| One Complaint |
[Jul. 25th, 2008|03:12 pm] |
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Dear Mr. Whedon,
42:26, seriously?
Yours,
Tealin
Not like that. You people, sheesh. |
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| The Villains' Cookie Therapy Club |
[Jul. 23rd, 2008|09:45 am] |
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What's more fun than a dorky crossover gag? A crossover with a running joke!
Sigh. |
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| Obsession Loves Company |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|01:29 am] |
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Of all the ways to see Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the best has got to be as the clock is ticking down to its disappearance from the Free Intarweb, in a small room full of friends, who are actually singing along. |
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| Who's a Dork? I'm a Dork! |
[Jul. 20th, 2008|10:37 am] |
Who's been making inappropriate use of their time? Ooh, ooh, I know!
This started out as a doodle when I realized the ostinato guitar behind that first song in Act II sounded a lot like the bit in 'The Island' by the Decemberists. That's Colin Meloy, see? Oh, my sides split with laughter! Well because it was that part I imagined it lit like that and the bare pencil sketch just looked bare. So, four hours later ...
C'mon, I haven't had anything to obsess over in ages. Thbpbthpthbpb, shut up go away.
In case anyone is wondering (and I know someone is wondering) this is a big part of why I haven't posted much Deathly Hallows art. Not because I've been doing this – well, okay, partly because I've been doing this – but because the few illustrations for it that did enter my head entered it fully rendered and in colour, and would lose all purpose without it. And frankly, my dear ... |
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| Part III |
[Jul. 19th, 2008|01:45 pm] |
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Oh, Mr Whedon.
Oh, you. You and your ... you.
Watch the whole thing this weekend only! (free, anyway.)
Edit: Hmm, I feel a rave about story structure and audience involvement rumbling. In the meantime ... [forks over paltry sum for permanent possession of quality entertainment] |
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| Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog |
[Jul. 18th, 2008|10:00 am] |
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Who's the most loveable and pathetic supervillain on the block?
( Whedon Woman and Clone High )
If you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, mosey on over HERE and enjoy! (The Plan is also entertaining but not as much as the real thing.) Or at the very least, crash their server again. It's only available to watch for free till the 20th, then you have to buy it off iTunes. (Cunning!) I have to admit I only found it mildly amusing the first time, but then I watched it again and watched the second episode and ... yeah. You can see what happened.
Oh, Joss Whedon, don't ever change. We need someone who's so good at character development and capable of being tongue-in-cheek and sincere simultaneously. Please clone yourself, or at least take an apprentice, so that your skills are not lost when you are inevitably taken back to your home planet (or go mad like George Lucas). |
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| Internet/RL Dual Citizenship |
[Jul. 15th, 2008|11:19 am] |
I have just encountered a problem that has never troubled me before: I need to satirize someone focusing way too much on making a story dramatic and serious to the possible detriment of entertainment value, and all I can come up with is 'omg SRS BZNS.' How do I communicate that to someone who may not be familiar with netspeak conventions?
In other words... I can has English plz? |
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| Having Rediscovered Once More With Feeling |
[Jul. 13th, 2008|08:54 pm] |
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OMG, THE FIRE TRUCK. How could I have forgotten?
(Sorry for the subtitles and the darkness; this was the only clip I could find that was actually of the show and in English.) |
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| Persepolis Product Placement |
[Jul. 13th, 2008|12:02 am] |
To the tune of 'Christmas is Coming':
Satrapi's new movie
Is out on DVD –
Please to watch Persepolis
On your TV.
If you will not buy this movie,
Then renting it will do;
If you will not even rent it then
Shame on you.
Seriously, though, watch it. Even if you don't think you'll like it, give it a try. I thought it was going to be preachy and political or irritatingly sentimental but it's not – it's funny, heartbreaking, fascinating, human, and just generally fantastic. WATCH IT.
Here's a trailer.
Watch iiiiit... |
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| Life with The Company |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|07:07 pm] |
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| | Ode to My Employer - Circus Contraption | ] |
I.
