The Thief and the Cobbler

Today I had the Pleasure of seeing The Thief and the Cobbler by Canadian animator Richard Williams. This is quite possibly the greatest animated movie ever made. Probably the smoothest an most ground braking animation I have ever seen to date. Unfortunately it was never finished. This Independent animated film had been and out of production for over two decades. Williams worked on the film for some 26 years beginning the work in the late 60's. In 1990 Williams signed a deal with Warner Brothers to finance and distribute the film. The film wasn't completed in time. and Warner Brothers pulled out with only 15 minutes of the film left to be finished. There are versions of the film that were completed But they are were not the original vision of Williams.
The link I have here is a reconstruction of the film. It is a combination of the many existing cuts and work prints of the film, bringing it closer to its original form. The Video reconstruction is by Garrett Gilchrist. Check it out. (Side note) jest let each clip play it will automatically go to the next sequence in the film.

The Thief and the Cobbler

Don't Panic SF4 Poster contest

Hey guys,
I am part of a contest on Don't Panic. I was hoping to snag some votes and I would really like your help. You do have to register to vote, I would really appreciate the support.(there is a quick sign up if you scroll down to “New Users can quick register here”.)
I am registered as E-Mann and Have the Guile Image you see above. You can vote one time per day and on multiple pieces. So you can share the love

Vote here GUILE

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BAD DOG: Gift Art

Yeah, it's been a wile since I posted something here. This time I have a piece of gift art I did for Joe Kelly.
I met Joe a couple times when the staff of TMNT would have get togethers. Anyway wile at the NYCC I ran in to him at his table I the artists ally. He recognized me from the couple times we met. I always liked Jo's work, ever since his run on Dead Pool and I love I Kill Giants. So I figured I'd pick up his new Book bad dog. To my surprise he gave it to me and personalized it. It was a really fun read, so I figured in my spare time I draw him up a Thank you image.

Here is the first sketch I did in my sketch book . It's really tiny about 4 by 8. It was drawn with a 0.3 led. I actually planned to ink it but I decided because its pretty tight I'd just clean it up.Here is the Final sketch I cleaned up in Corel Painter.

I flat colored it in Photoshop and did the final color in Sai. Anyway hope you guys like it. And make sure to Check out Bad Dog from Image Comics.

BAD DOG © Joe Kelly & Diego Greco

TMNT: Comic Con Panel

Here is youtube footage of the TMNT Retrospective that we did at the NY Comic con.

PART 1


PART 2

PART 3








I would like to thank the fans of the show for coming in and showing there support and listening to us yammer on about it .

Patch Wolverine

Just a little something I did wile on the train home. I decided to add some grays today. By the why doesn't Wolverine Smoke any more it's not like he had to quit it up he has a healing factor.


Wolverine © Marvel Comics

Chaotic:The Epic of Nebres

Looking at the Nebres card you wouldn’t think it was a massive undertaking, You wouldn't think it took a week of planning and over a month to complete. So many people worked on this one card 4 Kids Wasn't able to list any of the artists on the actual card. The only credit this card has is “ By ED’s Friends”.
Now you think to you're self why would so much effort be put in to one card. Lets go back to September 2007. At the time TMNT Back to the Sewers was in the beginnings of development And Most of the art staff was working on Chaotic cards. Wile on the job Our good friend and colleague Edwin Nebres Had a stroke. It was a huge shock to the whole team. You would never think that something like that would happen, especially to some one you know. The following week Jason Narvaez and Sam Murakami Called a meeting to come up with a Chaotic card Idea to do in honor of our friend. The plan was to present the final card to him when he was feeling more up to having visitors at the hospital.
The idea for the card was a big brawl that would include a drawing by each one of the art staff. I came up with the idea of it being set in the Underworld Colosseum. Sam and Jason came up with the idea of Nebres being an Overworlder, his character was made a boar creature based on the year he was born, Which was the year of the boar in the Chinese Zodiac. In fact all of the creatures seen in the Nebres card were supposed to be Chinese Zodiac animals. Each based on the years of the artists who drew them. but nobody really stuck to that. Probably the only creature that stuck to the original idea was the one I designed.

Here we have some concept drawings I did. unfortunately I don't have any of the other staff's concepts.

This one is me fleshing out the Nebres character design. I had the idea of combining a lot of the things Ed liked. the version I created had a lot more Asian influences. he also had some aspects from Ed's World of Warcraft character, that he used to draw every so often. I also had an idea that he had 4 swards one for each mugic element, they were supposed to be forged from mugic crystals. So his fiscal attacks were elemental attacks. this idea was shot down cause it might break the card game. you will see in the final design Khary Randolph kept some aspects of the design I did.

Here is my first stab doing a design for the card. the note on this design was it looks "to poesy" it needed more action.

Here is my second try. The note for this was it didn't show the front of the character.

Here is a close to finished sketch done by Khary. He actual incorporated some ideas from my sketches.

here are the lists of artists along with the pieces they did. In order of how they appear on the card. One of the Ideas was that all the characters on this card would eventually become characters in the Chaotic game.

Otis Brayboy

Keith Conroy

Jimmy Tran

Khary Randolph
Here is the final sketch.
Andy Bradshaw

Jason Narvaez

Chris Beaumont
Iparu
Iparau was a character created By Chris For the Chaotic TV show prior to the this card.

Emilio Lopez
Targubaj
Eventuality He became a card.

Adrian Barrios

Roy Burdine

I put together the final composite of the Characters drawn by everyone. I also inked a couple of the images so that they match the the others. Kahry finalized the line art, placement and extended some of the characters.

When all the line work was ready I started painting. I first started with Nebres and the two foreground arms. Then I painted the background. After that I moved on to the background characters. I actually wound up fully painting each character. The final color for this piece took me over a week to do. I needed too stay on schedule with Color development on Back to the Sewers, so I pretty much worked on it were ever I could. stayed late, brought it home what ever it took. Once I completed the card it was put on to the final card lay out with flavor text by Sam Murakami.

"As the 3 Time reigning champion of the Perim Battle Royal, Nebres is one of the Few OverWorlders Who has earned the respect of all tribes even the UnderWorlders"

The ultimate tribute to an all around awesome dude. I'm pleased to say Ed really enjoyed all of our hard work and is doing well with his recovery. We all look forward to his return.

Check out Full Final Image.


Chaotic © 4 Kids Entertainment and TC Digital

Gears of War Cubee

Happy Re Re Emergence day!! In honor of the recent release of gears of war 2, I made a Cubee Craft version of Marcus Fenix. The design is an adjusted version of the design I did for the Gears of War Munny I created a wile back for my cousin.

For this version I actually got to do the Lancer.

Well anyway Make sure to head to Cubeecraft To download the paper craft template and get out your scissors

l hope you guys enjoy.

The material presented here is my original creation, is not official and is not endorsed by Epic Games, Inc. Gears of War, Marcus Fenix and the Crimson Omen are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.