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A 2-Part interview On The WFMU Radio Free Culture Show

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:34:00 -0600

I have been co-hosting a podcast called Music Manumit about Creative Commons Music for the past couple of years.

Recently Cheyenne Hohman the host of the WFMU show "Radio Free Culture" asked us to do an interview and talk about Creative Commons music and podcasting.

It was split into 2 episodes.

The first one discusses Creative Commons.

And here is the second interview where we talk about podcasting in general.

A storyboard of mine used in Sound On Sound Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 7 Sep 2014 22:47:00 -0500

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:

aPen Doodles

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Tue, 5 Mar 2013 22:49:00 -0600

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

If my friend had her own children's book

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:33:00 -0600

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.

New coat of paint

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 2 Dec 2012 13:52:00 -0600

Stalker crossing

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:52:00 -0500

Stalker crossing, originally uploaded by tmray02.

Chipmunk

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:00:00 -0500

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.

Roger

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:48:00 -0500

Thought of this tonight, and drew it up real quick. Guess the guys name will be Roger now..
Used Inkscape for inking and coloring it.

My Computer Froze

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:22:00 -0500

Word Play.

Character Study - Speed Drawing Video

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:18:00 -0500

I'm taking panels from old comic books and redrawing them with my characters in place. I'm doing this to study different types of poses and layouts.
I inked and colored this using the open source painting program MyPaint with my Wacom Bamboo tablet.
I kept the coloring a little messy by using a large brush and let it go outside the lines to give it the effect of an old comic 4 color print.

View the finished picture with the background.

Music by my band Lorenzo's Music
Song - "You got to feel it tonight" - download it for free or donation under CC-BY-SA License.

Comic Book Character Layout Study

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:26:00 -0500

I'm taking panels from old comic books and redrawing them with my characters in place. I'm doing this to study different types of poses and layouts.

I inked an colored this using the open source painting program MyPaint with my Wacom Bamboo tablet.
I kept the coloring a little messy by using a large brush and let it go outside the lines to give it the effect of an old comic 4 color print.

Escaped Condensation

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:57:00 -0500

listen to ‘Comic book villain name. ’ on Audioboo

I've pushed it like 5 times and haven't seen anyone.

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:33:00 -0500

Example of how technology has really enhanced our lives.

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:26:00 -0500

This microphone just looks so surprised

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:06:00 -0500

I don't get mustache humor

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 3 Jun 2012 13:09:00 -0500

Drawn on my phone while on the toilet.

No idea.

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Mon, 28 May 2012 18:10:00 -0500

I have no idea.. I was just drawing and that's what I put in his hand, much like the reaction of the fox in this drawing, I don't know why.

Monster asparagus.

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:48:00 -0500

via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/LBtXsJIHgC/

What's he hiding for? It's not his mess.

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:26:00 -0500

via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/Kq0LTroHnH/

Shwoop!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 6 May 2012 22:58:00 -0500

Might have a possible antagonist for the story line.
I came up with this while I was trying out some color inking in GIMP.
I was thinking he might be more like an annoying gross little guy, as you can see.

Storyboarding an idea for a new comic

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Tue, 1 May 2012 09:35:00 -0500

Nothing special yet just going over some ideas for a story.
Looks pissed doesn't he?

What I did during a meeting today.

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:12:00 -0500

I swear I had Evernote open to take notes but since they integrated Skitch into the app…

Character Sketches

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 8 Apr 2012 23:18:00 -0500

Some character sketches I was doing on my Kindle Fire

Bucky Ball Snowman

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:31:00 -0600

The greatest achievement yet. Sure my co-worker Mark is the one that made it. But I did the scarf.

Man-girl kindle sketch

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Ray) — Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:58:00 -0600

Another sketch I did on my kindle fire. Working on my figure drawing. Did this one based on a random photo I saw.