DON’T CALL THIS A STORYBOARD COMEBACK!!!

Suffice it to say, the last seven months could not have sucked worse. It was the type of time that gives you a supreme “gut check” as it were. As a freelancer, it is one thing when you are single, and yet another when you have responsibilities of a wife and son.

So here I was in Golden Apple Comics, limiting myself to buying ONE comic (a treat, as I did just two days boarding an OLD NAVY COMMERCIAL – thanks Darryl H.) and I got a phone call asking if I was available for a feature.

I did not quite say “HELLLLLL YEA!!!!”, but I did not play it cute. If the job were drawing Benji the dog, I was on it like Salma Hayek on a horny billionaire. I said yes. This new film couldn’t even pay the rate I had gotten on the in-development-hell “THE A TEAM” film (now in re-boot at Fox with Joe Carnahan) but so long as they gave me something decent – hence, the negotiations – I was on it.

So, here I am using the TOON BOOM STORYBOARD PRO program in the proper aspect anamorphic ratio, drawing a very extensive action scene that has not quite gotten an actual location, yet.

I met with the stunt coordinator days earlier, an old friend, and we went over the sequence. I was given a fairly free reign, as it was all sketchy and they just needed to lay down a framework.  The coordinator, Doug Coleman is a total pro and one of the top guys in the business.

Whatever I give him, Doug will use it as a starting point to work things out with the director and his stunt team. I kept everything very, very loose.

With the STORYBOARD PRO, I was able to make a quick animatic of the scene and get it to the clients. It’s also very smart to get a website (like SEND THIS FILE.COM) where you can upload large files that are too big to email. Then, the client gets a link, from where they can download the work. Ta ta for now…

MY NEW MOVIE GIG!!!!!!!

Hey.

After struggling the last seven months with no feature work, and limited commercial work, I’ve landed the feature “FIVE KILLERS”, and action comedy starring Ashton Kutcher.

Thank GOD.

I was recommended by my friends, Josh Sheppard and Darrin Denlinger, two talented colleagues who look out for brethren in need of some work.

I was hired officially Sunday, and met with the director Monday night.   On this Inauguration day, I start drawing, after staying up last night to read the script.

Obama’s speech got to me. Made me tingle.

My eyes are tired, but I am ready to go. Now, I can also start helping other artists in need up work.

WHY NO BLOG?

Sorry folks, if any of you wondered where the blog has been. My priority has been looking for work, which for now has been very, very scarce.  I did two days on the TV show “Numb3rs” boarding an action sequence, but TWO days does not cut it while trying to make a living and feed a family.  I am drawing now, trying to design characters for a future graphic novel. I’ll have to talk to ya’ll later as I have to make some bread.Oh yea, hell no to a SAG strike. We don’t need something else making it easier to starve.