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Burt (by Tom Sjoerdsma)

My sister found this drawing I made some 40+ years ago in some of my Mom’s files. It is drawing of a character created by Tom Sjoerdsma. Tom was kind enough to show me around ‘Good Apple’ when I was … Continue reading

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Kelly

Many years ago (1988) when I was mostly drawing macho superheroes I would occassionally draw some girls in pretty dresses, etc. This seemed detrimental to where I wanted to go in comics or animation so I considered for some time … Continue reading

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The Sheriff of Nottingham Introduces Himself

You’d be forgiven if you don’t quite recognize this shot of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Although any fan will instinctively know where in the film it belongs. Perhaps the reason it feels slightly different from your memory of ‘Robin Hood’ … Continue reading

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Timely Tales: The origin of Easter

Here’s a doodle from back in the 1980’s featuring the never before revealed origin of Easter. You see.. Ecliazekuloploppen Starbunny (E Starbunny for short) had to crash land on planet earth. While sharing his space chocolates with the friendly neighborhood … Continue reading

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Pre-computer compositing

Back before computers… painting on the back of cels/plastic was a thing.

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Lair of the Lizardmin

Just a reminder that the good stuff doesn’t always win the day. Al B. Moore’s ‘Lair of the Lizardmin’ wasn’t just good… it was great stuff. Al moved on to other fun projects: http://www.drawingitup.com/ Check them out!

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SVG Rotation testing

Pressing toward some other things I thought I’d give SVG rotation using mouse/pen (and keyboard) a try.

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Research / Drawing programs

Here’s a doodle from an exploration into creating a vector/raster hybrid drawing program that focuses on recording history of brush strokes. Added an option to output the sequence and this is a random doodle I was using to test fitting … Continue reading

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Tahoma2D v1.5 is nearing completion

John over at Tahoma2D has been doing great things with his fork of Opentoonz. Not only has there been a recent release of v1.4 but the Beta release of v1.5 is out and bug fixes are now the focus as … Continue reading

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Almost animation model turnarounds…

Heritage auctions are always fun to watch… even if you never buy anything. Go to individual entries for multiple views or alternate scans of artowork. Get an account at Heritage to gain access to the higher resolution images. Maleficent figure … Continue reading

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