Doodles of Advice and Alliteration

I know I posted yesterday, but I've got drawings I must share!

Gratuitous sword damage, Blade's biggest pet peeve.

A man with a mustache, a mustelid monster, and a meadow mouse.  Marvelous!

Earworm of the Day: let's face it, I still have that unicorn song stuck in my head.  Ask me again in 3 days.

Battle Segments and Tracking Skills

And now for your viewing pleasure, a storyboarded segment of fight scene between the Ninja Order of Animalburg and the O.H.A.  This would also be the first Beth's first face-to-face encounter with the O.H.A. apprentice, Kit.

Blocking with the LGLS is dangerous for everyone but the person blocking.

I also drew this bizarre picture last night.  It's Marvin tracking a scent.  This is not actually what Marvin sees (his vision is a little color-shifted but otherwise functions exactly like ours).  This is an attempted to visually represent how he uses smell.  The red-brown trail in the foreground is the scent of the person he's trying to find.  Everything else (aside from himself) is random environmental stuff.

But mainly it's just a colorful picture.

Earworm of the Day: Always by Erasure -- Aka "The song from Robot Unicorn Attack  Now you'll never get it out of your head!  Mwahahaha!

Aliens, Aardvarks, and Ants. Oh my!

Yes, I have homework, but I also don't want to get too far behind on posts.  Plus I drew a picture yesterday.

If she looks a little goofy, that's kind of intentional.

Also, I finished that animation:

Earworm of the Day: Contact by Falling Up.  Have I been linking to a lot of Falling Up lately?  Yes?  Oh well.

Homework Storm Ahead

I have redesigned Arnie the Acting Aardvark, giving him a more brighter, more cartoony color pallet and a less articulated framework.

He's questioning my decision to put the navigation bar on the right side.

The animation is due on Monday.  Five days from this moment to complete a 29 second clip.  The problem is my 3D thinking brain is driving me towards character moves that don't work with 2D puppets, meaning Arnie will be a composite character: arms ears and body will be 2D puppet, but the face and legs will be hand-animated in Photoshop.

I made a list of steps I'll have to do, made some estimations, and came out to a minimum of 12 hours of work to get it decently completed.  If I can spend an excess of 2hrs per day on the animation, I might, might get it done.  At least I don't have to re-draw every element like Winsor McCay did.

In other news:

Terke Piloting the Di-Zok

Photonegative drawings make nice spaceship pictures.

Earworm of the day: A Guide to Marine Life by Falling Up  I am shocked with myself for having not put that as an earworm sooner.

Aardvark Puppet

Aardvark puppet pieces

My most complicated photoshop puppet to date: Arnie the aardvark.  In case you were wondering, the skull is for a Hamlet spoof (Arnie is an actor).

Earworm of the Day: "The Hills are Alive" from The Sound of Music, because for a moment it looked like Arnie was singing it.

Smattering

First, an update on the fossa skull:

jaw bone's coming along nicely

Secondly, a smattering of doodles from my sketchbook when I was bored.

The more bored I am, the more detailed the doodles.

An animation will soon be on the way (or at least it better be.  It's for a grade.)

Earworm of the Day: Louise the Lab Rat by The Living Tombstone

Update on the Fossa

It has come to my attention that "fossa" is pronounced "faux-sa" not "faw-sa", thus rendering my previous title pun invalid.

Regardless, my fossa skull now has teeth.

If it looks a little flat, it's because I haven't mirrored the geometry yet, so it's only half a skull.

Now does anyone have a good picture of what the back of a predatory animal's jaw looks like, because that would be really handy right now.

Earworm of the Day: I've had the b.g. music for Ravenwood Fair stuck in my head lately, but I'm not going to post the link.  It's just too infectiously catchy.