So this week’s titblog theme was to design a  pokemon.  So during my lunchbreak, I came up with Thundercub.  With the sword of omens he evolves into Liono.  Nuff Said.  Cheers!

Yesterday was Titmouse’s Annual 5 Second Day.  It’s a day where the studio is closed so everyone can w0rk on a 5 second animation.   Since we screen our animation on Friday, I thought I’d share the design for my 5 second day piece.  I’ll post the animation after Friday.  Until then, cheers!

A more appealing version of my Omega 9 charater.  Have a Happy New Year!

So I was finally able to get my hands on the new cintiq.  A cintiq was probably one of the first purchases that I wanted to make when I started working.

However, many things prevented that from happening:

• I like to buy artbooks
• gas is a wallet killer
• food
• and the fact that cintiqs have been on backorder for like ever.

I decided to save up for about 2 months so I could finally buy a cintiq when  they were in stock again.  Last week, I found an online shop that had one in stock and bought it instantly.  The moment my cintiq was delivered to my house, I had the worst case of artist block.  Nothing came out right and I really didn’t want the first thing that I used my cintiq for was actual work-work (Titmouse has a cintiq for me to use).

So i remembered a villain I came up with during lunch: Goldbrain.

Goldbrain was the result of a conversation that went off in many tangents courtesy of one, Jeremy Polgar (visit his blog cause he’s a super talented animator and character designer).  The conversation was initially about Jeremy using fake science logic to explain the ongoings of the human brain.  And for some reason, I thought it would be cool if James Bond had a villain with a gold brain that would glow when he would think.  Since I like how the design of him came out, expect more Goldbrain related doodles to surface.

Happy New Year!

Kung Fu Elvis has returned and will play an integral part in a story I’m developing.  Since I’m on currently on hiatus from Titmouse, my buddy Grif suggested that I use the downtime for my own projects.   I came up Kung Fu Elvis a while ago but wasn’t too happy with the results.  At the time, he just looked like a dragon ball z character with a pompadour.  Now that I’ve had some distance from the initial idea, I came up with a better way to incorporate Elvis into a martial arts character.

He’s the arrogant pretty boy that you want to stomp a mudhole into and also the perfect villain for my story.  Anyhoo, look for more characters as I further develop my story.