100 Araw ng Komiks: Creating ELMER Time Lapse

100 Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Comics) is an online event organized for the purpose of spreading awareness of Philippine Komiks through Twitter, Facebook, DeviantArt, blogs and other online venues. Click here for the event page on Facebook. The Komikero Comics Journal will be posting everyday for the month of July news, opinions and commentary on aspects of the Philippine comics industry. Today, I will talk about a Creating ELMER time lapse video.

Back in 2007 I had the opportunity to promote ELMER at an American magazine called "SKETCH". It's a magazine that features how comics were created, and I was asked to write an article for it. I asked, "How about I write an article about creating one page of Elmer?" And they said yes, which I was very thankful for because Elmer was practically an unknown entity.

As an added bonus, readers of the magazine would get an exclusive link to a video of how I drew that same page, hosted at Live Video. At the time, Live Video was offering much better video quality than You Tube, so I chose to host it there. Live Video has since gone down in popularity, and You Tube is now offering superior video quality.

Looking at that video again, I'm annoyed at how I kept on blabbing about things that I decided to re-edit it, take out all the talk, and just concentrate on the video, turning it into a time lapse.

Now if you want the verbose talky edition, the videos can still be seen at Live Video, although somewhat intermittently. Sometimes their site is down. But if you want to take your chances, the links are below. You might even get an insight to how I approach the creation of my Elmer pages.

Drawing Elmer at Live Video Part 1

Drawing Elmer at Live Video Part 2