They used to be together...Everyday together...Always...No Doubt about it...I know what you're thinking...THEY'RE BACK!

Hey Peeps! How are you all doing on this fine, joyous...Errrrrrrm occasion? Anyways yes, it is I once again bringing you all a slightly different update from usual.

As many of their fans probably know by now, the Ska Punk band No Doubt have reunited after a long hiatus and will be releasing their sixth studio album "Push & Shove" as well as it's lead single "Settle Down". To celebrate this occasion, No Doubt decided to launch an art competition to help publicise their latest releases. In return we get AWESOME PRIZES which I will not reveal so nah! Anyways, after reading about this, I of course decided to enter and behold, here's my entry. Just like the last comp involving my film Bitter Critter, this latest comp also requires The People's Choice and the Judges' Vote (who will be none other than No Doubt themselves), so once again Peeps I'm in need of your help to at least stay in the Top 50 to help increase my chance of winning. The higher the vote, the more chance the Judges will take notice of moi's entry. The choice is up to you of course, I won't force you (obviously) but if you do take the time to vote for me, I'll be eternally grateful.

Of course due to the competition rules, I am not allowed to post the final image on my Blog until the winner is decided so instead, I'll just post all of it's separate pieces to give you all a slight "behind the scenes" look of how it's made...

First up is the female artist and lead singer of the band Gwen Stefani, sitting on the letter "N". I decided to turn here into a singing siren while still maintaining her cool self by giving her a top hat. I hope I succeeded in that regard...

Next up is the band's bass guitarist Tony Kanal, sitting on a letter "U". Since my art piece is intended to be surreal, TK just simply sitting on the "U" and still looking normal looked a little too out place compared to the others. So to compensate this, I decided to give him extra arms growing out of his arms, why? Because I can dammit! Do NOT question surrealism!

Up next is everyone's favourite eccentric drummer and comic relief of the band, Adrian Young. I have nothing to say about this except that he was hands down, the most funnest one to draw, period!

And last but most definitely not least, is the band's guitarist Tom Dumont, standing on the letter "T". For good ol' Tommy boy here I just thought it'll be fun to have his head on the bottom of his body instead of on top...As I've said before DO NOT QUESTION SURREALISM!!!!!

Now onto the rest of the letters. Since No Doubt has two "Os" written in it's name, I decided to be a bit of a smart-arse and just design the Drum-Kits to represent the "Os". I'm sure having two of these would make Adrian Young a very happy man.

Speaking of which, here's the letter "D" I got him to stand on in my final piece, not to mention that the "D" is between the "Os". Aren't I such a thoughtful person?

And last but not least of the letters is the letter "B" and...That's it, just a simple "B".

Now onto the floating instruments of the backgrounds! First up is the flowing, Piano path. Don't know about you guys but I kinda want to slide down and play on this, looks fun!

Next up a Saxophone, vomiting out Piano Keys and more magical...Errr...Stuff.

A Trumpet...

A Clarinet...

A Harp...

And of course last but once again not least, a Violin. And together, by the power of No Doubt, they float everywhere yay!

And that's all for my little "behind the scenes" look. I have to say I really did have a lot of fun making this and would really love for this all to pay off. Remember folks, all you have to do is Vote to keep me at least in the Top 50 to increase my chance of winning the Judges/No Doubt Vote. If I mange to get into Top 10, even better BUT Top 50 is a definite must! I have to say, I am little nervous to be honest. All I could do now is wait and really do hope they like it.

Well, that's all for now folks and until next time...

See ya later Navigators! :D

Noor "Red Eye" Mula

Bitter Critter (finally) unveiled! Experimental sketchies &...Well, more minor Updates

Hey Peeps! It is I once again bestowing upon you all, MORE of my personal art!

And yes, first things first, I'm finally showcasing my film "Bitter Critter" on this very Blog, I'm so sorry it took this long. So without further ado, enjoy the film and please, do let me know what you think.

Also, I'm pleased to announce that "Bitter Critter" has been entered into this competition  for it's chance to be featured at the Palo Alto Int'l Film Festival. Although the Judging Panel will make the final decision for which entry to win, I still need an awful lot of Votes for "Bitter Critter" to at least stay in the Top 50 or ideally in the Top 10 to increase my chance of winning. The higher the Vote, the more likely the Judges will take notice of it. So if you've enjoyed the film or even just like my work in general, please do support me and Vote! Every Vote counts and I'll really appreciate it, thank you. 

