Ballpoint Practice:Frankenstein

Doing a bit of practice for a future project. I have to get the technique down before I move the the final pieces. There was a mistake doing this since the space around Karloff's face I did larger strokes, the desired technique would be the same as I used in the studies below, smaller finer strokes but it was 2am and I was sleepy when i did this piece. 

 

Tonal value practice and shadow studies.                                       

This is the final piece but pictured with the tool used. One dead soldier: Titus fine ballpoint pen(blue). 

Welcome to the Disney Club House

The interwebs or at least the nerds/geeks/fans are abuzz this week after the news broke of Disney's acquisition of Lucas Films and officially The Star Wars franchise.

I myself believe this is a good thing. Allow me to explain

In 2004 Disney took the reigns of Jim Hensons world. Although it took them a while to get The Muppets to do anything [six years! Seriously?] , it was welcome news, and it would be assured that felt-friends from The Muppets would be moving to a home where they could continue to be loved by generations to come. 

Disney produced the first full-length features by Pixar [Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Monsters Inc...] and everything since then, and has made both parties a lot of money and I have benefited with the most indelible characters I have ever known and will look forward to whatever they make in that partnership. So in 2006 after more than a decade long partnership Disney buys Pixar, then puts the head of Pixar at the head of Disney's Animation Department. I saw Tangled[2011] and loved it and just hours before writing this was bowled over by the top-shelf feature Weck-It Ralph and the lovable short Paperman. 

Fast-Forward to 2009. Disney acquires Marvel. 

Fresh off the success if IronMan in 2008 which started a ripple effect that gave rise to this years The Avengers. There possibly has been little ill effect from this partnership.

2012. Disney + Lucas Films.
Now [George]Lucas is an industry all to himself. Much like Jim Henson he created characters molded from inanimate objects to believable feeling entities that I know and love. His studio, ILM developed the first bit of rendering software that became Pixars Ace: Renderman. And for any of my collegues in architecture ILM also developed software that would be the basis for 3dMax, Viz and other rendering software.
This pairing of two industries started much earlier that most might think.

Exhibit A:


So if you still think that this merger is a bad thing, GET A CLUE! Disney is now run by creative people, not just one person with an EGO! The worst thing that has ever happened to Star Wars HAS HAPPENED:



and it could get worst but the best might yet be "still-to-come".

2012 11 01 All Souls Day

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