TV stuff.

I've been doing a bit of work as a Production Assistant on a few TV commercials and music videos. They've finished editing a couple of them, which you can download:

The Bleeders - Night Sky
This was a music video for New Zealand punk band The Bleeders. The song got a bit tedious after having to listen to it for about 15 times in a row. The only visible contribution I made in this video are the passing headlights you see every now and again in the car scenes - that was all me, baby.

Herbal Essences - Stalker
This is a TV commercial for shampoo. I'm not too sure about the Home Alone-esque music, but I was there during some of the editing, and the alternative hardcore techno track didn't work much better. The shoot was pretty fun, even though I had to wake up at 4.30am. I got to say "Action!" and "Cut!" over a walkie-talkie, which was awesome. I'm pretty sure this was only done for in-house promotions, so there's not much chance of this one being broadcast on TV.

The other stuff I've worked on is still in post production. I've got another music video shoot tomorrow for Something With Numbers in a hospital, which sounds like fun.

Considering selling out...

My blog is worth $1,129.08.
How much is your blog worth?

*Not to scale.

Tragedy Ranking System

I don't usually do shit like this, but I liked this so much that I had to share. This comes from Scott Adams' blog. You should check it out. I really wish I could write like him.

"Every time there’s a military conflict, someone points out that many of the victims were NOT adult men. The theory is that a tragedy is way more tragic if anyone other than adult men get killed. If you throw a woman or a minor or a puppy into the mix then we all have a reason to be sadder and madder.

I totally agree with the view that some tragedies are more tragic than others, depending on who is involved. But I do demand efficiency. That’s why I propose ranking the value of all types of people so I can more easily judge how sad I should feel when they get killed.

For example, if 400 villagers are buried in a mudslide, I’d like to know how many of them were drunks, assholes, nags, dickheads, crooks, or males, just to pick a few examples. I wouldn’t feel as much pressure to feel bad about that portion of the village. In the best case scenario, the victims would all be adult men with no special talents. That’s barely even a tragedy. We adult males have our uses to be sure, but society agrees that it’s not such a big deal when someone kills us.

I think that the main reason there are so many wars is that most of the soldiers are adult males. If all wars had to be fought exclusively by second graders or contestants from the Special Olympics, no one would ever start a war because the results would be too tragic."

Bongo Ape II

I re-vamped the logo, pushing the colours and adding highlights and shadows. I have a tendency to use really low-saturated colours in my own drawings, so I think I need to remind myself that companies generally want a punchy logo, and pastel colours don't really work too well for that sort of thing. I guess I'm just wary of things looking too tacky, but I think the balance is quite nice with this logo.

I also changed Mr. Ape's expression to make it more "HEY KIDS"-y.

Bongo Ape

This is a logo design I'm working on for a small toy business. I had fun with this one.

Updizzate in ya fizzace.

Hi.

Haven't been drawing much lately. Uni's been hella-busy. Plus I got some work going with Catfish Productions. You can see some piccies here.

Last night Louie was playing with my pocket knife after I took some scissors away from him. Then he started play-fighting with Leigh and nearly cut his pinky finger off. After he bled all over my room, we took him to the hospital. He got some stitches. He's okay now.

Bye.

Untitled II

Untitled

Rain, rain... it went away!

Click on the image for the bigger version. DO IT!

Here are some snaps of the process:

The shitty original sketch. I came pretty close to chucking it.


Fixing up the sketch. You can see the the body structure here. That really helped in getting the proportions right.


Cleaned up line-work.


Some flat colour.


An alternative colouring I did using the burn and dodge tools. I didn't really like the artificial look, so I went for more painterly colouring.


Finished colour, before colour-adjusting with the background.

Count Sockula for realz.

Time spent looking for old sock: 20 seconds
Time spent looking for buttons: 6 minutes
Time spent cutting up old t-shirt for cape: 2 minutes
Time spent making teeth: 2 minutes + toilet break
Time spent THREADING THE FUCKING NEEDLE: too fucking long

Resolution: the next time I decide to make a sock-puppet, DRAW THE FUCKING EYES ON.

Count Sockula Wallpaper

Bam!

Wikipedia rules.

This is the funniest shit I've seen on Wikipedia:

Mike the Headless Chicken

Some gems of information include: "His crowing [...] consisted of a gurgling sound made in his throat" and "Not quite sure what to do with his by now loose head, on the first night after the decapitation Mike [the chicken] slept with it under his wing".

As a kid, I was always amazed that chickens could still kick about for a few minutes after being decapitated. If I had known of Mike back then, I would've gone nuts.

Conclusion: Wikipedia is rule ass.

You wish you had one of these.

...and yet I still procrastinate.

MySpaz

I was bored before uni this morning so I decided to re-work my MySpace profile. I ditched the whole "emo" thing, and now I'm basically a 15 year old caricature of myself.

FAQ you.

I made a li'l FAQ page (Frequently Asked Questions) for my site, which you can find here. No one really asks me these questions, but I figured that if I pretend that people pay attention to what I do, people might actually start paying attention.

Weapon,

--Joe.

Have YOU had it the right way?

Inspired by a conversation I had with Steve at uni today.

Sil-who-ette Wallpaper Deuce

I futzed with the colours a bit and made the stars a bit brighter. Here 'tis for your downloading pleasure (click it for the full sized thang):

Oh yeah, and the singer who's music video this is for is Jen Cloher. Her music is very pretty: http://jencloher.com/

Remeber the Brown Bastard.

Seeing as I don't have any new drawings to offer you, here are some shitty animations I made back in the summer of two-thou: