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Quick Rough Journal Zero
15 years ago
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So folks on deviantArt kept telling me i should start a gallary here....so....
"Lachland Nightingale" is my online nom de plume - my working conditions:
i live on a small island off Canada's west coast on a hill above a lake where there are often
gale force winds at night that blow out the electric grid....which is the time i'm working on my art...
So who am i etc?
i started of as a teen way back doing my own stories and my characters....
like everyone here now...
i started work in the animation industry with Ruby-Spears around 1980.
Worked with Jack Kirby on Thundarr, etc.
Then to Filmation where i did layouts and models on Masters Of The Universe (He Man),
She Ra, etc, until L'Oreal bought and destroyed Filmation.
Then to Hanna-Barbera. Did character design on all sorts of stuff - Smurfs, Gravedale,
Droopy, Fish Police. Then got into series development for them ...Halloween Tree,
but the producer messed that up, bunch of stories there....
Then moved to Canada - Series design and storyboard, script editing...
Lots of stuff for Bardel and Nelvana - storyboards for Silverwing, Martin the Warrior,
The Mask, Savage Dragon, George Shrinks, Tales From The Crypt Keeper...
Layouts on a German feature Werner 2 (something or other) (it's on youtube)...
i put Shaggy and Velma in an episode of Captain Planet, and all the ink and paint folks played along ("Teers in the hood" - you tube it - it's awful).... Whoo-hooo.....
Semi retired from the animation world and working on my anthro graphic novels...
Maybe open still to some game design, did a bit of that too....
etc.....
Been to two anthro cons ages ago, Confurence IV and V...been pretty much isolated on this little island since that...Thought the anthro stuff was nearly dead till i got my first computer back around the dark ages and found it had all moved online....
Started a VCL gallery in Nov 2003....got a bit bored with it...lost the password....gave up...
Started a deviantArt gallery in Feb 2008...i post all sorts of art there - anthro, op-art, fractals,
illustrations, "Fine art", fan art, etc etc - that's lots of fun - no genre - wide open...
But i guess the best place for my anthro art is here....
Thanks to all for the warm reception!
"Lachland Nightingale" is my online nom de plume - my working conditions:
i live on a small island off Canada's west coast on a hill above a lake where there are often
gale force winds at night that blow out the electric grid....which is the time i'm working on my art...
So who am i etc?
i started of as a teen way back doing my own stories and my characters....
like everyone here now...
i started work in the animation industry with Ruby-Spears around 1980.
Worked with Jack Kirby on Thundarr, etc.
Then to Filmation where i did layouts and models on Masters Of The Universe (He Man),
She Ra, etc, until L'Oreal bought and destroyed Filmation.
Then to Hanna-Barbera. Did character design on all sorts of stuff - Smurfs, Gravedale,
Droopy, Fish Police. Then got into series development for them ...Halloween Tree,
but the producer messed that up, bunch of stories there....
Then moved to Canada - Series design and storyboard, script editing...
Lots of stuff for Bardel and Nelvana - storyboards for Silverwing, Martin the Warrior,
The Mask, Savage Dragon, George Shrinks, Tales From The Crypt Keeper...
Layouts on a German feature Werner 2 (something or other) (it's on youtube)...
i put Shaggy and Velma in an episode of Captain Planet, and all the ink and paint folks played along ("Teers in the hood" - you tube it - it's awful).... Whoo-hooo.....
Semi retired from the animation world and working on my anthro graphic novels...
Maybe open still to some game design, did a bit of that too....
etc.....
Been to two anthro cons ages ago, Confurence IV and V...been pretty much isolated on this little island since that...Thought the anthro stuff was nearly dead till i got my first computer back around the dark ages and found it had all moved online....
Started a VCL gallery in Nov 2003....got a bit bored with it...lost the password....gave up...
Started a deviantArt gallery in Feb 2008...i post all sorts of art there - anthro, op-art, fractals,
illustrations, "Fine art", fan art, etc etc - that's lots of fun - no genre - wide open...
But i guess the best place for my anthro art is here....
Thanks to all for the warm reception!
You have my sympathies, in regards to your bumps and scrapes with the industry. :X. I was born in 84, and so missed the majority of unfortunate events that went on in the animation world. From everything I've heard about it, it seems like a whole lot of love on the part of the animators and workers and a whole lot of pimpslaps from everyone above them.
