The Post-CTN Glow

So, yeah, CTN was a great show this year. I met a lot of cool people and learned a few important lessons about life and art and the importance of umbrellas. Yadda yadda.

I've opened up a Twitter account, where I can post some of my less-than-stellar doodles and occasional ramblings. You can check me out @ScBingham, I guess? I'm still not entirely sure how the thing works, but I'll figure it out soon enough.

I've still got fifty-bajillion business cards to organize and a couple emails to look at, so things may be happening over here in the next couple days. I'll try to have everything locked in by Sunday, but with all this Thanksgiving happening, it might be tricky.

Let's just see what happens!

Die Fledermaus

I'm still messing around with this little guy. I'm still working on that little animated sequence for him. This particular graphic is going to be floating around with me at CTN next weekend. I'm really looking forward to the show, and I'm hoping to meet some more cool industry people. Fun times!

Glyos Paintdoodle

So, Onell Design puts out this fantastic little toyline called Glyos. It's basically mini retro space men who you can pull apart and put back together in all kinds of crazy ways. They are tons of fun and I'm getting excited because the next run is going to have some delicious purple. You can find out more about them here.

This painting was me continuing to muck around with my Cintiq. I pulled up my chair, loaded up some podcasts, and it just sort of happened. Maybe 45 minutes altogether.

Drabblecast Episode Art!

A few weeks after graduation I reached out to the Drabblecast, and audio fiction podcast specializing in the Weird and the Strange. I got the opportunity to do the cover art for this week's episode, number 256: "Roanoke, Nevada," by Edward J. Knight. You can check the story out by subscribing on iTunes, or just heading over to Drabblecast.org. They run a great show over there.

Here's a higher resolution version of the cover. Go check out the podcast to get the context!

The Bat Returns

Here's the finished pencil test of my little Bat vs. Golf Ball animation!

I've had this sitting around for about a week, actually. I plan on taking this to full color. This is probably the last WIP I'll post until it's done, but I may put up some color stills as I work on it...? We'll see.

"Pterosaur" is an order, "Pterodactyl" and "Pteranodon" are genera.

And these are Dimorphodon. Well, with plenty of artistic license.

The painting is the result of me messing around with my new setup this weekend. Same with the sketches, really. Of all the various prehistoric monsters, the pterosaurs and the dromaeosaurs are the ones that really appeal to me. I think it has to do with how bird-like they are, although I'll spare everyone the amateur paleontology lecture.

Anyway, here are some sketches of a particularly cartoony D. macronyx, mostly with absurd headgear concepts. The general consensus is that pterosaurs had hair instead of feathers, but pterosaurs are famous for ridiculous headcrests, so I went a little birdish with these.

Check them out after the break!

A Very Short Short About a Bat

About five or six years ago, during a high school summer animation thing AAU was doing, I animated my first...anything, really. It was a bat character reacting to a bouncing ball. I don't know where the actual animation went at this point, but over the weekend I decided it'd be interesting to revisit the idea.

So, this is me just mucking around in Flash. The whole thing took about two days of work and a third day to fix up some of my roughs. Cleaner roughs make a whole lot of difference!

I plan on cleaning this up properly and coloring it further along down the road.