and here's the color version, with a slight augment to the cropping as well.

textless version

updated version of Young, I have three alterations to post, I think this one might be the best. I know they're among the most popular tiny stories I've made, but I was never quite happy with the illustration, so, redo!

all these new one's are transparent pngs, so that's good.

getting back to work, and reflecting upon the month of april and beyond, all in a terrible vertical video which I may put into motio graphics later as I can't stand vertical videos.

stuff to expect from me.

resumed rerecs

collab intro videos for my re:math, a game for remixing, and raw resource collabs.

more bumpers and a motiongraphics focus reel of my hitRECord bumpers so far.

animated in photoshop with some revisions in after effects.

1080p 23.98 fps h264 quicktime MOV. No sound yet, and I've really got to switch over to working my thesis film and sending out emails, so probably nothin' else from me today... if I'm doing things right.

as per tdolan's suggestion, I remixed my tiny poem "Crowd" with Mignonne's Asylum for the Imaginative.

For the record, T, I really like your illo for crowd as well, though I think you're right that these two combine really well.

this is a lot more than the slight alteration originally advertised. ;)

remixing with concepts from other tiny stories and illustration, another version. variation!

And crap, I just realized I forgot to draw the T in deftly... Well, I'll fix it in the event we want to use it for anything.

just testing this out, if it works, I'll update and fill in everything else. Been suddenly running into a few odd uploading glitches with file formats that normally work for me.

new version of a score demo of out of my Korg iPolysix. Master comp remixable via the ipad app's built in soundcloud functionality. here's a link! http://snd.sc/ZRzPfr

hoping to put some videos together to this one as well, ASAP.

well, back to life at large. fingers crossed. Looks like it bid! the best audio quality, however, would still be the master file comp through the app (link to it on soudncloud: http://snd.sc/ZRzPfr ) . I'm not quite sure how much where this quality render got out, but you get the idea ;)

more to come!

http://snd.sc/ZRzPfr

I want to do other vesions of this story visualized too, but seeing sojushot's reading to lions kind of took me down a path.

Also, I'm now in the strange position of having taken color out of one of soju's pieces in a remix. i don't know why that feels odd, but it does.

here it is, with music titles and credits. photo jpeg quictime mov 720p 12fps (too match original animation. created with silk for ipad (www.weavesilk.com) it's called snow form because the shapes remind of snowflakes a lot. I'm also planning on make a version that's more white on black, that will make even more sense. Thanks to iamweirdopotato for mentioning setting it to electronic music.

A QUICK NOTE ON THIS RECORD: Please mention the app, silk, that was used to create this if you use it significantly, they have a very specific creative commons lisence: Art created in it can be used by anyone for any purpose (including commercial) as long as they are credited, like I did in the description. their website is www.weavesilk.com, which features a free desktop version of the app, and the creative commons liscence I described in their about section. 

eric tortora pato aka epocadofim here.

as those of you who know know, I dabble across everything from music to video to prose to graphics, but my main focus is always narrative, story, world, and character. so challenge me to tell a story, about anything. If you can sum it up in a sentence, I'll tell a story about it. I can take medium suggestions, though the more complicated the media the longer it may take (prose and graphic novel are fastest, relatively, but I'll take a whack at it if you really want more beyond that, and I'd enjoy some film and animation challenges).

Have at me to make stories.

also feel free to use the title card, grabbed it together from a bumper I'm working on.

More Muted dark color and a bit of line refinement.

"

desperate times call for desperate measures.

inspired by rewfoe's general style and "Reading a zombie comic" in particular, as this is what I imagine the comic may be.

Going to toss it into some of the collabs.

some character details:

17 (18 in five weeks)

A babysitter.

She got into her top choice school, but the mail has been impeded by the apocalypse. That said, and even though she's quite busy protecting the wee ones she's often in charge of, she's still really anxious about it.

I also see her as very likely existing in some variation of the Kids V. Monsters collabs story world.

5' 5'' 108lbs"

Joe's announcement about how we gonna be on the TV, a few things at school, and a red thumbtack remined me that I've been meaning to do more motiongraphics, aftereffects, and hitrecord bumpers, so here's one I threw together tonight called smile.

color pushing, animation, tracking and text done in Adobe AfterEffects CS6, camera was my iPhone 5. Render quicktime H264, resolution 1080p.

and, of course, the mouth and the stubble are mine. ;)

Meet Steve, The Boy who wasn't told about the internet, star of the a new 3 to 5 shot tiny animated film I'm working on. It will also have/need narration, so keep an eye out for the script. 

animated in photoshop cs 6.

In between the other ones.

I cannot for the life of me find any of Wirrow's original stuff to cite, but I was inspired by odd collisions in my dashboard.

link to wirrow's old pieces if you haven't ever seen them.

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/73198

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/61610

Just having some fun and making up Robots!

Dear Mr. Wirrow,

All things are stories, and any story can be tiny. 

Ergo, one can be both an atom and a tiny story.

I, for instance, make stars glow.

Please bear this in mind.

Yours,

Hydrogen

live. die. repeat.

Designed and animated in zbrush 4r4, slight editing in Adobe AE CS6. 1080p 24 fps h264. First of a lot of these.

this version has three variants.

will have the obj of the logo that I made uploaded soon for common use.

from a few year's ago in college. thought people might have cool ideas to vamp off of it, and may do a new version of it myself. it remains one of my brother's favorite drawings by me.

and here's the b version. NOW REMIX IT, YO!

will update citations when I can, low on time and having trouble with the system.

A little bit of dark backstory on how we got to where we are now. ;)

Text:

Pt. 1 Front Article:

"[V]IRUS EFFECTS ADULTS

continued from page 1A

does seem to be the case,” Chief of Path-

-ology Dr.Jay Redmond continued, “that

those infected by MR2N1 are almost

exclusivly over the age of 18.”

