Long strip of paper

Keep in mind that this was all drawn and colored before I gave Rags Aplenty a new name, changed Punchline's last name, and created the character of Yonda Globe, who I think would fit well in front of the first N in front of Arby if I ever decide to recreate the strip.

Greatest Photoshopped Image Ever

Believe it or not, this was inspired by my fascination of the merging of live-action and traditionally hand-drawn animation, the latter of which I've yet to fully study in the future. This one is more of real-life picture and altered drawing put together. One might say my inspirations include Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract," which featured MC Skat Kat, who had his own two videos later on and whom I'm hoping to reintroduce sometime this year (see http://signorino2006.wordpress.com), and the many Frosted Flakes commercials.

I had my dad take a picture of me in an office of one of his employees, drew an outline of Jacken DeBox on a printed picture, scanned the picture with the outline, created objects to form Jacken relative to the outline in Illustrator, merged Jacken with the higher quality picture in Photoshop, and gave Jacken various shades and highlights. It's pretty simple if you plan it all out.

As of 3-13

If you're curious to know what else I'll be including, here are some pictures, some of which were done long ago.

Attempted comic strips for the SD UT

Old drawings

Believe it or not, I've been saving drawings I did in 2007 and somewhere around 2008. Here are some of them:









Oh, and look, a drawing of Jacken DeBox from a notebook page for one of my earlier physics classes.

Looking back at my early college years

Recently, I've been watching tutorial videos for Calculus: Concepts and Context, 3rd Editions, which I always enjoyed during my days of taking math classes in college. Then it hit me: in my video, I could also talk about using hand-drawn animation to bring out my characters in solving physics problems. I'll even throw in sketches of some characters in a video similar to the one you see in the picture. I just love coming up with something original.