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Saturday, November 12, 2011

CHADES CHALLENGE LXI: WICKED TREES



Sorry for the delay, I had a tough time uprooting this fella from my sketchbook.



Stubborn little shrub! If you have any "Wicked Trees", let me know and I'll post them below. Otherwise, you can join in November 23rd for...

CHADES CHALLENGE LXII: A MUPPET THANKSGIVING





Rami "The Bough that Breaks" Kasim






11 days...

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Big Bazir


Getting in the mood for DnD tonight with a sketch of my dwarven cleric, Baz. He killed a dire wolf once, and as you can see, he's very proud of it.

21 days...

Friday, September 02, 2011

The Rogues Gallery

There's been a lot of Marvel/DC movie news on the interwebs this week and it's had me on a superhero drawing kick.


I've always been a fan of Spidey's black outfit. Better silhouette and a lot more arachnid.


Of course, the outfit looks even better on Venom.


It's a shame they put a mask on Willam Dafoe. He'd have been much scarier with just a little bit of the Weta orc makeup.


The Vulture. Keep calm and carrion.


Your mind would be warped, too, if your diet consisted primarily of roadkill.


My second favorite superhero, The Man of Steely Gazes.


I think this was an inadvertent rip-off of an Alex Ross piece.


I'm surprised no one's done Bizarro in a feature film. He'd be a terrific tragic villain...


...especially if he has the proper backing.


Who wants to see this buddy comedy?


Killer Croc's always fun because, like The Lizard, he's basically half way to drawing a dinosaur.

They're like an old married couple, aren't they?


Two-Face. Who says he has to always be pissed off?


And finally, the distinguished Mr. Cobblepot. He uses his bird conservation efforts as a front for his criminal empire, but the truth is he can't stand birds. "There's bird shit everywhere! It's like nature's white out!!"


Hope you enjoyed this deluge of drawings. Happy Labor Day everyone! Three day weekend coming up, and that's cause for a cigar.


Friday, July 01, 2011

CHADES CHALLENGE LIII: SUPER 8


I'm not sure about you guys, but when I was watching Super 8 (minor spoilers to follow), I thought the cubes were the actual alien. Y'know, some sort of bionic organism. The creature from the train was surely just the advanced organism's pet. Some unruly space watchdog. Maybe the cube-man would reward the kids for helping him by letting them keep his pet. Then BOOM: franchise created. Move over Air Bud, here comes Space Spot!

Anyway, if you have your own ideas about the Super 8 monster, let me know and I'll post them below! If not, you're welcome to contribute to our next Character Design Challenge on July 15th. The subject, which you all chose on last week's poll, is more than meets the eyes:

CHADES CHALLENGE LIV: REJECTED TRANSFORMERS







On a completely unrelated note, here's this week's Kilt Friday pic. Drawn by my Animated Buzz mentee Patrick Stannard. Thanks, Patrick!
 
Remember folks: if it's not Scottish, it's crap!

14 days...

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Combat Con

Emma Coats and I have an agreement: she makes films, and I animate her production company's bumper for said films. Sometimes we even make a promotional sticker of said bumper for said film (see below).


So when Emma goes to a festival to promote her film, I like to tag along to promote my bumper. Last weekend was the premier of her latest masterpiece, Horizon.



We showed the film at Combat Con in Las Vegas. Since this is the first year Combat Con has been put on, the crowds were...modest, to say the least.


12% of our audience were knights, so that's saying something. He really dug the film by the way, even though he was unable to sit and had to watch the whole thing leaning against a beam.


While we were at Combat Con, we figured we'd get a bit of sparring in. Our visual effects supervisor Don taught a lesson in pain to this haughty knave.


While there wasn't a huge crowd at the convention, the characters that did attend were pretty colorful. I saw this gentleman stomping away from a pulverized slot machine.


After the screening, the Horizon crew wandered the strip for a while and ended up running into a co-worker. Usually, one experiences a different sort of buzz in sin city.


We capped the night off with a round of donations to the Caesar's Palace fund.


Needless to say, it was another knight to remember in Vegas.


If you'd like to check out Horizon (and the gloriously animated production bumper), Emma will be screening the film next month at TR!CKSTER.


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Monday, March 07, 2011

More Interstellar Tyrants
These were actually the first drawings of the character, who I'll go ahead and name, um, The Grand Galactar. Hey, that sounds pretty cool.


A good leader needs a single vision. That's why cyclopses make the best leaders.
The Grand Galactar doesn't look down on anyone. Well...he looks down on everyone equally.
This sketch predates the one in the last post, but I think this one's better.


Here's a contribution from Everett Downing, a man who knows a thing or two about galactic super-villains:


While we're on the subject, I hate to break it to you, but NASA did not discover extra-terrestrial life last week.

41 days...

Friday, March 04, 2011

CHADES CHALLENGE XLV:
INTERSTELLAR TYRANTS

I was strapped for time this week, so I jotted this interstellar tyrant on a complimentary notepad handed out at an educational conference earlier today.



It was a long conference, so I had plenty of time to draw.



Rest assured, I was listening the entire time I was sketching this guy.



The conference was in Sacramento, so I think I was channeling the former governator for this particular space fascist.



Here I am in the conference room with my old animation teacher, Shawn Sullivan. Thirteen years ago, Shawn gave me my first animation lessons at Sheldon High School. Now that I am a teacher myself, he's giving me my first lessons in the field of education...



...and power tools. Thaumatropes were handed out to everyone who attended our conference. Shawn never settles for the "ordinary" animation methods. This is his Power Thaumatrope.




If you designed any interstellar tyrants, leave me a comment with a link to your image and I'll post it below. If not, join us March 18th for Chades Challenge XLVI: Cheesy Graverobbers!

44 days...