Now moving on, I've been doing an awful lot of writing/script-writing, animating and illustrating for various different competitions recently, which I personally would love to show you all, but unfortunately due to the various different competitions "Rules & Conditions", I'm not allowed to post any of them up until a later date, which I can only apologise for. So to make it up to you guys here are the various, experimental sketches I've done of in-animate animals when I visited The Natural History Museum with my buddy Ling. 

Now believe or not, the top two images are sketches of the exact same creature, which I decided to draw twice. It's amazing how different an image can be when you draw it the second time. Personally I like the top image the best but that's just me.

Tip: If you want to design really scary looking monsters, always start by sketching animals first. Above is an image of a Hippo, who would've thought Hippos could look this scary?!

A front view of a Deer. Considering this is a first time I've done a front view of a Deer, I don't think I did a bad job.

And finally, an ancient Mutton who's NOT dressed itself as a Lamb (thank God)!


Well, that's all for now folks, until next time...

See ya later Navigators! :D

Noor "Red Eye" Mula

The Return Of Sergeant Nutty & behold the background designs!

Ahoy there Peep Peeps! It is I once again bringing you latest from a far away Galaxy otherwise known as my mind!

Remember Sergeant Nutty folks? Well, he's back! This time with a lot more work put into him design wise, whereas previously he was too rushed. 

Because at the time he was a last minute concept, I really wasn't sure what to do with him; so I pretty much just left him on my "possible story ideas which may not be" shelf. However, over the months since, the more I thought about him, the more I began to think "actually, this character has some potential" so I decided to re-vist him. I think because he was so rushed at first, I just wasn't at the time that comfortable with him. Therefore I figured why not design him again but this time take my time to improve him and maybe then I'd be able to do something with his character? Of course it's worked because I'm already jotting down some story ideas for him now. However, I'm still planning on finishing the Al Pasheepo short first so Sergeant Nutty's story won't be introduced yet but don't worry, I'll be sure to keep you guys posted so watch this space...

Moving on! As you all may have noticed by now, the vast majority of work I post on this Blog has mainly been of characters but what about the background designs? Well for the first time ever, believe it or not, I'm now showing you all the background designs I've created thus far...

A fiery, Gothic chandelier

A bartender's bar

An exterior design (1)

An exterior design (2)

My first attempt at designing a background 

(well, we've all got to start somewhere I suppose)

To be honest with you all, designing characters has always been my greater strength and in my opinion, the most funnest to create. However, I do need to seriously need start improving my background skills now, hence why I'm showing you all what I've created so far and which areas I could improve myself on? Any feedback given would be very much appreciated thank you. :) 

Well, that's all for now folks and until next time...

See ya later Navigators! :D

Noor "Red Eye" Mula

  

Something (Secretly) New, Tweet Tweet & Mystery Revealed!

Hello Peep Peeps! It is I once again bringing you the latest news from the artistic vortex of my mind. But first some serious business to discuss.

After years of resistance, I have finally swallowed my pride and joined Twitter. So if you like what I do and would like to show some extra support for moi then please, feel free to follow. But just so you all know, the only Topics/Status' I'll be posting there will be serious stuff like self promoting films/art etc. so don't expect me to post anything silly.

Next up, remember from my previous update I asked you all who you thought the two characters at the bottom of the page were? Did you guess right? As promised, I can now reveal those two characters were Gobo and Red from one of my favourite childhood television shows Fraggle Rock. Why did I draw them like that you ask? Well, it's for the Fraggle Rock Competition which I've just entered (I've also added in Wembley, Mokey and Boomer). Voting opens in August so watch this space.

Now you're all probably wondering what's happening with Al Pasheepo & Gang? Well, due to unforeseen circumstances, I'm sorry to say I had to make the difficult decision to halt production for the time being but fear not folks, it won't be for long and production will be resumed in August.

Speaking of which, heres where my headline "Something (Secretly) New" comes in. I'm working on a "Secret" project relating to films and clips from well known British Films. So without revealing too much, here's some Concept Art I've completed...

