Friday, August 9, 2013

T-shirts! No F-shirts yet...

Not on my site, but someone else's! At TeePublic: "Grand Moff Auto" and also Great Mazinga! On sale now!



Grand Moff Auto is illustrated by the great Tony Shasteen, colored by me. It's a mash-up of course, done in the style of "Grand Theft Auto" videogame cover art and features Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars: Episode IV. TeePublic.com added it to their store a short while ago, and we've sold a few!

Great Mazinga is my design, a mash-up from TV's "Big Bang Theory" and, well, the Great Mazinga/Mazinger toys and anime from the late-'70s / early-'80s. You might remember Shogun Warriors? There you go. TeePublic just dropped this one into their store this week!

Keep your eyes on TeePublic for more from the ShasteenFrey profile soon! And buy some while you're at it! :)

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Updated the résumé!

Updated the details on the AMS job, and added Software Proficiency. More coming soon!

halfmoth.com

Sunday, June 17, 2012

That's 1,440 pages of 1:6 scale action figure collectibles coolness, over 4+ years! I'll add to the Cotswold section of my website, and might mention it in the resume as well. (And Cotswold is part-time -- still applying to normal full-time or additional part-time gigs!)


Monday, April 30, 2012

Logo Design, part 1: Cotswold Collectibles

Started assembling just my logo designs to add to my portfolio so as to entice those out there looking for folks like me, and it's taken me all evening just to gather the work I've done for Cotswold Collectibles, Inc.!

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Basic SEO

Added "basic SEO" to my resume, as I'm learning about Search Engine Optimization techniques -- what Google's latest search algorithm might quantify, or, rather, what others think the algorithm might quantify (since Google doesn't say). SEO vs. marketing seems to boil down to 1 thing: However you strive to refine the presentation of your company & products (whether to an algorithm or to human eyeballs), it's all still a gamble! Spreading resources to perform a combo approach seems wisest.

Doing it wrong gets you chucked in Google's ranking basement or family groups petitioning and PETA throwing red paint on your bus ad. At least with SEO, there's guidelines Google's posted for favorable results... Reactions to TV or print ads can be subjective. (However, counter to an algorithm's response, there's the old advertising shrug "There's no such thing as bad publicity", haha.)

It's a dance. Gotta stay limber!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Monday, January 3, 2011

Miscellany

Posted my Miscellaneous Photoshopping, After Effectsing, Inspire3Ding ("Ding"?)—3D-ing—work. An elementary school's broadcast news open, a contest-winning costume-building group, a contest-winning short film featuring 1:6 scale action figures... Video and music editing! FX! Art! Logo design! Hot glue!

Next up, the other comics projects: Terminus Media and Platinum Studios. (I "auditioned" to color the Platinum Studios comic Cowboys & Aliens, but didn't nail the style they wanted. Sad, because the book went on to be adapted into a movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, directed by Iron Man's John Favreau! I'll put my panels into my gallery...)

Monday, November 29, 2010

A Thanksgiving cornucopia!

Just noticed in my Usage Stats that my Portfolio-at-a-Glance was still getting some hits, so I put those graphics back online. Thanks to whomever's still looking! :)

Updated a lot more elsewhere! I still have a couple of comic book albums to add, and then the "Miscellaneous" section... http://halfmoth.com

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Cartoonistry!

Added the Freelance sections today: Hasbro, ad agencies and Cartoonistry. All their graphical content is uploaded -- including clips! -- tho only Cartoonistry's text components are finished. Write-ups next, plus Cotswold in the Corporate section! (By this point, we've gone beyond simple freelance together...)

Monday, November 22, 2010

Try it!

Well I've all but ditched the old site, tho there's still lots left to do. I kept the homepage basically as-is but dropped it into iWeb for unity. Each section now has a new page, however at the moment only "Corporate" has Galleries. But they're full galleries, especially WeatherPlus', which has content I've never put online before! Lots of clips!

[Note: I've noticed if you click on an album and then click on a item in that album, taking you to the full page display/slideshow page, if you click 'Next' to flip thru it, any clips appear fine. If, however, you click on a clip straight from the album page (where it displays large thumbnails of the contents), when it takes you to that slideshow page, the clip's controls don't always appear! How do you PLAY the clip? Well, one way is to click on its tiny thumbnail above it, in the line of tiny thumbnails.]

