Thiago Brayner, has just finished the project I commissioned form him, to create a Toon version of my family, so I can use it on my Family Pictures site.

He started by doing a rought line sketch [A] [B] [C], wich I then reviewed and decided on some changes, a few jokes along the way [D] [E], and here is the end result:

His work is just incredible, I can’t imagine being more pleased.

Before I was using a generic avatar set created at abi-station

The images speak for themselves

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I found this program today called “Comic Life” for OSX .. basically it allows you to import images from iPhoto or any other medium and make them into a Comic storyboard.

I couple of weeks ago, we took the girls to the Pet Zoo, so I tough those pictures taken of them terrorizing the chickens would do a good comic story, and it sure did …

Page 1 & Page 2

We still cant stop laughing over it
Very nice program indeed .. worth the 25 bucks.

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People sometimes say I’m quite a character …usually not in a good way, following that lead Thiago created a new character for the upcoming strips of The Pings which is based on myself (Null).

On this draft the Null character seem to be inviting people over to Relio (My Hosting Biz), I’m hoping we will have a few new comic strips done by next month.

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Thiago has redone the toon he made for me, it’s more in line with what I had envision, a caricature look, vs a rendered look
What a great artist he is .. love it.

Cant wait to see the final drawings of the whole family.

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Earl this morning Thiago sent me the first toonz sketches for me an my wife


These and the other girl’s sketches are to be used in the header of my family photoblog, that we been keeping for a few years now.

The sketches look great, my own needs to change the eyes (they a bit small on the design) but overall I am very please with his work

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I recently found an old design I had done for KDE that I completely forgotten about.

Back in the late 90’s I was evolved a bit with the KDE project, one of the jobs that I did was to create a screen-saver, I did the graphics and another person did the coding.

My design idea was simple, a 3D Tux in a spaceship flying around in a space backdrop .. simple, but efficient (and cute for the time). I designed both the Tux and the spaceship in Lightwave 3D from scratch .. then I animated a sprite loop and the rest was coding, the name of the screen-saver was “KTUX” and it’s part of “KDEtoys”

It seems it’s still part of KDE and floating around .. so even so it was a simple job for me, I’m quite proud it stuck with the project :).

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A few days ago I posted here the sketch an artist friend of mine had done for my daughters, I was not happy with one of the girl’s design.

Tonight he just gave me an updated version of her, and sure looks much better (well, looks more like her)

I just cant wait for the final versions

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I’m trying to revive “thePINGS” cartoons with a new artist’s help.

He has sent me this first sketch of a few modifications we will be using, one of them is the inclusion of actual hands (before it was just finns) and more expressions to their faces.

It’s looking real nice, I’m writing the script for a few stories, and I hope we will post one sometime in June.

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A Brazilian artist friend of mine is designing some toon caricatures of my family, he sent me the first draft of my 3 daughters, the one on the left can use some work, but the other two are right on the money

This is the first sketch .. still allot of work to be done, but impressive neither the less, if they look “Disney” like, it’s on purpose
His website (currently under construction) is http://brayners.com

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Concept by NullMind
Art by Shoffar - http://shoffar.com

The idea here was to state that Linux is in fact a “better” os

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