Here’s a post with a whole bunch of words:
Now that Robo Bandito has officially launched, I just realized that I actually mentioned it way back on January 4, 2008. Yep, in the inaugural post for this blog, I carefully explained that mikecarp.com would not be an illustrated blog, but rather a personal blog of information for my family and friend-ish type folks. Robo Bandito was going to be the illustrated thingamajig. It seems that it only took a handful of posts before this blog succumbed and returned to it’s sketch blog origins, while Robo Bandito just chilled for months (and months) on end with nothing more than a static image. Huh. I guess it all worked out?
While I’m following up on old posts, back in July I professed a little skepticism regarding plans to make Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs into a CGI animated movie. Well, the trailer for the movie has been released. You can watch it and judge for yourself. I’m not really going to say much about it…I want this blog to be a happy place.
Meanwhile, the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are has also been released. Maybe it isn’t right to make comparisons here since the source material is markedly different. And we’re talking about two-minute trailers and not the finished products. But, that being said, I have to say I’ve watched the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, like, 10 times today. I give the movie extra points for using tall people running around in costumes as opposed to CGI.
I may sound a little anti-CGI in this post, and I’m not. But for Wild Things, I think making the monsters au naturale was the right move. Overall, it looks like it has some depth and complexity, and some pretty crazy visuals. We’ll see how it all goes down in, erm, October.
Last item of business: Leontine May Greenberg. I like her stuff. I just came across her site(s) earlier this week, and posting links to stuff I like is something I will probably be doing more of in the future. She does these delicate, interesting watercolors, and a lot of them have birds that are much more polite than the birds that I draw (see below).
March 29th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I dig the pontificating.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Weird Bird: I don’t know if you’re pits stink. Ask someone with an animated nose.
Mike: It always surprises me how different movies are from the books. I thought Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was a story about a kid whose grandfather tells him that where he lives it rains meatballs. The new Robo Bandito thing sounds cool.
We were all set to move out west when school gets out for the job job part of things except for the amount of space in the office that my dad is going to work in. There wasn’t enough space so now we are trying to figure out if my dad can work at home for a little bit. It has to get approved by a bunch of people, but so far so good.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
This blog rocks. But I would expect nothing less. (I just scanned through your history and I must say, I’m impressed with the number of people who have found your blog by googling centipedes.)
April 15th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Oh Carpus,
Check this idea out: People send you a photo via email and you draw a portrait of them. Just stole that idea from Michel Gondry. Check out his new site. http://www.michelgondry.com/ Hope things are good. Love Robo Bandito! :) I have an interesting idea for a new robot: Leather McWhip got turned into a wooden robot by the evil wooden witch robot and who was recruiting her evil wooden robot army to do battle with the Mustache Cyborg. She hates his guts for not being made out of wood. Mwahaha. Anyways…have fun over there. Talk to you later!–Matt Mason