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Electric Zombie Tee and Video

Ray Frenden — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:40:19 +0000

Thanks to Vimeo, I have a really easy way to post some of the longer videos that I’ve had sitting around. One such video is nearly two hours long and offers real time narration throughout. I’ve posted some of my digital pencilling and inking before. Here, I speak at length on my coloring as well.

Before the video, however, come the pretty pictures!

Now for the good stuff!

Electric Zombie Tee Creation from Ray Frenden on Vimeo.

As usual, your feedback is really appreciated!

Threadless Thursday (The Beta Post)

Ray Frenden — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:21:31 +0000

I know it’s Wednesday, but I have a specific reason for titling this post as such.

Every Thursday (work schedule willing), I intend to post a new design to Threadless. It might be a critique, it might be a completed design, but something is getting posted there, period.

Here’s a video of the creation of the first entry for Threadless Thursday, Crow No!

Crow No! from Ray Frenden on Vimeo.

Here’s a WIP image. I’m still working on the coloring phase.

This was a bit of a spur of the moment decision, so I hope to post the completed image tomorrow. And, well, a new completed image every Thursday.

Crustacean Creation Video

Ray Frenden — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:23:59 +0000

I’ve got another video ready to share. It’s about an hour of exposition and drawing done at the same time. The audio is a bit loud, so I’d suggest turning your speakers down – I’m still getting used to this whole Brightcove video distribution system thing. I’d have just used a .mov file and hosted it myself, but my server rejects uploads over 100mb in size. See, you can host files of any size, but the upload limit is 100mb. If you had a splitter and server side rejoiner, it’d work fine. I don’t want to drop $100 on the program that does it, however. If anyone has another way around this, let me know.

I find listening to myself talk on tape embarrassing. Hopefully there are a few tidbits of interest between the awkward pauses and lame jokes. Let me know what you think!

Special thanks to Matt, Jer, Dick and Jim for their feedback.

Zombie Doodle Video

Ray Frenden — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:20:45 +0000

In a shameless attempt to ingratiate myself to the Threadless community at large, I started a blog post over there where I offered to draw as many members as zombies as humanly possible. I thought I was going to have more time than I ended up with on Saturday, but I still managed to get a few done and will continue to poke away at the ever expanding list whenever I feel like practicing likenesses.

One such likeness was of, I assume, a member’s kid. I took a video of the ~15 minute process and am posting it as a screencast. Unlike my previous efforts, I’m actually yammering on like a total asshat throughout the ordeal in real time. It was pretty distracting to talk and draw. Drawing is usually a very solitary experience for me. Let me know if it’s quasi-informative, annoying, helpful, or any combination of the above.

I would rather have posted part two to my Zombie Hand tutorial, but my PC ate the recording when its hard drive took a crap a few weeks back. Le sigh. To make up for it, in addition to this more put-together video, I have a few new ones, sans sound or anything fancy, on my YouTube account.

Download podcast.

Zombie Hand Video Part 1

Ray Frenden — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:40:43 +0000

This is the first in a two part series showing me pencil, ink, and color a zombie’s hand. By the end of this video you’ll see the piece progress from pencils, to inks, to sketchy value work (in preparation for the spot color added in the next video).

Download video.

New illustration vlog! Ep. 01.

Ray Frenden — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:55:47 +0000

Well, I finally made a more official video than my previous YouTube or Brightcove efforts. This new format is going to be hosted here and will be available for download as a Quicktime .mov file. That’s how most these video blogs are doing it, right? I’ll retroactively change it to an .m4v file if that’s preferred.

The audio isn’t the best, but I think it’s not bad considering I was using the built-in mic on my iMac. Expect the production values to be better in the future. This was a fun experiment and I’ll definitely be doing it pretty regularly. If there is anything you want me to specifically address, let me know!

I’d suggest downloading the file rather than attempting to stream it. She’s a bit big at around 65mb, but is high res and a great video quality:

I’ll replace this generic, placeholder download image with an iTunes subscription logo as soon as I get that setup.