New animated short on the way

What I have here is some first sketches of new characters for an animated flash short to be finished within 11 weeks, it needs to be around 3 minutes...this might be kinda tough.
This is for Advanced Web animation class. The story is... A gangster boss and a drug boss have an agreement to meet in a warehouse to exchange money for drugs. Eye contact is established, the Gang boss sets down a briefcase on a cable spool table...he opens the case facing the drug boss. The drug man looks down at the case in confusion and annoyance and says, "What the hell is this?" The camera cuts to a briefcase full of 100 dollar bill origami swans. The Gang boss keeps his cool for a beat and then explains that the drug dealer is on a candid camera show called, "Stung". the gang man laughs a bit and says something like, you shoulda seen the look on yer face and points to the camera. The drug dealer does not understand what is happening and asks seriously, "Alright wheres the real money?" The gangster starts getting uncomfortable and looks to camera crew for help. In a flash the police bash through the wall and the screen goes black and credits roll, a newspaper rolls up the credits with silly headlines like, "Two morons arrested" and smaller but visible will be an article about stationary...

PNCA Solo Mission.

Every Wednesday night an art school near my own-(fart Institute) holds a life drawing session for about 3 hours. This evening I rode my bike on over and helped the crazy lady set up the studio. The Crazy lady then knocked over my pencils and asked everyone in the room to please let her set up the studio herself for the next few minutes. The model arrived a little late because of traffic but no one really seemed to mind. The night started with 10 one minute poses, (my fay've) and carried on into the longer 15-25 minute poses. Whith the longer poses I am now able to get one or two practice drawings in before I start one that I actually like enough to detail a bit.
I stayed for about three hours and filled what is probably 1/4th of my sketchbook. What I included in this post are four of my drawings that I was somewhat happy with. I did a lot of thinking to myself during this session. For a moment I was convinced that the model could hear my thoughts and was in fact communicating with me telepathically. I thought about how it has been for the past three weeks or so-- (drawing wise, which inevitably translates to everyday comings and goings. My feelings and thoughts about my work tend to directly mirror my attitude toward life, people and experiences.)-- being happy with this new quick and unapologetic way of making lines while observing people just sitting around parks and courtyards, being happy to be walking on newer firmer ground, ground that I had always wished I would cover. Today was a day that comes around every couple months that I rarely notice while it's happening. I realized that I had grasped something new and that it was time to move forward again, getting to this point was incredibly painful, difficult and uncomfortable but it's worth the trouble to see REAL proof that I have grown. The proof is there in those piles of sketchbooks, I can look back and see where I came from, I can even see reflections of my mood and outlook on life at the time of the drawings. This may be rambling but it is also the first time in a while that I have used this blog to try and express myself without the use of a drawing, although some are likely inches from this sentence. Anyway on to the Noody picz.

I think I like characters whos first letter in the name appears early in the alphabet.

Hulk, Hellboy, Goon, Franky, Fear agent, Bruce...So this was fun to make for about the first 7 or 8 hours, then I went to a place that painters should not go. I really thought it was the coolest thing for the first painting session but perhaps it was the 30 people having a meeting in the same room (Larry was having a Rocky horror cast election meeting at our place) that distracted me. Who could say? I thought about painting over it but quickly changed me mind because it has a place in the world i think.

Here is a stress relief painting that took 30 min.

I call it a stress relief painting because I am learning to zone in (or out if u prefer) while painting. So I showed up to a test a little early and decided to just start this little dude. He has no story, he is completely off the tip of my head so your guess is as good as mine as to why he has a feathery collar.

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I tried to post a short piece of flash animation that I have been working on and need to continue working on but when I actually had it all loaded up and ready to go it looked like Carp. So I will bring it into some editing software and render it out right!

that time

If you have checked my page recently you may have noticed the lack of new posts.
This is because I have reached the time of the term where I just do nothing but work on stuff for finals. I will have a TON of stuff scanned, photographed or in some way ready to look at soon. Until then friends.

Knossos is full of bullshit that I really have no reason to care about at the moment. I am sure there is tons of cool shit ready to talk about in a paper that would contain a strong thesis but right now I have been procrastinating the hell out of this thing, I have blah blah blah blah blah, the motion of writing "blah" is a strange one. My typing skill is actually pretty slow compared to some texters.
Minoan culture is cool to learn about because it is lil stories about people who lived tons of years ago. What did people do back then? Were they happier than we are now? Did they eat better or was it the cleaner air that they got to breath hella of? My best guess is that basically they had the same problems that humans have now. Dealing with people, avoiding things they didnt want to bother with and on the flip side, dealing with things that they didn't want to with a smile and gusto that creates good leaders. or at least leaders.

The minoans hired a dude named Daedelus to create a labrynth. This is by far the most popular story from Minoa and it also happens to be the only thing I am actually interested in when it comes to minoan mythology. It is a story with a monster. Allow me to be redundant and repeat that. A story created by humans, (who love monsters because we are pretty certain they don't exist and therefore they are not as terrifying as the story suggests, and hence making them interesting to talk about). A story about a beast that was created because A god, proabably Zeus came down to earth and had his eye on a woman who happened to be the queen I guess.
Anyway because Zeus was so confident that he could get any woman in the world he made a bet with another god that he could score with this woman even if he were disguised as a bull. Zeus won that bet and the loser had to spend the rest of eternity monitoring the underworld. So some time passed and the king of Knossos came to find out that his wife is the bearer of an immaculately conceieved child and was feeling suprised and blessed all at once. Months later a beast that was half boy and half bull was birthed and was hideous to behold. The king feeling ashamed at his initial thought of killing the beast that very moment, decided that instead he would let the beast live and build it a place to live.
So the king calls up Daedelus and says, hey bud we need to hide this hellspawn that my awful wife made, you got anything for me? And daedelus did have something. He created an amazing and nearly impossible labyrinth, amazing in size and difficulty to master.
Time past and the Bull beast which is now known as a minotaur grew to full size and in order to feed the man monster the King forced his people to pay tribute to this terrifying creature by sending children into the labyrinth. I imagine this happened on the minotaurs birthday, which another one of my best guesses was probably 06/06/06 B.C.E. I think this because there are a few cool things about this.
First the beast gets a really good meal for once instead of just whatever is thrown into the maze as a joke by village dullards, scraps of junk, old tires, alligators, bananas, whatever.
Second this is like a game for the creature, the kids aint gettin out so there is only the hunt and chase for the monster and he completely knows that these little kids are really really scared of him, they probably don't even know what this monster looks like, their imaginations are running wild at this point, for all they know the creature in this confusing mess could be a a Blind turkey.
Anyway the reason this story is so appealing In my opinion is because I totally made up a lot of that information and the cool thing is that it works. This is more than likely the same process that built this story over many many years. People hearing things and passing them on, some dude wanting to sound cool in front of some girls or something kind of exaggerates something he heard while hanging around the palace, who knows, but I bet that is what happened.