It's funny how things work. I never would've imagined I'd run into somebody that did all that on FurAffinity. The Mask, He-Man, Smurfs, Captain Planet (as loathe as I am to admit it), Tales from the Crypt Keeper and such were all huge swaths of my childhood's saturday mornings.
Welcome to FA, squire. Watch where ya step, because it gets messy around here sometimes.
Nice!!
He was my hero when i was a kid, in my teens i bought up all the back issues i could (got up to X-Men #2, still have it, tattered though it be), all the Thors, F4, etc
i first met him a micro-con (150 or so people) when i was 14 or 15 - he did a talk on drawing, using markers on a 3 foot tall pad of news print - via a raffle i won one of the drawings (yes, you bet i still have it) - and i got to tell him how he was my hero and had inspired me to be an artist....Another of thousands of kids...
Five years later after art school my best friend, also an artist, died of complications of chemotherapy. We, his friends wanted to put on a memorial exhibition of his paintings...So i needed to raise some money...i'd never worked in Animation before, but i landed this job with Ruby-Spears - and Jack Kirby was there!
i was all into Mucha, Gaughan, Whistler, Winslow Homer, Monet, etc...sort of felt i'd outgrown comic books (hey, i was 22 or so),
Ruby-Spears was operating out of the Hanna-Barbera building at that time. Jack was working in their offices across the street....i didn't know how i would react if i met him....
The first time i had to go over there with some folders i passed him in the hall...i think i smiled and nodded, "Mr.Kirby..."
Oh...He was so bent over! Back curved, etc...It was a shock. This is what long hours at a desk will do to you....
Passed him a few more times in halls, a few words,....
It was just three or four months...if it had been longer i think i would have got over being shy/shaken/stupid....
i'm so glad, thankful, that i got to tell him that he was was my hero and inspiration before i got so smart and sophisticated...
i can still draw in his styles 40's, Monsters, FF, Thor, New Gods, etc
There's a bit of Kirby in everything i do, because i wouldn't be doing anything if it wasn't for him.
i tend to think that we're living in a golden age of fantasy art revival now, but looking back on those "dark ages", there was some amazing stuff there...
Thundarr was my first gig in anim...but it was rather bitter-sweet. My best friend, also an artist, had died a few months before (21 years old) from primitive chemo-therapy. Our circle of friends wanted to put on a memorial exhibition of his drawings and paintings, but we needed money to do that...so i applied for that job, got it. So it was grieving, awe, and a day to day grind of work, and satisfaction, and awe, and grieving. Quite the coming of age... :)
Hope things are going ok for you now. The art market is kinda nuts these days.
Yep things are going great!
i'm taking a few years off of animation art cuz spending 14 hours a day at a desk was wrecking my health! So i'm doing a regular day-job gig that's getting me back in shape, and i come home and am fresh to work on my own art for three or four hours, -
Working on a graphic novel i had put off for about 15 years, finishing a bunch of other pics, playing around, able to post to dA, FA, etc....i couldn't work on my own projects when doing the animation gigs - the hours were just too long - all i could do was the occasional pic such as kitties in space stuff, which was nothing like the stories i had written and were waiting to go...
Once i get those projects done i might return to animation...the money is good...but i might not...the free time is better....
and i have enough back projects and stories to spend two or three lifetimes on.... :)
Also, you should make an avatar.... of Thundarr!! Have him saying, "S'up, demon dogs" or something like that. XD
Where's my tin-foil hat? ...damn alien mind-control radio waves....)....
Avatar from dA is a op-art animated spiral. Got a few anims i did of furry girls walking, turning, smiling, but then someone will think i'm a girl...get's awkward. Thundarr ain't furry....hmmm...or is his mutation hidden?....maybe the Herculoids?...
(Hanna-Barbera ancient history...)....
Thanks for years of service to the industry and adding to the magic of growing up and handing the torch. Animation plays so much on my storytelling even if I am a writer.
Amazing you met the King and got to tell him how you feel and at least got to see him in passing in the older years. As a kid I didn’t think much about comics, but later when I took the medium far more seriously, it clicked that he was that, the King. Just amazing, man really understood the myth and human condition both in art and story. Something special about his style and decades later after his passing, it still crops up in tributes all the time. Glad he inspired you and you doing as you do
Life at best is bittersweet ~ Jack Kirby
When i used to see The King passing it was heart breaking because he was so bent-over - all those years of leaning over a drafting table creating the best superheroes and comics ever had taken a sever toll on his body. But after his time in animation he returned to Marvel to create new legends.
The. King.