Tiger Woods Commercial

The new Gatorade Tiger commercial is AWESOME! It's beautifully animated, looks incredible! It's about time we saw some real quality work on TV, it's better than the animation in most TV shows!



Anyways, incredible, I got a little animators high off it :)

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As far as work goes I'm working on a series of nursery rhymes illustrations for the little sisters baby shower games, and hopefully they'll turn out good enough to make the nephew a book!

Anyways, Alisa's rushing me so I guess that's it for now, sorry, I'll make up for it! My next post will contain the nursery rhyme illustrations!

New Uploads

I've added a doodle to DevArt http://tinyurl.com/d6b7gg and a page of simple sketch page I did at open mic night... http://tinyurl.com/cvvhvb

Progress in Adversity

Well my version of progress is at least getting windharps.net updated, It has a swf banner now, a little swf for introduction to the historical collection, and so I am going to stop using it as an excuse not to get work done on my projects!

I would like to apologize in advance for the possible incoherency of this blog, I've been feeling pretty sick the last couple days and finding it extremely difficult to concentrate.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with Dr. Horrible (If you aren't GO SEE IT!! drhorrible.com It's FREE! Then go buy it. Support awesomeness! I did!) But when it first came out, unbeknownst to me, there was a contest to make your own submission to the Evil League of Evil. I was very disappointed to find out about it too late to make an entry. But my sister and I have decided to make an animated entry ayways. We need to come up with a character and a voice actor. We were thinking of making siamese twins but still haven't really fleshed it out! Anyone with any suggestions, comments, etc would be appreciated. :) P.s. Another reason to check out Dr Horrible, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS. I'm not easily impressed, but the man rocks, he just rocks all too hard. If I were a man, I'd marry him! (Providing this country steps up to bat on it's real equality)



I'm going to post some sketches up in the next few weeks of possible characters... I'm not looking forward to the songwriting portion but I have high hopes for Alisa's score. I'm much more of a lyricist. :P

Anyways, anyone think this sounds interesting and want to be involved, feel free! We'll be posting this on YouTube, FB, MySpace, this blog... my website, and anywhere else we can find! It'll be fun!

Goals - Accountability

Well they say writing things down is the best way to hold yourself accountable... well that and telling others. So I figured with this blog I would do both!

So here are my goals for 2009!

Professional:
Get Storybook finished, illustrated and sent out to publishers!!!
Animate a short (Perhaps Gentle?)
Get my art on Side7, Artwanted, and any other gallery I can get my hands on!
Complete one comic - at least 5 pages! (Pogen or Nuclear? or AID... or heck any of my millions of ideas!)
Be involved in at least TWO collaborative projects!


Personal:
Go to Chicago (I miss u!!!!) and NYC!
ROAD TRIP!!! (May involve above)
Lose 20lbs (That's typical isn't it?)

HP wow...

Just when you think you can't be surprised by how terrible the service at big name companies is anymore... you get HP. (As if Microsoft support isn't enough) Since you guys probably don't know, last year I sent the laptop in because the DVD player wasn't functioning right, and it wouldn't allow me to use the restore partition. It had some other quirks and since it was the last month of my warantee I figured it'd be best just to send it in so they'd look it over. After two weeks and several ulcer-inducing conversations with techs about things that had nothing to do with my computer (and after they figured out they had the WRONG computer the first time) they sent it back to me without having done a thing. NOTHING had been changed. I contacted Customer Service who were very professional and apologized a million times and sent me restore CDs. These have been life savers many times and worked to repair the issues I was having... so I forgave them. Well this time I sent it in because the left hinge on the thing blew and caused major LCD damage, to the point I had to use a second monitor. Turns out this is a defect with all HP Pavillion 9000's so it was covered. Sweet! They sent me a box I sent it in, after a week it arrives back. Now I remember last time, and I think I got the same tech, so I expect problems. But I open up and it's gorgeous! All new plastic everywhere, not a scratch or dent. I was so excited I stuck the battery in fired it up and... x.x The same screen. As I type this it's with a second monitor set to clone. Somehow this is worse than the last time, because I actually expected it to be fixed.

So I started with the bad, but as I'm loading up my computer, that's what's on my mind.

There is some good. Last night Alisa and I attended the toastmasters local speech and evaluation competition. It was nice to sit back and relax watching some good speakers. All in all I thought they were pretty good, and it was cool to hear some fresh voices. Steve Cameron of windharps.net won both the speech comp and the evaluation comp btw and will be moving on to regionals. Kudos to him! I was not entered, Alisa and I just brought food. One speaker was particularly awesome and reminded us of our New Years Resolutions! He actually went so far as to hand out his business cards and instruct everyone to send him one res. that we want completed by Dec 31st so he could actually mail us then and see if we had. I am much better when being held accountable. You're 10x more likely to do something if you write it down, and for me 20x more likely to do it if you tell someone you will. So I'm going to mail him.. and I'm going to put it here in my blog. They will be mostly professional, but I'll mix in some personal goals as well. :)