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.
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 […]
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.
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.”
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. […]
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 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.
A stinky mermaid, from the same sketchbook project.
More sketches from the recent art project. Whereas I really didn’t “know” any of these people, I didn’t make them up, either. Even this guy. Yes, I may have added the knife and the skull. But he was there, in a restaurant in Paris. Or how about these guys?
I’m participating in a group sketchbook project hosted by the fine people at Art House Co-op. Over 2,000 artists received small Moleskine sketchbooks, which we then filled with “everyone we know: – the theme for the show. The pile of books will tour the country, and visitors are encouraged to pick up any book and […]