Here's something...

Something exciting and terrifying! Tomorrow my Esting goes live and shall be broadcast on national TV for a year or so. Hurrah!

Now, that's all rather splendid but it's not actually the exciting and terrifying thing I talking about...

I got animation work! For potential legal reasons I cannot say exactly who I'm working for so all I'll say is that their initials are B, B and C. We've been commissioned to create some animation for them and it's definitely going to be broadcast nationwide and then put on their website! So that's the exciting part but here's th- OH YEAH we get paid aswell- here's the terrifying part:

We have been given until the 20th of this month (now only 1 week from now) to deliver to them five 45 second 2D hand-drawn cartoons at a broadcast standard. I'd imagine a larger studio with many animators might just be able to handle such a request, but we are literally just a couple of bedroom animators, that is to say, the very talented colleague James and myself. Just the two of us with dodgy computers, and although James is very talented and I can just about wield a graphics tablet proficiently enough, we haven't actually yet worked on anything together before this, so this mammoth task is really our ice breaker into the whole production process. Ooer.

Still, it seems to be going pretty good. We've been working 15 hour days for best part of a week now and our target of completing a cartoon every two days seems to be holding out so far.

Here's a background wot I dun drew that has been dubbed "That Princess Mononoke Shot:"

(because the camera moves forward through the shot all pretty like.)

Dreamleak update

After nothing for best part of a year, strangely, I get two whole emails in the same week from (as far as I can tell) two completely unrelated people. They asked about my old webcomic 'Dreamleak' and whether or not I'd ever be continuing it and if so when.

To be honest I was pretty surprised to find out anyone even remembered about it after all this time. However, I was even more surprised to discover (according to the stat counter) that I was still getting a fair amount of hits each day. I like to think that there are a whole horde of die hard fans religiously checking every single day for an update, waiting with an undying faith that one day Dreamleak shall return and with it, a second age of badly-drawn-barely-enjoyable-but-curiously-enticing comicery will come. Or it's just some bots.

Either way I don't think an update would hurt.



Basically I've gone back and actually written the thing this time. I have a massive script all written up and spangly looking and I've started roughing out the pages. There's a few of rough panels hidden in this very post! Can you spot them?



Being pretty busy with work these days I don't get much time to work on Dreamleak, but it's coming together slowly but surely. It's quite different from before but I'm certain it's for the better. It may not blow your socks completely off, per se, but maybe it'll loosen them from your toes a wee bit. As for when? How does early next year sound?



No? Well tough! :D