This is modeled from a Guitar that Mayari and I bought in LA last year when we attended SIGGRAPH 2010.
This photo was taken at La Plaza park across the street from Union Station in Los Angeles CA. Mayari saw the guitars and had to have it. The guitars for sale all had cool hand painted designs on them.
They have been around for millions of years. Imagine a 5-foot tall 36 million year old penguin. They are examples of elegant design and evolutionary efficiency.
Making this coloring book page led me to wondering why penguins are so mainstream in animation. They always seem to have a presence in entertainment. I started to think that it is because of their shape may be easier to animate. Their shape and contour is one step more complex than the basic flower sack animators use for practice. Their black and white contrast makes them easier to color. Google could not answer my question.
For example:
Penguins of Madagascar(My personal favorite in terms of style and character attitude)
Happy feet(CG Musical mo-cap of an outcast dancing penguin)
March of the Penguins(Documentary)
321 Penguins (CG space penguins on Qubo cable channel)
The Penguin (Batman Villain) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_%28comics%29
Surf's Up (CG surfing penguins)
Mr Popper's Penguins Starring Jim Carry
The Linux Icon is a Penguin
NHL Hockey team Mascot
There is a penguin meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/socially-awkward-penguin#.TcY9WbKTgbQ
Chilly Willy himself is a Penguin
Bugs bunny gets owned by the skating penguin by bringing him to Antarctica mistakenly in an effort to bring him home only to realize he is from Hoboken NJ.
Full Version(with a cameo of Humphrey Bogart)
Mary Poppins seems to get it right. She gets the penguins to serve her lunch.
Comicon Boston 2011 was great. I had half a day there Saturday to browse, collect, see some old friends and meet new ones.
Highlights of the day for me were seeing Matt Smith and Craig Rousseau fellow alumni from U Mass Dartmouth. They each had artist's booths where they sold their comics.
Matt writes the saga of Barbarian Lord, a cornucopia of raven food for your consciousness. Buy it because it will keep trolls from nesting under your tool shed. http://www.barbarianlord.com/
Non Alum I met include some cool people at Boston Comics Round table. I also met Ansis Purins whose comic cracks me up. Zombre is awesome,I purchased a print from Ansis. He also received a grant to work on his comic,congrats. http://www.ansis.tv/
I found some cool toy creators at comicon. I wish I had a bunch of these little guys with their mix and match components. http://callgrim.com/
I purchased a Tim Sale sketch book last minute and I am pleased with it. http://www.timsale1.com/
