By the way...Danea is pronounced Duh-NAY-uh

And one more...

Wooden swords should be fun to make...

More Images

Here is an image of thweapons used by one of the hunters...

Jake's Graphic Novel

Jake's graphic novel is going...check THIS out.

lilly...again...and why not...

Just another image of everyone's favorite looney-goof-hero-girl...

Danea again...

I've become rather fascinated with Danea, though she is only in three scenes...family and the family tree are important to the people in Darkness Aftermath...so I thought, what if she's black or asian or something other than that of Gwenn, her sister. It would mean that one of them was adopted, but since they are blind, they wouldn't know it...

The casting continues

I found the (almost) perfect woman to play Danea. The only problem was the fact that she is about 5 inches shorter than Gwenn. She needs to tower over Gwenn and just about everyone else. The serch continues.

nothing new...

it's been hot...really hot!!! I've been miserable and unable to work on the project because I just sweat all of the time and am miserable...but it finally started raining today. 'bout time...maybe I won't be so cranky now...maybe I'll get some work done...

jus' so ya know

Anytime I post a picture, if you click on it, you should be able to see a larger version of it in a new window. The 'Death Star' loses some detail in the smaller image. Also, the sculptures are almost finished. I should be posting images of them on Monday. And I'm going to start composing for D.A. tomorrow. Most of my E.G. music until now has been rather...mellow...deep throbbing tones that seem to move as if floating on water. Some, unfortunately, have said it sounds rather new age, though I have tried to follow in the path of Tangerine Dream and (from T.D.) Christopher Franke (Babylon 5). The music always sounds 'space-like'...does that make sense? The stuff for D.A. is going to be much more rythymic...I've been inpsired by the new "Battlestar Galactica" themes and the opening 'space battle' theme of Star Wars III. I'll also be including more percussion...some will be from intruments I've created. I'll be playing a three stringed BUKKA (the name my elementary students gave the intrument I designed eight years ago) during the "love theme"...I have some PVC instruments and a yet-not-finished intrument made with Piano strings. I'll hopefully be relying a lot less on keyboard, though the opening theme is going to be played on a synth. nuff said.

And this is sorta cool too...

I just got asked by the Criminal Justice dept. at ITT Tech. to do make-up on an actor who is playing the part of a recently murdered...uh...corpse. Neck wounds and defensive hand wounds. Apparently the video will be part of an on-line course and will be on the web...fun stuff!

Lilly faces the Drifter

There are two scenes in which Lilly faces 'demons' known as Drifters. The Lilly sculpture is not quite finished...I am reworking the hands to hold weapons. The Drifter is close to being finished...it has no arms and only horn-like growths protruding from its back where wings once were...it is severely burned and charred with flesh hanging from its emaciated form.

Wounded Gwenn

This is the sculpture of Gwenn after her shoulder is dislocated. She has wrapped her left arm against her body to keep it in place. She is about to face the Garum in the final showdown.

Garum setback

I was working on the sculpey-sculpture of the Garum and Gwenn...Gwenn looks great! The Garum fell over in the oven and lost his head...literally...I'll be posting images next week.

Lousy, rotten sculpey! mumble, mumble...

14 more

Finished...yet again...the fight scene is done...total count - 439. I've also been thinking about a companion book to go along with the film. It could have storyboards, posts from the blog, sketches, interviews with the crew and behind the scenes photos. I plan to show this film at some public forum (several of the loacal theaters rent out their theaters for private parties and such) and we could sell the 'book' there.

a few more...

There are about twelve more boards I'm going to add...there is a fight scene that originally ended in three boards...if Gwenn is fighting hunters, they should be a little tougher than I originally drew them out to be...I'll be posting more images tonight from ITT.

high tech

I was listening to some old 80's tunes down in the studio last night while I was sculpting...high tech, eh?

And a little more sculpey...

This is lilly's body...not painted or sanded or even close to being finished...

The sculptures

I started working on a sculpture of Lilly...here is the head, not yet sanded or painted.

why?

Some one asked me why I have two women, Gwenn and Lilly, (three if you include Danea) as the main protagonists? To be honest, Clarr has a much bigger role than Danea and more screen time than Lilly. But the reason was simple. In the first Entropy Gate book, There are two men, Michael and David, and one woman, Chen, who are protagonists...I almost always use three main characters...I just wanted to mix it up a bit with Darkness Aftermath.

425

The storyboards are done...I think...there are 425 now...

one more added scene...

I'm adding another scene...it'll probably be about eight or ten more boards...I think that'll do it! I'm psyched to work on the script some more.

415 and counting

Added more some more boards...up to 415! No access to a scanner today...bummer!

378 to 406

I was sitting in my design class at IPFW today and suddenly had some new ideas for a few scenes in the film...a couple of nights ago a drew a few new storyboards, but now, after today's addition, I went from 378 boards to 406...I have a few more scenes to add as well...both new scenes involve digital characters. As I review the story and work on the script, the main focus has to be the battle between good and evil with good winning! One of my students commented today that the title, Darkness Aftermath, sure seemed like a depressing film title...I assured him that the film has a happy ending...and it does! The three new scenes will help to reinforce that idea!

