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July 9, 2008

Brandon Dayton
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Merril Brandon
» Comic-Con 2008

So I'm gearing up for this year's Comic-Con. I'm going to be hanging out at booth B4 with the crew from 8fish. I'm going to have original prints (those you see featured in my sidebar) screenprints, and a sketchbook with a compilation of much of the cool stuff I've posted on this site, and much more. Here's the cover art:


The sketchbook is 32 pages, 14 of which are full color, and its going to be available for a mere 10 dollars. If you're not planning on being at Comic-Con and you'd like to reserve a copy, drop me a line at brandondaytonATgmail.com.

by Brandon at 9:53 PM under 8fish , comic con , prints , screen print , sketchbook
August 29, 2007

Brandon Dayton
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Merril Brandon
» Fight!

Another part of the upcoming 8fish/Impact book. I think my line work is actually getting better. Can't say I'm crazy about the composition though.

Big sketch dump coming this Friday.



Click through for a larger version.

by Brandon at 8:57 AM under 8fish , expressions , impact , inking , line work
July 13, 2007

Brandon Dayton
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Merril Brandon
» Comicon 2007

I will be at Comicon this along with some other good folks representing 8fish. Please drop by booth 5230 and say hello. I'll post more information when it comes in. Till then, here's a little sneak peek of some of what we'll be bringing down:


Blogged with Flock

by Brandon at 9:34 AM under 8fish , broken crown , comic con , the eel
July 6, 2007

Brandon Dayton
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Merril Brandon
» More Faces

Some more facial expressions. I need to get more comfortable with drawing people facing to the left. I always defatult to drawing figures facing to the right. The final face here is an attempt to learn something from the rendering style of Chris Wahl.

by Brandon at 4:13 PM under 8fish , expresions , impact , sketch
June 13, 2007

Brandon Dayton
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Merril Brandon
» Expression

Here's some more artwork I've done for the 8fish/Impact project. Several expressions from a generic superhero character, and a spread. These are all done with Faber Castell and Micron felt pens on bristol board.

I'm thinking the spread still has some issues with line quality, but that may be because its so small here.



by Brandon at 9:56 PM under 8fish , expression , impact , spread , superhero
June 9, 2007

Brandon Dayton
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Merril Brandon
» A handful of sketches

Here's a couple of things I've done in the past week. The first three are part of a project I'm working on with 8fish and Impact Books. I'll have more on that as it reaches completion.


This last sketch is a bit of visual development for Green Monk.

by Brandon at 5:02 PM under 8fish , expression , "green monk" , impact , sketch , "visual development"
May 19, 2007

Brandon Dayton
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Merril Brandon
» What it do

So I've had a request to explain exactly what I did on the Animated Maverik commercial. The studio I worked with to create this is by no means a large production studio, so I had the opportunity to contribute on many levels to this project. All of this was done under the direction of Ernie Harker, the owner and Creative Director of 8fish.

I did the following:

Helped develop the concept
Collaborated on the basic story structure
Contributed to character design (I designed the Monster's head)
Drew the storyboards
Edited the rough animatic based on the storyboards
Directed, mixed and edited the scratch track for the animatic
Oversaw production of the layout and workbook. That included drawing all but one of the character poses.
Oversaw the editing of the "workbook animatic"
Rough animation on shots 6 and 10(The last shot of dialogue between Ron and Britney).
Supervised rough animation and cleanup
Recorded the final dialogue

If you need any clarification on that, feel free to ask. There's some animation jargon there, and there's probably some 8fish specific jargon as well.

by Brandon at 1:48 PM under 8fish , animation , maverik