I posted up a new map over at my sketchblog a few minutes ago, including some work-in-progress shots. I did it old school, with a nib pen and watercolors. (Well, watercolor pencils, so not THAT old school I guess.) Unfortunately my scanner does a pretty terrible job of capturing watercolors, so you’ll have to rely on some photos!
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m amazed at how many of you are still subscribing and emailing me regarding the podcast. Even though it’s been this long since I put out a new episode, it still seems like people are finding it and enjoying it!
The problem is, as much as I enjoy recording them, they are terribly time consuming. Between the prep, recording, editing, encoding, uploading, and all the other assorted work that goes into, they eat up a lot of my time.
I would love to continue doing them if it were in a format that’d be a bit easier on me. After watching guys like Gabe at Penny Arcade and Scott Kurtz over at PvP do their live comic-casts, I started thinking about doing FCAP as a live show using Ustream.tv instead. It’d almost certainly be longer, and with the chat room the folks watching would be able to ask me questions live, which would be pretty cool!
Ustream also has recording functionality built it, so I’d be able to record the shows as I make them and publish them out to the video sites when I’m done (hopefully) without having to go through all the rigarmarole I did before. You’d be getting pure, unedited Butch, though, so you’d have to be prepared for more “Um”ing, “Uh”ing, and cursing.
My big concern is that the quality of the broadcast wouldn’t be sufficiently high to make it worthwhile. The only way I can really be sure, though, is to actually get in there and try it out. If any of you are interested in helping me test drive, shoot me an email at butch@zombienirvana.com or send a tweet to @ZombieButch and let me know. If I can get a few folks to do a quick test run and give me some feedback on it, I’d appreciate your help!
Just wanted to let you all know that I’m still alive here… I’ve got a number of projects going right now, and I’ve had the chance to create some really fun maps lately, particularly for the guys over at Tricky Owlbear. I’ve also been putting a lot of time into improving my own artwork as well as writing some cool new M&M Superlink material that I’m really looking forward to releasing!
In the mean time, I’d just like to say thank you to all of you who, even after all this time, continue to subscribe to and comment on my Fantasy Cartography podcasts. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get an email or a comment on them. Thanks so much for all your support!
Sorry I haven’t been updating lately, but I’ve had one thing or another going here at Casa del Zombie. Unfortunately not much of it would be of much interest to you good folks, but I do have one interesting tidbit. I’ve been working a lot on my artwork lately, and I’ve started up a sketchblog over on Blogger to prove it! You can check it out here!
I’ve already started posting up some work there, and I’ve got a couple of weeks worth of pieces already scanned as a buffer, so I should be updating it pretty often for the forseeable future!
Just a quickie here, and then I need to get back to work: For the next 30 days, Sitepoint is giving away PDF copies of The Photoshop Anthology. I just downloaded this, and it’s a damn fine Photoshop book, particularly for the price! Check it out!
