Fan Art for Ghostbot

For my good friends over at Ghostbot who had doodled two versions of Xixa in my sketchbook while sitting in their booth at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con. I had promised to return the favor and draw their really cute character Miss Fit.

Xixa Cosplay

Commissioned Illiara, the very lovely and talented cosplayer, to dress as my alien girl from the planet Xylem, Xixa.

There were hundreds of photos taken but Keith, and here is a sample from my cell phone camera.Make up was by Liz. Illiara was so very patient. She sat for hours to be turned green, and she didn't complain once!

The day was such a success. I can't wait to get all the photos from the shoot.

Transformers Satire For FrankTV

*forgive the laugh track and the applause. This was shown to a studio audience*.

Titmouse did some animated shorts that satire popular cartoons and video games from the 80's for Frank TV on TBS. They gave me the Transformers short to direct.

I did the Storyboards, Designs, Layouts and Animated some of the scenes. The scene I'm most proud of is the classic scene where Optimus drive up to the camera, and as he transforms the camera fallows him up. Actually, I did all of the transforming scenes! But that scene I'm most proud of.

I should also mention that I storyboarded, designed and did the layout in FlashCS; as well as the animation. It was comped together using Final Cut.

We managed to find some original SoundFX from Season 1 of Transformers, however, it seems the production at FrankTV took them out and replaced them for legal reasons perhaps.

Also, for legal reasons, I wasn't allow to design the Transformers exactly like the original characters. Again for legal reasons. Hence why Bumble Bee is green, etc.

Originally aired on Frank TV
Production Titmouse inc www.titmouse.net

Women in Boxes Complete!

I finished last night and I fedex'd the drawing off today. It should get to NYC by Monday.

Here's the flier to the show

I'll be flying in to NYC for the show too; see you there if you go.

Too Art for TV Too (UPDATE)

With the 24th of November as my deadline I have finished more than half of the boxes. I did not finish the last two on the bottom left because I ran out of materials! A cropped version down below to demonstrate what I am going for with this project.

To Art for TV Too

So my very talented sister is having a gallery opening featuring artists in the animation industry. The name of the show is To Art for TV Too. You can read an article about it on Cartoon Brew. I thought that the show would be a perfect opportunity to explore my Woman in Boxes exercise but in a much larger scale. I'm so happy with how it's turning out, I wanted to share my work in progress.

4'x4' masonite with a grid of 225 boxes at 3"x3" each

I've always wanted to try this, and the Show is a good excuse to try it out. Basically I had a masonite board cute to a square of 4'x4'.

A detail of what a roughed box looks like before I color

Each box is the same size as a standard postit 3"x3". I set in a boarder for the board at 1.5" leaving me with 15 boxes across, and 15 boxes down which add up to 225 boxes total!

I was introduced to carandache crayons during college '93 bfa film/video

My medium is Carandache Neocolor II crayons and I use a very small palette. A light orange, a redder orange, navy blue, marron, peach (for my hot highlights) and black (for my outlines).Each pose could be repeated but will never be treated the same.

Unlike my digital work, the I don't intend for each finished box to be perfectly rendered. I want the observer to see the marks I laydown on the board.

Exteme closeup of one completed box

So as long as I can finish at least 4 boxes a day, I'll have the work done in time a week before the show Dec 5th.

Pepper Jade

I had a hankering to draw a cute bondage type gal wearing latex long gloves and thigh high boots. The result was this little spit fire of a girl.Pepper Jade (c) Edward Artinian 2008

Pepper Jade (c) Edward Artinian 2008