self portrait 6:00 AM

down in the mines 9:03 AM

If there's any truth I can take away from any of this it's that if It's gonna be done it's got to be done by myself. I have to shoulder it myself. So, pick up that shovel or brush and set yourself to the task.

I like this background, I'm starting to figure out how to make this work, I think.

soundies 7:49 AM

The sound problem must be bothering me more then I thought. I dreamt I was trying to explain it all to Brett and asking him for advice on what I could do. Unfortunately I woke up before Brett told me anything.

glare 8:53 AM

I like this, even the background kinda works.

the next sound you hear 8:07 AM

Sounds, music, dialogue, the talky part of talkies. That's the part that's killing me.

When I started doing this cartoon thing I really hadn't considered the sound half of the whole deal. I was pretty much focused on the images. Making drawings move was really all I was thinking about. And no matter what anybody tells you animation is time consuming and labor intensive work. Especially for somebody like me. I'm strictly a hobbyist. I'm not trained and I have no thoughts of getting hired as an animator or anything like that. I'm all trial and error and discovery. I really am making this up as I go.

You can see how halfassed I worked out the audio on my early attempts. I'd taken some needle drop music from old drive-in theater ads and a gunshot recording from the freesound archive and edited it together in Sony Vegas. Finding all that to be a pain in the ass I've pretty much just grabbed an old song off of the Free Music Archive and slapped it up behind the animation. Which worked for what I was doing. But let's face it, I need to learn how to do this audio stuff if I'm gonna get anywhere.

There was my first real attempt at doing lip sync. A track from Monster Zero with Astronaut Glenn and The Controller of Planet X. Parts of it I really like. I had fun animating Nick Adams flipping out, and it looks pretty good. But the Controller, well, he didn't sync as well as Nick. Not really happy with that. But it was my first attempt. Here's hoping I get better.

And let me tell you, I am not a voice actor. Sitting in front of the computer trying my best to record lines, and I'm not very good. But there's nobody else to do it, and to be really honest I have no idea how I'd go about it if there was somebody else who could record lines for me. Maybe I should ask Brett.

fail 5:28 PM

why purple? 12:01 PM

I think I'm leaning towards the shorter, squatter version.

And I've gotta figure out better backgrounds then this. Board up some stuff to animate.

gargantua 7:13 AM

I like the poses, but I don't like the line weight. Too thin. Not strong enough to pull it out from the background. Make a note.

gaira or sanda? 11:01 PM

sanda or gaira? 7:54 AM

It's At Home With The Gargantuas! With Sanda and Gaira!

blue kaiju 1:23 PM

hot dogging 7:52 AM

Somebody is already using Cartoon Carnival for a show. So, I guess I'm sticking with Cartoon Clown. Don't wanna step on his toes.

I guess I need to spend a night just recording audio to animate to. Now where did I put that microphone?