On another note...I have finished the wire armatures for two sculpture scenes...one is Gwenn fighting the Garum, the other is from a new scene in which Lilly confronts a DRIFTER...when I head out to work Friday, I'll use the work computer to post images of these sculptures and such.

test footage

If all goes well, I'll be shooting some test footage this week or during the next weekend...

Art Show Coming Up...

There is the anual University of Saint Francis Faculty Alumni Art Show coming soon to USF. I was showing Justin the Gallery Director some of my storyboards and sketches. He sugested that I put them and the sculpture in the show. I'm thinking that that might be a great idea...

finished Cllar

map of the rain world village

What's the movie about?

If you go to the Entropy Gate site, then go to the extended page, then got to Darkness Aftermath, then go to the Story...you'll get the outline of the story...or just click here.

this is cool

Go here...do it. Do it now!

done with danae

Finished it this afternoon...

added some color in photoshop...more later.

Danea and Cllar

Two quick drawings. Danea, the hunter mentioned in an earlier post, and Cllar. I plan to add color later...soon hopefully.

some other art...

here is one version of the image of Kayla that I eventually used for the EG web site...

Cllar - Gwenn's Guest

Cllar arrives at the beginning of the story..by the end, he and Gwen have become quite close and they take on the Garum in the final fight...he is pictured here with Lilly after the hunter's funeral...

Danea - The Leader of the Hunters

I'm going to need to find a woman with some serious muscles for Danea!

Gwenn at the Library

This is a sequence (obviously from the boards) in which Gwenn visits the library to research the history of Garum. The 'books' are wooden polls with 'brail' carved into them...I have someone lined up who might be playing the librarian...

Lilly Comforting Gwenn at the Hunter's Funeral

I'll start posting the character's images here...

casting...all ready?

But the script isn't even finished...I have three people potentially slated to be in the film...the lead, Gwenn (though I drew her as a dark haired woman)a young blonde woman has expressed a GREAT deal of interest in the part...I also have a person in mind for the Librarian and Clarr...but since little of this makes sense to anyone...since the script isn't finished and I've not posted much of the boards, I guess I'll have to start doing some artwork of the characters...

Gwenn's first encounter with the Garum

Here are the storyboards.
1.Gwenn leaves the clearing...fade to black
2.Gwen is sleeping...
3.rain
4.the Garum moves past her door
5.she smells him...
6....and rolls over.
7.Gwenn emerges from her home with her swords
8.the Garum moves...
9.Gwenn listens for the Garum
10.Gwenn prepares for battle
11.loud thud as Garum's foot crashes down
12.Gwenn raises the wooden blades
13.The Garum turns but rain increases
14.Gwenn looses the sent
15.The Garum leaves
16.Gwenn relaxes her stance
17.Cllar calls to her
18.Gwenn replies that the Garum is gone

Hint: Click on the storyboards to get a larger image of them.

added a little photoshop...

Added some photoshop stuff as a demo for my evening "Instructional Design" class...

a little marker color...

I was doing another marker demo in class today using various warm and cool grays at 10% through 70%...

Graphic Novel image

As I mentioned, I originally thought about doing D.A. as a graphic novel...in cleaning out my studio, I found the original sketch of Gwenn drawn in a cartoon-like manner...

sculpture

I'm going to start working on a sculpture today of Gwenn, the D.A. hero, and the antagonist, Garum...I plan to use copper wire for the armature and sculpy...that means that I'll have to clean my studio today...

A little web page update…the guy who is helping me with the we page has had a series of family problems and I don’t want to bug him to help me get it finished…hopefully we’ll be able to tackle it this weekend.
Also, occasionally I’ll post something here or at the other blog and it won’t have a picture along side…but then, viola, a few days later there is a picture…this is due to the fact that my home computer is dial up and my ITT (work) computer is not. I can’t seem to get blogger to accept my images from the home computer no matter how long I wait.
And one final thing…this post is also on the other blog…the only time I’ll "double post" is in situations like this…

Dabbled a bit on the sketch...

I was playing around on photoshop looking for a quicker way to make rain...not sure that I'm there yet...the previous two drawings look more rain like but took longer to create...

More artwork...

I was teaching my wed. night Rapid Viz class at ITT and the subject was marker and colored pencil rendering. I created this image of Lilly and then enhanced it with photoshop.

I haven't had much time to work on DA

Been rather busy with editing and writing...I hope to post the storyboards soon and then post some costume designs...

found something...

I found this...the very first sketch for Darkness Aftermath...it looks a lot different than the current images...I don't even know who the big guy is supposed to be...

Just a marketing idea...

I did this as a demo for photoshop in the design class that I teach at ITT.

The boards are done and the first draft of the script is finished. Things are running a little slow as far as editing the animatic. Hopefully we'll get started soon. Tomorrow I'll post a series of boards on this site.