Hi Steemit crowd.
My name is Jason Brubaker. I am currently a graphic novel writer/artist/self-publisher.
So a little about me I guess.
I grew up in Idaho and moved to LA when I was 20 to pursue my art career. I was represented by Famous Frames (a storyboarding agency) for 6 years and worked on hundreds of commercials, music videos and a handful of movies. You can see my movie credits here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115386/?ref_=nv_sr_2
After doing storyboards I jumped into traditional animation for commercials and worked my way up to art directing and directing commercial animation. Then I eventually landed a job (compositing and BG character animation) for the intro for Kung Fu Panda 1 with James Baxter (a legend animator, look him up). Here's where you can see that project: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/kung-fu-panda/
That got me into the doors of Dreamworks Animation where I applied for the Vis Dev position. I spent the next 7 years at Dreamworks doing visual development for Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3, Croods, Penguins, Captain Underpants, Dinotrucks and more.
Then in 2015 I quit Dreamworks and left Hollywood. I had been posting my personal comic online called "reMIND" and it started getting an audience.
So in 2015, I moved back to Idaho to try to get back into my first love - comics - and do freelance on the side. But right before the move, I was approached by Webtoons.com about posting my new comic "SITHRAH" on their platform for payment and it was just enough to pay my bills in Idaho. So for the last 2 years I have been working full-time on Sithrah for Webtoons.
February of 2018 my series will end and I will be out of a job with Webtoons. But I still have lots of projects and ideas that I want to work on next if I can afford it.
I have had some success with Kickstarter to print my books in the past and I plan to keep do that in the future to raise funds for printing.
I also have a Youtube channel where I show progress of my comics and interviews and stuff. But as we all know, it doesn't really help in paying bills unless you have 100 billion subscribers and so I'm not really counting on that much. But I will take a stab at Dtube now that I am on steemit. I am kinda falling in love with cryptocurrency (as we are are) and so I love the idea of Steem and Dtube.
You can read my comics for free online too. Here is a link to my first one reMIND: http://remindblog.com
And here is a link to my current (soon ending) one, SITHRAH: http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/sithrah/list?title_no=524
Here is my D.tube channel (currently empty) where I will post an intro video soon. :) https://d.tube/#!/c/jasonbrubaker
Here is my Youtube channel too: https://www.youtube.com/user/BrubakerMotion/
So why am I here on Steemit?
Well, since I am out of a job in a month I figured this would be a great place to start focusing some free time to see if I can flex my blogging muscles again. And like I say, I am fascinated with cryptocurrency and I am so confused by blockchain that I figured I needed to dive into this in order to get my head wrapped about it. I will try to broaden my topics that I talk about here on Steemit too so it's not ONLY about comics.
Oh yeah, did I mention that I hate Facebook and Twitter? (I still use twitter though) haha.
Well, if you read this far then you are a true champion. Thanks for your time and I look forward to getting to know more Steemers.
Jason Brubaker