…Jason decides to think…

So I made my first sale at RedBubble and made, wait for it… £1.02! Not a lot but so happy that someone thought my work is worthy enough to purchase! So… I decided to add another Michael Henson character, this time its SOnotAPY. Michael hates soap and it seems that SOnotAPY hates everyone else!

So I decided to upload the t-shirts I designed last year onto RedBubble. Its a pretty sweet site and it encourages all kinds of art not only vector art which I have a penchant for. Here’s the Hot Water Bottle design that I just uploaded with the detail showing “im hot”.

I was told about this last week.

Something that used to take me a few hours to do with the bezier tool in Illustrator takes… 1 minute with tweaking to do with live trace. I smacked my forehead so hard when Ezekiel told me.

If you are wondering who is ‘Angelina’ and why she has got ‘bigger’ its not Angelina Jolie or her twins… its my Powerbook G4 that was named after her. ‘Angelina’ is now about 3 years old… and her hard drive decided to pack in and pretty much die. So I waited until I got a new Mac so that I could then transfer everything over and then proceed with replacing her old 100gb HDD for a brand new spanking Seagate 250gb HDD…

So the whole process pretty much took me all night. Really stupid really, first of all when I put it all together I booted Angelina up, she couldn’t find a start up disk, even when I thought I put the system install disc. So i proceeded to take her apart again to install the old hard drive again… long story short I was up till 3am fixing her up. Ask me to tell you the story if you’re really interested!

But for now… I have 250gb of pleasure.

One snowy Sunday afternoon. Kornelius was listening to some Bonde Do Role… “This would make an awesome video!” he thought to himself. So that’s what he made.

Using the one of Bonde Do Role’s tracks entitled Caminhao de Gas (I have no idea what it means!) I used some animated 3d using Cinema 4d, some green screen footage recorded over a year ago and complied together in Final Cut Pro. I think next time I’ll use After Effects as there’s much more control for keying and layering… anyhoo enjoy!

As made famous by Johnny Chung Lee (man’s a genius!) @ Poor Mans Steadicam, I decided to have a go at making one myself as I may have use of it at work as well as sideline projects in the future. Looking for the parts took ages! As I was in and out of B&Q and Homebase comparing prices, B&Q was much cheaper! Then I also had to get the counterweight and tennis grip from JJB Sports. All in all traveling to find the right parts took around 3 hours (I was also very indecisive choosing the correct parts due to my budget!) and only took me under an hour to make, I think I could make one quicker now that I’ve made one. The steady cam didn’t amount up to $14 (which would have been something like £8) instead i paid around the region of £25, but I’m happy with it and will be practicing over the next few days. Here are a few pics:

A few enhancements I added were the tennis grips on the parts that need holding as the copper tubing may start to tarnish then transferring to sweaty palms! LOL. Hopefully this shizz works well, although I’m going to need a fair bit of practicing to get the movements ’steady’.

So I decide to ink him up:

So I decided to have a go at Michael Henson’s characters. You may recognise the style from my previous characters with the large menacing eyebrows and gaping mouth. This is a new character I drew up in a few minutes… I was just looking at some mushrooms and they kinda looked weird… so I thought that Michael Henson would think that they’re just well… scary… So I drew it up. Hopefully I’ll find time to colour it in and post it up this week!