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Electrogor, Bobbie Draper, and more

A little heads up for people here on the site — the Kickstarter project for the Multiplex 10 animated short has reached a $9,389 thanks to 263 backers in three days. It’s slowing down fast, so I don’t know whether we have the momentum to get past the goal — or to exceed it, so we can do it with higher quality animation and animation — but I hope we do.

I spent a little time today trying out some new techniques that I couldn’t really do with the comic. The two drawings below use the Texturino plugin for Illustrator by Astute Graphics (whose Phantasm plugin I use constantly in Multiplex stuff) to “paint” in the shadows. I think it works pretty good, though I’m still getting the hang of it.

I couldn’t use these effects in the comic, because they need to be printed at some point, and at high res, Texturino creates giant files that make my computer cry. BUT… I might use them — sparingly — in the animated short, most likely for backgrounds.

Electrogor from Zander Cannon’s Kaijumax

Bobbie Draper from The Expanse

If you don’t read Kaijumax or watch The Expanse, do it! I love them so.

Multiplex: The Revenge final cover

(Unless I change something at the last minute.) If you see a typo, let me know. :)

Anyway, Book Three is on track to go to the printer TODAY. The next step is proofreading the electronic proof, and then the next step after that is proofreading the physical proof (in a few weeks). So, you know, don’t hold your breath yet. It’s a process.

Also! In case you missed the very quiet announcement, I’ll repeat it here: since Multiplex is ending in the next couple of months, I have started a tinyletter so you people can stalk me more easily. I’ll use it to send uh tinyletters about my upcoming (Multiplex and non-Multiplex) projects and junk like that. It’s basically a very simple e-mail newsletter. I won’t use it often; just to give you the heads up on Kickstarter projects launching and whatnot, since not everyone can afford to support my creative endeavours via Patreon.

Production on Book Three is winding down

I thought I’d share this one publicly, rather than just to the Kickstarter and Patreon folks. It’ll be used as the “chapter illustration” for the back matter — which means that it will be directly opposite the last page of the comics in Book Three.

Anyway. I just have a couple of illustrations (the cover and the cover/chapter illustration for Chapter 15) before production is officially wrapped — which means I’ll be moving on to proofreading, pre-press, and  other boring stuff next! BUT there will be movie review comics and things like that going up at Kickstarter and Patreon during that time.

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The Sessions: Voice Acting in Anime and Video Games

This flyer design (including the illustrations, obviously) was a quick freelance project created for Chris Rager, the (English dub) voice of Hercule in Dragon Ball Z and Torgue in Borderlands 2 — a.k.a. the two characters shown here, if you’re unfamiliar with them. He’s starting up a class on voice acting next month and wanted something eye-catching to help promote it.

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I met Chris at a convention a year or two ago (that’s why he called me to do this!), and he’s a blast, so if you’re in the Plano, Texas, area and interested, definitely look into this course. The first class runs from March 15th–April 5th, Tuesday evenings from 7–10 pm. (Four classes for three hours each class.)

I don’t know any more details, so just read the flyer!

If nothing else, I thought you guys might like the illustration.