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Creative Tally: 25

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:18:34 -0500

Nada

New Samurai Duel screens from the beta

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:19:04 -0500

I drunk tested the crap out of this game. It’s going to make me buy an iPad, making it a 509.99 dollar video game.

Here are some screens from the Samurai Duel beta! We are on the fast track to submit the game to Apple this weekend. As you can see we are going for a minimal look with simple touch controls. Samurai Duel is a two-player battle of speed and accuracy controlled by one finger. We’ve done lots of play testing with drunk adults and everyone seems to have a lot of fun with it!

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Tight Fit opens March 2nd

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:00:00 -0500

I’ma going.

bishopia:

Eight DC artists squeeze their small works into The Dunes for an intriguing exhibition!

Chris Bishop

Scott Brooks

Jared Davis

Anna U. Davis

Dana Ellyn

Emily Greene Liddle

Matt Sesow

Andrew Wodzianski

OPENING RECEPTION

Friday, March 2nd

7:30-10:30 pm

Show runs March 2nd - 28th, 2012

A cover I put together tonight for a collection of Fast Fictions...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:47:00 -0500

A cover I put together tonight for a collection of Fast Fictions Marc is putting out for Kindle. The specs for this were really, really weird: 300 dpi, but below 127kb. Talk about restrictions…

Creative Tally: 24

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:32:50 -0500

Sketched a book cover for Marc’s Kindle collection of shorts.
Figured out the visuals for some tricky navigation for a client at The Day Job.

Creative Tally: 23

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:09:00 -0500

Finished a illustration for a Giant War text piece.
Got concept sketch of a commission off to a freelance client.

Scene number two that Marc and I put together for The Card Cheat...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0500

Scene number two that Marc and I put together for The Card Cheat pitch. I used a slightly modified classic comic coloring palette (84 colors or whatever) that Ray put together a while ago.

Here’s a link to the post with the first scene.

About a year and a half ago or so, Marc and I pitched The Card...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500

About a year and a half ago or so, Marc and I pitched The Card Cheat around to some folks. It didn’t get picked up anywhere, but I’m still proud of the work we did in the pitch.

Since Tumblr only let’s you upload 10 images at at time I’ve broken the art up in to a couple of posts. Here’s the first of two scenes we did for the book. We ended up thumbnailing the whole thing and doing character designs for all major characters as well.

Creative Tally: 22

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:55:18 -0500

Recolored the original page for the Giant War.
Colored and inked another page for the Giant War.
Figured out what to do for a commission.

Creative Tally: 21

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:16:46 -0500

A page for the Giant War penciled and half inked.

Creative Tally: 20

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:11:05 -0500

Got the tumblr site all set up for The Giant War, finally.
Sketched spot illos for two Giant War pieces.
Explored data visualization and began design of data visualization needs for client at The Day Job.

Joe has been working on The Great Pacific for a while now, but he needs help getting it over the...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:30:05 -0500

Joe has been working on The Great Pacific for a while now, but he needs help getting it over the finishing line. The Kickstarter Fund will be used to help pay his artist, editor, designer, and letterer on the project, which is what Kickstarter is for.

From the Kickstarter page:

Great Pacific is a full-color sci-fi adventure comic book series set to debut in the US comics market in October 2012….

… Great Pacific tells the story of Chas Worthington, recent heir to one of the richest oil fortunes and most successful corporations in American history. In a defiant act that seems crazy to most and criminal to many, he sheds his former life of wealth and influence to settle the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, planting his flag and declaring the environmental wasteland a new, sovereign country.

The art is fucking amazing, really, and I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even know the Garbage Path was a real thing.

You can become a backer of the project here.

Creative Tally: 19

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:10:15 -0500

Refined type treatments for Client at the Day Job.
Revised concept art for pitch at the Day Job.

Creative Tally: 18

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:08:04 -0500

Spent all night hooking up my Giant War template up to Tumblr. Still not done. Grumble. Grumble.
Got color type treatments off to a Client at the Day Job.
Designed about a dozen elements to be implemented on an upcoming site launch at the Day Job.

Creative Tally: 17

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:46:14 -0500

Thumbnailed a piece for The Giant War. Probably the first piece that’ll run.
Thumbnailed another piece that may or may not run on The Giant War. Marc and I haven’t decided yet.
Worked with Joe to set up a page to support his upcoming Kickstarter project.

Creative Tally: 16

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:21:19 -0500

Nada

These aren’t the most exciting posts in the world, but the Tally keeps me honest.

Creative Tally: 15

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:54:06 -0500

Finished the site template for The Giant War
Worked with Marc to plan what to kick off The Giant War with.
Designed form and page elements for a client at The Day Job.

Creative Tally: 14

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:55:21 -0500

Started coding the Tumblr theme for The Giant War.
Emergency CSS tweaks to a project at the Day Job.

DC Conspiracy: MAGIC BULLET #4 - Release party at Big Planet of Vienna

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:05 -0500

DC Conspiracy: MAGIC BULLET #4 - Release party at Big Planet of Vienna:

dcconspiracy:

We are having a release party for Magic Bullet #4!

Magic Bullet is a FREE newspaper-sized comics anthology put out by D.C. Conspiracy, a group of local comics creators.

So come celebrate the newest issue with us on Saturday, March 3! Many of the contributors will be there, original…

Creative Tally: 13

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:37:11 -0500

Got the first Giant War piece lettered and up for Marc to see.
Started coding the Giant War site (It’ll be up on Tumblr at http://thegiantwar.tumblr.com).
Concept sketches for interesting client project at the Day Job.