Norman's Coat

He sells a lot of things...

Bonus points if you can identify everything!
(which shouldn't be too hard, since I left out a lot of things I could have included)

Deleted Scene From A Seventy-Four-Year-Old Film

One of the blogs I follow posted a story about how a Marx Brothers fan just discovered an unedited version of "A Night At the Opera" in Hungary, of all places. The originating story can be found here. This is pretty impressive considering a) The censorship board was particularly harsh back then, especially when it came to subjects relating to political hot-zones (ie. Italy), and b) Hungary wasn't exactly that hip to modern-at-the-time cinema, but mostly c) film wasn't treated with half the care it is now. That we even have prints of the current versions of these old movies is a miracle in itself. Discovering a more complete version is akin to finding out your parents never sold your now-priceless comic collection, or something.

Anyway, I made a tribute in comic form.

Parson from Erfworld

I did this as guest are for Rob and Jaimie of "Erfworld" during their summer updates:


You can read the chapter it applies to, the other summer chapters, and the comic itself here: http://www.erfworld.com/
It's fairly boop-damn awesome.

An Abrupt and Massive Adjustment of Scale

While flying back to LA, we happened to pass within sight of an outbound flight. I'd been staring at this cloud formation for some time, but it was only with the other airliner's passage that I truly understood how goddamn HUGE it was. I was working from the assumption that it was maybe a couple blocks wide; it turns out you could probably fit most of Manhattan in that thing, without even including that vast stratus sitting behind it. People: clouds are not small things.

I did the lines immediately; I did the colors recently.
The ground should actually be much bluer than that, from 30 thousand feet. But any more than that and in a still image it would probably just look like we were flying over water with weird grid lines.

Film Scribbles

Three major scenes from each Act of a film:

Tug, The pin, Coffee and Pie (Coffee and Pie Oh My), and of course, the kid who hates everyone, all scribbled together.
I'll let you guess the movie.
I worked out all the compositions with my hands in the air and one eye closed.

Busy

I've got, like, three complex drawings I'd love to work on, but my free time lately has been taken up by more important things.

Me as a bee?
You decide.

I can feel my barely tenuous grasp of Flash slipping with each attempt I make to do this test thing I've been given. I don't know if it's some ingrained push-back against the presence of technology that doesn't adhere to the same logic I'm used to, or if the program is literally just an unintuitive, user-hostile piece of shit. Whichever the case may be, I'm beginning to get concerned that I've hit a brick wall in my understanding. Nothing is syncing up. Even the things I thought I knew. Or assumed I knew.

I wonder how much weight they put on the test. How impressive would I have to look regarding my other artistic examples before taking the test is irrelevant? And for that matter, if I really pushed myself and figured this thing out and got an awesome result, would that put me at a disadvantage if I looked to competent with the program they're intent on teaching me?

Questions within questions; symbols within symbols.
Hmm.

Lent #46 – EASTER!

I told you to mark them:

Merry Easter!

"BUNNIES!" part deux.
I'm a man of my word:
http://econniff.blogspot.com/2009/02/lent-1.html