Art is Beautiful

The screening last Saturday ensured that many new Naked Rabbit productions were finished. They shall be released to the site here, one at a time for interest’s sake. Why not go alphabetically? “Art is Beautiful” will be the first in a small series. Let us pity the oaf who does not experience the sublime when […]

Screening and Book Release

Click on the picture for a larger, more readable version. It’s true! I am working like a fiend in preparation for this event. Here is the information. Now you know what you must do. I will be there, attempting to look respectable as I try to make you buy something from my hideous table of […]

An Image You Won’t See in My New Film

Sometimes when you’re working on a project, accidental images are created. Here’s one of them:   How did this happen? I had isolated the upper portion of Christina’s face so that I could do some motion tracking on it. I was trying to match the skull beneath to the face on top. This meant tracking […]

Timing Example #1 – Anime

I was defending anime to a colleague once and I was telling him that I thought most anime shows were brilliantly timed. If you do not have the time, energy, or budget for full animation – as in the case with all television and most of our personal projects – then this kind of timing would be good to know.

The Book is OUT

Apparently you can buy my new book at a store. I can do it, too! Major bookstores everywhere have it (try Barnes & Noble, Border’s, etc.), but the trick is that you have to look in the COMPUTER section. This is probably very smart marketing – the book is, after all, concerned with getting your […]

Hard Drive Disaster

Suffice to say this is NOT what they are supposed to look like. This serves as a warning for everyone in the Universe: back up your data! You do not want to know how many cat-heads are on that thing.

Problems with the American Animation Industry

Practices which would seem perfectly reasonable are routinely bypassed to cut costs. Planning is eschewed in favor of miscommunication, mishandling, and misappropriation of resources and funds. Most of this confusion can be traced to one single vector: a proliferation of MBAs, middle-level managers and “executives.”

Everyone We Know 4 – Paris

While we were in France, we visited some museums. This was also the perfect opportunity to fill the sketchbook with some other “people” we knew. This fellow normally lives at the Musée du Quai Branly. As does this bright charmer below. Some kind of Innuit figure, he looks like an enraged Manta Ray to me. […]

Animation Screenplays

One point I emphasize in the “Get Animated!” book is that the traditional screenplay format is not only unnecessary for good animation, it probably hurts the process. This is not an original view on the subject! In fact most people who know something about animation tend to agree.

Raggedy Animation

Raggedy Ann just didn’t look right, and certainly didn’t move right, and the results were entirely unacceptable. No matter what software you use, computers aren’t good at giving drawings that human touch.