Holidays Etc.

During these poor economic times with the holidays upon us I thought I'd dig up some of my cartoons to post.



More to come. ^__^

Desert Bus for Hope

Really entertaining and exciting things happening! I've been watching Desert Bus for Hope this week. For those not aware already Desert Bus for Hope is a charity gaming marathon put on yearly by Loading Ready Run for the Child's Play charity.

The 3rd annual event started 9pm EST, this past Friday and they've been playing the most boring driving simulator, Desert Bus, from Pen and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors and doing what Loading Ready Run does best as an intenet comedy video group. All this in the name of collecting as much donation funds as they can possibly accomplish so that sick kids will have games to play during hospital stay. This year they are doing phinominally well with donations having more than tripled their first year's totals in less time than the duration of the first year's event!





There are even more exciting things happening this time round! For example, Ken Steacy, well known illustrator for George Lucas publications and on titles such as Astro Boy and The Real Ghostbusters, was in attendance yesterday to auction off some of his illustrations. He is planning to return later today to auction some more items. Ken Steacy's website is at http://www.kenspublishing.com/.

His son, Alex Steacy, a part-time member of Loading Ready Run and friend of mine was in BC this year to help them out with technical operations and camera overlays which has made the facade more graphically involved. Alex has also been involved in part of the comedy performance and donation challenges such as having gone to see the dreaded Twilight dressed as a vampire himself along with other LRR member Jeremy Petter. Matt Wiggins went to the movie but had to make up for not having suited up complete with eyeliner. He succeeded in doing so with Gay Bar performance found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9mF3mISUeo/.

Tune in to Desert Bus for Hope at http://desertbus.org/ to view their drivercam broadcast which is quite hilarious and their bus cam feed to see the game as they are playing it. Loading Ready Run regular videos may be found on YouTube or on their own website at http://loadingreadyrun.com/.

I'm on the MegaTag network!

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New site very soon to come at digitalseahorse.ca which should include some interesting Flash design.
I just downsized a little demo for web viewing.
http://digitalseahorse.ca/video/smallSCAcity.mov

Here's my latest extensively digital artwork. It was inspired by a few of Alex Steacy's characters from his comic script 'The Tower.'

What I learned from doing this was not to keep too many layers going all at once because it bogs things down way too much. I also learned that while photo reference is ok at times it should be used with caution and knowledge of how it effects perception. Prints available by request at danielle@digitalseahorse.com.

Image is copyright Danielle Pepin and DigitalSeahorse.

Beginning of comic by Alex Steacy may be found here:
http://www.eximworks.org/thetower/phpslideshow.php?directory=.&currentPic=0

Photoshop Composite Dragons

Here's a composite I did a few years ago and more recently had printed and made into buttons. It's composed of seven images taken on my old Canon Powershot A540. It was fun to make and gives an idea of how creative one can be with photo compositing in Photoshop. Click image to view in full size.

I love doing this stuff as a hobby and even after doing it for a living for a few years it still doesn't get old. My background includes CMYK colour matching and photo manipulation for print. The radio in my previous post is a great example of the level of quality and complexity of projects I have done. The radio project had a deadline of a week's time and this small 8-ball was done in only 15 minutes at the most.