March 2011
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WatchI did a little commercial today. It’s for the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Chelsea. I haven’t ever shopped there, but Gary, used to go there and said it was a good one. I guess they were closed for a while and now they are reopening. I was a little conflicted, the whole art vs. commercial work but I’ve been listening to a bunch of NPR lately, and they don’t have...
WatchThis one took me a minute to understand, and I didn’t really want to draw a knife cutting her open, but I didn’t mind drawing the things still sitting around her house, the shoes, the toothbrush, the scarf, the things that cut just as deep. 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...
WatchThe Good Way
I’ve noticed that I’ve had a very sensitive sense of smell lately. I don’t know what that’s all about. I’ve even started smelling things that aren’t there, a phantom smell. I have not smelled my cat’s paws though, mostly because I know it’s the same paw that scoots around in the litter box. Animation Hotline is a series of...
WatchI live pretty close to Canal Street where they sell all the fake Rolex watches and when I was young I heard that the way you can tell is that the fake ones the second hand ticks off every second and the real ones move smoothly around the face. I don’t know if this is true or not and I’m not really a watch person (which makes me wonder why I start all these things off with some...
WatchI have no idea how to draw characters. I’m going to have to work on that. I knew it was hard, so I keep avoiding it, but I thought this one would be easy, I was wrong. Drawing a character and making it look recognizable in the next frame is practically impossible. I don’t think I’ll be working for Disney this week. Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where...
WatchComma used to be a really skinny guy when I first met him, but over the past fifteen years he’s been working out and now he’s really big. It’s that thing that he’s sort of gravitated to as his thing. 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...
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WatchLaura Bidwell left this on the machine when I first started the project. It was a really difficult message to visualize because there was so much motion. I decided to use items from the past and make it more about memory than trying to recreate the narrative. Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. when you get a chance please...
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WatchThe animations are really starting to get a lot easier. I was really happy how a few pieces of this turned out, the light coming across the sofa and the little red glow after the light bulb gets turned out. The imagery itself for this piece isn’t as long, but I think the dark periods go well with what Jon was saying. I think this is one of my favorites (do I say that every day?).
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WatchGrahame Wienbren left this one for me a few weeks ago and I tried to animate it when I was sick and on cough medicine, but after staring at the screen for eight hours, took a sick day and went to bed. Today I did all sorts of new stuff that I’m excited about. I animated a fire for the first time and it turned out pretty good. I learned a few tricks that I’ll use next time I try...
WatchThis guy left a bunch of messages all right in a row and the biggest problem was deciding which one to use. I wanted to go with this whole physics explanation of a star, but couldn’t think of how to animate it. Maybe some other day.
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 ...
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WatchThis was one of the first messages I received, and I was so excited about it that I tried to do it first, but after working on it for a few hours I had to set it aside and work on something else. I just wasn’t able to animate it. For whatever reason, today I felt like I was going to be able to do it, so I picked it back up and drew it. Animation Hotline is a series of daily...
WatchI like this guy’s voice. He left another message that was also funny, but it needed to be animated right there on that day and I didn’t get to it. Disclaimer: I got the joke at the end about the spelling of ‘weird’ off of a Rubber City Clothing t-shirt. I’d image that they got it from somewhere else, but if they didn’t, then it’s made me laugh for...
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WatchPoor Dylynn left this one on my answering machine and she’s been waiting for who knows how long, maybe since the middle of February now. Thanks Dylynn for being so patient. As far as posting daily, I think this makes four days in a row now. I’m starting to get into a little groove now. I’ve been going to bed extra early and getting up extra early, excited about the next...
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WatchMy hands are always really dirty and sometimes I get self conscious about it, but there really isn’t a lot I can do about it, especially when I’m working with pastels. I could wear gloves, but then I don’t feel I’d have as much control.
I haven’t been getting as many messages. I think the people that were leaving them stopped because they thought I stopped on...
WatchI love this guy’s voice. He didn’t leave his name, so I don’t know who it is or how I can let him know that I used his phone message. That’s sort of a gray area, trying to contact the people who left the message. Most of the time I don’t even try, and just hope that they check back, or hope someone else tells them.
I got pretty excited about this project today. ...
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WatchUrsula is about to have a baby. I think it is due in two weeks, but that was a few days ago, so it should be soon. I think they are going to name the baby Pedro, but it’s just a guess. I don’t even know if Pedro is in the running as far as baby names. The good thing about Pedro it is a good choice no matter if it is a boy or a girl.
I’ve started the animations again. ...