Ken Harsha

Friday, October 02, 2009

New Stuff!... Where the heck is the new stuff? For that matter, where is the new old stuff?

Well, here you go: www.onegameproductions.com

This is my beta website for my new Production Design company. I'm trying out some stuff on the site before we rebuild the whole thing. Most of the work on the site is commercial work done for the studios (animated feature film and games). The life drawing stuff is probably going to get moved off the site and into a linked site or a blog... probably a linked site.

If you go to the website you will be looking at an evolving work-in-progress, so please be patient. There are a bunch of paintings and drawings displayed (some that I posted on the this blog and a bunch of new stuff). I also have uploaded a few quicktime movies as well.

We are going to be cooking for a while on the look and content of the final website. I have a ton of content that I am going through, and there are also the new sketches and explorations (2d and 3d) that I want to share as well.

Other new stuff...

New company (Onegame LLC), new CG animated film that I'm co-directing (and that I can't talk much about), new clients, new computer, and too much new software.

Least favorite new thing:

Apple's latest release of quicktime (7. something or another).... and how it won't play my new website movies on PC computers. :(

Apparently I am not the only one that is having this problem... Website opens, plays sound and doesn't play the picture on PCs. So that's no fun. I currently have a hack solution on the front page to get both to kind picture and sound to play together. (synch is all over the map though)

Beta Hackamus Maximus.

Most favorite new thing(s):

"click to flash" browser plug-in. (look it up)

Sketchbook Pro (2) tablet sketching software. Simple, elegant, no keyboard necessary, iterative saves, layers undo, simple tool set and a clean interface. Kinda nice.

Let me know what you think.

/Ken H.

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Here is an existential though I had about art, artists and creation:

I like to think that everything is old :) For me the creation of something new is a mixture of awareness, free associative abstraction, and intent... The artist finds a new way to connect old dots, but the foundation is still awareness of what is.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

To those who may be looking here...

a blog update.

I have to apologize for not having posted more stuff of late. I have a boat load of projects in the works, and we're finaling the video game that I am working on for EA so my hours have been a bit crazy of late. When things lighten up a bit I have some more work to put up from the way back feature animation machine ("Shrek" stuff, more "Treasure Planet" and maybe even some "Prince of Egypt" stuff). I have a bunch of "Boom Blox", "Goldeneye: rogue agent", and "Medal of honor" images to share as well.

As it is, I'm sitting here looking at 4 of those big plastic bins filled with all kinds of still-t0-be-sorted old and new sketches. There's dust on the lid of the boxes, it's 3am, and I'm bummed that I haven't gotten around to finish the organizing and digitizing job that I started a while back. I will try to post some new stuff, maybe over the break.

Oh, on a side note, the video game that I art directed, animation directed, and wrote the story for last year just won Spike's "Best Wii game of 2008" award.

Go "Boom Blox"!!!!!

I'm just glad folks liked the game... I know my team and I had a great time working on the project.... Now, I know I must have some "Boom Blox" pictures around here somewhere.

-Ken H.

(12-14-2008)