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Got an email from  +Grant Baciocco  telling me that a storyboard I made was just used in the August 2014 issue of Sound On Sound Magazine . It's from a cartoon I had animated for Grant's podcast series " The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd ". The article is about the use of storyboards for sound and design. "you start by acquiring a storyboard of key events (even crude drawings will be useful) and any stills or visual inspiration, such as clips of other movies the animators are using as their own reference. You can probably also get hold of early animatics of the movie (animations that are not properly rendered, or completed visually, but are sequenced chronologically as per the storyboard)." Here's the page from the article in the magazine: Related articles Dungeons & Dragons View-Master Reels from 1983 "Little Lala" Roulette Animated Short 'Create Your Own' 3D Printed figures that look like you

So I got this aPen clip from Woot! for like 12 bucks. It's a little digital device that clips onto the page you're drawing on and saves what you draw on the page. You can connect it to your computer to download an image file of it later. Seemed like a neat idea right? And for $12 I thought, what the hell. Well the device doesn't really stay still and that makes it so the lines don't match up exactly as you go along. Now you would think this to be a huge annoyance, but to tell you the truth, I think it kinda does some interesting things. Here are just some doodles testing it out that I think added some character to what I was sketching. Sketch 1 Sketch 2

A friend of mine wanted me to do one of my toilet time, tablet drawings, of her. And she's been asking me forever. So I finally did one. I made it look like if she had her own tween funny girl novel. FYI we were literally having a conversation about cat penises right before I did this.

Stalker crossing , originally uploaded by tmray02 .

I heard a sound outside my window one morning. I thought it was a cricket. Turns out it was a chipmunk. It actually worked with a story I'm doing involving the 2 characters I've been posting lately, so I did a short video using the sound I recorded. The story is going to be a comic, but I'd like to do an animated version too.