The Colbynfriends Blog

College Work....Semester two progress

2011-03-03T20:58:00.000-08:00

My first assignment was to model the desk I sat at...not bad for a first try...

Our first project was to model a stratocaster guitar...i pulled it off with..what i thought was..minimul success... coulda been better

I had fun going back and adding colors to it though

Just for fun I modeled a wheelchair (based off of my own wheelchair)

Enjoy..peace out!

CNF!

Random Postng with Pictures

2011-01-22T21:31:00.000-08:00

My drawing style can range from the abstract to more realistic....as seen here

and here

Anyone going to see that Bruce Willis movie when it comes out?....I kinda wanna.

CNF

Happy New Years :D

2010-12-31T18:11:00.000-08:00

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Puppets and Drawings

2010-12-29T07:47:00.000-08:00

I haven't really posted much about my puppets. I took a picture of some of, who i feel, are my main characters. Little J...Pauline...my un-named bird puppet, Gef, Dumb Dog, Kassi the Panda, Colby, un-named sock puppet, and Kyle the Koala.

This next drawing is kinda a free for all. Practiced hands and diffrent eye shapes on Annie the cat and diffrent expressions in general.

A dog that i'm really proud of drawing. If there are some people that are like "enough of the lined paper already". To that i would say..."If DaVinci had created the Mona Lisa on a peice of lined paper people would be like 'that's epic!'".

In addition...RETURN OF THE SHARK!

Hope ya'll enjoyed your christmas.
CNF!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2010-12-25T15:10:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAs EVERYONE!!

From everyone here to you and your familes!
CNF

Christmas 4

2010-12-24T22:30:00.000-08:00

:D It's almost finally here (in my case another 27 minutes away!)

One last peice coming tomarrow!
CNF

I'll Wait For You

2010-12-21T02:31:00.001-08:00

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Animations With Sound

2010-12-18T13:12:00.000-08:00

I re-edited a few of my animations with sound effects. Some came out better than others but i'd like to do more re-edits of some of my animations to include sounds.

Hope you enjoy :D

CNF

Christmas 3

2010-12-17T12:11:00.000-08:00

One more week...more or less...till Christmas!

Starlight: Why you eatin Santa's cookies Kyle??
Kyle: Cause they taste so good!
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Some Random Drawings.

2010-12-16T13:37:00.000-08:00

What do these have to do with Christmas...nothing, they just are what they are...an ailen and a chef. :D

I kinda like how i get all detailed with the food there.
That lil squiggle on that last one is one of my signatures so it's not a mistake...just chicken scratch.

Colby: CHICKEN POX??
No...chicken scratch...like what doctors do when they write percriptions.
Colby: You doctor's a chicken?!
No!...*sigh* id on't think you understand.
Colby:...I love chickens...with katchup.
....O.o? Ok then. Well hope ya liked these, i will upload some more Christmas-Y stuff tomarrow afternoon. we got another...9 days till. :)
CNF

I'll Wait For You - The Colbynfriends Version

2010-12-14T07:46:00.000-08:00

This is a preview of a video i just wraped up on. I've been wanting to do something like this for years and i finally have.

If there is any interest i will post the full color version on YouTube.
I'll Wait For You sung by Joe Nichols. I claim no ownership...but my characters and drawings are copyright by Back To The Drawing Board Studios.
Let me know what ya think and mabe in a week I'll upload the full version.

CNF

Couple Videos

2010-12-11T00:54:00.000-08:00

I got a few new videos to show you today. One is my final Flour Sack Animation Video

Another few animations i've made,

This is based off a larger peice i am doing for a group project..

Me showing my sensitive side...dawww

another...okish animation of Colby.

I'm going to get more practice as i hope to get DigiCel's FlipBook for Christmas.

Hope ya enjoy.
CNF

Christmas 2

2010-12-10T20:43:00.000-08:00

Another couple weeks till Christmas....agian we ask some important questions...such as:

and..

Me: So THATS where our tree came from
Kassi: O.o
Gef: *lauhgs* Our tree is...the BOMB *laughs more*
Kassi: Just..don't be stuffin bombs into the stocking.
Gef: Oh i'd never dream of that.
Colby: *sticks hand* Hey i found candy - *pulls out a stick of dinomite and it explodes in his face...smoke clears and his face is singed* cane..*cough*
Gef: Never said anything about dinomite sticks did ya? *laughs harder*

Never a dull moment
CNF

Under the Sea....

