Finally got that surgery I’ve been waiting for, two years in the making! Feeling sore as hell but up and running.
Haven’t been up to much, obviously, but trying to keep up on study from the padded recliner…
Did throw together this trick photo today though;
So, here’s the first two pages from Mark’s Bad Day.
Still completely undecided on how to actually release this – I’m spoiled for choice, so knowing me, I’ll finish the entire thing then let it gather dust for a few weeks until I come up with a good idea.
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In other news, I didn’t win the IGDA logo competition for their 48 Hour Game Making Challenge… BUT I loved my entry so much that I decided to put it in my my portfolio anyway. Check it out here.
Some of my short stories that I’ve self-published on here…
Thought I’d share some of the fruits of this week’s photoshoot.
We finally got together and got some great shots for production of my photographic novel Mark’s Bad Day, starring Zach as Mark and my good friend Shannon as Felicity.
More after the jump.
I’ve been putting my Wacom tablet to good use lately, finally grabbing some spare time and running through some tutorials in digital painting.
Having always admired concept artists, the work of Adam Burn jumped up and grabbed me, so I gave this a shot, and am quite pleased with the result.
Only took me eight hours.
Now that my artist has gotten back on track (and how) I’ve also been coloring some of his sketches.
took one hour
Coloring practice, full size
In other news, production on Mark’s Bad Day continues with gusto. I’m preparing for our second full photoshoot on Wednesday, and can’t wait to see the results.
screen test #2
For fair credit, I used these amazing photoshop brushes: LINK
So I’ve been working on this little project between the usual – studying, writing, designing, playing Witcher 2 – and we’ve finally got a couple of pictures to show for it.
As far as I’m aware (I’ve looked, but not too hard), this is the first of it’s kind, which is quite exciting and will take all of our combined awesome. It’s a photographic novel, or a comic book with edited photos instead of hand-drawn art; obviously, it’s still sequential art, but I wouldn’t call it an actual comic book.
It’s called Mark’s Bad Day.
IS RIGHT HERE
Feeling good about it.
I specialise in branding, identity, and promotional stuff. I love it, let’s do it, let’s make some amazing things together.
In Chanpory Rith’s very helpful article, the 7 Deadly Sins of Resume Design, he describes seven do-nots for putting together a great resume, specifically for design fields.
I read this after already refurbishing my portfolio, and felt proud that I had instinctively avoided all seven. I do agree with 6.5 out out of 7 of his points, as I used more than one colour (besides black).
My resume can be found here, on my portfolio site.
I have a theory.For those of you who haven’t seen either the Dark Knight or Fight Club, this post is heavy with spoilers. You have been warned.
I first read Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk – a masterpiece of transgressive fiction – shortly after watching the film adaptation.Two main divergences from the novel stuck out at me; not least the ending.
Cover of Fight Club: A Novel
In the film, Tyler executes the goal of Project Mayhem and, in the process of freeing himself, shoots himself in the cheek. The credit card companies crumble, and he watches it all happen hand-in-hand with Marla.In the novel, Tyler still shoots himself in the mouth – but he is on the verge of Project Mayhem masterstroke when Marla and the support groups talk him down from the ledge and persuade him to turn himself in to a mental hospital. There, he tells us that the orderlies are planning on breaking him out.
The second main divergence, for me at least, is a matter of Tyler’s mouth.During his first fight, he is punched in the face, and bites through his cheek, leaving a hole there that grows and grows throughout the course of the book until it reaches the corner of his mouth. The same thing happens with the gunshot wound at the end of the novel, leaving him with huge, ragged scars along his cheeks.
I realised, years later, that this sounded very familiar.
A genius sociopath, yearning to break the bonds of societal repression, to be free of such shackles as money and fame? Who searches for peace under the embers of utter chaos? With such distinctive facial scars?
Let’s say for a minute that I’m talking only about the novel version of Fight Club, and the Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) version of Batman.Where is the one place that Tyler would have never been successful at setting up a fight club? Gotham City.
After being sprung from a mental insitution, having outgrown the purposes of Project Mayhem and Marla Singer, I believe that Tyler Durden saw his scars in a new light, moving to Gotham City to bring to it a new class of criminal.All it took was some face paint, hair dye, new clothes, and a whole lot of audacity.Why? To get right in their hostile little faces, show them that they are no better than he, and above all; bring Batman to such a limit that he might be on Tyler/Joker’s level, even for one night.
After all, this is the man who brought a nation to its knees with Projects Mayhem and Misinformation. While he was achieving that, he was of two minds, conflicted with himself. After uniting with his alter-ego and being at one, imagine how much more he could achieve.
If it weren’t for that pesky bat.
Naysayers or supporters please sound off in the comments, or at the very least rewatch the Dark Knight with Tyler Durden in mind.
Matt out.
