The A-Cup Club

Something Old, Something New

2012-01-16T19:59:00.001-08:00

I dusted off this piece and merged the line work to the marker render I did many years ago. Still proud of it and the scans have lived long on a CD I thought I lost...

Working on updating my portfolio and website but lost in how to actually do all that... websites are not my forte.

New post in over a year... crazy times!

Some new(ish) BGs

2010-03-08T17:52:00.000-08:00

Work is a bit slow these days but I have a few things to post as of recent, some BGs I did for a gig a couple months ago;

Business Carded

2009-10-10T11:05:00.000-07:00

Well I better get ontop of this blog more..

Anyways, here's my business card so far (will update the picture used soon):

I'll be printing these off this weekend on my own printer, fingers crossed they turn out ok!

Website is running in preview mode at the moment due to a DNS issue between the domain and host servers but it'll be solved soon.

Cheers for now,

-Coni-

Nice to PSP you!

2007-03-13T05:44:00.000-07:00

Well the comic I'm working on still is under some heavy revisions so I don't think I'll be posting it anytime soon. But I did manage to cough out this painted BG (Miyazaki style) for use as a PSP background if you please. I'm sure this will be the new format for most handheld devices in the not too distant future, so hopefully this BG will have a longer lifespan then just the PSP.

I created it in Photoshop, no sketch prior, just dove straight in and finished it in about 10 hours total over the course of 3 days. Some burring, some smudging used but mostly just using the concept of color to carve out a 3D space. Also I only ever use your standard round brush, nothing fancy if I can avoid it.

Also, if you haven't got a PSP yet I ask "why not?" (though I can hear the DS fanboys kicking up a fuss right now) Here's the selling points over DS; UMD or downloaded on memory stick movies in 16:9 apsect with excellent sound, Web-browsing with flash support, e-mail and MSN/AIM ability through e-messenger and other utilities, custom backgrounds, digital camera support (potiental for blog updates with picture uploads on the go). I personally think PSP is a great handheld along side DS, both have their perks and flaws but your missing out if you don't have both systems. So for all those PSP people out there, I give you a nice BG to use if you like it.

Enjoy yo self!

-MC-

HO-HUM...

2007-02-21T11:35:00.000-08:00

Well seems like I'm heading in a more "cartoon" like direction now in my career which is making me more happy. Though the problem I face now is coming up with funny comics and that's pretty hard...perhaps I'll re-draw some of the ones I've done already. Anyways, I'm working on a small comic for the studio to describe the whole animation process from idea to reel. It's pretty neat, I should be finished sometime this week and I'll post it if I can (gotta talk to da boss on that one).

Anyhoo, I better keep at 'er and make some more cartoons to post...

-MC-

Coffee warms the Soul

2007-02-06T12:38:00.000-08:00

I was thinking about this one while lining up for my morning coffee at Timmy's (you know what establishment I'm talking about) and it occurred to me a thought of the bread lines in Moscow. It struck me as funny so I made this little piece about it. I don't know if I captured the line aspect of it but I got the Canadian part right, there's always someone making a crack about how cold it is outside. It's Canada, it's winter, it's supposed to be cold...get over it!

-MC-

Cartoonyness

2007-02-05T08:44:00.000-08:00

I've been thinking about a career change recently...

I'm not entirely happy working in the animation industry, lately it's been trying and uninspiring. I thought about when am I most happy? and the usual answer is in doodles I make during the worse points of my day when shit has hit the fan in productions. Not that I'm going to just quit my job, but I defiantely would like to pursue a cartoonist career. Maybe this is one of those "don't quit your day job" ideas, but I should figure out something to move towards now. I really hate office type environments and the higher you get involved inside a studio the more of a desk jockey you become. Meetings, post-it notes and performance reviews...it all makes me sick. I don't want to rant but how many monkey's need to be on peoples backs in the animation industry? I thought it was just a bunch of guys having some fun and making people laugh with some silly little cartoons...maybe it was, but it isn't now and probably never will be.

Anyways, I hope I'll start something this week and just start posting my doodles/cartoon captions. We'll see how it all works out in the end, but something defiantly needs to change because I can't stay unhappy at work forever.

-MC-

A New Years Resolution (too late!)

2007-01-04T12:34:00.000-08:00

Here's the poster I made (with Gene's finishing touches with text) for the Fatkat X-mas party which turned out to be a blast even if me and Bev snuck out early from it. Well the new news would be that I own a house now in downtown NewCastle, which is a nice 3 minute walk from the new studio. I share it with my lovely girlfriend Beverly and we love the place, it's a 116 year old house which needs a bit of TLC to make it even better then it is already. If I ever get around to taking pictures of it, I'll post them on here.

That's all for now!

-MC-

The Lovely Beverly

2006-11-14T04:52:00.000-08:00

Here she is, my girlfriend Beverly. We've been together almost, not quite, a year now and it's been awesome so far. We live together in a small apartment here in Miramichi, New Brunswick (the middle of nowhere I like to call it). It looks like we might get a house together but we'll have to see how it all pans out.

I made this picture completely in flash, I like it though its a bit too "flash"y for me. I hate Flash for the way it looks, but like it cause it's fast.

-MC-

Cloe!

2006-10-17T03:59:00.000-07:00

I finished up the extra work I was doing on a side project for the studio. It was a title card and an entire episode of backgrounds. It was alot of fun to do since I don't get to do much actual drawing in the work I do now. Anyways more of this stuff can be found on the Cloe blog here: http://myadventureswithcloe.blogspot.com/

Enjoy yo self!

-MC-

Behind the times

2006-09-17T19:44:00.000-07:00

It's been hard at the moment to find time to update this blog (so goes the story anyways...). But atleast here's a older piece to me, from Mondo Media's Happy Tree Friends TV season. In particular this is from "Don't yank my chain" episode which is currently featured on their site. Watch it and see where this shot is used, it is pretty funny.

I hope it's ok to post these, so if I get called on it I'll have to remove it. We'll see...

Cheers,

-MC-

The Fatkat Kat

2006-08-28T09:43:00.000-07:00

For those who don't know me, I work at Fatkat Animation Studios in New Brunswick. I work as a Flash designer here and more recently as a supervisor of a design team. Fun times, I get to doodle to my heart's content so long as the work gets done. Here's another sketch I cleaned up in Flash and was posted on the Fatkat blog as well.

Link: www.fatkatanimation.blogspot.com

-MC-

The first of many...

2006-08-26T17:00:00.000-07:00

This was a doodle I did recently at work during a drawing jam. I've been struggling recently to start up drawing again but I find it difficult to do between work and home. Either way, I'm hoping to get back on the horse and try and use posting here as motivation to do so. We'll see how it pans out...

-MC-

It begins!

2006-08-26T07:21:00.000-07:00

Welcome to a place that will productivity waste your very valuable time.

In no part will you feel more satisfied, complete or at ease with yourself or surroundings by reading any entry in this blog. Do feel comfortable in the fact that your time on this planet will be utterly in vain by sifting through the nonsense carefully and diligently written with small bits of mundane artwork fashioned to it.

Now, with that all out of the way, please read on to your hearts content when I actually get around to posting more on this silly thing.

-MC-