Since its appearance nearly a month

ago, the new disease, known to the public

as Morphic Field Flu, has been spreading

rapidly. Symptoms include an initial fear

of light, especially sunlight, and growth

and mutation when kept in darkness.

In the later stages, there have been

unconfirmed reports of a complete loss

of the infected’s original personality

and delusions of, to quote one teenage

witness (identity withheld in respect to

underage status), “a un-human (sic) self,

history, and being [...] almost as though

[they] became a door for something else

to come in through.” Similar reports are

becoming more common by the day.

“The disease” Dr. Redmond adds

“seems similar parisitoidal fungi, known

to compel carpenter ants to act to in the

[illegible]"

-Part 2: Back Article

"ALLEGED ATTACKS CONT[INUE]

continued from Page 1A

city grows increasingly desperate as

the reports of strange, “monster

-like”, animal attacks increase.

The chief of Police has come forward

to say that these attacks are nothing

but gangs and young miscreants turning

“an animal escape from the Roosen Park Zoo”

into cover for pranks and vandalism.

She adds that “there is no reason to believe

the city has come ‘under the thrall’ of ‘ monsters.”

The Chief declined further comment while recovering

from the flu."

one of my main character's favorite childhood toys.

B, the "short version".

remix on serpentthecharmer's "haunts".

At least I'm making something while I procrastinate. No audio yet (possibly ever on this version) so feel free to make him say whatever you want and add any sound effects you want.

made entirely on my iphone in imotion hd (which is free, although I didn't use the highest quality image sequence export option (though that's also free)) and AE CS6.

Total worktime, about an hour.

the original watercolor and pen version from my class.

album cover for an album I am choosing to make for all my various bumpers. all in photoshop cs 5.1 also going to upload a postcard version, and I can throw up the base photo if anyone wants it.

concept I'm working on... may try to animate it, definitely not now.

A further concept with our dapper new friend, Mr. Button.

PS: I actually used Joe in the tv announcement video as ref for this one in particular. man looks good in a suit, and he's always got that red lapel pin, whatever that's about... ;)

This is Lee.

Lee is 10.

Lee is beautiful.

Lee was born exactly as Lee was meant to be.

That's all you need.

desperate times call for desperate measures.

inspired by rewfoe's general style and "Reading a zombie comic" in particular, as this is what I imagine the comic may be.

Going to toss it into some of the collabs.

some character details:

17 (18 in five weeks)

A babysitter.

She got into her top choice school, but the mail has been impeded by the apocalypse. That said, and even though she's quite busy protecting the wee ones she's often in charge of, she's still really anxious about it.

I also see her as very likely existing in some variation of the Kids V. Monsters collabs story world.

5' 5'' 108lbs

I just really like this recropping, so yep, lazy times!

"desperate times call for desperate measures.     

inspired by rewfoe's general style and "Reading a zombie comic" in particular, as this is what I imagine the comic may be.       

Going to toss it into some of the collabs. 

some character details:

17 (18 in five weeks)

A babysitter.

She got into her top choice school, but the mail has been impeded by the apocalypse. That said, and even though she's quite busy protecting the wee ones she's often in charge of, she's still really anxious about it.

I also see her as very likely existing in some variation of the Kids V. Monsters collabs story world.

5' 5'' 108lbs"

new drawing and tiny story based on my old drawing creative shot, with the same character again. Don't have time to do a color version right now, and as per my pledge, I will not submit this tiny story or the color version of it to TBoTS V3. It will wait for four.

However, it is going to be my poem for the the Poem Every Day Collab today, so there's that.

"OH,

Give me a shot

of CREATIVITY.

Just enough to fight

The PAIN–

And just maybe defeat it."

Okay, I should stop making remixes of remixes with remixes for a while now, but this seemed like another fun take on Fantasy Native.

score sketch for my thesis film at USC, Broken_test_zero, 2 versions for anyone to play with.

definitely still a demo, made all on my ipad in Korg's iPolysix.

A short demo theme for my thesis broken_test_zero, inspired by medical sounds and machines. All sounds designed and music made and mixed on my ipad in Korg's iPolysix. I love the heck out of there ios synths. Will also upload the base rhymth, and I can do different bpms, too. This one is 177.5 bpm, by the way, It feels slower because of the double beat. The rhythm was originally designed at 130bpm. I plan on designing more on this.

By the way, if you have the app on your iPad, you can download and remix the master track in program via the iPolysix's native sound cloud functionality.

I think I'll also put the bells up on their own.

enjoy.

Redoing and further remixing the illustration I originally created for my own tiny story "Stupid Reality" with my slightly edited down text to MadisenMusic's "Unimaginable Perspective" (and also inspired by valeob's illustration) . I think this sells it much more. I'll also put up a textless version and a version with the text of my story Stupid Reality later on. Be sure to check out the full size to get all the details if you like it.

Enjoy!

-E

They found it hard to see her a hero...

...but good was all she could do.

For reasons I don't know, one of my most popular (if not my most popular) records to date, the original digital painting of a kid monster character called Burning (aka Daddy's Little Demon), has apparently disappeared from the hitRECord server. I believe that I was inspired by another record, but for the life of me I can't remember which it was at this point, so sorry for the lack of citation. I also can't remember all/most of my original description (except for the fact that it was meant to be a character going between both camps, ie kids and monsters), nor can I remember the most of the story data and ideas that wirrow noted when he originally featured the painting (save for saying some nice things I still appreciate and an idea along the lines that this might be what the monsters looked like in real life).

I've recently noticed a few other people having to reupload stuff... any idea what exactly is going on with that, anyone? I suppose I'll go the support but it is a touch worrying a trend for records to disappear.