Lately I've been drawing a lot. Not particularly for the graphic novel, but just for fun.
I've been uploading all my new stuff on CAMP NORTH. Awesome site. Beats the hell out of DevArt.

Go check it out here.

ALEX SERYOUA: Graphic Novel.
I have made a thread in the Art Forum, which contains a few sketches and one actual frame of line art.
I plan on showcasing the novel at a booth in the 2010 Comic Con. Hopefully it is finished and printed by then!

I will be adding sketches and frames, maybe even pages, to this thread as I go.

Take me on.

My life has been crazy for 3 straight weeks.

I went to COMIC CON. It was awesome. Holy crap.
Then I went to LOLLAPALOOZA and saw Nine Inch Nails, The GO Team, Bloc Party, Radiohead, Broken Social Scene, Wilco. The list goes on.

And I am now single for reasons undisclosed on this blog. So I've been on a week of partying and hanging out with friends all over town at every house and waking up on strange couches. I started a Comic Con flash before I went to Chicago, but things in my personal life have changed. COMIC CON inspired me to turn ALEX SERYOUA into a graphic novel.

I am going to draw and color the novel for the next year and a half. And then I will begin my search for a printing company of some sort. Next year at COMIC CON I am going to register for a booth in the independent comic square for 2010. Hopefully I will have a table with AlmightyHans and my friend Ed, who is starting his own comic. I also have a friend who is willing to dress up as Alex and stand by the booth/walk around the convention center with fliers.

So for now. All things FLASH ORIENTED have been postponed.

Here is a full page panel from the first chapter, which is what the flash cartoon Episode One represents.
I'm much more excited about this project as a book than a cartoon.

Here's some footage that I cut together last night.

I'm loading Flash onto my computer right now! It'll be in working order soon.

I'M GOING TO COMIC CON! WOOT.

WATCHMEN LOOKS AWESOME.

Last night I was inspired to paint my face up like Heath Ledger in THE DARK KNIGHT.
I am absolutely on pins and needles waiting for this movie. I bought a roll of film and took some shots of my face and my apartment with the Joker face. I made a lot of them blurred on purpose to melt the colors together.

Check out the flickr page HERE.

WHY SO SERIOUS?

Title is self-explanatory.

My computer is done. The hard drive decided to fry itself. Most of my flash work is gone. I managed to recover the .fla file for Episode 6 of Office Spider with the help of a few friends. Though, I have yet to get my hands on a flash program. The application on my external hard drive won't work on my girlfriend's computer.

I am losing a week and a half on flash work time, so everything I was working on is delayed. I have begun story-boarding a new flash though. It's going to be awesome. I guess I'll just be reading and playing video games until I go to Memphis to have it fixed.

Radio silence.

PS: lol this is not a pic of my comp. i googled "Fried Macbook hard drive"
This is a pic of a battery fire, but it was funny for the post.

The long awaited MGS Collab was unleashed just recently and I must say that I am honored to be a coauthor and to be 2nd in line on the playlist. With 50 artists, the turn out was a toss up really. There were some brilliant ones and there were some weak sauce ones.

I was particularly disappointed by the overuse of penis in this collab. I actually didn't expect it, which is surprising all by itself. The NG crowd is a big fan of the cock, for some reason. Everytime I saw one, all I could think of is how the fallic image was in the place of a well thoughtout script, or clever humor. These cocks were some cop-outs, seeking to amuse the immature audience. I'm not so much pissed off by the fact that the cocks demoralized Metal Gear. I've never played one of the games! So it would be stupid for me to defend the series. They were just there for both shock value and the furthering of some strange internet fad. But Stamper's cartoon was the cherry on top. It made me question whether I had outgrown NG all together. I guess I was looking forward to something less sexually graphic. If I was looking for that I would have just watched porn!

I can't even tell the majority of my friends to go check it out because of the humor choices. Most of them would turn it off after seeing the first dick! And I wouldn't dare show my own girlfriend. It almost made me embarressed to be a part of it all. Point is if you don't have a firm knowledge of the subject matter, find someone who does to help you with a thoughtout script! My friend Ed helped with the dialogue and storyboarding. And look how ours turned out!

I'm not disappointed in the effort put into the animation. The styles were superb. The drawings were excellent. I just want to see NG put its talent toward something more respectable. IMO.

I've completed several attacks that will be featured in the OFFICE SPIDER game. Preparing a few atmosphere elements in the next week, along with backgrounds and the coworker reactions. A priority for next week will definitely be getting the cut scenes out of the way.

Woadraiders is perfect for the job. He has proved himself to be an excellent programmer. The game will be a side-scroller in the style of Dad n' Me. You will be able to web up those pesky coworkers too!

Just so everyone knows, Episode 6 will be a normal episode. And Episode 7 will be the game itself. I hope to begin work on KNEE DEEP IN DEATH 3 after I complete those two projects. And perhaps ALEX SERYOUA after that. I have considered making AS a game series, with Episode 1 as a primer. But that answer is pretty far from my reach at the moment.

I will be at COMIC CON with AlmightyHans, if anyone doesn't know that already. I just can't wait to be there. July is full of things for me. I just need to get back home and focus on flash so I can get these projects out on NG! I'm SUPER STOKED on seeing the LOST panel at Con. Apparently DHARMA is going to be recruiting there.

Here is a screen shot of Episode 6. Woot.