Character Art

    I am moving forward with work on creating a collection of figurines. We have, literally, hundreds of drawings and paintings of the characters used in the Illustrated Storybooks. I purchased a Kiln, to fire the sculptures that originate in clay and I am setting up to do casting of those characters that are already sculpted. But in addition to that there is an expectation that we will advance into 3D printing of the characters. Part of that is creating the 3D files of the characters and once that is done, we can look at CGI animation as well. So, all this seems to be in front of the stage show, since the music needs more work.

   In that regard, the music, I somehow was remiss from engaging in work on the music, while the book publishing was being finished. Duh! I just realized that I have multiple Mac workstations and the last Mac I was using is more than sufficient to do the music. I had been avoiding the music because my main workstation is set up for publishing and I didn't want to disturb anything. You see, I had multiple hard disc failures while I was doing this layout and I lost, quite literally, ten years worth of work because of that. I had to redo the layout, I will say, multiple times. Embarrassingly, as many as four times.It was driving me to the brink. So after I got the layout rebuilt, I simplified it, backed up the layouts in numerous locations and swore I would not overload the computer by doing other burdensome tasks on it.

  But the other day, I was trying to transfer "I Am Alpha & Omega" over from a mac 6500 to a G4, looking at my equipment, and I realized that I have a G5 Quad that would serve quite nicely as a machine to do the work needed on the music. So I will be setting that up again, since that machine has nothing to do with the Mac Pro I am using. The music was originally written on a Mac G4 Quicksilver and a G5, So kicking it up to a G5 Quad would work nicely. Of course the problem there is reacclimatizing myself to the programs, and the upgraded version I have. That will be happening for more reasons than just The Gnomes of New Hope. I am beginning to work on "I Am Alpha & Omega" again and that will require music.

That's all for now.  

AG

March Madness

 

  Well, if you have read any of these posts, you have an idea of how publishing the books has progressed. I am now cataloging all the artwork used in the books and that is a lot of art.

    I'm using the page numbers as the filing structure. At first I was filing the art by subject, Zach, Zebby, Background, etcetera. But the more art we gathered, the more this method became inefficient and difficult to control. So, it dawned on me that just using the book pages, which contains the artwork, was the most direct and efficient way to file the artwork. That is also the easiest way to find the artwork, since the book pages serve as a visual index and that process makes it easy to see what needs to be done to complete the collection of books. So I've been busy with that.

  We are working our way down towards finishing the Illustrations for the rest of the collection. It's very apparent that the next goal in terms of practicality, is to craft the exhibition of the artwork. This exhibition will support the stage show and book sales, but the stage show is contingent upon completing the music, at least the MIDI renditions and the scoring. Neither one of those aspects of this project can take place until the book publication and distribution are complete, or at least on the path to being set in place.

   I am extremely busy with finishing this publication of the Seven Book Series. I am considering putting a printing press in my studio. I will talk about that later.

  That being said, I don't answer my cell phone anymore, unless it is from a number with caller ID. So text or a letter is best, but that's no guarantee I will get back to you unless you seek legitimate business, not solicitation. If you text me with your contact information and if the subject pertains to advancing the Gnomes, I will get back you you. The same goes for a hard copy letter. Email works, but I am deluged with junk mail, so an email might get lost. If you are communicating with me via email about GNOME BUSINESS, use that in the header so I can find it.

   I am most interested in book publication/distribution, gallery exhibition, animatronics & parade presentation and film & theatre production. I seek partnerships, promotion and funding in these arenas.

  Ah, the foibles of modern day business communication.

AG