(57th) The Fantastical Adventures of Rocket Boy

This is a little idea for a cartoon/comic that came to me today.

The Fantastical Adventures of Rocket Boy.

A Steam-punk themed cartoon set in the stylized world of the future, as seen from the 1950's perspective, yet with a twist.

You'd get your flying cars, zeppelins, robots, crazy inventions, ray guns, and maniacal villains.

I see it as a mix between The Rocketeer, Arcanum (an old PC RPG) Sky Captain, Astro Boy, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and The Goon.

I still haven't thought of the style yet. I'm toying with the idea of going along the lines of the Fallout mascot, modified, of course. That, or something completely different. I'm still doing lots of thinking about this.

The premise (of the first season, at least) would be that Rocket Boy's father has been kidnapped by a rival Robotics Inventor, and Rocket Boy, armed with his father's prize invention, a robotic jetpack, must find a way to save him.

In each episode, Rocket Boy finds a leaked radio message from his father, with clues to his whereabouts.

I see it being mostly for teens to adults, with some spicily awesome writing and groovy characters.

Well, I just needed to get all of that out of my system in case I forgot it. Would be nice to have a Steam Punk styled show.

I think it could have some potential.

That's all for now.

56th Post - Finished Clay

Now that my little clay man is all baked up, I decided to slap on some acrylic paint, and snap a few pictures to show off.

I made the glasses just by twisting and curling some wire, then jabbed it into his head.

If I make more of these little guys, I'll have to work on a way to get the classes in and out without damage to the head, which I've been dealing with. The sides are quite weak and crumbly, but with a little glue, it'll hold.

Let's hope my brother likes it.

That's all, folks.

55th Post - Playing with Clay

Recently, since my courses are done for the holiday (for the most part) I've found myself with a lot of spare time, and clay, on my hands.

Making things out of clay (characters, maquettes, and the like) is something I've always had an interest in.
I picked up a brick of gray clay, and a box of sculpey from the college supply store ages ago, and only now thought to mix the two together.

The gray brick had the consistency of...well, a brick. It took around 15 minutes just to get the clay kneadable, and it was hell on the hands.

The sculpey was flesh-toned, and I found to be too oily, or at least, to have too much moisture.

 I'm sure there are occasions when this would be preferable, because it made using it very easy, but I just found it to be too soft.

Therefore, I, being the creative genius that I am, decided to  mix the two materials together!

Elementary, my dear Watson.

I'm sure a much smarter person would've done this long ago, but we won't get into that today.

And why did Sherlock call Watson "my dear"?

Anyway, back to the experiment.

 I'm still working on ways to get the clay just right, and to get a proper maquette that will survive the baking process. I've some...crumbly disasters.

I'm semi-planning on making a little clay figure, and painting it up, for my elder brother (in the beer bottle) for Christmas.

If it doesn't work out, it's not the end of the world.

Anyway, just a little update. Doing lots of sketching and doodling, working with the idea of a Conan-esque character. Perhaps sometime I'll upload some scans of those.

That is all, my freaky little darlings.