The Email!! cartoon is finally finished. The good news is that it is, like I said, finished. The bad news is that I missed two festivals. I don’t believe I can overnight to canada, and the cost to overnight to DC is like $45 bucks plus the entry fee. That’s too much for me. There are plenty of others to try for.

Anyway, here’s the “new” toon:

You can RIGHT CLICK - SAVE AS to download it Some people are only seeing half of it if they click on it normally. Sorry.

Check out the old one linked on the right menu bar to see the difference. I think it looks better.

I’ll put up a proper link to it and all that later. Enjoy.

I seem to love making these statements on the deadline of my cartoon and then just letting it slip. Everything with the Email cartoon is now inked and markererered. I captured all 250 frames today. If I wasn’t “cheating” (using looping frames and after effects compositing), this thing could have been an ungodly 900 frame monster. I’m not completely lazy. Only a total tard would actually draw every frame in a cartoon like this. Honestly I probably could have snuck about 20 to 50 more frames in there to pretty it up a bit.

Oh. A frame is a single drawing for the nonanimation types. I composite all my stuff seperately, so I draw the ball guy on once piece of paper and the computer on a different one. The frames are on different pieces of paper, too. This makes for a lot of work in post, but a lot less work when I’m drawing and more freedom in post.

So right now I’m correcting levels and photoshopping all 250 frames. I’m about half done. I have to have this finished by Friday even if I have to pull an all nighter. I have some festivals with submission deadlines of April 30 and May 1.

I’ve amped up the whoring of the email cartoon. It’ll only get worse once the final version is finished.