I am so not Slick....

This Guy's name is Slick. He's another NS*tweens character for work. He is supposed to be the techie, computer whiz guy who is always connected to the Internet and has tons of gadgets. He is my antithesis. I have no faith in technology, my cell phone never works, Internet is always down, inbox is filled with spam, and my car stereo broke yesterday.

Fashion! Turn to the Left....

I was spoiled this year. I got so much for Christmas that i feel somewhat guilty. I have almost an entirely new wardrobe(which is good). I think I'm just going to have to be extra charitable this coming year. I think I'll begin by offering you these two posts. Its been awfully slow in the office this week which means that I've been able to work on some character designs without distraction. This little girl here is called Lolo(I didn't name her), and she is one of seven characters that we are going to be animating in a piece for NS*tweens on Internet safety. Apparently she is the fashionista of the group. See how she looks like she shops at Old Navy!!!??? That's in style right? I wouldn't know, I don't dress myself. I'm wearing a navy blue sock and a brown sock right now as I'm writing this. Is "Fashionista" even a word? I Feel like I heard it last night while watching the blockbuster hit, The Devil Wears Prada with Tini. I think that words like that are made up to make people sound more exotic. Take for instance the word "barista" which is a fancy way for starbucks employees to say "I brew and sell coffee." Starbucks must have coined that word. Anyhoo, I had a great Christmas and I'm looking forward to the new year.

A Tini Kiss Under the Mistletoe

A Sketch Dump

These are just a few concept drawings I did today for a new project we are starting. Eventually they will be done in Toon Boom. Finally seems that I will be able to put some of that training I had a while back to the test. Thought I'd share. Oh, and yes that guy is pooping with his Ipod in.

The Sugar Plum Princess

Here is a quick pic that I did today of Tini and I ice skating. Tonight we're going to try out the new Capital's ice skating rink on top of Balston mall. Don't be fooled into thinking that I drew myself after a fall though. The reason I'm depicted laying down on the ice is because I will have been skating circles around Tini all night. ;)

Blog war part 4 is the pits

Mcdoubletree likes to party!

(P.U.)

C-live

11 penguins accompanied us yesterday on *clicky live, it was a great show, a total of 84 people logged in, with three or four classrooms around the country. There were fantastic questions asked by kids and friends and answered by my robot buddy. Good job C-live team!

Stained Glass progress.

Here is the rough outline for the stained glass piece that I've been occasionally working on. I traced over these lines with a sharpie, numbered them, cut them out, and pasted them on the glass as templates.



I then cut the pieces of glass and grinded the edges down. I wrapped the edges with copper foil while watching the new Pirates of The Caribbean movie . The next step in the process is to solder the pieces together and frame it. Now I need to tell my married buddy not to look at my blog for a while so he doesn't spoil his gift.

Blog War part 3. (Priorities)

"What was it I was supposed to do???"

Blog War part 2. (The Weekend Warrior)

Hey, that was a good one Mumbles! What took ya so long?? Oh thats right, you were away for the weekend fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. Did we win this time?

hope this helps.......

Your turn Boo.

Terror of the Neighborhood

I thought I'd post a few drawings from work. The first one is clicky pointing to his bottom, the second is a gap-toothed Clicky, and the third is a storyboard from one of our current projects on school bus safety. I find it ironic that at work I animate schoolbus safety content and I've been yelled at by parents on my street three times in that past two weeks. The speed limit on our street is 25 miles an hour, I know this because every other house on our block has a sign that says drive 25 keep kids alive. The first scolding happened after work a few weeks ago when i came driving down my street at 25 miles an hour. I noticed a little further down my street a woman, (some neighbor of mine) was raking leaves in the middle of the road, in the dark, with her four children. She jumps out glaring and yelling at me to slow down. I understand and commend her for being protective of her children, I will be that way someday I'm sure, but i wasn't even close to them and had every intention of letting them get out of the road as I passed. Very un-neighborly! The second incident was similar to the first and on a street perpendicular to mine, but the lady was much meaner looking and she shook her fist at me. Again, 25 miles an hour. The third incident happened at the bus stop by my house in the morning. The parents on my street accompany their kids to the bus stop and after the kids board the bus, they stand in the middle of the street and wave goodbye for two minutes and then begin chatting with each other, still standing in the middle of the road. As i was pulled up to the stop sign, a woman driving in front of me slammed on her brakes ten feet from the sign causing me to slam on my brakes two feet from her bumper. She gets out of her car, sneers at me and then lets her kids out of the minivan and acts as though I'm going to try and run them over. I think that the parents on my street want something to complain about and feel right about. I feel that my roommates and I are an easy target being that we are the only renters in a neighborhood of young families. I think it may be time to move.