Author Archives: Jim Mortensen

08/18/08

Boo Expression Sheets

I’m posting this here mostly for myself, but I thought anyone reading might be interested too.

Before Sue’s Rock went down, I SiteSuck’ed the whole website, yoinking about 7 gigs of animation reference in the process. It’s proven to be an invaluable reference, though I still haven’t cataloged everything. I was poking through yesterday and found these expression sheets for Boo that I really liked. They’re rather appealing, somewhat cartoony, and I have no idea who they’re drawn by. But here they are.

Bikini Girl Ape Mask Drawing & Drinking Extravaganza was pretty neat. More later.

08/16/08

SketchCrawlin’ NYC 8/8/08

I just got back from a week and a half or so vacation back to the Easty Coasty. I spent 3 days Sketchcrawlin’ NYC (while staying at the very lovely & talented Linda Beck’s place in Woodside, and accomplished what is known in animation circles as a “Metric Shit-ton” of drawing. Some of the results, un-Photoshopped for once, flaws n’all. There’s a nice drawing I’m semi-happy with of the 71st St. Woodside 7-line stop that I gave to Linda. I’m just waiting for her to scan it to post.



After NYC, it was down to Forge’s place to piss off his fianceé/new bride at her wedding. Good job, Jimbo. Congrats to the new, happy couple!

After the wedding & general dumbness, I went back up to NH to see the puppies. One of them is having Cancer troubles and has maybe 2-6 months to live. It’s sad, but I’m glad I got to see him for one last time. Maybe I’ll go back in October.

08/3/08

Eastbound Out-of-sight

 

I’m off to NYC/the East Coast for a week and a half to attend Dan’s wedding (and meet his fianceé for the first time.)

I’m gonna be sketchcrawlin New York too. See y’alls latah!

07/26/08

Cats are on the Upgrade

So I’ve been working on some weird projects lately. I’ve really gotten into building Flash games at the 9-5 gig – it satisfies both the artist and the engineer in me. Mr. Karat and Mr. McKenzie have been obscenely helpful in helping me understand what goes into a Flash game. I like how putting together a game is like building a little family and a world for them to live in. Sort of the same as building a film, but on a smaller scale and with less time for exploration.

I built a bunch of little “Chatterbots” that walk across the screen like those chattering teeth that were so popular in the 80’s. Will most likely post those soon.

I’m still doing a lot of life drawing and trying to learn about dimensional & solid shape. You know, the little stuff. I’ve also been drawing my interpretation of the Wizard of Oz characters (a la Lambey) in an attempt at the Disney style. Hoo-ah.

I haven’t bought an iPhone, nor have I seen The Dark Knight yet. So y’all can suck my butthole.

A car alarm is honking exactly in time with the Nostalgia 77 track I’m listening to. Crazy.

07/12/08

Aborted Hampsters

Aborted in the sense that they were discarded for other ideas. Drawings done by the inimitable Jimmy Cross. Cleanup/Color by me.

I could have pushed it more solid, but I was having fun with color choices and wasn’t paying attention to the form as much. Ah well, time limits all projects.

07/12/08

OH2BINLA

I thought “LA Story” was mostly fiction.

After 2 and a half years here, it plays more like a documentary.