Coach Ben

Coach Ben
Coach Ben

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Scene by Scene

Although I'm trying to be as secretive about the next project as I can,  I see nothing wrong in leaking drawings for it, here and there.
When even one character is wearing a uniform, every part of it has to be drawn. If the character is moving around a lot, then there's even more drawing! In place of shadows, I'm using colored lines, to give it an "illustrated" look, and that takes more time too.
I love a man in a uniform!
It may look calm now, but a little wine can make guys go awful crazy....

Sunday, April 22, 2012

What's Next?

The next video is cumming along, although I've only got 11% done so far. The possibilities for stories are endless, so I figured, why not try something exotic? And that's what gave me the idea for this video. 

Monday, April 16, 2012

Two Backgrounds

Here are two backgrounds from the next Animan video. I hope to inject a little drama into it, as well as humor, fun, and sexy action.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Random Sketches

Yesterday was the first day of the new school year where I live, so students in my sculpture class were busy making sketches of the cartoon-style figures they will be creating with paper-based clay and painting with acrylics.
As they literally spent hours sketching away, I decided to get my own sketchbook out and draw some stuff. Here's what I came up with... 


Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Animan's Schedule April~August

                                                  First completed background for the next video
Since starting this blog, I've tried very hard to answer each e-mail, inquiry and video purchase as quickly as possible, and I think I've done pretty well, when you consider that I live in Asia, which is an 8~16 hour time difference for many of you. Most of my e-mails come super-early in my morning or very late at night, so I just keep checking my mailbox, even while I'm drawing. This has worked out pretty well so far, because I've been able to mostly work at home.

Every year from April to the first week of August, I work outside of home a few days a week, in an environment without computers. This means that during the next few months, I may not be able to answer your e-mails right away, but they will always be answered well within 24 hours. I know how it feels, to send an inquiry or to send money, and then receive no answer for hours, and that's no fun. But I promise to do my best to not keep you waiting!

And, I'd like to take this chance to say "Thank you" to all the kind fans/friends who have been so generous to me. You will never know how much your kind comments mean, and they inspire me to do what I hope will be greater things. To those of you who buy the videos, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude. Please know that your generous support is making it possible for me to continue creating the videos you want to see. 

I had always feared that I would go through life, forever an outsider in the animation world, never recognized, never remembered and never rewarded in any way. Being able to sell my videos directly to you has validated my efforts, and I am probably THE luckiest animator on the planet!  To those of you who have helped make my dream a reality, I humbly thank you! :-D

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Twist Party Sketches

Today, I came upon these sketches I made almost a year ago for Twist Party. I knew that I didn't want all the party guests to look the same, so I tried to come up with as many faces, hairstyles and clothing combinations as I could. Also, a lot of these never made it into Twist Party.  Oh well, there will always be another Animan cartoon to put them in!