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! :)

Cotswold TV

While I'm constructing the Cotswold Collectibles section of my résufolio, one Cotswold-related update I can make is to my QuickTime Quicklinks page: A sort of animated 30-second TV commercial pitch featuring their 1:6 scale action figures.

Whether they nibbled or not [at this moment, "or not"], I always see these sorts of projects as two-fold -- the obvious intent, plus it's good practice.*  This one is lots of 3-D, Photoshoppery and After Effects compositing tricks, and features another DJ Boffo original tune!

Attached to this blog post are images from the ad, Befores & Afters.  (I'll include bigger samples in the résufolio.)  F'rinstance, I created a matte for the pilot figure and placed a 2-D "card" inside the cockpit of the plane model to map him onto. There's lots of stuff going on in front of and behind objects and figures... explosions stock footage, lasers, etc.  The Star Wars Republic Gunship was a test to see how quickly/effectively I could garbage matte over video and doctor it up for the Utapau trooper's scene... It's just me picking up my toy like it's taking off!

*I've heard plenty of jokes about doctors and lawyers calling their business a "practice", but they do that because they [ideally] never stop learning craft, technique, method...  Same thing for artists!  Should be the case whoever you are, really.