vendettacomic

So I'm sitting here in my European Cinema class and we're watching Triumph of the Will. Ya know, Nazi propaganda just isn't my thing.

Anyways, here's some doodles for you all to look at.

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Hooooooly shit. Sonic is going to be in Smash Bros. Brawl. I remember when I was a kid, Mario and Sonic were bitter enemies. Now, not only are there Sonic games available on the Wii, but now he's also in Smash Bros. Now that's a hardcore reversal from what it was like in the past.

I've never really been a fan of Sonic, yeah, some of the maps in the games were pretty fucking awesome, but I dunno, the fact that you didn't know what was coming always annoyed me. Ah well, it'll be interesting to play as Sonic in Smash Bros... Though I'm still going to stick with my main man, Link.

School has started once again, and hopefully this will be the start of the final year of school for me. Even though I love seeing my friends and professors, I just want to get out of there soon.

I have a feeling bandwidth is going to be a serious issue for the comic this month. I've been eating it up a lot faster than I originally thought I would while advertising the comic around the internet. This past Monday, 4.51 Gigs of bandwidth were used. When I saw it, I was like, "YES!.... NO!" So I might need to give my web host a little ring-ring to see what I need to do about getting more bandwidth. I'm also considering a move do a different server.

Well, I'm hungry, I think I'll go pay like 10 bucks for a sandwich.

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Probably one of the simultaneous best and worst things about this summer is the amount of time that I have been able to devote to working on Vendetta. The plus factor is that I have been able to keep my update schedule without a single missed comic since the onset of summer; I feel that my art has improved a bit over the last few weeks; and the advertising for the comic is starting to pay off at least a little bit. There have been more readers returning for the past few weeks than I honestly thought would from the advertisings. And something that I thought was really cool was the sheer amount of bandwidth that I used in about a week or so. I went from 2Gb to 28Gb, which was very near my limit of 30Gb a month.

The only real bad part is that I am not sure who I should advertise with since, in the vast series of tubes that is the internet, it is hard to find a guaranteed hit for story based webcomics.

The negative for this summer is the sheer lack of time that I've had to work on non-Vendetta things. I have been dying to do some poster-type art as well as non-Vendetta mini comics to sell at conventions and whatnot, but it is extremely hard to find time to even doodle. Hopefully when my next semester starts I'll be able to doodle randomly in class, which is always fun.

I need to redesign the site. It looks and is so boring.

So it's been a long time since I've updated, I've just been really busy. The semester has ended, and, for the first time since like 7th grade, I've gotten a 4.0. Hell yeah. So here, have a picture.

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"Bam! Gummie Bear!" on Google Video
Just in case any of you were interested, here is the timelapse video of me inking and coloring the gummie bear pic. It is at 6.65x normal speed. This was the main reason why I didn't post the Gummie Bear pic sooner, my harddrive is almost entirely full and I didn't have any room to render the video, but alas, it has been finished, including a typo in the credits. Enjoy! (it should be "The Servant - Cells")

So there's a story behind this one.

Emeril has cooked for me a couple times, and I happened to tell a couple class-mates last semester and then there was a string of dialogue as follows:
Friend one: Emeril? That's awesome.
Friend two: Yeah, I swear he can take anything and make it good.
Friend three: Yeah! He'd be like "BAM! GUMMIE BEAR!"
Me: I'm SO drawing that.

I finished it a couple months later, and only now am able to post it. :P

I'm sure there are at least some of you reader out there that are still curious as to what has kept me this busy this semester. I am taking 5 classes: 3D computer animation, Sound Design, Production Management, Cinematography and Writing the Short Script.

The 3D animation class and Sound Design requires about 3 hours of lab time each. With cinematography, due to the fact that we're all students, it's hard to find people who are available for more than one day of shooting, so there's a lot of planning that go into the one day of shooting. Then of course you have to edit the video which takes some time. Then there's production management. This is the class the requires the least outside work. Every few weeks, I have to go to campus on the weekend to use some of the machines there to either budget, schedule, or break down a movie script. Then there's the script writing class, over the course of the semester, two short scripts are due. The first one which was an adaptation of a story was due just before spring break. And the second one, which is an original story, is due today. The first script was 14 pages, of the maximum 20 for the final draft. The script I'm turning in today, however, is 25 pages for the first draft of a maximum 20 pages. And I could have written more for it too.

Then there's sound design. Since I don't have in depth knowledge of the sound design that goes into film, I felt I should take this class. Now, I've learned quite a bit, like that I don't want to be a sound supervisor or a mixer, or pretty much anything in sound except maybe a Foley Artist. But I'll have more in depth knowledge about sound when I'm directing a scene than a lot of directors out there.

3D animation has been killing me because of the sheer lack of people in that class and the scale of the project itself. Originally there were two directors, me and another guy, but he basically dropped off the face of the planet for a few weeks and didn't tell anyone which put me in a position that I had to take hold of the entire project, hack it to pieces and come up with a new idea that can be finished before the end of the semester. Lest to say, I have my work cut out for me for the next few weeks.

So that, in a nutshell is what has kept me busy this entire semester.

I'm amazed I've been able to keep up with the comic. Of course my social life went down the shitter, but I'm used to that. :P

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My Chinese Water Dragon, Nibbles, may sit placidly on my shoulder for a while, and thin in a moment of spontaneity, leap into the wild blue yonder to escape. I nearly lost him a couple times when he was smaller. So now I got a leash for him. I smush his hopes for freedom! Mwahahaha! >:D

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So being in class, I often doodle and whatnot. And since I don't always sit in the back, people tend to watch me draw or play games... like right now D:

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Well back in school again. This is the first time I've had a class before 11 am since my first year in college. The pain... the horrible pain... and it's fucking cold too.

So a friend of mine volunteers at a place that keeps and breeds some wild animals, like Wolves, Lions, Tigers, Panthers, etc., in North Carolina. Since I was going to be at Epcot Center at Disney World, I was offered to have a detour on my way there to make a stop and hang out with my friend as well as the big cats.
( 6 pictures of extremely dangerous animals lie beneath! OMFG! )

As promised, I'll upload a bunch of things soon, I've just been really sick the last few days and to make things worse, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has totally owned my soul. Now I'm behind on art, and spring semester starts on Monday.

The comic will probably be uploaded sometime in the evening on Saturday, if all things go well.

Merry Christmas kiddies.

"vendettacomic.com photoshop speech bubble tutorial" on Google Video
In this photoshop tutorial, I show you how to create a basic speech bubble and thought bubble. This one with less um's and uh's!

"Photoshop Tutorial" on Google Video
Here is a video tutorial I have made that demonstrates how I ink and color an image in photoshop as well as add shadows and highlights.

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So I did the pic for a cool guy named Jason Marsden, he loves the Batman with a passion, so I drew him as Robin and made this little movie poster. Basically I just had fun with the pic, especially since I just came up with my own version of the Robin costume. :P

Enjoy!

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