BATMAN | FINAL

Here it is: no more trash glowy moths and a more gentle and selective color correction.

Drawing at night can bring you to brutal color corrections :)

BATMAN MOCKUP

Click on the images to see 'em properly.

Finally had some time to finish.

It was a 12 hours thing, digital draft to coloured flat version.

Not very sure about some details. The glow on the moths is maybe too cheesy.

Maybe I will crank the brightness up a bit more. I love the fact you have to struggle to see Batman in the dark, but maybe I can just let him be a little more visible.

Tomorrow, maybe, I will post a more definitive version.

For sure I can do be faster AND better.

Anyway the Superamici logo on true a Batman cover should be there by default.

Batman is the best superhero to draw, no doubt.

NO TIME TO DRAW

is freaking me out.

BATMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN.

Work in progress. Wished I could finish it today but didn't have the time to draw a lot.

Can't wait to colour it digitally.

Hope I can work on it more tomorrow and at least finish the pencil layer.

5:00 AM. Time to sleep.

The Dark Side of the Sun: About noise and signal

I managed to finish this animated project called "the dark side of the sun".
I will make an extensive post about it soon.
Right now I have the urge to tell you what I discovered drawing for animation.
Basically, animation punishes you everytime you make a wrong choice of what it's really important and what's not.
Did you put a detail that wasn't necessary in your character design? Now draw it a thousand times!
It's like having a brutal old fashioned teacher sitting on your back!

That brought my style and the whole idea of drawing, expecially drawing characters, to a very new place.

The images above are the key pose drawings I had to do to let the animators to their job without having to guess by trial and error how and what to draw. They are only a sample (I had to do many, MANY more drawings doing the preproduction) of what I discovered.

I'm very proud of the results, and it may seem stupid to you that I consider the drawing above the biggest step forward in style I've ever made in years, and probably the best drawings I've ever made. People usually like my work because it's very detailed and complex, so the drawings above may look cheap, worthless 10 minutes sketches (and I actually had 10/20 minutes to decide/do the shots so it's partly true :) ).

These drawings are very important to me for their consistency and, at last, a good balance between noise and signal: that's my only goal when I start a drawing, illustration or comic panel.

What's next? Using my new skills doing comics as soon as possible!

Cover illustration for "Il Manga", Tunué.

The illustration itself.


The line artwork.



Here are 2 initial sketches I made before heading to the final composition.


And here is the final thing with all of the text in place.

ZODAC

My favourite character of the MOTU series. For a secret project to come.

Agenda Aeterna, Grrrzetic.

First of the year illustration for Agenda Aeterna, an agenda about craziest documented deaths.

Edited by Grrrzetic.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN | NHK | CHIKYU AGORA MINI FEATURE

SMALL UPDATE

Looks like I will still be on the movie stuff some more time.
Will be back with a HUGE amount of drawings by the end of the month.

Meanwhile I can say that doing traditional 2d animation IS the best way to improve synthesis and style consistence. Quite satisfied with my new noise/signal ratio.

Ancora un po' di pazienza. I lavori sul film si sono allungati di un bel po'.
Entro fine mese dovrei chiudere tutto e se DIO vuole trovare il tempo di fare dei post torrenziali pieni di disegni nuovi.

Come scrivo sopra, è ufficiale: fare animazione 2d tradizionale è il modo più efficace per stringere i bulloni al proprio stile di disegno: per la sintesi, la coerenza stilistica e il rapporto segnale/rumore in primis.

Torno al lavoro.
A presto.

PS:sono stato in mostra a Tokyo!
http://www.eshi100.com
Un post sulla mostra a brevissimo!

SHIPPING TIME & PRINTS!

First of all THANK YOU for the HUUUUGE positive feedback for Viewpoint and Doctor H.
Then.
I'm very sorry but right now it's impossible for me to follow all the packing and shipping procedures as I'm at the end of the production process for my film so I'm pretty busy: I'll start again shipping orders from the 25th of April.

Anyway if you still want to place an order now procedure is always the same:
write me at B U R O M A S C H I N E N ( A T ) G M A I L . C O M

Just keep in mid I won't start shipping again anytime sooner the 25th of april, 2011.

Last but not least, here are the available prints!

They are all high quality digital prints, pencil signed by me, printed on 329 x 483 mm heavy matte Tintoretto Felt Embossed paper.
Each print is €20.00, but if you buy two it's €15.00 each.

Enjoy (and sorry for the bad pics,it's iphone magic, no time for a proper photo setup, my store is coming sooooon :P )!


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