Jerry and Sketches #001

Here's a sketch of Jerry Garcia I drew from an old magazine.

I've been watching Bill Plympton post his sketches for his new film. I feel like doing the same. Unfortunately my scanner is busted, so I'm relying on my camera. I still have to figure out a title. It'll come to me eventually. Also, school will be starting soon. I'll be heading back to New York on Thursday and moving in on Friday. Can't wait!

I've also been brainstorming for a new Flash animation. I've wanted to start some sort of series. I was working on one a long time ago called Fool's Life, but it was not funny at all and the animation was terrible. I was also working on an animation for a tournament called Rise, but I couldn't finish it in time due to my lack of commitment plus a terrible hard drive failure. More punishment for my procrastination. I had a jump drive with a crappy "trailer" I made for the movie when I was working on it. At least it allowed me to save some of the work to show:

The thing about these contests is that most of the characters you drew were created by other people. These two characters belong to Mr-Tea-And-Crumpets. You create a character and had to work them into the story somehow. You compete with other people seeing who can create the better story overall. I didn't get the animation done, made a comic instead, and didn't make it into the roster. However, the animation I made was close to the type of thing I want to work on now. I liked the design, but I haven't tried doing something like it again...

TOFA 2011

Albinoblacksheep's TOFA 2011 is over for me, but I'll definitely participate next year. Round 2 consisted of animating the worst date ever with which we had to include a frozen mongoose somewhere in the video. The round was broken into four brackets. I was in the second one. Check out the videos on TOFA's website and on Albinoblacksheep. Also check out Round 3's Animated Introduction created by the awesome Andrew Kepple. A bunch of our characters get slaughtered! XD

Now there's only two more rounds left. Good luck to the winners! Thanks to Eyesadrift, John LaPiana, and AvidLebon for doing the characters' voices in my video. If you need a voice actor for your video, give them a call!

My current project is a Flash adventure game. I wanted to delve more into programming with Actionscript.