Archive for July, 2008

Designing the Heracles 1

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

While I basically had the shape of the Heracles in mind going into this, it was Anthony who fleshed it out and made it real.  My initial sketchup renderings plus a couple of drawings like this one:

and this one:

gave Anthony enough ammunition to produce this:

The basic idea was simple.  I felt that I wanted everything [...]

Liftoff!

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Alright, so we haven’t exactly lifted off just yet, but we’re well underway. Preproduction is in full swing and we’re moving into the casting phase very soon.
We started this project back in February with a meeting at Shakey’s Pizza. Let me tell you, if you’ve never had Shakey’s pizza you’ve never lived. [...]