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As expected it took me a little time to settle in to my new environment, but I think I’ve finally got to a point where I can examine my situation and determine where I might be in a couple months. Currently I’m interning at a very cool place with fun folks here at the Animation Collective. Although nothing is really in production right now, it being mid season, I am seeing some cool stuff starting to develop and look forward to it’s eventual production.

Other than that I’ve been exploring New York City on the days I have off.
Here’s a list of things I’ve seen so far on my expeditions:

• Time Square
• Carnegie Hall
• Statue of Liberty
• The view from the top of the Empire State Building
• Central Park
• Broadway shows Avenue Q and Spamalot
• One of the biggest rats I’ve ever seen (I first thought it was a small cat)
• Madison Square Gardens
• Grand Central Station
• Sony Wonder Technology Lab (which was under constuction)
• Washington park
• Union Square
  
• NYU

Really, I’ve probably seen more, but there’s been so much. I’m thinking about starting another blog category specifically pertaining to my NYC experience, though I think everyone has done something like that… instead I think I’ll just draw more.

Till Next time,

Steve

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So my life has been kind of up in the air the past couple weeks, not exactly knowing where I was going to land. Though, after a trip home to Michigan,  a ton of time to think, and some sage advice from good friends I’m starting to touch ground again (though it may be on some risky territory).

Here’s my current situation, I was recently accepted by the Animation Collective for their fall / winter internship program, which I gladly accepted and am looking forward to starting on the week of September 8th. The risky part being that it’s an unpaid position in New York City where the little money I managed to save probably won’t go very far. But we’ll see, it’s been my experience that the good things in life always requires some risk and a lot of hard work.

So if you’re reading this and you have a room to rent in NYC or know of any potential financial oppurtunities I would be greatly interested in hearing about them as those are my two big priorities right now. Either way, I have a lot of work to do before the big move and some people to contact.

Till next time,

Steve

P.S. Here’s a little side project I’ve been playing with, some concepts for storyline I’m working on.

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Well, it’s been about a week since my last post. As most know I’ve been looking for work and a new place to live by August, which has been a bit stressful. I’ve been weighing my options and taking opinions from friends and I’ve decided (also due to an accidental click) that I’ll be flying back home (Michigan) for a couple weeks to release some steam and maybe do a few cold calls in Chicago.

Another option I’ve been looking at is joining a studio in Brooklyn started by a  Reilly Brown. This option intrigues me because a guy name Dan will also be working there, both of which have done work with Marvel and Udon. Though here’s the catch, it’s primarily a shared space and not really a full fledged studio. So I would have to pay part of the rent as well as come up with my own clients, which as of right now are slim pickings. Though at the same time this is inevitablly what I want to do, I just don’t know if I can afford it. Any opinions would be greatly appreciatted as I could use the input.

This week I’m posting some color work I did with Ed’s pencils and my friend Rebecca’s inks.

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So, it’s been a little more than a week since my last update, gotta apologize, but I have a good excuse! Turns out myself and 5 other co-workers after going to a local sushi bar managed to be food poisoned (though it sounds like I caught the worst of it). Suffice to say it was bad, I didn’t have the ability to eat let a lone draw this week. Sux too, I have all these ideas for projects, it’s just hard to pick one to start with. Suggestions? What do you folks want to see?

Also I think I’m going to be opening up for commission work till I find a career.  Details will show on the commission page.

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So I’ve pretty much finished the site redesign, all I want to do now is work on the imagery.

Future plans for Mightyartobot.com:

• Comics with a robot / art / game / computer themes to grace the intro page.

• Some well placed illustrations / texture for the background of the page (though that’s in debate, any suggestions would be great).

• Commissions / Projects page - I’d like to start taking commissions and do some freelance work.

• Sketchbook page - I have tons of sketches and rough works that people may be interested in seeing (thought process and what not, as well as a gathering area for all the blog images I post).

• Tutorials - I really want to start doing tutorials, I’m told my approach to a lot of things are different than what people are used to, which may be good or bad, but it is different and giving people options on how to approach something is the best way to improve. So yeah I want to start putting those together for such things as painting in photoshop, preparing a website in illustrator, basic print setup for comics / graphic novels, as well as offer the knowledge I’ve gained of the past 5 years as a new media IT guy.

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So I’ve decided after working on the original design for a week that it just wasn’t good enough and I’m starting from scratch.

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