Petra’s 30th Birthday Party
Petra turned 30 on October 8, 2008. Being a milestone birthday, I thought that the usual gift wasn’t quite enough to mark this important event. Close friends and
Art in Andersonville
For those of you who don’t know, Petra and I live in Edgewater which is a fairly decent neighborhood here in Chicago. It’s best feature is that it IS, in fact, at the
Rotoscope Animation Commercial
After 580 jpg’s, 5 steps in photoshop filters that had to batch automate over 600 images, 53 hours to hand draw 580 portraits and backgrounds, and 1 soundtrack with music, to
Frankenstein in Love
Is the enjoyment of theater supposed to be an appreciation of skill and effort on the part of the actors and crew, or is it the forgetting of the people involved entirely and the “losing oneself” in it the pinnacle of good theater?
The Carney Wedding
Petra and I attended the wedding of John and Alicia Carney in Schaumburg, IL. I don’t know much about Schaumburg, except that my friend Frank loves to
Rotoscoping Dennis
Sounds Dirty doesn’t it?
I’m possibly going to be working on a very short animation for an online learning flash piece and it was suggested the style be in the “Charles Schwab” / “Scanner Darkley” style
Photorealistic Illustrator images
Believe it or not all of these images are 100% vector. When we think of vector illustrations “photo-realistic” isn’t usually a word that comes to mind but…
The Last Ghettobillies Poster I Will Ever Make.
It’s funny how for the last few years of the band it seemed like such a burden- and it was. All the guys agreed that it