An Apple a Day... #39 and 40

Robot
Parts III and IV

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A little bit of commentary for these two parts:

• Apparently, Apple wears his polka dot thong on the weekends. He also seems incapable of tying his robe closed when he has company over.
• Yes, I did only color Edward's hair for that gag. No, I'm not ashamed to admit that.

An Apple a Day... #37 and 38

So, I've decided to go ahead and repost Robot here anyway. However, I think it'll be done in double posts. This serves two purposes: First, it allows me to quickly catch up with the District run of Robot and, Second, this layout will be more reminiscent of what Robot would look like if it were physically published. Below the comics, I've added a short write up about the story of Robot and and the general concept behind it that I wrote when I began retrofitting these comics to storyboards for an animatic. (Hey, if I'm going to redo past blog postings, I may as well add a little extra content.)

Robot: The Animation is dead in the water at this point, but the story and concept write up still apply to the comic. Well, enough of my blabbering. Onward, to the comic:

Robot
Parts I and II

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Story

The sudden arrival of a robot in the woods shakes a community to its roots. Told in three acts, the story follows the exploits of a Edward, a well-meaning, albeit annoying, yogurt tuft, as he tries to convince his friend, Apple, an apple, that he has been accosted by a robot. When the two hapless heroes go investigate Edward’s claims, the robot is nowhere to be seen, lending justification to Apple’s belief that Edward was simply messing around. The truth is revealed in a news broadcast vindicating Edward’s claims, forcing Apple to eat his words. Whilst Edward gloats, the Robot continues his reign of terror, with seemingly no end in sight. By the end of the first part, it is clear that something must be done about this menace and the universe has chosen Edward to be its savior. 

Okay, I’m finished kidding around.  Honestly, the above synopsis is way more serious than this story demands. In short, this is a stupid story about two friends, a robot, and the misunderstandings that come with being different in a town full of 1950’s McCarthy-era views on society and how different and exotic beings are probably evil and therefore, threaten the established norm.

Concept

This story arc is a direct continuation of a comic series I started roughly two years ago called, An Apple a Day…  As its name suggests, it follows the exploits of an Apple and his friends as they live their lives to the best of their ability. Originally conceived to be a daily comic strip, my laziness got the best of me and the comics have become more weekly based. Recently, I’ve crafted multi comic story arcs, beginning with a story called, The Bet. I won’t go into detail but, suffice it to say, I then crafted a sequel to the story called, Moustache, that, if one could believe it, was even dumber than the previous tale. Robot, is the third story in this arc (despite the fact that I have been working on a robot-themed story since the genesis of the comic two years ago).  

The three stories play together as a loose trilogy of events. The Bet is a tale of Love, Moustache is a tale of Envy, and Robot is a tale of Woe. The Woe part applies to the robot, who, despite his “menacing” appearance and societal perception, only wants to be accepted and loved. Unfortunately, society is not ready for him.

Kristofferson.

This is a short scratch on film animation I created in my Experimental Animation course. It's set to the song, "Kristofferson's Theme" by Alexandre Desplat from the film, Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Titled, Kristofferson.

Housekeeping.

It's been quite a while since I've put any work into this old blog. Actually, it's been a long time since I even thought about it. It would appear, at first glance that I haven't done any new work since August of 2010 but, that is not the case. The thing is, I had set up my own website, which had a blog, and I simply migrated these posts over to it. Things were good for a year or so. Then stuff happened and that website went down. The best part about the website dying is that I never backed up the blog - or any part of the site, for that matter - thus losing all those newer postings, seemingly forever. So, Ive come back here, put a new coat of paint on the old "Captain's Log" and will be starting fresh.

A few notes:

• I've gone through and taken down any old Moustache posts from just before the website transfer occurred in December 2010. 
• The post directly below this one has a recent date on it, however it's simply a reformat/repost of the six "Bet" rough posts. The new post contains all six parts in a new embedding and retains the little blurbs I wrote about the comics in the first and sixth posting. This helped me clear up some of the crummy html work I did and helped to streamline the blog refresh a bit.
• At the top of the blog, I've added a few pages: Demo Reel, Resume, Story#1: The Bet, Story#2: Moustache, and Story#3: Robot. The first two page headers are fairly self-explanatory (i.e under Demo Reel, you'll find my current animation reel, and, under Resume, you'll find my current resume). 
• Under Story #1, you'll find the cleaned up versions of all six pages of The Bet that was promised, oh so long ago.
• Under Story #2, you'll find all twelve pages of Moustache, the pseudo-sequel to The Bet. Moustache has the distinction of being the first series of my comics to run on SCAD District.
• Under Story #3, you'll find the current batch of An Apple a Day... comics. It's a forty page story arc about a robot whose actions are largely misunderstood and the actions taken by Edward and Apple to stop him. They are currently running on District and due to a contractual obligation there, I can only post them after they run on District's site for a week (This explains why, even though the story has been written and the pages are completed, there are only twelve parts currently available for viewing. Sometimes, I fudge the rule though). 
• Individual Posts concerning An Apple a Day... comics #19 - 36 will not return, instead they'e been moved to their own respective pages for convenient reading/viewing. I remain undecided on whether I will post comics #37-76 individually. 

One more final, overall, note: the remainder of this blog (after this first page) retains the original formatting from when this blog was being primarily used. I only updated the posts on this first page so that the blog doesn't look too wonky upon first visit. 

Okay, I think that about does it for my updates. I hate doing a full text post, but this one was fairly necessary to do, given the amount of time passed since this blog was last updated. 

An Apple a Day... #19 - 24 (Reformat)

An Apple a Day... #19 - 24 (Roughs)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Original Text From Posting of An Apple a Day...19, August 5, 2010: "If I keep making comics loosely based around Twilight, people may begin to think I'm a fan.
I'm not.

But I feel that this new obsession amongst young people today has to be commented on in some way just like Harry Potter, Star Wars and a myriad of other things before it. (That's not say it hasn't been commented on, at great length, already. I'm just fashionably late to the party.)

This is my commentary. Stupid comics that entertain me as I draw them."
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Original Text From Posting of An Apple a Day...#24, August 5, 2010:
"Before this silly series of event concludes, I feel I must apologize about my poor excuse for legible handwriting. It's terrible, I know. It got pretty bad in some areas and I tried my best to clean up the truly illegible spots. Also, the drawings, overall, took a noticeable decline. However, I feel that lends this particular series of strips a certain character. All of the pages are scanned from a sketchbook and the drawings and crappy handwriting reflect this. For whatever reason, I think it works out alright in this instance.

Also, it's important to note that these six comic parts are still rough sketches. They will be cleaned up and made sensible soon.

Okay. Now, onward to the end."
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Neverland.

I made this painting for a friend as a sort of housewarming gift. When I told her I was doing it, I asked if she wanted it to be anything in particular. She said she wanted something to do with Neverland and a unicorn.
Well, the unicorn made it in. Neverland......not so much. This is basically what goes on inside my head everyday. So, I suppose, it's my Neverland.

An Apple a Day... #18

Titled, Sword.

This particular comic is special in that it's an experiment. It's actually an animated comic, despite what the image below would have you believe. Also, the image is blurry because it's a still frame from the end of the comic. But enough of this blabbering. Onward, to the animated tale of Apple and his sword.

Just click the image and watch the panels come to life.

NOTE:

This is embarrassing but, The last text bubble of the comic reads "I seem to have cut myself." Yet it's written much more sluggishly than that.