Odd Sleeping

This can drive you batty. Exhausted and ready to go to sleep, make it home and... What?

I decided to draw this comic since apparently I have so much energy!

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Location:Via Baldona,Vista,United States

Sarah at School

I always wondered what the teacher was thinking when I was doing my classwork.  Now, with friends as teachers, I wonder what they think of.  I think I know Sarah decently well, so, I'd imagine she'd be riding a shark into... well, into what is really up to your imagination!

I like gradients.  I'm on a gradient kick now.  I love how it pushes you to look in one direction.  Hopefully it works like I intend it to!  Also the comics are changing a lot in style I've noticed.  They're a bit more free.  They still take just as long, but I love to shade, and I like to be looser.  Here, let's compare.

This was drawn in August, 2006!  Man what a change.  I was still in college then.  Angie Tabone was studying in Australia and our friend Adrienne had just come back to the States.  I couldn't help but play off that.  As for drawing, the line is more controlled, a bit subdued.  Funny how I've changed!

Car Cooking

Ahaha.  In what is probably the best email conversation I've had in a while, somehow Angie concluded:

How the hell does getting lost while driving a car correlate with your stew boiling over? Do you have a stove in your car or something?

And then... this comic.  I would imagine Angie would be screaming while I tried to genuinely cook.  Kelly and Jill however would be frozen in shock.  Oh what fun.  This one made me laugh when I drew it ;)

Oops

This certainly occurred today.  I was making a cajun stew and talking to Jill and then it hit me.  It hit me like splashes of hot firey, spicey chicken stew.  Specifically over my arm.  As tingly as it felt, it would have been far worst if I hadn't stopped it.  This monstrosity was just waiting to spill over and wreck my chances at getting back my security deposit!


I made a post over on CGTalk describing a bit what Theory Animation is and what we accomplished.  I think it's a great thread on bringing your own vision to life; definitely worth the read.  Somehow it led to me finding this quote:

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.  Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.  All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."  

- George Benard Shaw

I couldn't agree more!


Ok, now for a blast to the past!  Here's an old comic from September 7th, 2009 talking about Jill's awesome time back at the island; and my sad attempt to make her happy about it (she loves mountains):

I agree with the crab.

Stress!

Trying something new.  Eventually we move to pupils right?  Freddie Moore did it to Mickey for Fantasia, Friz Freleng to the gang at Looney Tunes.  It's about time right?

Stress happens.  I think the only way to deal with it is to go in the opposite direction.  Maybe meditate, clear your mind, work out, anything.  An animator from Pixar, Dylan Brown, used to say "change the wheel" to a different setting.  Try something new, but whatever it is, don't keep doing what caused the stress in the first place.

Even for me, working full time as an animator, I found it stressful to play video games.  It was still on a computer and I was still more or less in the same position.  But going for a walk, or working out would help me break away from that stress.  In the end you're just getting your mind off things right?

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On Moving

Moving across country is never easy; especially in fields where it never seems to end. For Scott (a strange polar bear rabbit thing) and Cuka (a flying squirrel) they've had to economize and take the bare essentials... like their cats.

I'm much more mattress on the floor, one set of utensils kind of guy. In the end we still have to pack and we still have to move it. Here's to that!

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Location:S Melrose Dr,Oceanside,United States

Uncontrollable Turbulence

I was on an airplane when I heard the stewardess announce "tighten your seat belts as we may experience uncontrollable turbulence."  I thought for a moment, uncontrollable?  Having just had dinner a few nights before with my infallible friends, Cuka and her husband Scott, I thought it would be great to show what real Uncontrollable Turbulence was.  Cuka has been known for her craziness, this would have been no exception!

Don't you feel like this too sometimes?  I feel like this a lot, especially lately.  You work hard, you trudge through the hard times, you get to the top of the mountain and are totally exhilarated!  Then you realize there's another mountain, a little farther, a little higher and... another challenge!  I spend a great deal of time in this sort of perpetual mountain climbing.  I think anyone in creative fields do.  My point here though: relish in the fact you just climbed a big one yourself; then worry about the next mountain ;)

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