http://emmacoats.com The sketches and stuff of Emma Coats (Acme Moats) Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:10:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://emmacoats.com/?p=222 From the beginning and end of Hitchhiker. Danielle and Austin. Director of photography is Dani; the gorgeous lighting is courtesy of Erick and Stephan, an Arri 300, a Kino Diva 400, and the Sacramento Valley.What's amazing about films (short, feature, animated or live action) is that you go in with ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=221 Click to embiggen.This is a storyboard-ish inspirational drawing I was working on tonight for our short. I'm really happy with it - I can look at it and say "this is what I want the short to feel like," nevermind that the colors won't work on an actual person and ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=220 This is russian-doll style filmmaking: 8 hours spent on animated movies. After hours, work goes in on making a live-action short. Spare time beyond that gets shunted not to sleep or bathing but to an animated short side project. I'm coming back to comics and sketching... someday.... http://emmacoats.com/?p=219 I'm going to be sneaky about this sketch post and point you in the direction of Julie, Julie, a short film directed by my friend Liam Creighton. It's the story of an architect who, after being hit by a car, can speak only French. It's actually about much more serious things, ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=218 The thing about monsters is that okay, yeah, sometimes they prowl around slavering and growling and they do strike menacing poses, but they also get itchy, roll on the ground, paw things over, stretch, investigate, and eat. I like seeing monsters doing those things as well as menacing people - ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=217 Some just plain wandering drawings. Not for anything in particular, just seeing where the line goes.Liveaction short film is in the can and having its world premiere at a small local film fest on April 4th. Liveaction short film #2 is written and cast and will be gearing up in ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=216 This is pretty much turning into a repository for gaming art. The movie is finished as of three days ago, so I'm jumping back into the comic... but in the meantime, here's the horror that soared into view during the weekly lunchtime D&D game I run.This creature (plus an archer ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=215 Voltz is a member of the WOE, World Organization of Evil. She's a supercriminal, but is basically a giant walking battery. Since her power isn't the type that ever shuts off, she wears a rubber bodysuit to gain some kind of control over what she sends her electrical currents through; ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=214 The Berry boys, Sean and Finn, have been searching the seas for their brother Tom - at least, that's the story that they've been telling their crewmates. Last week Tom found them, arriving as captain of a privateer ship and saving the good ship Gabriele from the grasp of the ... http://emmacoats.com/?p=213