Monthly Archive: August 2008

Blake the Movie Guy 2

Blake the Movie Guy

My good friend Blake has found a way to get free movies.  He’s an avid movie watcher, and well versed and well, he’s got an opinion about things too.  He’s been asked to do...

The Mythbusters are really good painters 0

The Mythbusters are really good painters

These guys just seem to play all day long!  Here’s the summary from the YouTube entry. “The mythbusters compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an ACTUAL...

My USB is a Mandalorian Skull 2

My USB is a Mandalorian Skull

So I plugged in my external drive this morning and the icon popped up in the task bar and I just couldn’t believe that I hadn’t noticed this before.  The USB icon looks like...

Background development 0

Background development

I’m working on a couple of different projects right now and have been making some backgrounds.  It’s pretty tough work!  I start out with a rough sketch for the animatic.  Then I clean it...

Future Firefighters 0

Future Firefighters

The Shooter fire extinguisher from Yanko Design makes me want to yell, “FIRE!”  heheh This Nerf inspired weapon extinguisher fires CO2 cartridges, has a laser guidance system to help you aim, and an alarm...

It’s all in the details 3

It’s all in the details

One of the things that I was most excited about with the new Star Wars movie was all of the little details.  StarWars.com has an article about all of the little details that you...

Star Wars:Clone Wars Premiere 0

Star Wars:Clone Wars Premiere

I know it’s a bit overdue, but I had a bit of trouble getting everything together.  I have thankfully been very busy lately. The Clone Wars opened on August 15th, shortly after my son’s...

Magneto is Attractive 3

Magneto is Attractive

So I was talking with my wife last night about some magnets that the kids have and that made me think, “What if I was magnetized?  All this metal stuff would come flying at...

An interview with me 4

An interview with me

When I was promoting my Star Wars Celebration Japan Print I made a little animation from it.  Bonnie over at the official Star Wars Blog posted about it and it caught the eye of...

Clone Wars Sketch card on eBay 0

Clone Wars Sketch card on eBay

I’ve finally received my sketch cards back from Topps.  I did 106 cards for the Star Wars:Clone Wars set and as part of my payment for the work I choose 6 cards to keep. ...