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Work Work and new hobbies

simon — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0000

So here we are once again. Another couple of weeks gone and the list of things I’d hoped to get to and deadlines for my pet projects are but fading memories. Remember that ‘SUPER PRODUCTIVE MEGA AWESOME WEEK?!!” a couple weeks ago? Well it turned into 2 days of productive (freelance work and 6 sheep done, not [...]

On the road to nowhere

simon — Sun, 02 May 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Well. So according to “the plan” By now I should have had 28 sheep wrapped and packed. Turns out it’s more like 4, well.. not like… it’s exactly 4. On the other hand, though, I do have 20 sheep drawn, inked and scanned ready to paint, and that’s good. That was all last week but I’d qualify [...]

Incubation And Spreadsheets

simon — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

State of the Sheep So after a couple days of taking a look at all the assets I feel like I’ve got a good grasp of where things stand in Mutant Sheep Eat the Planet! In Short.. Cards Drawn 75 remaining 50 total cards: 125 Painted 62,remaining 63 ready to paint 13 Placed 60 remaining 65 ready to place into deck 2 (this is a short and easy step but it’s important which [...]

Firing up the ol engines of creation!

simon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

So now that Jude has come into our lives things are slowly settling into a routine (granted it’s one with less sleep than we’d like, but it’s a start). That means there is starting to be some periods of non super stressful time where freelance work and pet projects can once again start to flourish. On [...]

Tales of puppets, babies, games etc

simon — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Latest News So here we are, another year is already on the way and it’s time to get busy. As of today baby Jude is ~45days out and counting, lots of house prep is being done and more still to do. Excitement is high and nesting mode is in full swing. The home office has been moved [...]

Sheep benchmark

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Time for a little progress update, eh? Ok so some more sheep have been done but it’s time to assess the situation and get a firm grasp of where exactly I stand. But first a picture of the prototype tuckbox that the game will be shipping with (some assembly required) Why Include something as silly as a [...]

Sheep with a side order of stuff

simon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Time for a quick update! All the text on the cards were wrapped up by Sunday night as hoped! This included the 30 something painted cards and a blank placeholder for the ones that have not been painted yet. It turns out that there will be 8 blank cards in the set so I’m thinking of making [...]

Mutatant Sheep and other exciting things.

simon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Whoa, I’ve been a bad blogger. It’s been over two months since I updated this thing. Time to get back in the swing of things then. So after finishing the monster of all paintings, creativly, I was a bit drained. So I spent about a month not really doing anything.. just recharging the old batteries. Then [...]

Wandering

simon — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Ok so it’s been a bit hectic with a bunch of things that just had to get done, which turns out to have sapped my usual laser like (HAH!) focus. But the creative itch is growing and I have a feeling I’ll be cracking open the acrylics soon. (that and I owe lil sis some cute [...]

Springtime doldrums and overthought thinkings

simon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:01:12 +0000

So, I’ve been running around in the total overwhelmed mode for a while and it’s time to steer the frantic caffinated ADD besotted herd of cats that is my attention span back onto track. Some basic concept art got created, and then I wandered off the project to illustrationland and then got mired down in EPIC [...]