nice night for a walk, eh?

Our short film got into the UFrame film fest in Portugal. Hooray. Too bad it's so far away. But we'll see how it does. I'll be trying to re-work my site a bit before that happens, as well as help my friend (the director) build a site for himself.

Now I've got less than a month to try and crank some work out for Comic-con. I don't know what the hell to do though. I guess I'll just work on the other pages for my old mini-comic, since it would take me too long to write out a whole new comic...

Well we'll see. I'll keep you posted.

What's up doc?

So it's been a while. But I managed to finish my animation on time, whoo-hoo. It was nice to be doing some animating again, but I have to admit I'm glad it's finally finished. Now my friend whose film it is featuring it in is pitching it to different film fests. So hopefully it will be out there. I'll try and cut together a selection of clips soon so as to let people see what I did. Can't show you the whole short though. Save that for the 'fests.

in other news my computer has been running a bit slow lately. I'm sad. I don't know if I've just got too many programs on it or what, maybe I'll re-format it and start from scratch see if that helps. If any of you know what to do in this situation let me know...

Next Project..

Well if you are wondering what has happened to me, I'm currently busy working on an animation for my friend's next short film... so yeah. I'll be sure to put it up once it's all finished. by deadline.. which is roughly around end of April.. craaaappp.

"about the artist"

So recently my friends were shooting a short film, titled "about the artist." My friend approached me and asked if I could make some paintings for the film... about 5 of them. I agreed, but unfortunately due to the thanksgiving holidays, script-revisions, and a cast that well had not been cast, my time frame which I thought would be 2 weeks turned into 4 days...

So in lieu of the short deadline I had to work in acrylic, which I haven't done in a long time.. but it was fun. The first three were relatively easy, and for the last two, I did need to pull an all-nighter to complete... but I got them done...



























So there they are...

The last one of the couple in bed had paint thrown over it at the end of the film...
but I don't have a shot of it with the large paint splatter...

well I think that was mainly it. I'm now working on a Christmas gift for a friend. who wants a painting/drawing of Sandman...

revised panels for One.Six: Prelude Part 1

So as I mentioned earlier I finally picked up my comic again, and while revisiting it I noticed some crap backgrounds, and panels in general, that I had thrown down in the first run. So I went through and did some editing and re-drawing of panels. There are a few small ones but I'll just put up a couple that had some major changes...

So this was a re-drawn panel for page 10.. um there is a better establishing shot panel but I don't think i'll put it up..

The old one just had this really bad background building that didn't really work out. Also a few things changed story-wise, it's no longer so far far out in the future so i tried to adjust.

Another one. Again same thing the clothing was adjusted to fit the change in time...

If you are interested in seeing the old, un-edited comic you can see it at my site. www.stephaniemccrea.com in the comic section. Hopefully it loads right, the javascript was being twitchy earlier.

So now really I'm trying to figure out about the coloring, and inking, if I decide to ink. But I guess that will have to wait 'till tomorrow...

On a side note I'm also going back and stretching my 3D legs. So perhaps you will see some of that in future on this blog... just a heads up. I'm trying to learn more Flash and After Effects as well. Combustion too.. possibly. We'll see. I need more time to do all these things, damnit!

Revisiting One.Six

So on a whim of inspiration I went back and dug up my old comic, One.Six (that's One(Point)Six)... anyways I dug it out and decided that I would work on it. I did a 14 mini-comic prelude back during spring break my senior year, which was to be continued. Well I decided to start that I wanted to re-do a couple of the shady panels that I had just thrown down for the sake of getting them done. So as soon as my scanner gets back online (ie. as soon as my sister comes back with her laptop) I'll post some of the revised panels...

I'm still debating on whether or not to ink them. I'm thinking of digitally coloring them, but we will see...

the now...

So I've been catching up on all my Naruto manga reading. Damn it's so good! and inspiring! I wish I could create something that kick-ass... I need to re-write my comic. :(