Daily Crapbook: Goofy Fish

Never really doodled fish before- would like to come up with some interesting ones for Monkey Rag.

Daily Crapbook: Grillin' out

Summer's nearly over, but I still have grillin' out on the mind.

Raccoon and Baboon Color Ideas

Just noodling around, its gotta start somewhere.

Monkey Rag Color Models

Forcing myself to decide... I would love colored line/no line, but that takes so much time.  I allowed the luxury just on Mitzi's hair.  Boy, I am good at putting off decisions.

I Want This Dress

Another dress I want, but a sketch will have to suffice.

Today's Mood: Hedghog

My moods are complex and layered and can only be described by cryptic animal metaphor.  ...or I just had this scribble of a hedghog lying around and kinda liked it.  Whichever.

Brother Scanner on Sale

Just wanted to give anybody who is interested a heads up: a newer model of the Brother scanner that we used in our animation workflow (I just posted the Tutorial the other day) is on major sale here: http://www.buy.com/prod/brother-mfc-j6710dw-color-inkjet-all-in-one-printer-with-up-to-11-x-17/219044384.html
I'm trying to rationalize buying another one for the distant future when we set up a proper studio... Argh!  Its overkill, but I'm such a sucker for sales!

Daily Crapbook: Rocket Girl

At Dragon*Con I stopped by the DerekArt booth for a bit and pawed through dozens or gorgeous original artwork, all done with copic markers.  As Derek Yaniger was the quintillionth awesome artist I knew who swore by those markers, my resistance meter drained and I bouth three copic markers: black, grey, and red.  And they were expensive.  I better get good at this... 

Today's Mood: Derpie Platypus

Derpie derpa derp.

Daily Crapbook: Talk Like A Pirate Day

I don't know about you, but the Dread Pirate Roberts is my favorite swashbuckling sea dog.  So talk like a pirate?  As you wish.

Tutorial for Traditional Animation in ToonBoom AnimatePro

So you may recall a few weeks ago I had an online hissyfit about the workflow for finishing Monkey Rag, specifically, the apparent impossibility of it.  After lots of crying, footstomping, scotch drinking, and a visit from a wonderful ToonBoom associate- we got it working!  It requires some rather complicated workarounds that I don't understand, so my husband Nate sat down and made a tutorial to serve his own memory and to explain our system to anyone who is marginally interested.  Its nearly 40 minutes long, and just about scanning drawings in to AnimatePro, so you can be sure it is meticulously detailed.  I hope it can help others who were suffering similar situations, or perhaps it will invite someone with special knowledge to inform us that there is a more elegant solution to our problems.  Here's the playlist, enjoy!  

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmfZMeLlhvf5p2NrffuWuIovguUg9khX0&feature=view_all

Daily Crapbook: Bunny Jammies

Its late and I want a cup of cocoa.  Made by a bunny.  In jammies.

Daily Crapbook: Illest Birthday Evar!

This year I had the illest birthday evar!  Really.  (Thank you Dagny, for the inspirational words.)  Hopefully by next weekend I'll be sipping on martinis instead of NyQuil.

Daily Crapbook: Birthday Presents

My attitude towards certain birthday presents has changed since I was a kid. 

Daily Crapbook: The Sound of one Flapper Flapping

Just thinking about what I want to do for my birthday- if its jazz-era inspired, I'll probably have fun.