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I’m excited by the fact that as of last Friday I was done with the first chapter for the Deadland Chronicles script! This was a huge landmark for me.

First of all, it’s the first time I’ve written a script – not to mention FINISHED anything I’ve put a goal to. This really made me excited when I got to save the first chapter. It was a goal. Finish Chapter One. And I did it.

Second, it motivates me more to start the next chapters – and gives me more ideas and insight on how I can do and tell this story in its fullest without really screwing up .. too much!

Third, well there really isn’t a third I just hate lists of two.

The script has been sent to Todd Morris over at Lost Gorilla for story boarding. He’s already been working on it and I hope to check out the awesomeness he’s already thrown together! Todd is an awesome illustrator – so I’m pretty stoked about seeing his work. I have him my story boards for about 20 pages just so he can see my vision … so hopefully he can make out my crappy drawings. Truth be told, I’m not a very good artist when it comes to pen and paper.

After the story boards I’ll be sitting down with Pete Mumbower at pmStudios and Todd (Todd is the Assistant Director and Pete is the Director of Photography) so we can figure out the way we can pull off the visuals for this.

So yeah. Celtx is doing a great job. I’m pretty excited about doing some of the designs and .. yeah. I’m just overall excited.

w00t.

5 minute break at work and I came up with this.

Epic – of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.

Fail – to dwindle, pass, or die away: The flowers failed for lack of rain.

Epic Fail – To suck to a great extent: You missed the ball!? Epic fail!

This, as I said, took me about 5 minutes in Photoshop and Illustrator. The photo was taken from a "Deadland Chronicles" test photo shoot. The model is Todd Morris, photography Pete Mumbower.

Yeah I know it’s not perfect – but hey .. it was fun and gave me the giggles I laughed in a manly fashion.

Some of you may know that I am color deficient. What this means is I can’t distinguish colors as effectively as some people. Which ALSO means I have a hard time matching colors and sometimes end up with web sites that really do not look the best.

Well, I have found a very good solution for my problem. The web site is simply called ‘Color Match’ by <hyper>gURL and really does what I need it to!

Color Match is a website tool showing how to match website colors and help in choosing a website color scheme or color code. Also displays the HTML Color Code.

Not only does it match the colors, but it shows you the HTML hex codes. Also, it gives you the option to download an Adobe Photoshop swatch file for using within Photoshop AND download for Illustrator.

This web site – FREE web site – is perfect and very useful. I wanted to share the find.

Enjoy.

http://www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php

Today’s ‘Tutorial Tuesday’ is brought to you by the great 10Steps web site. This site is stocking up on some fantastic ideas!

This tutorial uses Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3 and the results are pretty sweet! I’ll be working on the next wallpaper for December, and this tutorial will DEFINITELY come in handy!

http://10steps.sg/photoshop/create-a-3d-flowery-text-effect

I wasn’t really sure how to title this, but this will work.

This is a fantastic tutorial, and actually I followed this to make my August 2008 calendar wallpaper. It uses both Photoshop and Illustrator and showed me a few techniques I’ve never used. It has a  pretty slick result. I wasn’t going to post this tutorial so soon, but I couldn’t help myself. It is just too good to let go.

So, without further ado.

http://abduzeedo.com/hell-tutorial-photoshop