Well I want to be a better film maker and what better way is there than to look at what I consider to be great films. This is my attempt at a break down for my favorite Miller's Crossing seq.

Enjoy
j

took a long break. the holidays kinda got in the way of things and leaving work was also a big factor. You'd think with all the "free time" I'd have gotten a ton done.

Not really. Have been tying up loose ends on some projects though.

Have a rough pass on a pencil test thing that I'm finally starting to like.




I need to do a decent amount of cleaning up and tightening but it's getting somewhere.

Early to rise. I'm trying to wake at 5:30 to put in at least an hour of painting a day.

That really doesn't get me a lot of instant progress but it starts to add up. I'm pretty close to having all the blocked in values for each panel. It's almost time to go up in resolution and start doing some detail work and more advanced value adjusting.

I still think that I can get a long way toward finished by thanksgiving but finished. I have to let that go.

If my contract runs out in December that will be the perfect time to make head way on this and other personal projects.

oh man it's hard to keep up. I want to believe I can finish these paintings by thanksgiving but i'm not sure. I've done plenty of updates but frankly the free time is lacking. more later... honest

O.K here's a bit of an update. any comments are welcome. Of course I could send updates but....

I've made a few new updates to the panels that I'm painting. I'm, so far, happy enough witht he general direction. I'd like to continue making progress but, honestly, I need to pick up the pace. I've got a hard deadline of "the boys" birthday and that isn't going to change.

These are some of the latest additions to the book. I don't know what to make of them just yet. My first pass is to get everything into a state of blocking and then start refining the color scheme from there.

Directional lighting is going to be a challenge. I've got a few unrealistic compositions and they're going to ask me to be really creative with my solutions.

Speaking of creative. I'm looking forward to learning more scripting and programming. I've had a blast learnign unix and can't wait to get deeper into python.

Here are some of my recent panels.

comment if y'a like.

Well the beginning begins. I bought a new monitor today. 22 inches of madness to go w/ the 17 in powerbook. I'm excited to finally have a space to get some tings done. The goal is to finish my kids book for phoenix's birthday to give as gifts to our guest. I'm settings a high bar. Wish me luck. I need to post my wip. This is the last page. I'm just going to rough in some color and block in shapes and go from there.