Blobby globs of globby blobs.

This little doodle to kill some downtime kinda blew up over a month or so.

Direct image link: HERE

These pictures are moving, I call witchcraft.

I made a couple gifs in some downtime I had recently.  Gonna clean up the first one at some point.

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Here's some music to catch up on, in reverse chronological order:

First, I re-recorded an old song, this time with real bass, turned out pretty awesome:



Next, a newer song that I added real bass to:



And then a remixing of an old song, and I pulled out the lead guitar to have a backing track to play with:



And a small test of another song I'm working on:

More Sketchdumpage

More sketches from more down-time.

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More music from more music-time.



I realized much later that the end is pretty close to just ripping off a Dream Theater riff.  Oh well.

Sketchdump / Musicdump

I've had a lot of downtime, so I've been sketching in Photoshop.  I've gotten rusty.

Some character stuff:

Some anatomy/figure drawing stuff:

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Music stuff I've done since the last time I posted some:


Just a quick test.  New rhythm guitar tone.


Recorded a backing track for improv practice, then I recorded a mostly improv lead line for this.  It goes off the rails a bit near the end.  I got some use out of my E-Bow for a short little bit in the middle.


Something I've been working on for a long time, I did a test recording of a segment of this song.  Seems promising.


I've wanted to do a Folk Metal cover of this song from Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for a while now.  Might happen some day if I can finish transcribing it.


Here's a MIDI track of a song I started a while back and recently finished.

Reels

I'm posting up some new reels I cut recently.

Here's a hybrid 2D/3D reel:


And my just-2D reel:


I want some of my more recent work from Loopsy on these, but it hasn't aired yet.

And for good measure, here's my 3D reel, which hasn't been updated (yet):
Ryan Neff - Demo Reel from Ryan Neff on Vimeo.

Robot Chicken/DC Comics Art Show, and other things.

So here's the final piece I made for the Robot Chicken DC Comics Art Show.

Direct Image Link for zoomification

All done in Photoshop.  Lots of pen tool, lots of layers, lots of masking, and bits of the brush tool.  And it was done in far too many hours, in the span of far too few days.  The show is Friday, so I might make another post Saturday on how that goes.

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Music stuff to catch up on:

Not-So-Black Metal:



A song using some fast double-bass drumming and some blast beats, with a bit of a post-metal vibe and my usual upbeat-ish improv solo.

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E-bow Thing:



It's a thing.  I made it using my new e-bow.  Hence the "E-bow Thing" thing.

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02-02-2014:



Looped backing track and some improvised solos for most of it.  Some more metally riffing at the end.  Plus, synth sounds I made myself in Reason.

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1-24-2014:



Quick idea recorded with just guitars (originally to a metronome), because I was too lazy to actually write this progression down I just recorded it.  Probably no easier in the long run.  Also quasi-improvised, especially on the right-channel.