. I signed up for lynda.com for their Maya Essential Training tutorial, Highly recommended! Thanks for letting me know about this, Mitch! The character rig is from 11secondclub.com
comments and critiques are welcome
The voice is Julian Barrat's, and the clip is taken from "The Mighty Boosh" 2x05 "The Legend of Old Gregg"
Here’s a cool short we animated for our friends at Snark Rocket Studios (formerly Camp Chaos), which recently premiered on CollegeHumor.com. The animation is a political spoof that, with the help of the iconic characters from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, pokes fun at today’s political climate… more specifically the controversial Tea Party movement.
2A! worked on the character animation in Flash, for Snark Rocket! Check out some screen shots below, then watch the movie above. Enjoy!
Usually I'm not a fan of pop-culture references. my main objection to them is that the humor isn't original, or related to the show, it is usually non relevant, and unfunny without prior knowledge of the culture item that is being quoted or referred. If the reference is non relevant to the show, there is usually no sophistication in bringing it up.
I think this bit from "The IT Crowd" is an exception. Even though it requires prior knowledge to be understood, It's sophisticated and relevant because it reflects on the characters, and therefore specific to the show
Moss is a super-nerd, therefore it would make sense that he would confuse "Fredo" from "The Godfather" with "Frodo" from "Lord of the Rings". Moreover, he doesn't SAY "Frodo", we do the math in our own heads, based on the character's reply which engages the viewers.
According to Stephen Hawking, Time travel to the past is impossible due to paradoxes, effects can never happen before causes. However, Steven Moffat wasn't frightened to make this paradox his bread and butter for writing Series 5.
I'm excited for the next series, this one was good, and definitely got better as it went along!
This post is dedicated to Whovians world wide... especially Nicole!
