New for April 21st.

(I'm not sure who the young lady is, but she is rocking the puffs)

(Old School Ninja Nerd. Hmmmm....)

(He is nothing but pure liquid energy!)

The school year is almost to a end. Which means my job is almost to a end, and I'm cool with that. I really want to spend more time playing with Noah and drawing. I'm thinking that the next batch of pictures are going to be more finished. Some more shading and some inking. They look good on paper, but once I scan them in and really start to sink into the picture, they just look flat.

(I like the power button, but I think another character(s) have that sort of mask)

(Adamant doing his best Capt. Marvel pose. There is a Capt. America sheild there. I would post that image, but it's not very good.)

04.15.09

Todays:

For Thursday's pic I plan on doing a bit more shading and also something more... I dunno, dynamic or whatever. Something. The top one is a superhero I made up when I was young. Sun-Man, Sun King, Sun Tron (look, Tron was big back then, ok?! Who didn't want to be anywhere close to Tron?!), Sun Somethingoranother. When I was a kid, and now sometimes, I'd pretend be a superhero. Professor X would find me and I'd join the New Mutants. Cool....

The second I was just messing around. Been thinking of Assassin's Creed 2 a lot. Seen the trailer, read about it in Game Informer, I liked the first one. Thought of a kid who was all Assassin Creed'd out, but wasn't killing people. Fighting bullies, stealing quizes to sell to others, sabotaging the school buses so there would be no school, so on and so on... That's actually pretty cool.

Expect another "Assassin Creed Kid Who Isn't Really An Assassin" picture tomorrow.

New Beginning

This is what I posted yesterday via Facebook.com:

Wanted: Creative Cats

No, not felines who can freestyle, but people who are creative.I've been
working on my ongoing superhero styled comic/animation/property for awhile. Over the break, I got quite a bit done. Some writing and some drawing, a ton of
brainstorming while I have time to have a clear mind. But it's not enough. So
I'm looking around and seeing all these creative folks. So I am doing something
I rarely do and should do more often. I am asking for help.

The goal starting tomorrow is to crank out one sketch/drawing a day (starting I'm going for 4 a week until I get a comfortable groove). However I still need to get the site up (I haven't picked a name yet, however I have a few in mind), getting stuff copyrighted, so on and so on. I don't want anyone to do it for me. However I
won't mind a gentle nudge or the like if there are no updates on my end. The
goal is to update my process here and elsewhere until the project is done and
running like Forrest. Everything is here in front of me on my end; it's just
getting it down. Also if there is anyone who wants to do drawing jams (in person
or virtual) or the like, I'd be down.

I've been reached the point where I'm tired of cool ideas I had being used in cartoons (even if I dig them) and whatnot. And I just want to share my stories (without some company coming in and "borrowing" my ideas because they aren't copyrighted. :) ) and pursue one of my dreams. I'll never be the captain of the new NASA spacecraft, the "USS Falcon Prime" and fight aliens; at least I can do this one.

Yes, that this was one of my goals as a 5th grader. That and getting my own Valkyrie or Transformer who was cool with me and we'd go on adventures. Hmmm, new idea coming from an old one....

And here are the results so far...

Some new stuff!!

What is this? New work posted?

Beans and rice!!!!

I have a t-shirt in my head, I'm playing around with ideas now.

Black background

White background

I want to have one with a quote and something going on in the background, nothing too fancy. But for now, I'll stick with this.

Here is some roughs on the comic that will be here in about 2 weeks. Finally.

Where are you Kameo and Perfect Dark?

When the 360 launched, we had Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero. They weren't perfect (no pun intended), however they laid down a foundation for future franchises.

Or so I thought anyway.

I'm not one for making online signatures or whatever, didn't help with my new Jet Set Radio game, but part of me really feels like we should get another show with them. Perfect Dark is clearly a franchise that would be amazing to have. The whole FP Spy-Action angle would be awesome and in a sea of super He-Men, bald space Marines, Ms. Dark (older this time around) would be a very cool heroine to have around.

Kameo shouldn't fade after one game. Add some new creatures, tweak the gameplay, we are talking a killer franchise. And again, having some cool female characters would open more doors. It doesn't mean it's "dumbed down." But you can have the killer gameplay, ability to draw in new players, and start a stable foundation for a franchise that could go far beyond games. More than Viva Pinata, to me anyway. A Ben 10 styled Kameo cartoon? Man....

So yeah, I really hope before the Next Xbox system, which I hope is a long ways away, we get another game from these two IPs. Not having another Perfect Dark, that would just be a shame.

The "Joy of Black Samurai"

Black Samurai.
I'll say this first. The movie is only good if you need something to laugh at. As in, it's not funny ha-ha, but funny in that "Oh shit, did he just say/do that?!" sort of funny.

I wasn't expecting Lord of the Rings with Black Samurai, but that's what I got. IF LotR was made on a shoestring budget and hired non-actors. I love Jim Kelly, but this is just bad. I mean evil bad. The plot is straight out of a NES game, this could have been an amazing NES game. The action is horrible. Horrible. For a super spy cat with so much soul, Jim's character fights with the speed and grace of a retarded tiger with three legs.
There are moments when they are talking while fighting, but it's dubbed in. You'd wish they didn't dub the voices in. But then again, the dialog is nothing to call the Oscars for. I know, I know, it's from 76, it's a Blaxspotation movie. Again, I'm not expecting Casino or Do the Right Thing, but damn.

I laughed a lot more than I should. Jim throwing a vulture named Photon, who later in the movie fights Jim, to some bad guys to escape was cool. The 3 minute Jim flying in a jetpack for no reason got a laugh. The mini-boss fight with Bone, was comedy gold. Bone's fghting style must have been "punk push" Because he spent good chunk of their fighting pushing Jim around. The midget with the cowboy hat swinging on a rope like a school girl and the Zulu warriors (leopard men) coming out of no where was funny. And there were a lot of midgets in this movie. The bad guy, the Worlock, must have stock piled up on midgets...

The movie gets 1 star out of 5. HOWEVA, if you need a laugh (just remember it's 1976) that causes you to cover your mouth in horror, this is a five star event. Can't miss cinema. But don't say I didn't warn you.

Football, Football, FOOTBALL!!!

I always been very, very excited this time of year. But it's not because of Madden (now) or 2K (years past). It's because of football itself. For me, when NCAA and Madden drops, that's my signal that the season is about to start.

When the teams first get into training camp, I really start to feel that need to play. Last year I worked at a game store and worked the Madden Midnight launch. It wasn't some epic event, but it was pretty cool to see a group of people, we had like 60-80 cats that night, hanging out and talking football. Just having fun and waiting to have more fun later. This year I'll be in line and will run home like Forrest Gump to play. Not because it's Madden (and I really enjoyed last years game), but because it's football.And every year, football puts me under it's spell and iron fisted grasp. This year is no different.