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This is an image I’ve taken from the story beats for a short film I want to make called The Temptation of Brother Thomas. The real title for the image is The Procession but “Happy Dance” does a better job of capturing my immediate mood. I recently found out that I received the Research Fellowship [...] I was originally going to call this “Sojourners” but that seemed pretty obscure (not that “The Gleaners” is going to win any popularity contests). This image was inspired by a passage in Deuteronomy about orphans, widows, and aliens (or sojourners). Then I remembered the OT laws about over-harvesting fields and making sure to leave the [...]  Here’s a very early sketch of the digital woodcut I’ll be posting next. I really liked this image so I was pretty nervous about actually doing anything with it. I think the final retained the warmth and dignity that I’m getting from the sketch.  I really have been working though my lack of postings may lead you to believe otherwise. I’ve been focusing mainly on storyboards over the past couple of weeks and I’m still not sure how to go about posting the progress on them (and there has been some really good progress). For the time being I’ll post [...]  This image is from a story panel early on in the first act of the Fishbone story. He’s just thrown his hook in the water and is now settling back for a relaxing smoke. Lots of new challenges with different textures and surfaces. The water not being the least of them. I’m finding that using [...]  Here are six of the steps along the way to the Fisherman Woodcut. I wish I could say it was as organized as it appears. Honestly it’s still pretty messy as I’m experimenting with all sorts of techniques to find a result I’m happy with. I especially like the way the waves turned out.  Still going after that illusive woodcut look. This one is a bit sketchier but I like how the image is holding together. It’s from a story panel early on in the Fishbones story.  Trying to keep my shapes simple. Certainly makes the work go faster. This looks like it may be the beginnings of a logo. I’ll have to try playing with some text.  Still pluggin away at this woodcut thing. I created a few custom brushes in Photoshop and that has helped to increase my range of texture. I have a feeling this is going to take a while to get down. In the meantime…here’s a tree.  I have three films I’ve been looking at to help me develop a woodcut…ish approach for animation. Each one takes a different angle so I thought I would try at least one illustration in each and see where it takes me. This one is the closest to scratchboard than the others and I really like [...] |
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