Whew. So long since a fresh new Animation Hotline video. It felt so good to do whatever I wanted to do and not have to try to make sure it looked good or looked right and could experiment and make mistakes and just have fun. 

I have a chance to go to Cannes this year with the Animation Hotline, so I’ve got two things. First, I need people to leave messages about ‘The Other’. See the website for a more detailed description of what I’m looking for. But if I choose your message it will be played and premiered at Cannes in May 2012. The second thing is that I’m looking for help to fund me attending a networking workshop at the festival (Cannes) so if you know anyone who wants to help with that, again, information on the website. 

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I’ve been watching a bunch of Queen videos on youtube lately and I told my friend about it. Today when he came over he said, “Did you just draw Freddie Mercury?” Um, wow, yeah, I guess I did.

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

animationhotline.org

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

animationhotline.org

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline

I used some new techniques with this one. The last scene has three layers, the image, a mask of the person walking and a still image of another painting. I haven’t really used a lot of post-production in the past, but it was nice to try different things and layer the images.

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

animationhotline.org

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline

A little light on the color, but sometimes I feel like I rely too heavily on color and sometimes I need to just make something with a simple line and little or no color.

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

animationhotline.org

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline

Electric Literature had me do one of the Single Sentence Animations for them. They give you a sentence from one of their stories and then let you do what you want with it. The sound is a high school show choir singing a rendition of Surfing USA, it’ll make more sense if you read the story.

Classic Pat and Vannah, on Vannah’s first day at the office.  Does Pat say something greasy? 

Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

animationhotline.org

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline

I know this isn’t so much using the chalkboard, but sometimes it’s fun to switch it up a little bit and try something different.

I was thinking I should edit this down but after listening to the message a few times I really couldn’t cut out any of the message.  She is so sincere and so excited and thought that to edit anything would be taking away from the beauty of the message.

I believe the ethnologist and engineer Raine Borg said it best with his statement, “A key is a symbol of all forces that open and close, bind and release. It stands for liberation and incarceration.”