2010-12-06T15:53:00.000-08:00

There's some pretty rad stuff under the sea, Sharks, Octopi, Squids

Crab Monsters...O.o??

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Christmas 1.

2010-12-04T01:48:00.000-08:00

Well it's almost christmas...and some questions linger such as....

in addition...

So get your cards and shopping done i'll see you in a week.
another 21 days till christmas :D

CNF

2010-11-24T18:22:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone. Happy pretty much Thanksgivin to ya'll. I don't have any work for that prepared but i got other stuff. That first one is me drawing Colby with my Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch. I love that thing.

Next up is a new thing i've been working on. I"m trying to get a diffrent style of drawing for my own creative purposes to see what works and what doesn't. I"m starting to use ovals now...and here's how that's looking.

I think they look pretty good and more realistic like real dogs and cats..and lions.
This next one is inspired by what i thought was Japanese attire. It looks like something out of an anime, took some of my own creative licencing so. I think it turned out pretty good.

Last but not least a comic of Colby showing us the Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Hope you all enjoyed. Happy turkey day!

CNF

Thinking of what i should post next.

2010-11-06T00:33:00.000-07:00

Hey ya'll, just giving you a bit of a written update this time, not much in the way of photos to share this time. I will have some to share later on. In my animation class we're going to be doing a storyboarding project so i might post images from that. I have a few quick drawings and comics i've been doing in my spare time and i might upload them too. I'm not one in the way to draw for holidays but come this christmas season some images will crop up diffrent places so keep a sharp eye out. Hope ya'll had a good and safe halloween!

CNF

2010-10-22T10:58:00.000-07:00

Every so often, i try out new styles of drawing, as seen here. This is more...urban i feel.

This is my attempt at anime style drawing. I think my strenghts point me back to american style cartoon, but it's always fun to try.
I'll post more another day.

CNF

Flour Sacks

2010-10-14T09:27:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone. I just got done with a project in my animation class. It was the flour sack assignment, and it was pretty tough for me. It seemed that more went wrong than right. But i'm a perfectionist so, it's better than i think it is. I will add a newer version with color hopefully in a few weeks to a month. Next we tackle a walk cycle.

Also here is a test i did to see if i could animate a flour sack and also to help me draw it.

Post again soon, I will.

CNF

7 Deadly Sins, Colby Style,

2010-10-08T14:19:00.000-07:00

Good day all. I had a burst of inspration last night, and wondered how Colby could pull off each of the seven deadly sins. Well I drew up a rough sketch waiting for my bus back to my house from college

Then i decided to make a better version of it, so i redrew it and colored it. This was my final result.

Hopefully ya'll can tell which sin is which. Enjoy.

CN(o sinning...)F

Well well well....

2010-10-05T13:57:00.000-07:00

Long time no post yes?
Yes everybody, i'm going to try agian to do regular updates. What i hope to post include some animations from my college class, drawings, video projects, other stuff that i've created. To start, here's a present for ya'll:

These are animations i have already done in my college class so far, all are looped about 5 times each. These Include:
1. Final Rolling Ball Animation (Linked Balls)
2. Rolling Ball Assignment 3 (Burning Balls)
3. Bouncing Ball Assignment 3 (Ball Hitting Lamp)
4. Final Bouncing Ball Animation (Rabbit)
5. Colby Facial Animation
6. Space Loop
7. Colby, Computer, and Fan

Hope you all enjoy, i'll be sure to post agian very soon.

CNF

Some Of My Art Work - Week Three

2009-04-10T19:20:00.000-07:00

Colby Drawing One (Top): Don't Get Him Angry. C 2004
Colby Drawing One (Bottom): Or Else! C 2004

These two drawings above, are the very VERY first drawings of Colby. At first his name was Rocoby, but I changed it to Colby (I figured if I drop the 'Ro' and add a 'L' in the middle, it'd all work out)

Colby and Friends Comic #1: Hypnotic Art Show C 2006
This was done with ink, then copied, and colored with color pincils. This was my final project for a drawing class I took. (Notice a cameo by Walt Disney in one of the portrait frames.)

As you can see, two years can make a diffrence, eh?
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Some of My Art Work - Week Two

2009-04-02T18:47:00.000-07:00

Colbynfriends here agian, here are three more drawings.

