Making it work

Tonight's strip was a labor of love...well, it was labor anyway. Tina had a fortune cookie that said, "Digital components are made of analog components." I thought it clearly had to be written by some nerd running a fortune cookie shop, which gave me a strip idea. My brain-trust thought it wasn't that funny, but came up with another fortune cookie idea where all of the fortunes were written in binary code.

HAAHAHAHAHAHAH! We laughed and laughed, so I drew the strip and when it came time to add the dialogue I thought, "That's not funny." In retrospect we all agreed that it wasn't funny and couldn't figure out why we laughed to begin with, which led to our hour discussion of possible punchlines, none really being the zinger we originally thought we had.

Other considerations were 1. "I disagree, Fortune-o-matic, I think it's less filling." 2. "No, Fortune-o-matic, I think it takes more than 12 licks." 3. "Why are all of these fortunes ads for lost cats?" And it went on and on like that.

We even thought of posting it without the dialogue and making a contest out of it. The true sign of desperation. Either way, I kind of like that idea, so look for something like that in the near future.

Bad News?

And so now would seem right with the world, but I have a big 'ol greasy monkey wrench to throw in the works. For the next few weeks, I'll be updating just once a week (I know, you're thinking that it's not hardly updated at all as it is), but this will allow me to invest more time into the upcoming animation feature that you may have heard mention of in the forum or in previous splog posts.

I promise, the animation will be worth your (and my) while. Joe said that he's finished...almost...part of the theme music to accompany it. As soon as he does, I'll post part of it here to keep you in the loop of where it's going. I'll also post clips of rough animation scenes here as well.

Spring Break

It's been fun teasing with Joe's hair, but the real story to the fro begins next week. Just a little teaser.

Spring break is underway, so my participation in the forum has been less than usual, and my work production for the animations and other things has been as well. I've been spending my time doing what I do best...or enjoy the most anyway, playing with my daughter.

Nevertheless, I'm still sticking to my own deadlines. I should finish proofreading the novel before the week ends. Also, I plan to put together some...or one, at least run cycle for the android animation as well. The catalyst for that is that I received in the mail yesterday, The Animator's Survival Kit. I now know exactly what I didn't know about animation. With tutorials, I sometimes skim more than I read. This....I can't stop reading it. It's a must.

I'm saving the rest of this space to post the run cycle. You'll see it soon.

EDIT: Here's a quick rough of the run cycle that I mentioned.


http://www.hd-image.com/tutes/templar_run_black.swf