Violent Combat Robots – What are You Doing with Your Eyes?

This little forgotten routine comes from the “Violent Combat Robots” project, originally intended to be a series. While strolling through the archives looking for other material, I stumbled upon it – a short that was made as a”proof of concept” for the VCR series that never went.  The weird animation on her eyes is actually […]

Burn, Human, Burn!

Do not displease a cat, especially in this rude fashion. Pass this around, blog it, repeat it, post it, send it everywhere. While you’re at it, grab this image macro and start posting it everywhere. It has lots of uses. Where is the next music video? Yes, I’m quite surprised that no one has asked […]

Further Updates

glocester,millionaire, 1. Walking Pneumonia. A miserable virus traveling from the corpus of one of my disease-bag students lodged in my system and refused to leave. My normally Rasputin-like immune system seems to be falling down on the job. Super-bug or am I actually getting old? 2. Trip to Gloucester, NYC. This was for the documentary […]

San Diego Comic-Con 2009

Yes, you should come to see me while I’m signing the Get Animated! Book. Come talk to me about Comics and Cartoons. Seriously. SUNDAY July 26th – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM San Diego Comic-Con – at the Watson-Guptill Table – Booth 1128

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.

Get Animated!

I think it’s OK to tell you now that I’ve been writing a book.   Amazon says: “This book shows aspiring animators how to create studio-grade animation on simple home equipment.” I’m pretty sure I wrote that in the introduction. No intended to replace any book by past masters, this one will give you some […]