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/

Started Making Monsters...

Today was the first day I actually got started in making monsters! Whoo Hoo! I had already had hints of the monsters, the thing lurking by the backdoor and the thing under the bed, but this is the first full on monster.  It's the hairy, clawed demon in the closet....

I love it, BUT I'm pretty sure there are a few things I want to change. That's for tomorrow's work, when I will create the thing under the stairs and whatever is lurking in the mailbox.