Marathon Day 10 R...
This morning I worked on some pipes for, what I'm now calling, the Hunter model. As I designed them and was imagining a motorcycle by ...
I love it when CEO&#...
... or more precisely the former CEO of Chrysler. Lee Iacocca on the first page of his new book, Where Have All The Leaders Gone? gets ...
Marathon Day 9 ̵...
The video I posted yesterday shows how I block out models in Sketchup. Today I further refined the legs. Not sure if the weighting is ...
Marathon Day 8 ̵...
I'm trying out several screen capture programs; Captivate and Camtasia. Captivate records well enough (slows down Sketchup a bit), and plays them back, but when ...
SketchUp and Comics...
As it turns out some comic creators are using SketchUp! Joe Quesada, Editor in Chief at Marvel, uses SU every now and again to create ...
Marathon Day 7 ̵...
Slow day today. I had plenty of other work to do. But here are some notes that I wrote about yesterday's posing test. Some of ...
Marathon Day 5 ̵...
Lots of work on the Bull. The Bull is related to this massive machine known as the Crawler. It's the same vehicle that brings the ...
Marathon Day 4 ̵...
Worked on the bull early this morning at 7am, cleaning up some things, and started the feet. But I'm not posting about that here. I had ...
Day 3 – Crazy...
It was a crazy day today. Spent a lot of it reinstalling drivers and booting and rebooting my machine to fix some odd crashes. Ugh. Plus, ...
Marathon Day 2 ̵...
Took a break from organic characters to follow a recent sketch inspiration. This is a bull. He might look cute, but he's pretty dangerous as ...
Fuel & Fire Apr...
Okay, so today marks the start of a marathon. Why a marathon? Well, I just want to get my hands dirty and post some new art. ...
A Love Letter to the...
I wrote this review for the Alamo Draft House in Austin, TX, and sent it over to, Movie Theatre Blog. Geoff the guy who runs ...
Idea Duck Takes On N...
Some friends of the giantmonster have done well. Last month at the yearly Toy Fair in NY Susan McKinley Ross' game, Qwirkle made a splash. Qwirkle ...
RIP Eric Medlen 1973...
Drag racing lost a young and talented driver today. Eric we will miss you. What a terrible loss. It happened after the Gator Nationals in Florida ...
Zombies, MC Chris, T...
I made a new theme for my smart phone based off of MC Chris' wallpaper artwork I found on his web page. Zombies Rule. The artist ...
Word Balloons!...
Word balloons have been on my mind lately, and here are some cool word balloon things I found on the internets: The Evolution of Speechballoons [youtube]gHmWJlsf6N0[/youtube] Lettering Comics ...
posting this from my...
sounds obscene, i know, but right now i'm on my couch writing this post using the wiimote. wow. interesting experiment but i'm hoping nintendo adds ...
Scene Milestone…! ...
Here's the latest update to that scene I made a while back (http://www.giantmonster.tv/giant/?p=95). I've added lots of things that I had on my list. More ...
The Wayback Machine:...
More digging up the old files. This is a teen horror film that I shot mid 2003, called Halloween House Party (imdb). There's a lot I ...
In The Absense of Th...
The concept of theme has been burning in my mind lately. Many game teams that I've worked with and the ones that I've lead, have often ...
The Wayback Machine:...
In what might be a continuing blog theme; I dredge up old stuff from my files and write about them. Embarrassing items are sure to ...
Hillary Will Crashes...
Crash @ the Strip in Las Vegas [youtube]7cSsjD9NMtg[/youtube] Well I can't wait for the 2007 season of Drag Racing, starting with the Winter Nationals at Pomona this ...
New @#$% Host!...
The blog's been up and down for 3 weeks now. So some changes had to happen. Albeit slow going, but non-the-less going. Welcome back, I say! It feels good to ...
More Rig Dorking Out...
How's that for a title? Okay, so high off of my writing that last post about rigging, I began thinking, "How can I rig the XR-311's ...
Posing Rig “Hack...
INTRODUCTION: I talked about this in previous post (http://giantmonster.tv/giant/?p=98). I wanted to go into this a little further with an example rig. In short this is a ...
Crazy Server Freakne...
Okay, so I think the coast is clear. My web host's server is doing fine... and I think the blog survived, though I did lose ...
This is a test…...
My web provider is having some troubles... and its not playing well with the ol' blog. UPDATE: This is a test... so if this update works... ...
SketchUp Rigging Hac...
