Derezzed

So its a long weekend, I already spent Friday playing Donkey Kong Country Returns instead of working on The Telescope, and most of today has been spent resizing images for this blog, but thems the breaks, maybe tomorrow I can get a good start on it. But dont be thinking I haven't been touching it, oh no. Want some proof? Here, have some.







But why stop there? It just so happens I've just taken some photos of some of the original concept art from back in late 09.



Originally Allen was going to have a little tuft of hair like Alfalfa from The Little Rascals, but I eventually decided that much like Krillan from DBZ, he was bald from birth. Also you can see a young Gerkinman here, he has since been written out of the film.



Here we have both a Yowie and a Bunyip, they remain pretty much unchanged in the final film.



Lastly we have Merves mum, she has stronger cheek bones in the final film, and her dragon for has lost her nipples and tails, but once again, she is almost identical to how she was originally designed, despite not being draw in the film until 14 months after the concept art stage.

I figured since I posted the concept art for The Telescope here today that I might go over some other concept art that was never used.



Some of you may remember a few years ago I was working on a pixel film called Out There, it was originally supposed to be a 10 part series spanning an album by a chiptune artist known as Rushjet. Well, the series died, mid way through the second episode I stopped because the animation techniques involved were too time consuming for the pay off. Originally I was planning on restarting the project on my own using art similar to what you see above. Obviously it never happened, but thats okay because The Project is still going ahead, it just wont be looking like what you see here. Obviously the main character Astro from the original is in that image, and I kept his original look from the pixel short. I cant quite remember who the other character is supposed to be.



This image shows Fatcat, once again he looks much the same as he did in the original short, as does the doctor. Interestingly both of these characters have been written out of the new project entirely.



The same can be said for both of these characters, The Suit and Foot Soldier. Once again, gone now.







Now we are getting into some fresh stuff, these were originally designs for a sequence called "Forgotten Planet" which was supposed to be a very alien looking world, which is obviously hard to pull off when your lead character himself, is an alien. The Dinosaurs I like the design of as a whole, tho they dont look alien enough for that particular project. The stalker and limb based aliens on the other hand...

Speaking of aliens...





These were some designs for one of my many many failed War of the Worlds concepts.



Which leads me to this piece of concept art, which was for a Digital Radio for Nextwave Digital. The concept was to have a DAB radio attached to a home theatre, walking around like a Tripod from War of the Worlds shooting out sound waves that turned the world from a drab grey to colour. Obviously it never got off the ground.

Something else that never got off the ground that I wanted to make for ages was a piece of vector art, a sort of Cyberpunk Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.




I wanted to have seven Droids, each one with a clear purpose when it came to mining, but all small and cute in there own way.



This guy I believe was like a floating flash light.



This super lame looking guy here was obviously a drill.



This guy I think scanned the rocks for minerals.



Ol matey here got to carry all the minerals back and forth, he was like the mine cart puller I suppose.



This guy had lasers mounted to his face so he could carve out stone.



I honestly can't remember what this guys roll was.



Nor this guy, tho I think those things on the side of his head are like lights, similar to the lights found on large construction machinery.



Also worth noting is the wicked witch, kept all old skool?

The following images are just odds and ends.



I call this guy Sporeman, its one of the few old drawings I have that I still like.



Here is Mr McDonald from Down at Mc Donalds. Something I would like to remake at some point. Its still one of my favorite short films conceptually.



I rarely draw fantasy type stuff, and this was supposed to be an attempt, came out just looking like some bald headed farmer with a badly drawn dragon in the distance.



Heres a picture of Gerkinman in some sort of desert, I guess it was really hot the day I drew that.



And Gerkinman again, this time with the Eye of Providence.



Speaking of which, I tried mixing it with the Rainbow Serpent of the Aboriginal Dream Time. Hows that for sacrilege?



But its not all doom and gloom, I do finish things occasionally, see? Heres the Bullfrog from a couple of posts back. Yes he has teeth.

AND LASTLY

My girlfriend cut my hair yesterday. Check it out.



Im the hippin and the hoppin.

Now if you will excuse me, im off to see Reggie Watts perform, ta ta.

Cosmik Debris

And it buries the night a brave new sunrise
With a sweep of the sword, a blood red sunrise





Its been another big and productive week. I couldn't tell you how many banner ads I churned out this week, but I can tell you it wasn't a small number. Even outside of work I have had a rather large week creative wise.

First up here is a vector piece. I did the original drawing probably around 6 months ago while I was still in Brisbane, during a lunch break. Only now have I got the time to vector it, with most of the line art done during my lunch break at work. Managed to finish it this morning because thats what weekends are for.



Also during my lunch breaks this week I finished this little piece, which I posted the pencil sketch for last week.



Also today since I had the time I created a facebook page just for Gerkinman himself. He needed a profile pic so I quickly threw this together.



I also manage to finish the single longest scene in The Telescope this week, now that its finished Im hoping the rest of the film flies by, since few scenes are longer then 3 seconds.



I've also done quite a bit of doodling this week.
This first one is going to be turned into the poster for The Telescope, ill be using it to promote the film a week before it comes out.



And this image here is some concept art for the Gerkinman film I've been wanting to make for years, still going over concepts for the film in my head.



These last 2 aren't really anything in particular.





In non animation / illustration related news.

I saw a tram collision last Friday, that was sort of exciting, if only because it meant I could walk all over the road without worrying about traffic. It felt rather surreal since that day was largely spent running around the rooftops in Crysis 2...





Me and my partner also went to the comedy festival last week, we ended up parking on top of a building, was 4 or 5 stories. Took some snaps since its not often you can see all the buildings around you from half way up.









And as the sun sets in the afternoon sky, so does it set on my blog.