I originally animated this wavy line pattern back in 2013; while revisiting some of my older GIFs for an upcoming project, I created a couple new variations to complete this sequence.
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February 5th, 2013
Reblog Contest Continues; Miizzzard Pixel Art Animation
Thanks to everyone who has participated in my Tumblr reblog contest so far! You can still enter your handle in the hat until Friday, February 8th at midnight CST. Just reblog this Tumblr post advertising the four digital prints I’ve added to my store to raise money to get to my table at TCAF. I will randomly select one person and mail them a 6×9″ ink drawing of the Miizzzard on smooth watercolor paper.
I don’t know about y’all, but my muse is fickle. Whenever I have work to do (right now, Fuel Quest, Vortex #4, and some freelance web development projects), I always get super stoked by the idea of a side project that’ll just derail me. Lately I’ve been reading about pixel art and game development, dreaming about making some small adventure games set in the Hyperverse. I’m contemplating how to best harness this excitement while still keeping my momentum on my current projects going. I think I might institute something similar to Google’s 20% time – give myself a couple of hours each week to work on whatever I want while reserving the remainder of my studio time for my main projects. How do y’all balance having fun with new projects and previous commitments?
The reason I’m bringing this up is because I spent far too much time this past weekend making a small pixel art animation of the Miizzzard walking:
I followed Derek Yu’s very helpful tutorial on making sprites. I liked how this let me scratch my desire to make a GIF without all the effort of more traditional animation. Also I get to indulge the perfectionist part of my brain that agonizes over the placement of every pixel.
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December 10th, 2010
The Skull of the Hyperlord
An image has been burning in my mind lately:
The skull of the hyperlord, granting me benediction.
The skull of the hyperlord, encased in arcane armors.
The skull of the hyperlord, biting at the inky blackness.
November 2nd, 2010
Hypermorph Animation – Rough Cut
This concludes my series of posts of installation shots of my show Hypermorph at Domy Books, Houston.
On the southern wall, I painted the title of my show and had a TV playing an animation on a loop:
Hypermorph Installation at Domy Books Houston, Southern Wall
Here’s the animation that was playing on the TV (it doesn’t have any sound):
Hypermorph Animation – Rough Cut
I’m calling this a rough cut because I intend to go back in and expand/refine this animation and have my brother do some music for it.
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September 24th, 2010
Hypermorph Opens this Saturday at Domy Houston, 7-9pm
Look into the eyes of the Miizzzard:
Here’s the official invite for my opening:
I hope to see y’all there!
September 10th, 2010
Froghead Sez “Deal With It”
I’m busy working on the final pieces for my show. I won’t show much more until after the opening so this blog might be a bit empty until then, but I couldn’t resist making this and posting it:
September 22nd, 2009
Dispersal/Return Animation Remnants
The opening reception for Dispersal/Return will be this Friday (9/25) at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in Albuquerque from 5 to 7 pm. If any of y’all will be in the area, be sure to check it out – it’ll feature a special performance of “America’s Big” by my two good friends the Dirty Monke (AKA Jonathan Loth) and Li’l Bunny Krunk (AKA Gabriel Romero). You can also view my installation, Cryptostructure, alongside many other thought provoking works by Land Arts of the American West alumni.
Smudge Studio recently reblogged my post about my installation, and you can scroll down and view the work of the other artists in the show here.
I spent a lot of time working on different animations for that installation, and I’ve collected together some of the remnants into a new video animated GIF, check it out:
7/12/22 update: I replaced the old video, embedded from Flickr, with an animated GIF hosted on my site. Same content as before, but now it seemlessly loops!
The floating, segmented being with yellow eyes that you see in the beginning contains the longest bits of hand-drawn animation that I’ve done to date. This is definitely something that I plan to do more of, as I find the time in between comics and drawing projects.
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August 17th, 2009
Road Trippin’: ‘Bu’rque
As I’ve mentioned, I was in Albuquerque this past week was to install a sculpture for Dispersal/Return, a curated show of Land Arts of the American West alumni at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Albuquerque is a pretty weird place: as my friend Ryan Henel put it, the city is the Baltimore of the southwest. I gotta say, I dig both places. Fortunately the University Art Museum is across historic Route 66 from the Frontier, a five-roomed New Mexican cuisine emporium. I feasted on fat breakfast burritos stuffed with green chilis. Glade and I brought a jar of chilis and a bag of Albuquerque tortillas back and had breakfest burritos yesterday morning, mmm hmm. Anyway, here’s a shot of the installation of the Cryptostructure in progress:
The sculpture is a pedestal with two TVs and PVC pipe on top that’s all wrapped in a blue tarp. Here’s the animation that’s playing on the TVs:
I bought a red light to shine on the Cryptostructure so that it’ll look more like my installation at MASS (see my previous post on this subject) but I won’t know if the curators decide to use it unless I go to the reception, which will be on September 24th. I don’t know for sure if I’ll be able to make it, but my fellow Landartians Li’l Bunny Krunk and the Dirty Monke will be performing there and then hosting their variety show Sunday School at the Petting Zoo in Albuquerque that Sunday. If I go, I’ll be sure to document and then share with y’all.
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November 23rd, 2008
Cryptostructure002-TEST
Animation for my show Cryptostructures of the Urscape.
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November 22nd, 2008
Cryptostructure 001
Animation for my show Cryptostructures of the Urscape.
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