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Dick and Don Storyboards

Dick and Don go all the way back to elementary school days. They have evolved of course but stay true to their slap stick roots. I used to run a comic strip in the USC Daily trojan student newspaper with these guys. They are a lot of fun to draw.

This little sequence is part of a larger project I have been dreaming about. Someday I would very much like to expand it into either a video game or a feature.

In this scene Dick and Don, two american tourist, have just escaped from prison, and discovered to their surprise that they are in London. They have been framed and they need to find out why and by whom. Being handcuffed at the ankle though is going to make the search difficult.

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Boomerang

Boomerang Girl is a film idea I was playing with a few months ago. The basic idea was to do something really fun, so I mixed together a bunch of my favorite things and wrapped a story around it. Here are a few panels.

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Macau tree

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Painting on my iPad in Macau

Went to Macau this last weekend. I had the iPad with me and made this rough painting of a tree trunk while waiting for Silas to finnish his lunch.

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With a little help from my friends

Some of you might have noticed that the site was down for a few weeks. Well sorry about that but I was attempting to move it over to a new server and things didn’t go a smoothly as planned, in fact I had to make a retreat and head back to my original host. No surprise here, but this site is held together by ducktape and prayers and when I tried to move over to my new host everything fell apart. I have jerry-rigged so many elements of the site the move became impossible. I will have to fix a lot of code before I can attempt it again.

Major thanks to my good friend Sam McMullen for all of his help and patience in moving things around the last few weeks. Sam has been helping me to beef up the site and has introduced me to a tidal wave on new tools and resources. Thanks to him this site is going to be screaming fast. Thanks buddy!

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Taken on the train to Hong Kong.

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Reorganizing the Library

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The site has built up enough posts that it is now time for me to reorganize all of the information into an order that makes sense. Things may get a little bent out of shape here for the next day or two until I am finished.

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Rainy Day Time-lapse

Turned my camera towards the dreary landscape and was rewarded with some interesting footage. The Tola Harbour is well protected from the open ocean making it exceptionally calm, so calm that the wake trails from the passing boat are visible for miles.

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Silas gets a game card

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Silas gets the star treatment.

Just finished painting Silas’ memory game card. Here it is fresh out of Photoshop.

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Ma On Shan Painting

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Ipad Painting looking out the apartment window in Ma On Shan.

Just downloaded ArtRage for the iPad and all I can say is that I am in love. What a great little painting app. I will have to revisit the desktop app now. I remember trying it a few years back and thinking nothing of it. but this, wow this iPad app is really great! I only wish I had a styles and the ability to create larger file sizes. My thick fingers are the only thing that makes the program difficult to use.

Above is the first painting i made in the app. looking out the apartment window in Ma On shan, over looking Plover Cove Reservoir with Pat Sin Leng mountain in the background.

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Lightning Storm

Couldn’t sleep last night thanks to the storm outside the window here in Ma On Shan. Half asleep I mechanically stumbled through the dark and rigged a quick time-lapse setup. I wish I had been more prepared and awake. The camera batteries were at half, the drive was near full, the window glass was dirty and I didn’t have a tripod. A lot of mistakes for an old photog like me but eh, I still managed to get a few lightning bolts so I guess it worked out.

In case you’re wondering that’s Tai Po Kau and the Tolo Harbour in the background.