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Some Like it Hoth

A friend of mine, a fiend for Star Wars, recently had a birthday. His girlfriend wanted to surprise him by turning their apartment into the Ice Planet Hoth. She requested a representation of a taun taun, a wampa, and Luke hanging upside-down to reproduce larger so that she could hang them on the ceilings. I was happy to oblige.






And here's what the wampa looked like once it was printed and set up on Ice Apartment Hoth.

How Far My Procrastination Will Go

Around October 12th of last year (2009), a close friend of someone I talk to online commissioned a drawing from me. He wanted the next tattoo he got to be of his son and daughter going around his left forearm. His son, a Halo fan, was to be in a mech battle suit. His daughter took martial arts and calisthenics. I took on the job as a request and declined any sort of pay.

And here I am, over a year later, finally having done something that didn't take me all that long to do. It was a combination of "writer's block" and laziness. "Life got in the way." But not really. You might wonder if accepting compensation would've made me more likely to finish it up sooner. I honestly don't think so.

So, here it is. Work done over the course of 2 days (backed up by the foundation of a year of starts and stops and mulling over it in self-loathing guilt), as I batted ideas back and forth constantly with the client.

Her Royal Duchess

A picture I did for a good friend's birthday. She loves her Duchess. Duchess is not sad. It's simply the way she is.

Storyboarding THE BRONSON MANEUVER

Here's a little peek at the rough boards I did for The Bronson Maneuver. Being a lazy bum, I take lots of shortcuts hoping that I simply got the idea across to the rest of the crew. Please excuse the general unsexiness of these images!!! Hahahaha.



If you've already seen The Bronson Maneuver, you'll notice the ending in the storyreel is a little bit different from what was in the final product. Though I'd like to say that we were mature enough to realize that the bloody ending was pure indulgence in the end, it really came down to the fact that the deadline for the CGSociety Challenge loomed a little too close for comfort. In terms of making creative decisions, I admit it felt like a compromise of our 'VISIONARY GENIUS!' We actually told ourselves that we would go back and make our lofty 'uncompromised' version.

We finished our contest entry in time. And perhaps it was due to fatigue or plain laziness, but we no longer felt any need to go back and pull a 'special edition.' The four of us were all very content with what we'd done.

So, no blood.

Probably...

Maximum Grace

A piece I did in Photoshop for a friend who loves her kitty-cat oh-so much. It's currently her background image on her PS3!

"The name is Bronson... Clifford Bronson."

A little more than a year ago, a bunch of friends and I got together to produce an animated short for a yearly CGSociety competition. The theme that year was 'Alien & Human Relations" and we produced Coffee Break for which we received 2nd place in the Team Video category as well as a recognition for animation.

Just last night, our team (compacted to 4 members from the 11 that worked on Coffee reak) put the finishing touches on this year's CGSociety competition entry.

The theme: Secret Agent. A genre that has been mined to death any way you look at it. Only the most foolish of FOOLS would dare think that they could bring anything new to it! ... but maaaaybe WE could be the ones to do it!

I humbly present to you, The Bronson Maneuver.

The Bronson Maneuver - Theatrical Teaser from Mike McCain on Vimeo.

The Bronson Maneuver from Mike McCain on Vimeo.