Monday, November 30, 2009

drawing table



Thar's me trusty olde drawing tableau.

Its latest wound is the big square cut out of it. I sliced a hole in it to make a rotoscoping table, but it didn't work (shoulda tested it first!), so I patched the cut-out piece back in. This table is a survivor!

Friday, November 27, 2009

word up



Two 3D characters, created and textured using a Handy Dandy Patented Secret Process that I worked out this week.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

pee-om

gag me with a movie

I am watching a terrible movie and it is called Star Trek.

Top five terrible things about this movie:

You know what, I'm not even going to get into it. I feel kind of alone when I hear so many people say a movie is amazing, then I watch it and there is not a single redeeming feature in the film. This is a really really terrible movie, in absolutely every respect. From writing to directing to dialogue, acting, shot selection, it looks like it was made by a bunch of students with too much money.

There are some really horrible movies being created nowadays. Indiana Jones IV, Quantum of Solace, and those Star Wars sequels come to mind. I don't watch a lot of Hollywood movies, but the vast majority them are bad enoguh to concern me about the state of the human race. We direct more money than ever before in history to create entertainent, and this is what we create? And hundreds of millions of dollars more are spent by audiences who flock to watch this? Sometimes more than once? And I'm sure the sequel(s) will be wildly popular as well.

I pray to the gods that children these days still read books.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

last few days



All the art I've done since the weekend has been intense 3D computer stuff. I'm trying hard to finish this film I'm working on before I leave for Christmas, so it's tight tight tight!

This is a conglomeration of animation notes / "to do" lists over the last 48 hours.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

the mall



Two other animators and myself spent 3-4 hours at a mall on Saturday, taking a tonne of photos for pixilation (stop-motion), and drawing. This is from the food court.

We made a bunch of superquick animation from the footage today. 30 minutes per person per piece of footage, then you had to pass it on for the next person to add to it. Very fun and freeing doing stuff in such a short amount of time. I may post a bit of that footage tomorrow, when I'm less burnt out.

Saturday

I bin drawin' lots but
No time for postin'

Tomorrow (Sunday) night fer surely.