reMIND

As you can see, I am taking this Monday off as well as next. There are so many fun things happening all at once that I don’t want to overload myself. Comic-con is the biggest show ever and I finally got into a booth and so I really want to make it count this year. Then the next weekend is my 10 year wedding anniversary so we are skipping town for a while and I don’t really want to explain to my wife that I need to update the blog while we are celebrating. haha

But don’t worry, I’m scheduling a lot of pinups to go live every day for the next few weeks to keep the juices flowing. If anything, make sure to come back on the 23rd of July because Chapter 5 will be starting as well as something even cooler! I’m excited! See you all soon,

Jason

This is just a quick post to say that the reMIND pinup contest deadline is here. I am completely blown away with the amount of submissions I received this time and I just want to say THANK YOU for all your hard work and time in creating so much good art. It’s a real joy to see other interpretations of my characters and see how much they are loved. If I uploaded one pinup each day, it would take WAAAAAY too long to show everyone’s work so starting Tuesday I will post 2 or 3 pinups each day until they are all online. Then after they are all live I will open it up for voting!

Thank you again and good luck to all the contributors!

This Saturday was a surreal experience. I saw reMIND animation on Channel 5! Yes, you heard me right. Let me explain.

An old friend of mine, Matt Fisher, works as an editor. (He also has a Youtube channel all about golf here.) Matt emailed me a few weeks back and asked if I had any animation that he could use for a show that he edits. I said yes. I sent him some footage that night. The next day it was cut into the final episode of the first season of “On the Spot“. It was just that fast.

So a few weeks went by and Matt emailed me again to tell me it was going to air on Saturday at 1:30PM on Channel 5. My wife and I recorded it and here it is.

Sorry the volume is really low. Our kids were taking a nap in the next room and so we couldn’t crank it. Also, we filmed it from an iPhone so it’s a little shaky and you can hear us reacting to it at the end. Click the image below to be taken to the video. (I could get the video to properly embed into this post.)

Now I know this doesn’t mean very much in terms of book sales or anything but the thing I love about it is the potential exposure it might give to an unsuspecting future fan. Even if people don’t remember where they saw this cat in a robot suit fighting lizards, the fact that it might look familiar could make someone give the book a chance when they see it on the shelf.

Plus, I was given permission to put my reMIND logo in the bottom right corner. :)

Thanks again Matt!

A while ago I posted some Visual Development from Kung Fu Panda 2 that I did. Well, here is a little more. This was the first sequence that I painted color keys for. Color Keys are small paintings for specific scenes that show everyone what to make the scene look like when it’s finished. It acts as a sort of blueprint for what the final render should look like when it’s textured, rendered with lighting and all the right colors and mood. I’m pretty proud of this, it’s one of my favorite scenes in the film.

Here is the scene on Youtube but it’s in Cantonese. Sorry, I can’t find it in English.

If you want to see more Vis Dev for Kung Fu Panda 2 then check out my last post on the subject here: Kung Fu Panda 2 – Set Designs

You can also get the art book here: The Art of Kung Fu Panda 2

Here’s a new painting I finished of Victuals last week.