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Monthly Archives: May 2012
The pig flip
My work yesterday evening was to try to work out the timing for the pig flip with five main positions: start, up, rotate to 90°, rotate to 180°, down. Very brief – two seconds max. In the first attempt I … Continue reading
Milt Kahl
It’s totally wrong to even presume to compare myself to Milt Kahl, but so often in recent weeks, I’ve been reminded of the bit in Richard Williams’ book when he describes asking Kahl if he ever listened to music while … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Concentration, Drawing, Support
Tagged Milt Kahl, Richard Williams
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More on voices
I was listening to This American Life Saturday with a story by Welsh writer/journalist/humorist Jon Ronson reading from his book about the Psychopath Test (I’ve heard it before – it first aired a year ago) and I was captivated by his voice. … Continue reading
Posted in Voice Talent
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Once upon a time…
Once upon a time, there was a woman who everyone thought was a witch… I am trying to figure out how much time I have to establish the series of past accusations against Elizabeth How. I have started drawing a … Continue reading
Posted in Story Development
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Music Track for Take #8
With Take #8 posted at Vimeo, I suddenly realized that at about two and a half minutes, it’s about the duration of the main part of “Germany,” the musical composition by Ryan Love that he had sent my way back … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Music
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Another Pencil Test
For all the drawing I’ve been doing this past week, when it’s come to doing my first pencil test of a character, I feel like I’ve seized right up again! Arrgh! But I still have something, as a place to … Continue reading
Disney’s “Chicken Little” (1943)
In 1943, Walt Disney released a short called “Chicken Little,” using the traditional story of the little chicken who gets bumped on the head and starts running around causing a panic, convinced that the sky is falling. But in this … Continue reading
Breaking the Fourth Wall
After an evening of watching Tex Avery cartoons – both his Warner Brothers and MGM work – and two documentaries about him (Portrait of Tex Avery from Turner in 1988 and the other in French, Tex Avery : un univers en folie, … Continue reading
Posted in Story Development
Tagged Bugs Bunny, Chuck Jones, Screwball Squirrel, Tex Avery, Wile E. Coyote
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More sketching of the Deacon
To do my pencil test of the Deacon (Isaac Sr.) contemplating what to do, I really need to work more on what kind of expressive acting range I can give him, and what I want to communicate about his inner … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Characters
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Giving dimension to my characters
I worked for a while this evening on Isaac Sr., trying to take the drawing of him from the very two dimension comic face looking straight on, to be able to move him around in space to seem three-dimensional while … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Characters
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