Mike King

Lucy Daughter of the Devil

My friends over at Fluid got a greenlight for 10 episodes of their Adult Swim show called Lucy Daughter of the Devil. Congrats guys. The pilot episode seems to be available here on youtube.com.

Tuul sketches

The Amber campaign is over and we’ve moved on to a new fantasy world. Here are some character concept sketches I’ve been doing for the game over this past week. I think I’ve got Forge down pretty well. The one with the blue-gray background is the final design. Jayce’s costume is still pretty bare bones and I’m not happy with the face yet. I think I’ll tone down the anime hair too.

The last image is a comic book page. I’m going to try to tell a little bit of Jayce’s backstory in graphic form. It’s quite a lot of work, so I hope I see it all the way through. It’s frustrating when my drawing skills aren’t up to the task and I can’t get out on the page what I see in my head. I’m also struggling to figure out how to tell a story in different panels. I’m winging it a bit. I’ve just a rough idea of where the story should go and then drawing out the pages. Probably not the most efficient way to tell the tale, but it’s the most creatively fun way for me.

Anyway, it’s all much-needed art therapy. I’m stressed enough as it is right now. This stuff seems to be helping. Otherwise all that negative energy would probably give me an ulcer or something.

Into the Black update

Click here to read about how Nathan Fillion happened to meet the guys making Into the Black, a Firefly fan-film. Nathan sounds like a very cool guy.

changes at Disney

Our animation union has a blog (who knew?) and it looks like they had the scoop on what’s going on at Disney before we did. Check out their blog entry for full details. But for me it boils down to: Layoffs at Circle 7.

New drawings

Updated the gallery with a couple of new images. A painting of Adam Warlock for a friend and an attempt at Kim Possible that doesn’t really look like her, but I got some good practice at figuring out how to do inking in Photoshop.

Prey Alone

A digital production with lots of CG visual effects. Check out the more info and the trailer at the Prey Alone Official Website.

Into the black

Some Canadian fans of Firefly are making their own show. Original characters in the same universe as Serenity. Check out their website and follow their progress here.