THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Tuesday I was sitting at my desk looking at artwork on DeviantArt during my lunch break. I was suppose to be writing my blog but I was procrastinating.  I heard a knock at my office door and in comes the head of production.  She looked a little serious at me and sat down on the couch I have,

“Something has come up.”

Uh oh, I’m losing my job, was my first thought. She went on,

“I think I might have a storyboard job for you.  Not just revisions but a whole Act.”

Woah! I thought surprised.

“One of our board artist has taken a leave of absence to be with his family and for health reasons. We don’t know how long he will be gone but that opens up a position.  The specific show that will need to be boarded is show 500.”

My face was like a statue, but my thoughts and my emotions where all over the place.  Holy cow! No way.  Oh my GOSH!

“We gave the director a list of possible candidates that could do the job and asked him who he wanted.  He asked for you.”

I just about fell over but I kept as cool as I could.

She looked at me, “It’s show 500 so it’s going to be a big deal.  You’ll have four weeks to do the Act.  Two weeks to do the roughs, for the meeting with the director and Head Director. After that two weeks to do the clean ups. The first meeting will take about three hours or so. Do you want to do it?”

My thoughts went racing. The last time I was given this kind of responsibility over  a board was on the movie.  I was terrified when THAT had happened. I thought, shouldn’t this be easier?  Not really, the movie had time to finesse boards a bit. Boards on the show felt like a bigger pressure cooker.  BUT hadn’t I been in a storyboard pressure cooker situations in the movie as well? Yes.  Didn’t I handle it okay.  I think I did. Okay then.

“Yes, I’ll do it,” I replied.

“Okay then. You start Monday.  You’ll meet with the director and you’ll get on your way.  If everything goes well and the Head Director likes your work, you’ll get more,” she got up from the couch, opened the door and smiled as she left, “no pressure or anything.”

“HA, yeah no pressure,” I replied nervously. The door shut behind her.  SHOW 500! Oh man!…I hope I don’t blow it.

I covered my face with my hands. An overwhelming urge to hide came over me.

VIDEOS

I’ve now officially started developing a webcomic.  One that will update regularly. I don’t know the exact specifics but I’ll figure that out as the time to publish approaches.  Right now I’m in pre-production on it.   I’m taking my time since I’m still working on something else right now.  That said, I’m very interested in other people and their approaches to webcomics.  These videos, which interview a webcomic artist with a fantastic idea for a webcomic, intrigued me.

It’s an interview with Dave Wachter who has an Eisner nominated webcomic The Guns of Shadow Valley. Superheroes in the wild west? Count me in! (wish I’d thought of it):

ART

Here’s the tighter rough for my Alice in Wonderland illustration. From this point on, I get a lightbox, do a light under drawing on bristol paper and ink it.

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