Finally uploaded this old chestnut to YouTube. Best shown in full-screen mode due to the inconsistencies of my 2002 Quicktime file and YouTube’s current standards.
i’m going to try and break myself and somehow get an all-new animation done before May starts… even with a booked-solid April in my face… it’s been too long since I’ve done true animation and it’s time to get the chops back in shape.
At the dawn of the 20th century, newspaper comics began as monoliths of design, taking up entire pages of Sunday sections and demanding attention. The beginning of the 21st century saw newspaper comics all but neutered, their formidable stature now relegated to tiny crevices and afterthoughts.
This is an attempt in reinventing the newspaper comic strip into something new, yet obviously familiar.
Heavily inspired by the works of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, this diptych is the marriage of the Baroque style with tools and sentiment rooted in 21st century technological palette of machine-aided design.
Both pieces are currently on display at Isaac Hunter’s Oak City Tavern, not far from the Capitol in Raleigh, NC.