See you sucka's in two weeks!

Dead Ends

Oh, I'm working on something new. CN doesn't get the Dungeonhood, and it's been put on the back burner until the new new thing is underway. Unfortunately I can't show you the new new thing. I can show you this page of dead ends, though. I was working on a little boy character, and this is one of dozens of pages of sketches I puked out before realizing that the character shouldn't even be human, much less a boy.



My favorite part is the bulldog. He showed up in a dream a few nights later and bit the back of some guy's head off. No joke, yo.

In other news, I'm seriously considering wiping out my MySpace account. I can't seem to keep up. So just... be ready.

Playing Rough

Here are some rough sketches I did for the girl "Cricket" in the last post. She's from one of several projects I've pitched over the last few years that slipped through the cracks during the executive coup. "The Dungeonhood" is about teenage monsters who live in a dungeon neighborhood beneath a large Medieval kingdom. Cricket here is the daughter in a goblin family, and the implication is that she might not be a goblin herself. Maybe, just maybe, since all this garbage floats down into the sewers from the kingdom above, she did too.

The "Sailor Moon" outfit was just a joke on my part, since I'd started off making her look so Anime. I haven't decided whether she'll keep it or not.

My plan is to keep refining the designs and eventually to make toys out of them. I know a lot of you have done similar things, so if you know any great sculptors or anything about manufacturing, I'd be willing to listen.

Here's another character, "Francis", from the same project.


And the title design I whipped up for the pitch bible.



I don't know if I'll show any more from The Dungeonhood just yet. Most of my time now is going to working on yet another new pitch. Remeber, those of you who want to pitch shows, that you have to be willing to see most of your ideas swirling down the toilet bowl. Some people will say, "Don't get too attached to your ideas," but I think that's a stupid thing to say. If you don't care about what you're pitching, you sure as hell ain't gonna be able to make anyone else care. So, yeah, it's gonna be Sophie's Choice every single frickin' time.

In other news, Underfist is done! Thanks again to all of you who worked on it. You should be damn proud!

She's Just Bashful

Messier Than It Looks

Don't try to infer anything about Underfist from this. Everything you see here was cut from the film, which is one of the reasons I put it up here. I also did it because I always think it's cool to see how other people work.

I do a lot of cutting and pasting and opening files to take color swatches from, so I usually end up with a big pile of useless files mucking up the background, but that doesn't put a dent in my love for working with Photoshop on the Cintiq. Everything here was drawn on the Cintiq in Photoshop, cleaned up by Frank Homiski (Billy & Mandy's cleanup O.G.), and then colored in Photoshop.

iTunes keeps me sane, while Google lets me reference almost anything I need in an instant. Or distracts me with nerd forums, video games, and scandalous photos. Ah, technology...

Proof of Life

So I'm alive. And I've been Doing Stuff. Really! See?

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Guess I haven't been on much if I'm just getting them now, eh? That whole "Occasional Monster of the Day" thing turned out to be real occasional... Most of my year so far has been taken up pitching shows and working on Underfist. I'm also totally disgustingly, grossly, hideously in love. That eats up some time, it seems. Yeah, I didn't know I had it in me either. Needless to say, she's one lucky gal.

I can't tell you about any of the pitches because I have no idea what's going on with that yet. What I can say is that Underfist is awesome. I know there are a lot of skeptics. And I love skeptics, because I'm a skeptic. Well, more of a curmudgeon. A CN executive friend of mine said that Underfist is better than Big Boogey Adventure. The scary part is that I think I agree with him. So that either means that I've learned something or I got lucky. Either way, this coming Halloween you get something fun to watch!

The next few months will involve more pitching, a few surprises, a wedding (no, not mine), and jury duty, but hopefully I'll check back once or twice. Maybe there'll even come a point when I can share some of the artwork I've done!

Rats.

Sorry. I just deleted a whole bunch of comments from people. In a very stupid way. But these things happen. Thanks, anyway, for the well-wishes and questions and stuff.

From what I remember:

No, there's no planned Evil Con Carne DVD. However, there are a few on the Billy & Mandy Season One DVD, and if CN puts out the rest of the BM seasons, we'd parceled out a few half-hours of ECC for each! My favorites were the last four half hours. Those I felt really in control over. And everybody knew their character and were really able to make the show better. The highlights, I think, are C.H. Greenblatt's traffic epic "Gridlocked and Loaded", Brett Varon's "H.C.C.B.D.D." and Alex Almaguer's "Mother of All Evils". Ah, good times.

Somebody asked something else, but I forgot it while writing the first reply. To the kid with the birthday: Right-on. Keep on aging. And to the pastor from Manchester who'd started to question his faith: Start playing more video games. It'll distract you from the cruel truths of agnosticism. And finally, to Jimmy Strattonshire of Manchester, England, who turned eight this week: Please stop trying to read my mind. I know it's you.

Something real coming soon...