SSP work may slow for a bit...

eD has just given me word that he is starting work back at Rhythm & Hues commercial division on Monday. He cannot talk about the project that he will be working on but it will be revealed around mid-January and eD is very excited about it so it sounds like it will be pretty epic. Therefore, he will no longer have all day to sit around and flesh out ideas to make animated shorts and t-shirt graphics. He is still working on the t-shirt that was posted a few days ago, hopefully it will be completed before he has to start on Monday but we shall see.

Concept Art and Ideas for later

eD has been busy getting back to drawing and doodles. Something to help him ramp up work for his personal projects, as well as more practice in his 2D work which may help whenever he starts painting like he said he would.
Cthug - a project for the future, and image that has been stuck in his head a while. I think he watches too many horror movies and gets creepy cartoon ideas. Not sure how that all works, but it seems to work well for him.This is for a project that eD is trying to flesh out a bit more. It consists of two characters, a salmon, and I don't want to ruin the anticipation for the next character, so I will momentarily plead the 5th. I have thrown together a few drawings that eD has done to show where he is at with the Salmon at this point in time. He is still working on it, and has told me that he wants to "make it look kind of real, but funny with a cartoony feel," so we shall see how that works out. I think he is going to wait to finish the Salmon until after he starts working on the other character to give them similar style attributes. He seems pretty excited about the idea. I just want to see it in action before I pass judgement on it personally. I know it will make a lot of people laugh though.

New Shirt... Kinda...

After a long time of hassle I finally got some news of a new shirt. eD has been talking a lot about new shirts, but hasn't shown me anything. I convinced him to hook us up with some sketch graphics for the next shirt to be worked on. He claims that it will be done by this weekend. We shall see, hopefully he will keep me posted with work in progress updates that I can show all of you...The actual shirt graphic will be created entirely on the computer in 3D. This is just to show what eD has envisioned for this shirt.

SSPirate

eD made this for his uncles, who were severely dissapointed in the Pittsburgh Pirates for trading off so many players this season. So whenever they saw his Screwball shirt (like most people they initially thought that it meant screw baseball) they wanted one that made it look like it said Screw Pirates Baseball. Hence this new shirt symbol, and even a new variant of the SSP logo.

-click the image below to be taken to the Cafepress Store to Check out all the random SSPirate stuff...The bandanna makes the logo more pirate than gangsta but still makes me laugh.

SSP PSP Screens

eD sent me a bunch of PSP screens that he has made over the years to litter the page with. So for all of you that still have and use a PSP, here ya go...

What The...

eD had told me he was working on something. Some practice for texturing and prop/environmental modeling, he had told me. I had no idea what to expect and then he sends me this...
Not sure if it's from some personal experience, or just another random thought that made him laugh. I can never tell.

On the Road - News from eD...

I was home recently and stopped in at my Comic Book Shop (Infinity Music & More in Murrysville, PA) to pick up my books and what do I see but a sole remaining X-Men: Dark Tide Mini-Mate Box Set sitting on the shelf. I should have offered to sign it but I figured that may hinder anyone from buying it, so I didn't bother. Kinda cool to see them still in stores.
-eD