1) Back in Canada, saw Gainsbourg on the plane (great, lots of nice Sfar drawings inside and I felt somewhat embarrassed for watching it in between kids and old people thanks to A LOT of nude things), as well as the terrible Alice movie, and now its time to get work and become a normal citizen.

2) Scanned old and new sketchbook things, here are some news ones:

(drawn during the Argentina vs Germany game in New York)

And I put some new photographs of of past ones here, looking like this:

3) I`m also working on the digital version of my comics and I`m thinking about a general overhaul of this site.

Here is a test version from two days ago:

4) ET PLUS

(The rest can be found HERE)

Hope everyone has a great rest-week ahead!

Monsters vs. Aliens

After liking “Kung Fu Panda” and REALLY liking “How to Train Your Dragon” I wanted to give another Dream Works animated Movie a shot at winning my heart. But OH BOY, this one was terrible.

And the big problem is not the boring story or the uninspired character design. The problem is really the animation itself. Feeling rushed, feeling done while doing too many other thing and way too LOUD!

The whole movie is like a book that ONLY USES CAPSLOCKS. FOR EVERY WORD, EVERY SENTENCE, EVERY EVERYTHING. There is no subtle emotion, no small gesture.. its all about being as broad and loud as possible.

I wonder how quality control works at Dream Works. How did this happen?

Did it just SLIP BY?; was it rushed?; was there too much “suit” interference”

OHWELLS!

On to nicer things:

I saw “Pixar Is In the House | Story Story Story“.

Here is the selling point:

“Join award winner animation director Roger Allers and Pixar Story Artists Ted Mathot, Scott Morse, Bill Presing, and Derek Thompson, in this rare opportunity as they discuss Pixar’s unique and exciting Story Development process.”

All of those people are awesome, famous and interesting. It takes them some minutes to “warm up” but once they get going, information spills out of them.

I was blown away by the AMOUNT of story boards they had on Wall-E.

A normal Pixar movie has around 50.000 boards, Wall-E had 127.000!

Worth watching!

Apart from this, Mark Kennedy`s blog “Temple of the Seven Golden Camels” had a great post about “APPEAL“.

All of his recent “A Kick in the Head” posts are superb, but this one hit a special spot.

I`m currently not very interested in drawing things realistically or in laboring over small details.. but what a drawing really should be is APPEALING.

I`d rather write a small up beat song that everyone wants to whistle, then a big symphony or an dramatic Progressive rock piece of 15 minutes.

So yeah, I`ve been thinking about this a lot but really there is not that much to say that Mr. Kennedy has not already spoken about.

I think it is important to KNOW what your drawing/work should convey and then work on saying it clearer and clearer.

It bugs me somewhat that my own stuff is not as pretty as I want it to be.. but I guess that just means to keep on drawing and to have fun doing it!

“You have 10,000 bad drawings in your hand and you just have to do them”

INDEED!

+ On the next episode, finally some more photographs!

ALSO
I posted this on the TUMBLR, but its so funny, a repost needs to be done.

Outtakes from a Muppets movie <-CLICKCLICK

Show your love!

No.. its lame!

And over here, the final version:

(look at me, doing the NOM NOM joke again, “sigh”)

And a look into the future of the toaster (together with his blender girlfriend):

Some pictures of the Gallery before people were allowed to POUR in.

And here are some bad Photoshop crops of the thing I put into the show

I had a gazillion ideas and I had re-painted the toaster three times until the time was up.

THEN

Ran out, bought markers and painted this.

ALSO NOTE:

I have a TUMBLR now!

All the cool internet stuff that has no place here, gets posted there.

-CLICK CLICK-

Show your love!

No.. its lame!

It was cool and I felt super lame for being rusty like hell in the art of drawing a nearly nude lady that sits on a stage.

That is the poster:

And here a picture of the crowd, me hiding in the back on the right:

Some photographs of shitty doodles, I do not have a scanner here, so excuse this procedure:

ALRIGHT!

I`m now working on a TOASTER for a gallery show on thursday and I found out the hard way:

Painting on a toaster is HARD WORK and does not come out like you want it to!

ALSO:
If you are bored, watch Douglas Adams talk

or

see Philip Pullman make a good remark on censorship.

Show your love!

No.. its lame!