Lovelace And Babbage, The Book
My idle-hours webcomic, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, will be published by Pantheon as a book in 2013/14! Pantheon is the legendary publisher of Very Important Graphic Novels Maus, Persepolis, and Habibi, so, you know, NO PRESSURE. Regular updates at 2dgoggles Read More
D is for Dormouse
A is for Aardvark
I had a sudden impulse today to draw a page of aardvarks: This was my best one: It was so much fun I turned it into a little character.. I could use some practice! I might keep on through the alphabet.. Read More
Dailies drawings..
Back in dailies.. there’s an awful lot of sitting in this business! Read More Read More
Some Victorian costume sketches
Man, I need to put some posts up here more often.. consumed by the comic!! Speaking of the comic.. the only time I seem to sit peacefully and draw these days is on airplanes, also the only time I seem to watch movies! I caught Young Victoria a few weeks ago on a flight to Canada, and got a bunch of valuable 1840s costume notes.. they managed to make the clothes not quite as hideous as the fashion of that period actually was, which is a pretty spectacular trick. Click for larger. Also... Read More
Ada Lovelace Day!
Not that long ago if I’d wanted to be an animator, I would have received the following kick to the head: “Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as this work is done entirely by young men.” All applications by women to Disney back in the Good Old Days were forwarded to the ink and paint department. I might be one of the last people in animation to start out literally inking and painting other people’s... Read More
On You Huskies!
In the midst of showreel-editing misery, this brought up some fond memories: var myQTObject = new QTObject("http://sydneypadua.com/sleddogscropped.mov", "vvq-29-quicktime-1", "480", "360"); myQTObject.addParam("autoplay", "false"); myQTObject.addParam("controller", "true"); myQTObject.addParam("scale", "aspect"); myQTObject.write(); “The Golden Compass”, copyright New Line Cinema Yes, I know they look exactly like real dogs. Thank you! Yes, we could possibly could... Read More
Some Noir Studies
Geez its been ages since I’ve posted here, what with comic frivolities and all… Some idle studies from the BBC’s excellent Film Noir Documentary. (sorry– link is UK only!) Read More
Techlab
Whoo, I’m one of the world’s leading thinkers! (theoretically, that’s who’s supposed to do techlab columns..) People coming for Lovelace and Babbage comics should go to 2dGoggles. Read More
Underground Academics
Is there some kind of conference on? Because there seems to be an unusual number of professorial-looking people on the Jubilee line these days. Read More
