Saturday, September 30, 2006
Cold Squid and South Park: (an Update)
Last Thursday I was in town early to beat the traffic on the 5 so I stopped by the ASIFA Archives. There was a lull in human activist when all the computers where clugging along digitizing and everybody (1 researcher, 3 volunteers, Steve Worth and yours truly) sat down and passed around animation stories.
The Archives is becoming the center of the animation community. There were people from Nick and people working with John K. and people from I don`t know where. But they were all animation people. Somebody came by with a Ub Iworks film he had just got off of ebay.
If it wasn`t such a long drive in from Orange County I would be at the Archive every time the doors open.
HOMEFRONT:
I have been working on my next version of my book, Animation on a $hoe$tring (tm). I don`t want to get caught flat footed next year doing the rewrite from hell just before Comic Con.
click image to see PDF of phase 1 of the project
The prices of animation wheels being what they are now days (about $300 for the wheel alone) I am working on plans for a do-it-yourself animation wheel project that will cost less than $40.
EVENTS:
I should be meeting with the event planner at Woodbury this week to set a date for the long threatened Stop Mo Expo.
I have a couple of syllabi to write yet this weekend and I have to pull my films for my Monday night class so this is going to have to be it for now. Oh, and the title of this update, that came up in conversation last Thursday at the Archives but there is no way to explain it to you. ¶ 9:02 AM
Last Thursday I was in town early to beat the traffic on the 5 so I stopped by the ASIFA Archives. There was a lull in human activist when all the computers where clugging along digitizing and everybody (1 researcher, 3 volunteers, Steve Worth and yours truly) sat down and passed around animation stories.
The Archives is becoming the center of the animation community. There were people from Nick and people working with John K. and people from I don`t know where. But they were all animation people. Somebody came by with a Ub Iworks film he had just got off of ebay.
If it wasn`t such a long drive in from Orange County I would be at the Archive every time the doors open.
HOMEFRONT:
I have been working on my next version of my book, Animation on a $hoe$tring (tm). I don`t want to get caught flat footed next year doing the rewrite from hell just before Comic Con.
click image to see PDF of phase 1 of the project
The prices of animation wheels being what they are now days (about $300 for the wheel alone) I am working on plans for a do-it-yourself animation wheel project that will cost less than $40.
EVENTS:
I should be meeting with the event planner at Woodbury this week to set a date for the long threatened Stop Mo Expo.
I have a couple of syllabi to write yet this weekend and I have to pull my films for my Monday night class so this is going to have to be it for now. Oh, and the title of this update, that came up in conversation last Thursday at the Archives but there is no way to explain it to you. ¶ 9:02 AM
