Friday, May 06, 2005
Friday Catch Up
It is that time of year, I am making lists again, lists of things to remember to do, Comic Con is upon me. To tell the truth I have been hitting up people to be guests on our panels since January, but now it is really starting to heat up.
Stole yesterday to work on my animation. Got to work fast, comic con is going to bury it if I don`t get a move on.
The board has just scheduled the first Annie meeting to start getting ready for the 2005 Annies. This year is screaming on down the road.
It is great to see some movement on the Archive project. It has taken so much work to get here and it is not moving fast enough for me but it has got to go one step at a time to do it right. Money, money, money, money! as the Incredibles` Rick Dicker says.
Months and months of going through the archives and scanning it into the system, this is what I have been waiting for. The fun part. This is what Bill Scott envisioned all those years ago. But we need a couple of thousand dollars more to get phase one off the ground so I can get to look at all the cool stuff we have been squirreling away all these years. So you can get to look at it.
How cool is that, to have big chunk of animation history in an easy to search virtual archive. To be able to call up the History of Animaiton and look at it on the screen.
Animation History is not just a class I teach to want-to-be animators. It is people and the artifacts that they leave behind. The big studios do a good job of keeping track of their history. But what about the animators and story-people, the inkers and painters, the small studios that come and go, who is keeping track of the individual people that make the magic?
That is what this project is about, the individuals that are animation history. Every year we gather at the DeMille Barn and we say farewell to our comrades in art. Do not go silent into that goodnight.
If you have a few dollars you can kick in to help build a lasting memory of the art form that we all love, I know that times are tough and the economy is a mess and doing what you love does not always pay that much . . . enough said. All the relatives on my mother`s side of the family were ministers and sometimes I channel some of them, but it is a good cause.
Scooter Milne and I are moving forward on plans for some kind of Stop Mo Expo for the Fall. Should be fun. Not sure what form it will take but got some ideas on who we want on the panels. ¶ 2:05 AM
Stole yesterday to work on my animation. Got to work fast, comic con is going to bury it if I don`t get a move on.
The board has just scheduled the first Annie meeting to start getting ready for the 2005 Annies. This year is screaming on down the road.
It is great to see some movement on the Archive project. It has taken so much work to get here and it is not moving fast enough for me but it has got to go one step at a time to do it right. Money, money, money, money! as the Incredibles` Rick Dicker says.
Months and months of going through the archives and scanning it into the system, this is what I have been waiting for. The fun part. This is what Bill Scott envisioned all those years ago. But we need a couple of thousand dollars more to get phase one off the ground so I can get to look at all the cool stuff we have been squirreling away all these years. So you can get to look at it.
How cool is that, to have big chunk of animation history in an easy to search virtual archive. To be able to call up the History of Animaiton and look at it on the screen.
Animation History is not just a class I teach to want-to-be animators. It is people and the artifacts that they leave behind. The big studios do a good job of keeping track of their history. But what about the animators and story-people, the inkers and painters, the small studios that come and go, who is keeping track of the individual people that make the magic?
That is what this project is about, the individuals that are animation history. Every year we gather at the DeMille Barn and we say farewell to our comrades in art. Do not go silent into that goodnight.
If you have a few dollars you can kick in to help build a lasting memory of the art form that we all love, I know that times are tough and the economy is a mess and doing what you love does not always pay that much . . . enough said. All the relatives on my mother`s side of the family were ministers and sometimes I channel some of them, but it is a good cause.
Scooter Milne and I are moving forward on plans for some kind of Stop Mo Expo for the Fall. Should be fun. Not sure what form it will take but got some ideas on who we want on the panels. ¶ 2:05 AM
