Little Green Screen Dog

I'm so excited! Team Little Green Dog now has its own green screen and motion capture stage. Granted, by Hollywood standards, it's a teeny-tiny 'broom closet' of a space, but it means we can finally get going with some of our movie productions.

For motion capture, we've been beta testing a system called iPi Studio for about a year now. iPi Studio was very affordable (introductory price is $495, and the recommended Playstation 3 Eye cameras cost about $30 each,) and because it's a markerless system, no special suit is needed. The system uses four PS3 cameras and a laptop to capture performances. I had to tap the metal base of the cameras to be able to securely mount them on c-stands but that turned out to be pretty easy. With the recent version 1.0 release, we're getting surprisingly good results for what's supposed to be an 'entry level' mocap system.

I'll post videos of the camera mod and test sessions in a few weeks.

Right now I'm writing a Brudders mini-movie so we can test the system in a real production scenario. It should be fun.

-Greenlaw

It's a Big Summer!

It doesn't matter if you're on summer vacation or not, you can still kick back and enjoy Brudders - Episode 47 'Energy'.

Notice anything different? Yup, our comics are bigger now! Starting this week you can enjoy Brudders and Streams in a wider format. The rest of the site will soon follow, plus new features!

By the way, if things look weird, try refreshing your browser (or press F5). Toullie is updating our CSS code, which may cause funky stuff to happen throughout the week.

- Sgt M.

Recital Invitation

For all you music lovers out there, Brudders Episode 46 'Recital' has been posted.

Greenlaw is back to drawing the new Streams. Watch for it in a day or two.

- Sgt M.

Tell Me What You See...

Brudders Episode 45 'Rorschach', the cartoon that inspired Psychodiagnostik, is available for your analysis.

Come back for a new Streams later this week.

As you can see, we added a Studio button to the navigation bar, but it's not active yet. Hopefully that will go online this week too.

- Sgt M.

It's Science!

Once again, it's time for an educational moment with Toullie, in Brudders, Episode 44 'Deep'.

The new Streams comic is up today. We're calling this one Episode 10 'Gourmet'.

In case you didn't know, the first Studio Sessions video went up a couple of weeks ago. This episode is called Studio Sessions - Session 1: Drawing Brudders, Episode 42 'Conscience', and it features commentary by Greenlaw. You can watch it at our YouTube channel.

Let us know what you think about the video, and please rate it at YouTube.

- Sgt M.

New Stuff Today and Tomorrow

Rhythm & Hues Studios (my day job) made the big move to their new six story facility in El Segundo, which completely disrupted my R+H and Little Green Dog projects this week. Things are quickly settling down though, and I have to say, the new place is pretty awesome! I even have a pleasant view from the fourth floor looking over beautiful tall trees. (My old office looked out over a dumpster.)

Anyway, Toullie is finally getting around to posting Little Green Dog material that should have gone up earlier this week. Today we posted the first Studio Sessions video which you can watch now on our YouTube channel. Remember, if you like it, please leave a comment and rate it.

- Greenlaw

Status Report

We posted a new Streams (Episode 9 'Rebuttal') the other night. I actually had a different episode drawn for this week, but the idea for this one popped up at the last minute and it obviously had to follow the previous episode. Funny how this stuff happens.

Right now, I'm drawing the next episode of Brudders. We're going to post this and the next episode of Streams on Monday.

As for the promised Studio Session video, it's been mostly edited, but we still need to record the audio commentary track. Hope to get to that tonight.

- Greenlaw