Candy Ghosts blog

I was going to work on Candy Ghosts along-side my short film The Diddly Squat, but that wasn't possible.  Maybe if I'd had a larger crew, but I can't really pay people.  Not yet.  And then the plan was to finish Candy Ghosts after The Diddly Squat was done, but that will have to wait.  I'm trying to get a grant application ready for the fall, for my first feature film.  Graphic novels use most of the same skills that films use, but I can't be sure that the judges at the grant offices will take that into account.  So I want to finish and send out three short films by the fall: The Diddly Squat, which is about an apartment building in which each door and window leads to a different part of the world, Black Thumb: A Science Fiction and The Eyes of Mr. O, which will be part of the feature film when it is all done.  The current plan for Candy Ghosts is to work on it while I'm waiting for word back from the grant office.

I need to take a break for July.  This full-time job plus Candy Ghosts plus short film is starting to wear on me.  Also, I'm scheduled for much fun that month.  I'll be posting again in August.

... a four-legged magically cursed demigod bug, to be precise.



Smile for the camera!

I can't seem to get this image vertical in livejournal.



Or this one.  Weird...

And yes, I'll be digitally removing details of my room from the background.  :)

It's made from pixels :)  And yes, it's an important prop in this graphic novel.

I've got a plan to stylize the artwork a lot more as the story progresses and to have the stylization support the story, the story's environment and the emotional state of the characters.  As well as making it look and feel more interesting, it'll also save me some time.  This detailed multimedia photoshopping is taking forever.  It will be worth it, but I'd also like to stay on schedule.

Here are a couple of sample panels from some of the completed pages:

I just don't have anything particularly new to upload.  I'm doing a lot of tweaking on previous pages but I should be caught up soon.

I probably should have posted earlier to say that this project is on hiatus until February, but I assumed that all my readers were people that I speak with on a regular basis.  Anyhow, I'm taking a break so that my tendonitis can clear up, which is something it won't do if I'm drawing and painting and (to a certain extent) mousing.  Until the end of January, I'm working on a short radio serial called Orbit that I hope to pitch to the CBC.

My next post will be in early February.

This is Bridget and Theodore when they were young.  They are Tanya and Cole's grandparents.

This is an establishing shot.  I'd like to put an animal of some sort in the bottom right corner, but I'm not sure what to use.

This is a guard tower:

Apparently, I spoke too soon.

...to make up for the fact that I haven't been posting.  Just got myself a new bulletin board though, so I should be able to use my green screen again, which means I can start posting actual completed panels starting tomorrow.

For the first one, the 'camera' is on a high angle looking down.  I don't like the mouth for the second one.  I'll probably change it.

I'm having some serious technical issues.  I've got things to post once I get the problem fixed.

These are some of the kids at Tanya's school.  I've told them just to walk around and be quiet and try not to trip over the digital furniture.

So much for posting in July.  To be honest, there wasn't much to tell that was related to my comic.  I was only able to work on it sporadically.  That said, I've now quit Chapters and I'm working full-time on Candy Ghosts.  Updates soon.

During July, I'm probably only going to be able to post about once a week.