Alan OW Barnes

Try 48 hour films.

This was the second year I participated in the 48 hour film fest.

Check it out.

Our limitations:

Character: Alan Knight

Prop: Art Supplies

Line of Dialogue: I think I can do it

Genre: Thriller/Suspense

Mike Zuspan and I made this film for the 48 hour film project. We’re going to reshoot a little to make the storytelling better, but for his first time directing and my first time shooting I think we threw down.

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I’m on break from the Art Institute, where I teach audio production, for the next few weeks. I’m happy for the break, but I’m excited about the opportunity to really get on track with my production schedule of original content.

Though I took final exam time off (the last week and a half) from producing at the consistent rate established over the last couple months, starting next week I will be fully on track with producing content. Every week you should expect to see one episode of the Legion, a page (or 2) of The State of Basilica, 10-20 panel of Darkness, and a minimum of one 1000(ish) word chapter of Talon.

In addition, It looks like you can expect to see a quarterly short film from me, at least for the next year. I’m about to wrap 2 shorts and begin production on a third.

Also, Darkness will eventually be produced as a motion comic and I’m working on something really special (in terms of a major musical work) for next year’s motion comic.

The first scene of Darkness by myself, Nicholas Brendon, and B.C. Thompson is complete and on the website.

Check it out!

After viewing the page in the post Alex Maleev wrote “Great colors on the morgue shot.”

I’m so happy I could cry.

I launched a new web comic today. It’s called Darkness, and it was co-written by myself, Nicholas Brendon, and B.C. Thompson.

Here’s the opening image:

We have more plans for the story, but those of you who are our real fans get a bit of a sneak peak.

I’ll update with 6-10 panels per week.

So my favorite 3 comic artists in the universe (in order) are: 1) Dave McKean 2) Alex Maleev 3) Butch Guice.

I just posted page 14 (see the previous blog post on this site) from The State of Basilica on Alex Maleev’s message board and he asked to see it at higher resolution. Even if he starts to tell me how bad it sucks, the fact that he saw enough potential to ask to see it at a higher resolution is incredibly generous of him.

I also posted a high rez copy of page 15.

I’ve been drawing my web comic ‘The State of Basilica’ at the rate of 2 pages per week for the last 3 weeks.

The first goal of ‘Basilica’ is to tell this story I’ve had running around in my head for awhile.

The second goal of Basilica is to learn to draw using the techniques of Alex Maleev. Though I still have a long way to go, this is as close as I’ve gotten so far:

On Saturday I made an image for the band project I’m working on with long-time collaborator, Jim Cowart.

Jim and I have been working together since Middle School (off and on). When we were in High School we had an ongoing, good matured, joke about a wonderful friend of ours who could not pronounce the word ‘equitable’. This friend of ours is a great guy, and though we’ve lost touch, the background image is dedicated to you, William.

Alright, it’s been a while since my last post, a lot has been going on. Here’s what’s new:

Since I will not be releasing any ‘finished’ work for a number of months (possibly a year), I have decided to show you the process.

My graphic novel, ‘The State of Basilica’ (which I plan to publish as three 96 page graphic novellas) is in production, and you can read it as I make it at www.stateofbasilica.com. I’m putting up 2 pages per week, but as it is ‘in production, you will note that I occasionally go back and edit things on pages that I just can’t live with.

This is the first comic story I have committed to finishing since high school. I have drawn dozens of storyboards and I finished a motion comic last year, but this is a new beast for me as I am trying out a lot of art style information that I have never tried before.

I’ve consistantly updated with 2 pages per week for 3 weeks now. Let’s see if I can keep it going.

Secondly, my first attempt at prose fiction is going up at www.continuingadventuresoftalon.com. Talon is a post-modern comic style story. The main character is a former super-hero sidekick turned PI, trying to get into the FBI, but her past is catching up with her.

I’m doing something similar here and publishing a short (Kurt Vonnegut short) chapter every week. Again, I reserve the right to edit, as I am in process.

I’ve got several other projects in the works, but we’ll just have to wait and see when they are ready.

In the meantime: Every year I do a tee-shirt design for Belmont University’s string camp called ‘String Crossings’. This year’s design:

…With how this page came out.

www.stateofbasilica.com