It's All About Story...

One of my colleagues has just sent me a link to a new blog called ...Pencil Test Depot , a wonderful collection of pencil test animations from some of the greats. If you love animation and would like to see how it is done then click the link above.

At long last one of my favorite Robert E. Howard characters will have his own movie, view the trailer here . The film, directed and written by Michael J. Bassett (with help from Howard of course) couldn't get any funding anywhere, dunno why, perhaps the Puritan (omg did he say Puritan?) nature of the Kane character scared off all of the big production studios. So Bassett shot this whole thing on a skeletal budget and mostly out of his own pocket from what I understand, remember that as you watch the trailer. Official release for the US is September 24, 2009 at the Austin Fantastic Fest. As far as I know there isn't going to be a theatrical release, so this means straight to DVD. Damn shame, but this movie should be fun! Update - 2023 - 14 years later... yeah, the discipline thing is weak with me. I bought this movie on DVD. It's dark, moody, sometimes horrific in nature, but worth the watch. I think Bassett was in the process of making a great film, and then realized, ...

Our newest addition was baptized yesterday. Penelope (Pippa) Aiofe. She was awesome, as were her mother, siblings, family and friends.

After waiting until the last minute here is my stab at Jonah Hex, one of the coolest bounty hunters ever.

Here we go, I finally post some work. Thanks to a whole bunch of people who have helped get me back in the saddle. I am working on getting a comfort level with my new tablet here, for some darned reason Wacom does not have a compatible driver with my old intuos tablet which saddens me greatly. These are sketches for the main character of a story I have been writing about the Templars.

Man, I forgot I had this blog, but I log in to point out the people I have added to my "Cool Stuff to look at" list. Some extremely talented people.

I have finished reading one of the most fantastic and beautifully written fantasy novels since Karl Edward Wagner passed. The author is an Englishman named Joe Abercrombie. This man can write. You will not find something that is so involved and so raw as yet truly fantastic and mesmerizing. The first book, "The Blade Itself" takes a bit of getting used to at first but once you are in you cannot put it down. The reason I say this is that the author weaves a tale that contains at least 6 central characters and introduces each one at a time... then he introduces more! The last time I can think of this being done successfully was by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. But once you get to know them you find yourself routing for them, laughing with them and being crushed with them. I read book one in all of a week. Book two took me four days, I could not put it down. Book three came in the mail last Thursday; I finished it Sunday morning at 2:00am. I have my wife hooked on this series ...