Hey-ho everybody,
Summer is here, and if you’ll permit me to paraphrase a song from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown:
“It’s summertime! Yes, it’s summertime! Oh it’s sum-sum-summertime very best time of year!”
Season-wise I actually prefer springtime, but summertime has one big thing going for it: four day weekends! Rather than take my summer vacation all in one go, I spread my days out so that I can have four day weekends in July and three day weekends in August. This year I got a jump on that. This is the last day of my first four day weekends and boy what a productive weekend it’s been Animus-wise.
As usual, I drew two Funnies to keep ahead of schedule. On top of that though, I also drew four pages of a new project that will be appearing on the site later this year. Unfortunately for you Fun ‘n’ Fantasy fans, it’s not the big crossover I promised. It’s looking more like that will have to wait until 2013. No, this new project was inspired by one of the mash-ups I drew. That’s the only clue you get for now. Look for the new project to air on site on Fridays starting in September.
Now, just the six pages of comics would be a pretty full weekend, but I also dabbled in something new this weekend. Sometime late last year (or was it early this year? I don’t remember), I bought Anime Studio Debut, which is animation software from the makers of Manga Studio Debut, which is the software I use for my comics projects. I fiddled a little with ASD when I bought it but didn’t get very far before I got frustrated and put it aside. Well, this weekend, I decided to try my hand at it again. I looked for some tutorials on youtube and was able to animate a short sequence. It’s very basic stuff, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out for a first try.
I don’t know that every weekend of the summer will be this productive, but I’m pleased with what I achieved the last couple of days. With all that, I permitted myself to be a little late with the blog this week. Speaking of the blog, that’s it for this week! Seeya next time!