Studio Update #3

Hey there. Sorry that updates are still sporadic. I have to commit to this thing better. Believe me I'm trying! I went up to the Drawing Academy last week. I got to hang out with Stephen for a little while and pick his brain about getting organized and being more productive. Hopefully some of his insight will rub off as we go forward.

We got out of Internet timeout last week or maybe even the week before that, ugh! I setup the YouTube channel but I haven't recorded any content for that yet. Hopefully next week. I have been doing lots of other recordings so maybe they'll turn up sometime.

Last night Jim and I finalized the first BG design. It's going to be the opening shot of the short. It may need one more pass but it's pretty nailed down. We have a lot done story-wise. Been spending a lot of time figuring out the poses and acting. We're right at the climax.

Today's been another heavy scan day. Jim keeps bringing in all of these boxes of amazing art so I'm trying as best I can to preserve it digitally for him. I wonder if any of this stuff will see the light of day?

Studio Update #2

OK, these aren't happening as frequently as they should. I'm trying to make more time.

Earlier this week, Jim showed me some Bruce Timm storyboards and they had this really nice texture on them. Jim said Bruce would keep a board of some sort around and do his graphite fills over it. I wanted to make sure to note that for reference.

Yesterday I worked on Pat's character design and it's starting to get there. I need to finish getting all these designs done and put them in poses. That way I can get some nice finished designs up on the wall.

I did a lot of scanning at the studio today so not super productive for me. I spent more time going through reference photos too. Jim started working on the little den's main setup so I pulled as much as I could for that. We didn't have a lot.

Jim's been bringing in his portfolios so we can archive the work and try to find something to frame since Jim liked the work Paul did on my pieces so much. Today he brought in this big beefy bastard of a portfolio that had a bunch of his super early work in it like technical illustration that he had done, I think when he was working in Houston, and some old school slides he had taken of some of the larger pieces.

So towards the end of the day he busts it out and starts going through it again, organizing it a little bit. Then he starts going through some comic pages which, at first, I thought were studies he had done. Nope. Wrong. Original Jack Kirby pages followed up by John Buscema and Gene Colan pages. Just chilling. So yeah, I think we found stuff for him to frame.