The Devils' in the woodwork....

The second and last, for now, wood lightbox thingys. Another variation of the devil with a sweet stache and fez. The fez is made of red velvet matte board, so it's extra cool.

How much wood.....?

IT"S A WOOD CHUCK (TAYLOR)! HA! That's funny I don't care who you are. So this is a version of a light box, without light, (scratches head.) The back of the box is really thin pieces of plywood and then the next level is the cut out of the shoe. The star was the hardest part to make because, it's really, really tiny. Also for some reason that escapes me now I made it with scissors  instead of an Xcto knife.

The Birds

A bit of a change of pace, BIRDS!!!! Three birds flying south for the great deals at Crazeee Eddie's Discount Carpet Barn or some such. Each bird is at a slightly different height from each other. And the top one's wings extend past the matte, where the bottom one's wing tuck under. These are the failed bird from March 12, 2012.

This little light box 'o' mine

So here's the last of the light boxes and it's the sun. This one looks pretty good with the light coming in behind it and catching the streaks in the marker.

Angel Box

So what's the devil without his counter part? This was an atteempt to do the opposite of the devil. Round head vs sharp points, mustache vs. mustache, pipe vs no pipe, well you get the idea. Also it's a bit hard to tell but his mooooostache is very fuzzy.

Light Boxes

To keep my hands busy I've been making these little light boxes. They are three foam core square glued together with one layer of tracing paper and one layer of cardstock, in between  them. The tracing paper is colored with Prismacolor markers, which have a radiance to them and look really amazballs in sunlight. The cardstock has the face of the devil cut in to it then the whole thing is slapped together. There are quite of few of these in different style but the same basic idea and I'll post more of them over the next couple of days.

What's new....pussycat

So it appears that I have been doing nothing the last few months but this could not be farther from the truth. After moving to North Carolina, I've lost a space to make movies, well not make them as much as there's no place to shoot them in our current living space.

But I haven't been idle. I've been working on few new things, which I'm going to post over the next few weeks, but right now I'm going to go get a sandwich.

The Devil in a Red Fez

After several months the devil finally gets a nice velvety close up.   It's hard to tell but the background is red, velvet matte board, giving him that luxurious evil feeling.
"Ooooohhhh so soft, so evil, that lord of the flies is classy fellow, what with the monocle and all."

The cat still dose not care.

Next up an angel in tweed.

The Devil and the cat

So to kept idle hands busy I made the devil. I had the idea of making a devil in a blue suit, a bear in blue flannel and so on.... But Doug gave me some real nice red, velvety matte board that I want to do something with. However, everything I've done so far relies on light shinning through it, so to use the matte board I'll have to concocte something that doesn't.  And yes the Devil is smoking two cigarettes, he is that bad.

Ultimate evil...phfft.

The Debbies

Here is a little short that started off as just an excuse to mess with shapes,(just like on Sesame Street). The yellow dresses where made first, by drawing lines and circles on to paper then cut into the shape of a dress. The dress on the far right is several different pieces of blue gel layered and then cut into the shape of the dress.  It was originally suppose to be just a still shot ,(it kind of still is) but then,  "What the hell, throw in some mambo, a few more people and call it a short.

1969 Evergreen Place

If you ever saw the show "The Oblongs" you might recognize the Debbies.  In case you haven't seen it,  the Debbies are popular, mean girls, who make life hellish for pretty much everyone else.  I  didn't realize that the girls on the left bore a striking resemblance to the Debbies until Doug pointed it out to me.

Something Debbie Comes This Way...

FAIL.

I'm calling it a fail.
I started this project a couple of weeks ago as something to do to keep my hands from becoming the devil's playthings. A little bit of scenic fluff, a nice mountain a few birds and some gold fish. But it's all gone to rubbish. The sky isn't working out the birds won't fly correctly, the fish won't do anything, so like the Lorax I'm sending them off. I like the waves move and will file them use later.

So what next!?!?!
I've had the suggestion of a robot unicorn, but that will have to wait. Right now I think I'm going to just make images I like rather worry about a story.

Even with an extra day....

....I still didn't get a project done in February.  But I did get an idea for the next project, which I got started on.  It's not a "full" project, it's not a story, it's just a chance to make some images that would be cool. You know some mountains, some fish, a few really cool waves. So far I've just got the mountain...

All your cakes are mine.

The January project is done.  Hops Monster runs wild!
This project was the suggestion of Bri Dotson and her blog beerfordessert.com . The monster's head is a sack of hops, the cake is a rum rasin from the blog, the monster's eyes are based on the Solar Trans Amp label and the mooostache is just because Bri likes mooostaches. 

Not sure what February's project is going to be. I've got a few ideas for short projects and great idea for a big project, (it's about bears in suits HA!).  J vs S, a friend's electronica band, has ask about doing some pictures for them. So that could be cool.

Done.

So just a few months off my November 6th deadline, but nonetheless done.  The monsters are over and put to bed, with a nice little bedtime story.  They are over to the right, if you would like to check out the final product.

The down side is that now I have two weeks to make my next project in order to meet my one project a month deadline. Any suggestions?

So...yeah about that two months.....

So I'd like to say I've been really busy because of the holiday season, but that's not really true. Sure works been a little busier than normal but really I've just been sleepy.

I have started on my Monster project again. I've recorded voice over, edited it and cut in and now I'm going to redo it. Ehhh.....it just sounded too NPRish. And I've started to gather sound effects, so it should come together pretty quickly.

On a related note I'm going to try to do a project a month.At least something I mean how hard can it be....?

VACATION!!!!

So...um..yeah I didn't meet my deadline of Nov. 6 and I'm getting on a plane at 5am to fly to Mexico.   I did come up with a new way to light some stuff that looked to be a pain in the arse.  Normally to make something a different color, such as a monster's eyes,  I would cover the whole piece of glass with a colored gel, then cut out the part to be a different color.  Then on the cut out  a piece of colored gel is taped, red eyes for example.
But not any more.  By cutting a hole in a piece of color plastic and placing it between the light and the glass, I can line the hole in the plastic up with the hole in the cut out. It's the same effect with less waste and more reusable. So that'll make things easier. But now I'm going to Mexico.

Now Accepting Dontions of Construction Paper...

Ran out of batteries, tape and construction paper all in the same day. grrrr....Still got enough done that hopefully I can get everything shot this week and still make my Nov. 6th deadline.

The thing in the basement...

The thing in the basement, Steve, started to crawl around a bit... some test video of Steve in action...

Steve is a pretty close decent of a monster that lurks in the seas of Beasts 2.
A lot of the monsters can be traced back to Beast 2, edited by Jacob Covey.http://beastsbook.blogspot.com/