Did a bunch of work on these pages today, including adding a new page between the two I'd been working on. This will screw up the numbering again, but it's not the first time. While it's a little clunky for animation, I think it works ok for comics. There's movement, which I want, and a decent fluidity to the smear, which was hard to do. I think things are going to get a bit more extreme from here on out, but that's the mice. They're loud and rude.

Did a little work on this yesterday. Thursdays are hard as it's grocery day, podcast day and laundry day as well. That being said, I was put in mind of one of the old animation techniques from Looney Tunes, something called a 'smear.' It was first used to extremes in a cartoon called, "The Dover Boys." Still frames of that cartoon are insane and wonderful. While I don't think I can go that far, I think a good deal of exaggeration is warranted for this track. The mice are LOUD.

 

 I haven't felt a creative spark for art in awhile, so this comic has languished a bit. Between prepping for this week's podcast (watching the movie, writing the script), doing some laundry and recording some VO auditions, I didn't really feel like drawing, but I wanted to have drawn, if that makes sense. So I did the Terry and Rooster figures for this page and cut out where the spotlights would hit. So that's at least something.

 So, a couple of updates though I haven't really been able o dial up the right motivation to make art. The bottom is the updated version of the latest opening page for track 12 of City Silent. Had to fix the credit and lighting. But I think that's going to work. The top image is Smatt from the next page. I think. At least it's progress. Work just sucks the life out of me. I have been enjoying the auditions I've been doing for VO work lately, though and have been shortlisted for a couple of them. So here's hoping.