I have a couple more companies to add to "Corporate", and then I do the other 3 sections. I've pulled together a large amount of materials and have been prepping the pieces for their galleries. I'm still learning how to handle iWeb -- I've got it FTP-ing the content to my halfmoth.com server instead of my MobileMe space, and this has been a tad confusing. It seems OK for the moment!

Résumé section is, I believe, finished! Clickable cover letter, and here's also where I've placed my demo reels. Plus a breakdown of the elements of the WeatherPlus reel. I can't get my chosen poster frames to display on the clips, perhaps because there's more than 1 clip on the page? iWeb says they're set up, but apparently it's incorrect. Code's such a mishmash at this point I'm no longer sure where to look. Anyway. There's also a link to my QuickTime quicklinks page, where just about every clip associated with my résufolio resides.

Stay tuned! Feedback's welcome!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Sweeping changes to the site!

With the computer upgrade, out went my old OS9 website software, GoLive. Now for résufolio updates, I'll have to rely on ImageReady and iWeb. I've already begun to learn iWeb, and my new Resume page is the result!

I'm exploring building my 4 "hubs" in ImageReady (it's where I built the homepage a while ago), and then in iWeb creating basic galleries for each company I've worked for. Similar to what's there now, but more modern and unified.

Plus, this way updating the galleries will be as simple as adding-to and publishing-changes! Hey, I don't have coding or technical web work listed in my skillset for a reason... :)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Befores & Afters

Started a new portfolio blog/gallery thing. New post a day, showing elements that went into a particular piece of artwork. Plus the final piece.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Updating... Updating...

Been busy! But gotta get busier... Looking for more work. Tweaked the resume a little. Will continue the updates and posting about them here!

Meantime, Cotswold Collectibles has added a Facebook page. They've posted 3 albums of my work for them, Ads for Lee's Toy Review, Ads for Sci Fi Magazine, and Catalog Covers... So go check 'em out!

Friday, October 23, 2009

New Magazine Ads



Lee's Toy Review #204, and the February 2010 Sci-Fi...

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

MySpace


After I shoo these kids off my lawn I'll get my Facebook page established. Meantime, I keep my MySpace site updated with the latest Cotswold Catalog covers, and so does the official Cotswold MySpace (which I started up for them)...

Magazine Ads


More for the Cotswold Collectibles section! Currently we consistently advertise in Lee's Toy Review and Sci Fi Magazine. And I created 1 ad for WWII History (the Twisting Toyz ad -- other Cots ads you might see in there aren't done by me).

As mentioned earlier in this blog, many ads are re-purposed catalog covers. Some, however, are originals, sometimes imagined as Generic ads that could be sent off, if time's crunchy, A.S.A.P. with little to no customization.

I've found Lee's at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and Sci Fi in most any shop/newsstand...

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

New Painting


Just added her to my Oil Paintings section.  Not sure I got the mouth right...   

Monday, March 23, 2009

Miscellany

My DJ alter-ego DJ Boffo's album Beefy dropped today... into the Miscellaneous section of my résufolio.  (I can't decide whether beefy droppings sound tasty or hideous, so I'm leaving it as worded for now.  Please feel free to chime in!)

It's 16-tracks of, some would say, predominantly J-Pop drag queen music, tho I insist there's a variety of sounds.  It's all done with Apple's free Garageband software, using dozens of different musical loops and beats.  For more insight, please see its Liner Notes.

(The burnt CD album cover artwork was an experiment of mine, involving a microwave and a fire extinguisher.)

Monday, February 9, 2009

CotColCat


Cotswold Collectibles catalogs!  32 pages each, lotsa cool stuff.  My FREELANCE home has been updated with the new CC icon.  Hasbro's pages are still online tho have not been updated, and Cartoonistry is still active, too.  Cartoonistry might actually end up living in 2 areas, since some of my cartooning was published in the Southern Fried Comics comic book a couple years ago...

20 new images from the past year of catalogs -- most are covers and the bits that went into creating them.  Then there's random sample pages.  When putting the catalogs together I don't have much time to spend being artsy, but we do try to make them look nice.  All 20 images have footnotes, so scroll down!  I just finished the "Predator" catalog last week and should receive it in the mail later today, actually.  Looking forward to it!

Still 2 sections to build for Cotswold...  "Magazine Ads" and "Other".  Those will follow close behind!  (Magazine ads are, for the most part, adaptations of the catalog covers.  You'll see.  And part of "Other" is the TV spot pitch, which can already be seen on the QTQL page.)  If all goes according to plan, "Package Design" will also be added, perhaps later this year...  hmmm