Lunch Lab LIVE!

Lunch Lab is live and the shorts I worked so hard on are getting posted. The first episode of 10 is up in the video section called "Food Camp". I did the layout and storyboards for the first 10 episodes (the other 9 are still to be posted). I would've posted the original storyboard Quicktime up on the blog, but I haven't wanted to spend $1000 for After Effects quite yet. This is a quick shot of the intro. Obviously the title card is just a placeholder until the designers had completed it for the actual animation. The premise of the show is basically a cartoon cooking show for kids. It promotes healthy eating habits for young kids. Some of the recipes are really interesting and simple. I'll be stealing a few of these recipes for myself :) Don't be surprised if you are having dinner at my place and you are eating mashed cauliflower.

Thanks to the creators and co-founders of Cloud Kid Studios, Evan Sussman and Dave Schlafman for giving me this opportunity to flex my boarding muscles...I loved every minute of it. And thanks to Alex Berry for putting up with my boarding and doing a great job animating these! Each webisode was written by Evan Sussman, Backgrounds and props by Jen Blicharz, Animation by Alex Berry and Sound Editing by Brian Smith. The voice of Corporal Cup is Megan Goltermann who did a great job bringing this character to life.

THE GODS ARE ANGRY!!!

We bought this cat tower which sits at about 7ft tall and has a little cubby hole. It was mainly for the cat to escape to when we finally got a puppy. Well the puppy adoption has been put on hiatus for now. But our cat, Tuck, still got a nice tall climbing toy to mess around on. Every now and then we'll find him on the top looking down on us as if he is our ruler and God. The Cat Tower is really the Mt. Olympus for kitties with delusions of grandeur.

Side Note: Thanks to Rob and Margaret for pointing me in the right direction for some GREAT deals on a nice tall cat tree. Tuck LOVES it.

Fishy Dreamin'

My cat gets really anxious and irritated if he's not in the same room as us. Its like he doesn't want to be alone. So late at night when I'm working, he sleeps in the office chair next to me and every now and then he'll start chattering (you cat owners probably know what I'm talking about, the clicking noise when cats get excited and want to chase something) and lets out random tiny "Maow"s. Then much like a dreaming dog, he'll start twitching and moving his legs as if he's chasing something in his dreams. I bet Tuck dreams of swimming after fish. But he wouldn't know what fish actually look like since his only interaction with that smell is the pink mush in his food bowl 4x a day which he goes BONKERS for.

Side-note: Misha took him to the vet for his annual check up, he is healthy, except he is slightly over-weight. I think its the excess fur that is weighing him down. But for a big ol' 3 year old Maine Coon...he's at a rather small 15 lbs. Adult Maine Coons can grow up to 18lbs, so technically, he's just under-weight...well...according to my research on Maine Coons. But its hard to tell a Veterinarian that they are wrong when all you have in your corner of information is Wikipedia and various cat related websites.

Rainbows smell funny

I once heard that Unicorns eat cupcakes and poop rainbows. I'd like to think that's how they fly...propelled by their own colorful feces that populate the skies. Should they go see a doctor if they have such kaleidoscopic excrement? It can't be healthy...maybe its from the cupcakes? Maybe they should stop eating those things. Or at least go to a different store for cupcakes.

Imposter

Just a little addition to the last post. I imagined that same blob creature controlling a Haz-Mat suit to creep up on unsuspecting victims. Also inspired by the 1980's movie "The Blob" when a haz-mat suited individual was filled up with blob-goo and pulled into the sewer.

Blobby

Just some fun with shapes. This character is inspired by an illustration I did as an instructional map for a World of Warcraft boss encounter (Yogg-Saron). The character is also inspired by both Yogg-Saron and The Blob from the horror/scifi movies of the same name.

"Blobby"

Teen angst is sparkly

I saw the first half of the first Twilight movie and I was already groaning at every melodramatic teen angsty scene when finally I had enough the very minute they explained that the vampires don't explode in a ball of dust at the sun light...but instead...they sparkle more than Liberace out on the town on a Saturday night. How is that supposed to be intimidating? I guess it was supposed to be portrayed as 'beautiful'...but if I came up to a REAL girl and started to sparkle, she'd laugh and then immediately question my sexuality.
Now...this character is supposed to be this lonely brooding 'emo' vampire who falls in love with this Washington state native girl who is also 'emo' and angsty and full of melodrama. Where are we supposed to care about these characters? Every step of the way, I wanted to slap everyone around. Maybe its because I went through High School and I know that there is life after it, but it just seems to me, that EVERY teen angst show/movie out there is centered around the idea that High School is it. Nothing happens after that. Your life is over. Let's be miserable and over react to impossible situations that would never happen to an actual teen...or at least MULTIPLE unlikely situations happening to the same teen. Its ridiculous. Did all the writers for these shows just not go to college? Were their prime years centered mainly in High School? Really? Well...I found out after 4 years of college that your life is finally beginning after High School...that's when its fun...so all the stupid, impossible or unlikely situations like "My brooding boyfriend, who can't seem to smile or have fun because he's so emo and thinks life is pain and sadness, is really a vampire." all seem rather pointless in the long run.

Maybe he's sad because he DOES sparkle...hell..I'd be pissed to if my skin sparkled. Should probably see a doctor about it.

Super Liam

Its my blog and I can do what I want with it. Even if its making myself a generic superhero. HEY! When you have your own blog...you can do whatever YOU want!

"Hmmm...I should do something for the blog soon." I thought to myself. "I wanna fly and have an arch-nemesis!" I pondered.

So here is the latest of the series of nonsense that drools randomly from the thrown together mess of noodles and stroganoff I call 'my brain'. First, I just sketched out myself with flying powers...oooo...ahhhh. Then, I needed a nemesis. So I used Tuck my cat, as "Dr. Kitteh Mew Mew". When I drew this, I imagine he is more angry that he has a helmet than anything else. And finally, me rescuing my wife and ace reporter, Misha, from the sharpened claws of Dr. Kitteh Mew Mew!