So this weekend I came up with an idea on how to make a "posing rig" in SketchUp. Crazy, I know. If you listen closely ...
Scene Milestone…! ...
So last weekend I spent some time working towards creating an image that would represent the look for Fuel & Fire. Here's what I came ...
New Blog Design!...
The new design fixes some problems... but has its own issues. Oh well. I'm lovin' the new header image though. More on that later. I also ...
New Final Tow Truck!...
During Christmas break I worked on finalizing some models that I had been tweaking for some time. Chan's tow truck is now done! The Fuel ...
Cool Car Comic Art!...
I got to post this sweet cover by the Belgium artist Christian Denayer, circa 1975.
Peter Boyle We’ll ...
Peter Boyle 1935 - 2006 Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [singing] If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion ...
Chan Finished?...
I finished up Chan's full figure this weekend. This is the first time I ever made a full human figure in any 3D program. Here ...
Chan in 3D!...
Jimmy Chan head made in SketchUp! I took front and side pictures of the sculpture (see post here) and imported them into SketchUp. Using the draw tool ...
Prison Film...
Back to the Prison Film. Last week I worked on the first 20 pages of the Prison Film for my producer buddy, Sean (see posts: ...
New Fuel & Fire...
I just finished some work on Jimmy Chan's tow truck. I thought Jimmy would want a lot of power for towing, so I hooked him ...
Fuel & Fire Sto...
Just completed an outline for Fuel and Fire this weekend. Some good detail in there. It's looking pretty massive; 15 scenes, 10 characters, 6 locations, ...
My 3 Act Map...
As I write, I look over old materials and review the many ways of building a story. Here is one of my old diagrams that ...
Screenwriting Expo 5...
Lots of things happening; got a new camera; outlining my Fuel & Fire graphic novel, and I just got back from 3 days of the ...
The Top Gun of Racin...
I never thought I'd do a post like this... But I was in Best Buy the other day I saw, an HD-DVD version of "Grand Prix" ...
Hot Rod Reunion Pict...
Finally posted these pictures from the 2006 Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield. I just bought an awesome new tripod with a pistol grip head. It worked ...
F&F another WIP...
A quick post before I head off to the Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield. Jimmy Chan's truck: Lots of work needs to be happen to finish this ...
F&F James Chan...
I've been building and tinkering around with various cars in SketchUp and showing them to Gary, and John for some time now. Each time they kept ...
Going All Captain Ki...
For some ungodly reason I've been using an insane amount of comas. What, is, the matter, with, me? Perhaps it's from my high school teachers, ...
Fuel and Fire (WIP) ...
Going to Comic Con this year gave me a huge boost in my desire to finally do a comic book. I've been wanting to do ...
Finished Draft Treat...
I finished the prison film treatment this morning! I had most of it done last week, but it was a slow week of changes from ...
Bought an Original J...
John Bell painted a great piece for Billetproof. My first glimpse of it came as we unloaded the van, and I claimed it before we were ...
Billetproof 2006...
Yesterday, I hitched a ride with John Bell over to Billetproof in Antioch, California. John sold his wares while I darted around the show, camera ...
The Coolest Find...
I was taking a break from writing today and notice that my blog is turning into wall of text. So I thought I'd share the most awesome antique store ...
The Notes Come In…...
So last week I posted, "First Draft Treatment Done (1 of 3)!", which is, I'm sure, a bit out context. So let me explain. The flashback: ...
Figure Drawing…...
I put a call out at work for local public figure drawing classes. I'm listing it here because I'd like to have this close, available, ...
Comic Con Loot...
I finished up my daily writing regiment and thought I'd post a picture of my Comic Con loot. Nothing fancy, just the books and doesn't ...
Updated My, “About...
I threw my filmography, and gameography onto my bio page. What a pain in the keister. It's all my fault. I wanted to have fancy ...
First Draft Treatmen...
I just sent off the first draft treatment for 1 of 3 treatments I'm working on. Phew! 1940 words in 5 days. Might not sound ...
Short Lived?...
I was talking to Stone the other day, and he mentioned that there was some statistic that showed most bloggers stop blogging after a month, ...
A Late Comic Con Pos...
Comic Con was a while back, but that's not going to stop me from posting about it. It simply generated too much excitement in my ...
Mahjong African Amer...
Seemingly random second post. This was supposed to be a quick review of Monster House since I saw it last night. Sleep prevailed. During my morning ...
First Post!...
This has been a long time coming. I've just got the site tweaked and all customized, and wow, it's actually working. Well, sort of. For ...
