Monday, January 30, 2012

Trying some inking

Trying out some inking with these awesome little japanese zebra pens, so far i'm really loving it, and learning a lot in the process, definitely gotta give a shout-out to Vanesa Del Rey for giving me some inking advice! (http://vanedelrey.blogspot.com)

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colorase, ink and some photoshoppin
- b

Friday, January 13, 2012

Just a couple Robot Drawings

Been really trying to find inspiration to draw more lately (and have succeeded somewhat)

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I know it's not much, but it's a start... Looking at the work of guys like Willie Real and Jake Parker just really gets my blood moving to draw again, doing whatever i can to glean a little knowledge, and not FORCE myself to practice and draw but to really want to do it again, to be even have the confidence to put pen to paper and not be embarrassed to show someone my sketch book, or my blog.

I think i've just been focusing way too much on how crappy my drawings were and not focusing on JUST FUCKIN DRAWING to improve myself, every once in a while it takes a good measure of "fuck it-ness" for me to just go for it, and do what i can to improve myself.

Either way, more to come, y'all hold me to it!

-b

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

New Moonbot App "The Numberlys" Released Today!

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Today we released the next storybook App from Moonbot studios, THE NUMBERLYS!!!
Wired.com's Geek Dad says:
Moonbot has gone directly to their film-making roots with this production of The Numberlys. It opens with amazing landscape tracking shots of the Numberly city, a visual and audio spectacular that provides an animated industrialism and uniformity of which Lang would approve. The narrative is cute and whimsical and delivered in an upbeat generic European accent. In the opening of the app, the narrative appears as written text which is read by the narrator in-between these epic scenes of an industrial city, workers marching through dense city landscapes, working in factories, creating numbers – cogs turning, hammers hammering, conveyor belts moving numbers along the production line. The setting is clear.

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We all hope that you guys will check out the app, and hope even more that you will enjoy it!
Thanks!
-b

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is FREE TO VIEW!!!!!

Hey all! If you haven't seen the short film The Fantastic Flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore that i worked on here at Moonbot Studios, it's now FREE TO VIEW on Itunes!

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We're currently on the "short list" to be nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short, which we're all crossing our fingers for, to have gotten THIS far is a huge honor in it's own right, but here's hoping we can take it all the way to the end and bring one of those shiny little gold men back home to the studio!

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On a side note, the Storybook App of Morris Lessmore was also listed as one of the "Best Ipad Apps for Kids and Family" by ipadinsight.com

Just click HERE if you'd like to view it!

Thanks!

-b

Monday, January 9, 2012

Vehicle Sketches

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Just some quick sketches of vehicles, this is also acting as a bit of a test post using Posterous