the Kobb Cave
Currently I'm drawing for a webcomic called Beyond the Western Deep! Update reminders are usually posted here weekly.
So I might be crazy. But um. My sister and I were planning on going to New York Comic Con this year and are starting to think about costumes. Space will be at a premium because of how we are traveling (and can’t guarantee the safety of any fragile materials)… but if we DO go in costume….
Well, she’s going to be a krogan. And I’m going as a quarian.#role reversal amirite #simple costumes indeed #no I’m not being green Tali I’m being Hol’Megara #thank YOU
Yeah, I don’t even know how we’re going to fit all this stuff - might have to do a stripped-down version if the packing space situation gets too bad.
but it’ll be like our heavy/medic all over again, ahaha. I’ll be the grumpiest little krogan with a quarian friend who’s taller than him XD
(contemplating the idea of trying to make the character young or female to account for height vs. just embracing the shortykrogan, but we’ll see)
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First concept doodle for a costume I want to make that is probably way out of my depth.
But darnit, I’m going to try. >:V
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Finally scanned some doodles from a couple months ago, inspired by a forum RP thread that sadly died right as things were about to get good. Krax and a couple other krogan (one of them nearly old enough to remember the salarian uplift) get trapped in the ruins of an old hangar/bunker during a massive sandstorm on Tuchanka. Tensions immediately flared, especially since Krax’s armor betrays him as Imperial (the forum timeline saw the formation of a fledgling Krogan Empire, which not all clans support)…
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BWD update’s now live! Also with an announcement on the inter-chapter hiatus that’s coming up!
fire 8U’
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What are studios looking for? How can I get into a good animation school? What should I be studying?
I get a lot of these types of questions now and again, and I never know how to answer them. I can’t be sure of what studios are looking for, I don’t control admissions policies to schools, and I have little idea what makes for a current and relevant curriculum. There are a lot of variables in your bid for a career in animation, and it’s kind of impossible to control most of them. You must be crazy to want this job!
I find it helpful to focus on the things I can control. Among those things are your study habits and how you spend your personal time. It’s good to work hard and have goals—without them we would get nowhere. Study hard and make decisive strides towards achieving your art goals. But in the heat of that pursuit, don’t forget to go out and live your life!
If you spend any amount of time looking at artists online, you’ve probably figured out by now that there are about a million dudes and dudettes in internetville who draw better than you (I relive this realization daily). Once your have done your best to rise to their level, the only tool you have to compete with these crazy talents is your background, your personal character—is you!
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.
I know this advice is not particularly animation-specific, but maybe that’s for the best. At any rate, it is something I feel strongly about. Animation is great, and there are few things that I enjoy doing more than drawing and storytelling. But in order to have stories to tell, first you have to live them.
Be good, and see you soon!
PS, if you were looking for advice on draftsmanship you should probably be reading this.
Y’all are following this man, right?? Amazing advice, which I need to follow more often.
(Click the link to see the picture post, which the above text is merely a supplement to. - it’s very long, very good, and I’m trying to prevent people who might follow the both of us from having duplicate long posts on their dash, heheh. Go! READ!)
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Season Five of TMNT 2k3
I was very disappointed by season five of TMNT 2k3. I was fast-forwarding through episodes just to get through it. I didn’t feel like anything really sparked with any of the characters, and I didn’t care for the Ninja Tribunal at all or even Tengu Shredder’s origins. I should’ve loved it because I’m into Japanese mythology and everything, but it seemed so bland and just didn’t resound well with me.
I think season five was a missed opportunity and, even though I enjoyed some episodes of Fast Forward and Back To The Sewers, I think the 2k3 series should’ve ended with a fifth season, but with a completely different storyline. I really wish the writers had gone with Peter Laird’s idea of having the turtles split up and go their separate ways for a time. This hasn’t really been done before in the TMNT universe and I think with the 2k3 series especially it would’ve been a great opportunity to showcase their brotherly bond being threatened and the travails they have to endure before finally being reunited. And maybe it’s not a happy reunion. Maybe they grow too far apart for things to be as they once were…
Agree’d so hard, on everything. While I liked parts of the 5th season, overall it didn’t really do much for me. Super Mystical Anime Turtles completely lost me, and… I don’t even remember finishing it. At least I lasted longer than my “let’s give it a second chance” shots on the Fast Forward and Back to the Sewer seasons, ugh. Seasons 1-4 = TMNT 2k3 as far as I’m concerned.
I like my Turtles pretty mundane. The less scifi and mutant-of-the-week, the better. (I make an exception for the Triceraton stories in the comics/2k3 show because come on, they’re rad.) Once the guys had these ridiculous mystical weapons and started calling their attacks (and I guess they turned into dragons later???) it didn’t feel like TMNT anymore! Nor did futuristic weapons, ability to walk the daylit streets of future Earth, or going to the internet to defrag Splinter ausldjfkl
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This isn’t just an episode highlight, it’s one of my favourite moments of the entire season. Everything about it is awesome
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Yeah this episode went through a LOT of rewrites (half the dialogue was scratch tracks) and defs not the strongest, it was kind of a weird one. 8I Glad you liked the animation though!! That’s all that matters to me hehe
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EDIT: will throw my TMNT thoughts for “The Pulverizer Returns” under a cut, just in case :d
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