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Here & Now Production
What I have learned in the last 5 years is that quality takes time. About 6 months ago I began speaking with Kislay Mukherjee, a form PLU colleague who is currently working as a DBA at Amazon, about making a short film. Both … Continue reading
Smile Revolution: Comic 1
How do you start a revolution? How do you get people to change? Everyday I watch the United States political and financial system spiral out of control. I often wonder what I can do in the little bit of … Continue reading
Sorry, sleeping In.
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Habit 2: Start with an end in mind.
A few years back I created a portfolio to find work. The collection of work gave me an overview of where I was in my career. What I realized was that I hadn’t finished anything. George Lucas said that a … Continue reading
Inking: Making Confident Strokes
Inking is perhaps the most challenging part of comic creation. Inking comics is the process of going over the pencil work with ink to clean up and refine the artwork. Some people work with brushes, I use Faber-Castell PITT artist … Continue reading
Digging in the Crates
Friday is the day I go to my archive to pull out old unfinished pieces or ideas I have discarded. This is my secret stash, so whenever I hit a block I can go to the crates. A friend of … Continue reading
Blue Pencil
I wanted to do this page all digital, but last night I had an analog relapse. I often return to pencil and paper because of the dexterity and control that I have with it. Currently I am using a Wacom … Continue reading
Westheimer’s Rule.
The Westheimer rule states, “To estimate the time it takes to do a task: estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by 2, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus we allocate 2 … Continue reading
Love and the Blade: Design
Yesterday I was browsing the Internet for animation and found Burning Safari. Burning Safari is an animated short about a space explorers who has an interesting encounter with a planet native. Produced by students from Gobelins, a French media design … Continue reading