These four Monsters above are modeled and based on four well known characters from a popular television show. Like I did with Gobo and Red from Fraggle Rock, I'm going to let you all guess who these four are. All will be revealed in...Not the next Blog update but in AUGUST! So you all have a looooooong wait (hehe, I lurve being eval)!

And finally, before I bring this latest update to a close, here's some female characters I've created relating to my "Secret" project.

Well, that's all for now folks and until next time...

See ya later Navigators! :D

Noor "Red Eye" Mula

Operation BAA!!!!!: Storyboards, Animation Tests (And a little bit of extra from moi...)

Ahoy there Peep Peeps! It is I once again bringing you the latest Updates of the Al Pasheepo short film project...

As promised from my previous Update, here is a couple of rough Storyboards (in no particular order) I've made so far. I've actually made more than I'm showing here but they're mostly drawn in Stick-Men form so I've just selected the ones that are the most clearly drawn to show you all. I've also done another rough animation test to try and get the harder scenes out the way as well as providing you all with a little sneaky peek...

          

 

 

 

 

So from what you folks might be able to tell, I'm still trying to figure out the right way to make this film really work narrative wise. I'm really hoping this could be my meal ticket to success but I'm not sure if I'm getting any of this right and I really do want this to be amazing! I don't know, maybe I'm being too much of a perfectionist or I'm just feeling like a little bit of a lost soul at the moment, maybe I'm still having Graduation blues who knows? Either way just got to keep going and not give up. Hopefully this animated short takes me somewhere...Fingers crossed!

And before I bring this latest Update of mine to a close here's a little extra from moi...

The beginnings of a Fan Art here, can any of you folks guess who these two characters are? You'll find out next month but for now let the guessing BEGIN!!!!!

Well, that's all for now folks and until next time...

See ya later Navigators! :D

Noor "Red Eye" Mula

Operation BAA!!!!!: The almighty power of EPIC TURN-AROUNDS!!!!!

Ahoy there Peep Peeps! It is I once again bringing you the latest developments towards my new animated short.

As you may have remembered from my previous update, I've created quite a lot of new side characters  and thus needed to create turn-arounds for them (and possibly simplify them too). Suffice to say these took a lot more to create than I intended but never less, I've completed them now so without further ado lets take a look shall we? 

Starting with the Knights, here are the Sheenoirs (top image) of the Sheep Kingdom and the Wolucans (bottom image) of the Wolf Kingdom. As you can see the Sheenoirs look exactly the same as last time whilst with the Wolucans I've made slight changes to how they looked like previously but other than that they still look pretty much the same.

And now onto the Bishops, from above the Bisheeps of the Sheep Kingdom and below the Bisholfs of the Wolf Kingdom. Again not really made much difference from either them to be honest and as for the walking aspect, I'm seriously considering having them float in a sort of ghostly/wizardry way? Not sure yet but I'll keep thinking about that until the time being.

Next up the alternate universe type horses, otherwise known as the Sheores (above) of the Sheep Kingdom and the Wolorses (below) of the Wolf Kingdom. At first (being perfectionist moi of course) I didn't really like how I drew the front legs at all, however, shocking enough they've actually grown on me and now I believe they do work. To be honest I was never planning on animating them realistically anyway so for that purpose alone it works but what do you guys think? Don't be shy to let me know. 

And finally the Robots (in the role of the Pawns), the above image being that of the Sheepbotics of the Sheep Kingdom and the below image being of the Wolfbotics of the Wolf Kingdom. The Sheepbotics still looks exactly the same except I'm still not quite sure about what sort of legs to give them yet, whilst the Wolfbotics on the other hand now look completely different due to how difficult their previous design were to animate. These new designs should now be a little bit more easier to animate.

Next stop, the Storyboards and the Animatic! So watch this space...

And before I bring this latest Update to a close you may have noticed I've gone back to my previous form of Updating once a month. The reason for that being is because whilst working on my animated short, I'd like to present my work in good quality for all to see. If I can update more than once month than fantastic and I really hope to go back to that format too but for the time being I'm going back to updating once a month so please be patient everyone.

Well, that's all for now folks and until next time...

See ya later Navigators! :D

Noor "Red Eye" Mula