Alabama costumes and choco-bacon

Here are some sketches of the Alabama boys, the sketches are rough, and just to get ideas for the clothes. The outfits are loosely based on a combo of S.H.I.E.L.D agents and Starwars.

This week I am hoping to start animating some scenes of this exercise in sillyness.

This weekend Mandy and I went to see Carmen at the Austin Lyric Opera. I have always really liked the music in Carmen, but as I was watching the story unfold it suddenly hit me that Opera is very much like Anime cartoons. In its storytelling, it tends to focus on the "pretty things" and accentuating interesting minor details, it does not focus or even really concern itself much with plot. I would say that does not work well for me, but since I am working on a cartoon about 80's country music stars in space... I can't say too much.

Mandy and I also went to Austin's Dragon Boat races on Saturday with our friends, Brandon and his wife Becky. If you live in the area you should check it out. Freescale and Motorola and various other companies with Asian roots race Dragon Boats on LadyBird Lake, and they have various other cultural exhibits.

Also, in our travels this weekend we hit a candy store that had Chocolate Covered Bacon. Normally, I am open to all kinds of strange cuisine, but this sounded nasty. But Brandon dared me, and I have low self-esteem apparently. I would like to say it was not what you would expect, but it was. Brandon tried some too...