The Mewl

Letter To He-Man circa 1984

I am going through the past.  This is real process.  Enjoy.

A letter to He-Man, written by me, illustrated by me, circa 1984.  I don't remember the last time I saw this, but I remember drawing it.

Polygon Cobra Hiss from GI Joe - Maya

Hi All!  I got busy!  I was working on some secret stuff all of May and June which shouldn't have been secret at all.  I kinda took a small break from 3D and did some stuff in Adobe and After Effects.  Did loads of editing in Sony Vegas.  I love to edit.  Learned a lot of new stuff.  Seems like I am learning more now that I am not in school.  Sometimes just getting school done gets in the way of learning.  Anyways, here is what I am working on now:  The Cobra Hiss!!!  One of the most impractical tanks, yet one of my favorite toys.  More after the jump.

Yes I am on Twitter

It's not that I'm behind the times.  I've known about Twitter since it first started.  I just have never had a mobile phone that was worth texting from.  I used to be a cutting edge buyer, but I realized that I'd rather have it cheaper and more stable by waiting a little while longer.  That and it's not worth being cutting edge when cutting edge really isn't doing anything that could be called cutting edge. 

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Goofin' with After Effects

    I am a busy bee.  Besides creating and entering work for different job considerations, contests, making delicious food, and going outside,  I am also toning up my reel.  I like to model things I have.  I love objects and have based my models on things that also exist in real life.  It frees me from worrying about my own artistic skill and the insecurities that can bring.  I have the technical skill, but I feel my design and artistic skills, while quite improved over the past couple years, are nascent and just coming into their own.

More after the jump, including video that will give you life of dreams!!!

Flash Banner!

On the left you will see a new banner I made in Flash and Swift3D.  Nothing fancy.  It will now take you to my portfolio site instead of a gnome.  I like Flash, and Actionscript ain't too tough since I have a slight background in C++, but I can't learn it in a weekend.  There are loads of tutorials out there, but right now I need to focus on Maya and creative work rather than learning Flash through and through.  I still have plans to learn more actionscript, but I need to get away from the website building for a second and go back to pure creation and back off of learning for a second. 

One of my favorite Flash tutorials is located at Kongregate.  Just look for their "Shootorials".  It gives a great run down on what it takes to make a flash game, and this in turn gives nice insight into the syntax and language of Actionscript.  I'd rather tell stories than make games, but I guess that is what makes Flash so powerful: it's versatility.

Now, it is time to go back to Maya and super original content.  I filmed a bunch of stopmotion turntables and chroma-keyed them.  They came out nice.  I am going to go make some bread and play with After Effects.

-Mewlio

Green Screen: Go Joe!

Green screen is easy when you are working in a small scale.  You can light with flashlights.  I need to begin working green screen with a bigger scale!

Anyways, I am modeling 3D in Maya based on objects I have.  Mostly old accessories from Transformers, like the Swift3D/Flash sample I posted (I don't think it shows up in IE, but it does in Firefo).  This camera I filmed after the jump is a small plastic accessory from GI Joe: A Real American Hero.  More after the jump

Messing With The Palette

I'm just testing out a new palette.  I like the backgrounds and I'm pretty sure I am keeping them as long as I am on the Typepad platform.  I'd like to update the banner soon though.  I'm just looking for the original file if I still have it.  However, if I have time I might just update the look to practice my .css skills.
Here goes the palette the new colors are based on.  The two colors on the right of this badge below have been part of the site for a while.  The rest are new.

Color by COLOURlovers

Unicorns more than once!

Listen to my voice.  (no stalkers please.)

A Unicorn Commercial

In 10 weeks I should have drawings for it... at least some, maybe most of it.

-The Tired Mewl

Update!  I am publishing this bit of audio under a creative common's license.  I was contacted by a representative of the Fnord Corporation and asked if they could mess with around with the audio track.  So I figured why not get more fingerprints on this thing in case the feds come after me about the whole bus incident I describe in it.  Hehe.  No, I'd love to see what others can do with it should they so choose to work with it.  Just as long as you credit me with doing the original.  When I finalize my animation for it I want it on my reel.

But not the rough shit I turned in last semester.  Ugh.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

DelCicco Brothers Unicornery!

OKOKOK!?!?!?!  Who from Saturday Night Live reads this blog??? huh??? What is up with that skit with Matt Dillon about a coupla guys selling Unicorns???? Does anyone have this recorded?  I'm gonna have to troll the newsgroups for one! 

Seriously, DelCicco Brother's Unicornery.  They even mentioned pandas a bit!!!!  I'm being robbed!
Gonna have to put up a creative commons license on me stuff from now on just to be safe.

-The Mewl

Unicorns - The Remix

Hmmmm.  I knew I had to cut the thing down as soon as I finished.  It should really only be 15-30 seconds long.  I have a minute.  Like I said it's going to be somewhat limited animation, but it will get done.  I really can't take anymore out.  Maybe one line, but that will only save 5-7 seconds.

Anyways, here is it remixed with an added sound effect as well as some nifty music from the MIDI run Mellotron Rhythym Section.

Unicorns - The Remix (1.47 meg .mp3)

Time to draw the damn thing!  Then I'll have unicorn pics of my own.