Storyboard panel.

A nice panel from a storyboard for an animation project I've been working on. Spent a little too long on this particular shot, so thought she could do with being shown elsewhere. I don't know if the storyboards will ever see the light of day.

Odd things

I normally just post drawings on the blog, but I had a chuckle this evening over a couple of pictures and stories that I saw on I09 featuring Nic Cage and John Travolta. One of the oddest-but-could-conceivably-be-true- stories I've seen since the Scarlett Johansson is a clone story broke. (see here for details on that one)

Start here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-1860s-AMBROTYPE-John-TRAVOLTA-Time-Traveler-/160614928241?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2565654f71#ht_1681wt_1123

Then go and read the article on I09 here: http://io9.com/5845103/

And finally http://io9.com/5841112/was-nicolas-cage-a-vampire-during-the-civil-war-this-1000000-photograph-holds-the-answers Which was a story I had missed, so I'd had a giggling fit when I saw the photo. Thing is, the more you look at it the more plausible it seems to be. In a more interesting world, that is.


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An Angry Pig

Speaking of Back&Beyond

There's an event happening on 26th June at the Novel Cafe in Lancaster. A Story forum, organised by Back and Beyond's Moll Baxter as a fundraiser for printing costs. To quote Moll from her blog "Gorgeous venue, cracking line-up, worthy cause…" 

Back and Beyond

So hopefully people have seen, and hopefully picked up a copy from many different locations around Lancaster and Morecambe, but Back and Beyond, a new arts magazine for the area has come out over the last couple of weeks. I'm on the editorial team, along with Si Hawksworth and Phil McMillian (from Fold Design), Mollie Baxter and Mick Murphy, and after the best part of a year, issue one is out! And it looks the business as well. If you don't manage to get an actual real-life paper copy, there's another version that's made of 1's and 0's which doesn't exist; here: http://backandbeyond.org/index.html

I also had three illustrations featured in there:

The first as a general Lancaster themed illustration (featured here), the second and third to accompany a couple of poems from inside.

Back and Beyond around the web:

The main website: http://backandbeyond.org/index.html
Moll's blog: http://www.molliebaxter.com/backbeyond-issue-1-out-now
and the printers blog, http://blog.newspaperclub.com/ who will be featuring us at some point.

Twitter:

Phil McMillian: @folddesignuk
Mollie Baxter: @MollBaxter

Recent Commission

Not posted much for a while but I've finished a few things off recently so I'll have to get them blogged very soon. Until then, here's an early sketch from a panel of a recent commission that went down very well with the client. (Note: it featured lots of dead frogs.)

The making of....Mr Myiagi

Well, I won't go into it that much. Let's just say it took a while, there was lots to draw and even more to animate. And then there was the voice over (you should hear the outtakes!) not to mention the sound effects and the music - then the editing. Phewf. Plenty to do.

So I thought I'd have a muck about with all of the constituent bits and pieces, and there was LOADS done! All the backgrounds and shadows and lights and tables (and poo's) eyes and pupils and eylids - and all the bits that ended up edited out (it was originally about 5 minutes long! Even edited down to 3.00mins I think I'll suffer from tl;dr!) ... but you get the idea - lots of drawing, lots of lessons learned.

The main one being I'M NEVER GOING TO DO ANYTHING WITH FLIES AGAIN!

If you haven't seen it go here: http://merkerwork.co.uk/2011/03/mr-myiagi/ and have a look. Tell your friends, eh?