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On You Huskies!

sydney — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:31:49 +0000

Reposting this… I’d taken it down because of the bandwidth issues in the early phase of my Fame, but I’ve been asked to put it back up and it seems safe enough now. Demonstrates my strange habit of creating imaginary stories, by which I mean, not fiction, but fictional fiction. “Bess of the North and Her Wonder Dog Yukon Prince” I hope has a place in Borges’ library, anyways.

In the midst of showreel-editing misery, this brought up some fond memories:

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“The Golden Compass”, copyright New Line Cinema

Yes, I know they look exactly like real dogs. Thank you! Yes, we could possibly could have just used real dogs. Next question…

Inspiration was provided by hours and hours of old “Challenge of the Yukon” radio shows….

….which in combination with lengthy rendering times might have made me go a little nutty. I gave all the dogs names. They were.. let’s see.. I think Nanuk was the left-hand dog, Snowball the right-hand one, and of course Yukon Prince in the lead. In my daily dailies drawings I had him starring in an action-packed series of adventure novels circa 1933 (I have a thing for period book covers.. title fonts are some of the great freebies on Blambot):

It’s a good thing I work in the animation industry otherwise people might think drawing imaginary covers for imaginary books was a really strange thing to do.

I also was working on a heron for a while, but his series (more around the mid-1910s I’d say) was less successful:

Some Noir Studies

sydney — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:35:03 +0000

Geez its been ages since I’ve posted here, what with comic frivolities and all…
Some idle studies from the BBC’s excellent Film Noir Documentary. (sorry– link is UK only!)

Techlab

sydney — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:43:00 +0000

Whoo, I’m one of the world’s leading thinkers! (theoretically, that’s who’s supposed to do techlab columns..) People coming for Lovelace and Babbage comics should go to 2dGoggles.

Underground Academics

sydney — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:24:32 +0000

Is there some kind of conference on? Because there seems to be an unusual number of professorial-looking people on the Jubilee line these days.

Burlesque Life Drawing

sydney — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:57:10 +0000

Fun night of life drawing with a burlesque-costumed model with the London Life Drawing Society… I always wind up doing my best drawings of everyone but the model!

If burlesque becomes banned, what about burlesque life-drawing? Is it kinky because it has clothes?

Ponies!

sydney — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:11:52 +0000

Just a few ponies from a sketching/walking expedition.. some bunnies and deer, too, but they were a bit shy.

Yoink!

sydney — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:26:42 +0000

Comics now moved to 2D Goggles… we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming of sketchbook- and animation-related posts.

The Lovelace Adventures Pt 2

sydney — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:41:12 +0000

Whew! Sorry it’s a bit late, but just finished crunch last week, and this comic kind of ran away with me a little bit.. my Ada Lovelace Day contribution:

To spare your bandwith, the rest is at the link below:

All true! Except for some bits. My entire knowledge of this comes from Wikipedia.

Commentor Terrence Eden asks: What is Ada Lovelace’s kryptonite?
The answer is, of course, poetry. And it is actually true that Charles Babbage devoted much of his time to an ill-advised campaign against street musicians, which resulted in him being followed by bands of angry organists playing continually outside his window.

Also, I THINK the RSS feed is fixed… I’m no Ada Lovelace, though, so let me know if it’s not!

EDITED so the post contains the complete comic..

Ada Lovelace Day!

sydney — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:43:47 +0000

As usual I’m a bit overcommitted at the moment with Things That Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time.. my drinking buddy Suw came up with some cockamamie scheme for Ada Lovelace Day, and next thing I know I’m doing this (click on the image if, god help you, you want to see it larger):

The goal of this worthy enterprise is to celebrate women in technology… corrupted by myself to the goal of fooling around. Ada Lovleace, as I’m sure you all know, came up with the first theoretical program for the first imaginary computer, ~~thus ushering in the Age of Steampunk~~ making her an inspiration for all us girls messing around on computers in later centuries!

Insanely I actually have a few pages of this but to get in under the wire of The Day Itself I’m posting that up for now.

Teaser for the NEXT THRILLING EPISODE:

Arty Boys

sydney — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:29:02 +0000

Here’s some arty boys from my sketchbook winnow… I think all three of these are from Annecy last year (click for larger if you like):