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So this is what I’m trying to finish today:

I need to finish coloring it. Its actually much closer to finished than what you see here, but I didn’t feel like putting up a partially colored version.

Also I (finally) finished this pair of vases (pictures are of front and back):

The one on the right came out exactly as I intended. The other split slightly in the front, but the same glaze did some different neat things because it was in a different part of the kiln…I suppose I’m happy with them… There’s always unpredictability in ceramics.

These were a commissioned gift for a relative. I do commissions whenever I can, and I will be selling a variety of handmade things, from ceramic art, to dmwd t-shirts, and prints of my illustrations (such as the spinosaur illustration above) on my Etsy page. Also if you ever see something up on this site that you like that I haven’t put up on my etsy page, feel free to contact me directly.

Video of me testing the working parts of a miniature machine I was hired to build for a short film.

I mentioned in a previous post that I was working on building a miniature of a giant victorian-style factory machine for a short film. Well, it’s finished!

The blank area in the front will be replaced digitally with a section of full scale set that actors will be interacting with. When all the effects are done the scene will look like a huge factory with several giant machines being operated by tiny people working down at the base of each machine.

Threw this together for a (super) last minute entry in another YouTube contest. It didn’t win, apparently because I didn’t rap about how good I am at rapping, but I had a bunch of fun making it. I just got a neat little HD camera called a GoPro and my buddy Andrew Doman helped me film. Making this video was sort of a test run for the camera and a day for me to blow off some steam. Both worked (camera and steam apparatus). The vocals were recorded the morning after, hehe. The beat was made by the contest’s host (an english chap who calls himself ‘Hyperaptive’). The above video is the result.

Oh and you can download the .mp3 here:
Download PUNY HUMANS!!!! (20 Bars Strong Beat by Hyperaptive).mp3

I’m just now finishing several of the other (perhaps more important) things mentioned in the last post. I’ll be putting them up as I do.

good lord I haven’t posted in ages…
people keep comin’ at me like “where the new shit at, son?” and I’m all, “It’s not finished.”

So, here are several of those unfinished things for you to enjoy and/or wonder about how they will be when they are finished (if that ever happens)…

First, I’m working on a couple Spinosaurus illustrations for a young paleontologist named Tor Bertin. I did this one as a sort of ‘warm up’ and I haven’t had time to finish it yet (let alone start the REAL illustration)…

My main job at the moment is building some miniature set pieces for a grad student’s thesis film. Right now I am making a miniature giant factory machine, but because I screwed up a few times, I still have a ways to go…

Here is some concept art I did for the same project, which shows the general style of the film…

When I need a break from working on the machine (or whatever else) I mess around in GarageBand. Between last night and today I made this beat…
Wong Fe Hong.mp3
I don’t think I’m going to do anything with it, so if you know how to kill evil robots with kung fu, you’re welcome to download it and rap on it. It’s 83 bpm, feel free to chop it up or whatever, I don’t care.

Also, a couple weeks ago I put together this track for a YouTube cypher called the “Third Eye Cypher”, but I haven’t had a chance to do a video for it (I want to do a good one):
Zephyr.mp3

Oh and just to complicate my schedule further, I also make ceramics, and I’m trying to get this commission done (it still needs to be glazed and fired):

…and on the back burner I have several major music video projects, three more albums, another short film and plans to revamp this website. Mainly I need to revise/add new stuff to/generally improve my illustration/concept design portfolio. I also need to add a “store” page, because I now have an Etsy page and I will be putting some of my art up for sale. I hope you’ll stay tuned and check it out.

DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM!!

Will is one of the few other people I like to make things with. He just put an album of his youtube songs on iTunes. You better get it. It’s pretty much bonkers and all over the place as far a subject matter, style, and tone. You can Download it HERE.

If you like “Lightening Bolts” stay tuned. Will and I will be collaborating on another album in 2010.
Because its the future.
And it’s time to make some music that sounds like it.

For the same reason, I’m also working on some stuff with this guy, G. Ghostboy.
Check out our track “Floats Ghostly”. There will be a video for it. No guarantees on when, because it will be elaborate, but there will definitely be a video.

And I’m making some other music videos. Some of them are Earth Beasts Awaken ones.

Watch out.

-Historian

This is one of the dudes I called out on the last cypher I did on YouTube:

He goes by the name of Nomad and he solves DNA sequences. He then applies his biochemicals to the rhythm to completely re-sequence the beat. The resulting verbal synthesis is capable of rapid mutation and adaptation to a wide variety of sonic environments.

I put this together last night when I should’ve been doing real work…

I decided to do another spooky rap video for halloween. Hopefully I can do one every year for a while, they’re really fun to make. Just like last year I made this in just over one day.

Download Spooky Spiders (Halloween Spider Cypher Remix).mp3

ALSO you can download the instrumental if you want:
Download Spooky Spiders (Halloween Spider Cypher Remix).mp3

Anyway, I started to write spooky spider rhymes and then I remembered that this dude on youtube had a cypher going called the “Spider Cypher”, so I remixed the beat from the cypher and posted my video to that. Sort of double dipping… Or killing two birds with three stones, as I like to say.

Hope you have a spooky Halloween!

Hey great news! I’ve been hired to direct my first music video! Here’s a (really) quick rough animatic I threw together.

The final animation will be done partially stop motion, partially hand-drawn and composited onto water colored backgrounds (in other words it will look way better than this animatic…)

Anyway, I’d love any feedback anyone might have, especially with regards to the clarity of the storytelling. It would be great if you could point out any specific points where it gets confusing.

The guy who hired me is named Blake Pullen and he is the lead man for a group he calls “Sonic Impulse.” If you like the song in the above video, you should definitely check out their website, and consider buying their album:
http://www.hearsonicimpulse.com/

I have finally put my Senior film project from college online. Enter the “Children of Stone” page to watch the video at high quality and check out behind the scenes footage, photos and concept art.

Thanks to everyone who made this movie possible. For those who I haven’t excitedly told, “Children of Stone” and “Moss: A Tribute” are going to be on TV. I was contacted by a TV station called Mhz Worldview. One of their programmers saw the animated intro to “Children of Stone” on YouTube and apparently liked it enough to want to put the entire film in their block of programming for children and teens.

Since I no longer have to waste my time and money with film festivals, I can also put “Children of Stone” up online. Here on dontmesswithdinosaurs.com I’ve put up a really high quality version, and I have also put it up on YouTube for your convenience and ease of sharing.