I have revamped my focus from doing a full blown animation to a motion comic from one of my first comics- this will hopefully raise interest for issues 2 and 3 and the start for the issue 4 - intending on a 3d comicc-

almost there- missing my deadline

I worked more on my animatic this holiday season and I will miss my deadline of january 15 to submit to KAFI- the finished animation- but will keep moving forward to finish by the festival May 14-17--- YIKES- this is the same weekend as the Detroit motor City conventions- Crap!! I was hoping to have a booth for that one- hmmm- anyway I will finish with this animated short - since it is about my comic characters-and make a decision on where to go that weekend- anyway about it I will be prepared for whatever--- well gotta finish up this animatic- gotta get a copy to my buddy in Pennsilvania- he is going to put music to it- which will be cool- my next deadline is january 15 for the animatic completion and then I will start on the full aniamtion....will find away to put a portion of it online- pat out

just shouting out

okay- I am just to write to keep my brain tlking back to me- I will start another blog on my love for art called the "C-Pimp Principles"- my mandate on the compositional commercial artist- this is really funny since I have yet to get professional with my art- I still have strong feelings on it as a viable business and will spit out ideas until someone slaps my hand and says- "you must be mad"- my hope is that it will be a good resource for artists- I will review different artists and their work as well as books I have in my collection- well back to this channel-I was told by a good friend who is doing his own business as a music coach to get hi the animatic so he can put some music to this short- so my rush project before I hit on the animation is to get this done for him- hopefully by end of November- not later or I won't meet my complete deadline-- okay I am out

pat

okay i will put up some of the storyboards as a slide show- just posted a draft of one of the backgrounds- created it in blender and clorized it in photoshop- still trying to flatten it out to fit with teh 2d cartoony characters- any critiques are welcome

okay ready for step two

I finished preliminary storyboards for beat 2- of the short and with counseling from other comic dudes-( Gerald Walker and Marco Evans) I have decided to focus on animating that beat as a separate piece- similar to the Clone War shorts- it will probaly be only a minute and 1/2 to 3 minutes but will have that timing soon. I am now focusing on getting 3d backgrounds for the sequence started as well as filming the dialog to get an idea of how to block out the acting in the scenes - its a tall order- but will pull the dialog from these shoots to help create the animatic- my goal is to have the animatic done by end of october or sooner- I may be working in the dark but I will be working- again my deadline in January 1 for this short- I will continue on with storyboarding the whole piece along the way....
- I will upload some storyboarding sequence soon as I scan them into the computer.
PAT

FX-Mulrooney- Trapped in the Past- explanation

Wow- I just put it together- I did not give a title to my short- its called FX-Mulrooney "Trapped in the Past"- man I really don't know what I am doing- anyway the short is an off-shoot of a comics series I am still in the midst of- that I created 10 years ago- called FX Mulrooneywritten by Craig Linne, and drawn by myself and Darnell Sealie, inked and art directed by Pat Hatfield- which currently has a active trademark for comics and character design- I have self published the first issue (written as a 4 book story arc) and will be putting out issues 2 and 3 ( edited by Arvell Jones) once inked and arranged (pencils completed)- I thought the short would be a great way to round out the property for 2009- it is based of a web comic called episode zero-done with Quinton Barber- inking- originally put on fantasticon.com- Arvell Jones (the comic artist) brainchild website. I felt I could take this farther with an animated short done in flash and other tools- I really did not plan on this until working with the Detroit project - I kept reading about it after the group disbanded and decided to do one anyway as a test for me. The 4th issue I decided will be a 3d comic- another test for me- but lets stay in the moment ( old jedi philosophy)- I don't know if I can do this- but still don't know if I can't- so here we go

just adding some new pics

DOpe- didn't post right!!- I will repeat- I got 10 roughs done a couple of nights ago by turing off the TV- I calculate if I can get 20 done per night - it will take me ten days to complete the storyboards- wow- that's a lot of missed TV. O well-- while I am waiting to post boards- here are a couple of flash character tests I have been trying to push the character design to- I will post more after a while- hope you enjoy