These are three siblings, Rignet, Lignet, and Signet. I didn't think of it when I first drew them, but they look an awful lot like the Animaniacs, hopefuly not too much.

Inspired by my video, Dumb Dog on The Muppet Show.

Colby's species, in the un-anthropomorphic form.

See ya next time.

CNF

Some Of My Art Work.

2009-03-23T19:43:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone. Something else I want to use this blog for, is to show you some of my drawings, both hand drawn, and computerized. I'll do this once a week also, and I'll put up to five pictues up at a time.

Colby and Dumb Dog Shaking Hands. C 2008

Colby Then And Now C 2004-2009

Let me explain this one. The drawing on the left is the first EVER drawing of Colby, while the one on the right, is the drawing I did on the computer I did last year. Boy has he come a long way. The pose on the right is one of his poses when I did an animation video of him.

The Great Puppet Caper C 2008 Colbynfriends, MarshalGrover, and GroverKent.

Something I drew for my own amusement, and sharing for the amusment of others. I had this idea in art class to try and draw my versions of Fenwick, proformed by youtube user MarshalGrover, and Steve D'Monster proformed by youtube user GroverKent. They, along with Dumb Dog, are spoofing The Great Muppet Caper. I hope you both like this. :D

See ya next time.

CNF

My Favorite Sports

2009-03-12T16:31:00.000-07:00

Two of my favorite sports that participate in are bowling, and skiing.

First, let me share a little about bowling. I like to bowl, mostly since it gives my arms a workout by picking the ball up. It’s a good thing my school has a bowling class. As some of you may know, I’m in a wheelchair, so I use the bowling ally ramps, but I don’t use bumpers, that’s too easy. I usually have good aim anyway, there has been only a handful of times this year that I’ve gotten gutter balls.

I also like to ski. This is a more recent thing since I just started this year. My girlfriend actually turned me to skiing, and it sounded so fun I wanted to do it, and now I’m in a specialty program. I use a sit ski, which is like a pair of skis on a chair. Its hard to explain, so I’ll posted a picture to show you. My first time was around the end of January, and it was fantastic, and I'm getting better all the time.

TTYL (Talk To You Latter)

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Dumb Dog - Animated vs. Puppet

2009-03-09T18:26:00.000-07:00

Hey ya'll. I thought this would be an interesting post. Here is a picture of Dumb Dog, the left side is the live action puppet, while the right is the cartoon version of him. I'm sure you can spot a few diffrences.

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Why I Like Puppetry.

2009-03-09T16:42:00.000-07:00

As some of you may know, I am an avid puppeter, I have two main puppets that I preform with:

Dumb Dog: The dog with an I.Q. of 100 minus 98 (or he says).
and Colby Hussir: A 14 (or so) old ratillion whos voice hasn't matured, and is really excited about most everything.

I like to use puppets and puppetry for a few reasons. For one, I can ezpress myself easier through my furry pals than through animation, at least in this point of my life. Its easier because with my puppets, and on most puppet shows, there is room to ad-lib, which is always fun in my opinion. As a puppeter, I am very very infulanced by Jim Henson and the Muppets. They were silly, serious, sarcastic, and most every other word with 'S' at the begining. One day, if being an animator dosn't work out for me, I'd defintly like to work with the Muppets, wether its for Disney, Henson, or the Children's Television Workshop. That is why I like puppetry.

CNF

My Intro!

2009-03-09T16:19:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone in blogger land, its me, Colbynfriends. You may remember watching some of my videos on youtube, such as:

You can find this, and more of my videos on Youtube by visiting my user page here.

But enough about that, for now anyway. I am a fan of the Muppets, and might post some stuff about them at some point. I also like animation, mostly Disney animation. What I want to use this blog for is to write articals about things, like my favorite movies, books, and whatnot.

Before I go, I'd like to point out that one of my friends from the Muppet Central fourms, Steve Swanson, premeired his 100th episode of The MuppetCast on his website, that can be found here. I'm in that episode at some point, as myself, Dumb Dog, and Colby. Congrats to you agian Steve, if you happen to be reading this. Well thats all for now. I don't know when I'll update agian (but I'm sure it'll be soon). and I'm not going to have a regular posting schedule , its gonna be sporatic. See ya then.

CNF (Colbynfriends)