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The princess is in another castle.
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| | Subject: | Fun Video | | Time: | 09:20 am |
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| There are a lot of Obama videos out there. Some have made me cry, many have inspired me, but this one made me laugh. There's no serious political message here-just some dancing and pseudo-singing. It was the perfect way to start my morning!
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| | Subject: | 3038 Photos in 3 Days | | Time: | 06:11 am |
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| http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CartoonBrew/~3/376895345/3038-photos-in-3-days http://www.cartoonbrew.com/?p=6722 A kid in Boston, Robbie, took just over 3000 digital photos in three days documenting his life in and around the city, and then compiled them into the animated film below. The life he documents is hardly extraordinary (lots and lots of public transport), and yet the film manages to evoke an emotional reaction by offering an intimate glimpse into one guy’s personal life. If not necessarily an original idea, it’s still a well done experimental film.
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| | Subject: | Assorted Liquors and the cartoon production system | | Time: | 01:37 am |
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| http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/assorted-liquors.html To satisfy popular demand, I have posted more sneak peeks at the new George Liquor Show...
Thought you might like to see the stages of art production that happen before animation and what the difference in drawing approaches are. Storyboards are rough. Their purpose is to tell the story, make the characters seem spontaneous and have a lot of guts. A storyboard artist doesn't need to draw "on | comments: Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Possibly saved from buying sheet metal | | Time: | 12:56 am |
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| I remembered I had liquid sculpey. So...I'm going to try the wing design in multiple layers of paper, coated and baked and wired into the pony.
I have, you may like to note, never used liquid sculpey. So I have no idea whether this will work. But I have it on good authority the liquid sculpey is the medium of choice for most transparent wings and you can bake it on paper...
(And if I like the design, sheet metal wings are still not out of the question. And neither are stained glass type wings. I actually bought stained glass chips a while ago with that idea in mind, so don't think I'm kidding about this...) | comments: Leave a comment  |
| | Current Music: | boys of summer-don henely | | Current Location: | cleveland , ohio | | Subject: | Its Late August..the days are getting shorter and colder | | Time: | 10:22 pm | | Current Mood: | blah |
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| | Subject: | Mass Animation Project Pays | | Time: | 11:37 pm |
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| http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CartoonBrew/~3/376651314/mass-animation-project-pays http://www.cartoonbrew.com/?p=6712 
Some happy news to report today. The Mass Animation project that we mentioned here last week released a new set of details today on their Facebook page. Notably among those details is that every artist whose work is used for the short will be compensated financially. Granted that the project is still structured like a contest and there’s a chance that the work you create won’t be used in the film (hence no compensation), but at least the artists whose work wins approval will receive something for their effort. Exploring new production models based on online collaboration is a worthy cause as long as it’s not done on the backs of artists, and I’m glad that we can now show some support behind a contest like Mass Animation. | comments: Leave a comment  |
| What's the last movie you watched?
What did you think about it?
What's your favorite kind of ice cream? | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Shuddup! | | Time: | 10:27 am | | Current Mood: | busy |
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| There's a cricket somewhere in my office. If I find you, cricket, you are dead.
Back to the website now...still editing pictures. I'm hoping to get the picture part done so we can get the RF section "live" at some point before my hair goes grey. I already got the fun section up (it's for tours, quizlets, neat websites that don't really fit elsewhere...) Only three fun things so far, but the tours are still in progress...
ETA: And I just gave a tour to two kids and their stressed out dad. I was there to preoccupy them while the girl forgot about the bouncy ball she lost. Oh my. I'm never having kids. Somehow when kittens play and climb on things they oughtn't, it's cute. When kids do it...not so much.
ETA 2: OMG I'm getting house tour calls already. Waaaaaaaaaah!!! | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Some Things Milt Gross Excels At | | Time: | 02:58 am |
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| http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-things-milt-gross-excels-at.html I think Milt Gross is probably the most all around talented cartoonist in history. Many great cartoonists are known for certain distinct skills or unique traits. Gross had a ton of rare skills.
CHARACTER DESIGN Oddly, many of Milt Gross' main characters were fairly indistinct basic 30s style comic strip characters. He used more imagination in the designs of incidental characters.
What really | comments: Leave a comment  |
| ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US... I mean, ME!
...I'm the new MOD here now.
Bow down, and submit to my wishes...
...and tell me your favorite Futurama episode... :P
YES! ALL OF YOU. ALL... uh, how many of you are there???
OH. We should do something about that. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | It would appear my rhyming filter has been triggered. | | Time: | 07:52 pm |
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| If you go up And then go down But finally choose to go round and round How many times, circularly bound Must you revolve till you hit the ground? | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Bolt: Storyboard vs. CG | | Time: | 08:25 pm |
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| http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CartoonBrew/~3/375574369/bolt-storyboard-vs-cg http://www.cartoonbrew.com/?p=6704 
AICN recently posted the above two images as part of a preview of Disney’s Bolt. So, as I understand the animation process at Disney, here is how you translate a board drawing into a final CG film frame:
1. Remove all the funny shapes in the character design and turn the character into a nondescript blob.
2. Take out any asymmetry (like the angles on the arms) and even out the pose.
3. Tone down the funny expressions.
4. Just in case there is any appeal still left in the CG model, add flat lighting and excessive texturing so the characters and background mesh into an indistinguishable dark muck.
5. Repeat this process until you have blown $150 million dollars. | comments: Leave a comment  |
| If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort And the address of the memory leads your flash drive to abort Does the socket pocket packet have an error to report? | comments: 16 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Explained, at long last: all those tire dimension numbers! | | Time: | 04:00 am |
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| http://www.cartalk.com/content/columns//Archive/2008/August/09.html Dear Tom and Ray: I recently bought a 1966 Volkswagen Bus Sundial Camper and noticed that it has a set of 205/75/R14 tires on the front and a set of 185/75/R14 tires on the back. I don't know how long it was driven this way by the prior owner. Is this dangerous? Could it have caused damage to the Bus? Of course, I am not going to leave them that way! The info I can find says the correct tire size is 195/75/R14. If you put on tires bigger or smaller than recommended by the manufacturer, will the odometer be able to accurately record the number of miles you've traveled? One revolution of a larger tire will cover more ground than one revolution of a smaller one, and it's the revolutions that make the odometer rack up the miles, right? Not that it matters much in a car of this vintage, but over 40 years, the extra miles on or off the engine could really add up. Just wondering. -- Joan | | comments: |
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