I park my bike behind the studio, so I get to see all the nitty gritty heavy lifting that goes into running the Mouse House. Usually there's some sort of big truck back there; often it's a Buena Vista Studios freight truck either coming or going from storage (resuscitating 2D means moving a lot of furniture) or else it's a garbage truck emptying one of the dumpsters. But on Tuesday it was a Glendale School District truck. Glendale School District? Have they decided to phase out school buses and truck their kids to a field trip? What could they possibly be delivering to Disney? Then I saw they were loading computer monitors into it. I'm sure there's a great big tax incentive behind it, but still – d'AWWWW. I wonder if the kids who use those monitors will know where they came from, or that the screen they're looking at was used to make the movies they watched not long ago.
II.
I pulled up to the bike rack and, next to the dumpsters, was a pile of wooden palettes. But they were not intended to be taken away by the garbagemen. How did I know this? Because stuck to them was a photocopy of Kuzco in a defensive action pose with 'NO TOUCHY!' in big black letters. It's great to know I work with people who are nerdy about their own stuff.
III.
We had a FIRE DRILL! It was very exciting! We all survived! Anyone driving down Riverside at that point must have thought they were looking at the oddest strike ever because everyone was clustered under placards sporting various Disney characters which designate evacuation groups.
Later we had healthy snacks and naptime. (Just kidding.) (About naptime.)
IV.
There's a company-wide initiative to reduce the number of Disney employee cars commuting every day – they've got carpools, vanpools, transit vouchers, and small bonuses for walking/biking, but with the recent release of Wall•E they've stepped it up. For the month of July, every day you take alternative transport to work, you get an entry in a draw whose prize is ... wait for it ... A BIG-SCREEN PLASMA TV AND BLU-RAY PLAYER! So you, too, can become a complacent blob! Who thought this through, and how much were they paid? |
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| Mad ... MAAAD Radio |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|06:42 pm] |
I am a yellow fly,
I fly high up the sky –
You cannot see me when the sun shines,
Cos I am the colour of the sunshine ...
I am the colour of the sunshine.
If you have a hankering for something mindblowingly surreal, delivered by a dry little old man with occasional musical interludes, there is nothing better in the world. You'll either hate it or wet your pants laughing. It's one of my favourite pieces of radio ever, which might make me eligible for any number of psychiatric drugs. Give it a try! It's only 15 minutes!
Ivor Cutler's A Wet Handle |
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| Weekends in Tinseltown, Part I |
[Jul. 5th, 2008|12:01 pm] |
Told you there was a Part I.
A little over a month ago, on the internal Disney Animation website, someone posted information about a concert at UCLA where the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra would accompany a silent film, and for which Disney employees got a rather generous discount. It had been quite some time since I'd been to a concert, and the discounted tickets as well as the novelty of seeing a silent film with live orchestra convinced my sister and me that this could be worth taking time out for. We decided to make a day of it, and take advantage of the commute to do a Hollywood Heritage Tour, taking pre-freeway surface streets all the way from the studio district of Burbank through the hills, into Hollywood, then down the famous stretch of Sunset Blvd (past what would be 10086, if such an address existed) to UCLA, where we wandered around for a while gawping at the fantastic architecture, taking photos in the golden light of the setting sun, and looking for a bathroom that was open after 6 on a Saturday. When the auditorium's doors finally opened we found our seats and generally settled in for an evening of culture just like any other concert we'd been to, with the slight exception that one of the speakers introducing the event was Dustin Hoffman. The lights went down, the orchestra tuned up, the projector started ...
( ... and The Girl lost her Heart to a Motion Picture Star ) |
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| The Dagon Files |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|07:05 pm] |
What better way to celebrate the 141st anniversary of the Confederation of Canada than with some horrible fishy froggy demon creatures? Let's visit the lovely New England seaside town of Innsmouth.
( More )
Sorry for the large file; I rather liked the way it scanned so I didn't greyscale or adjust levels which usually brings down the file size. |
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| Cyclopean Madness |
[Jun. 29th, 2008|11:38 pm] |
OMG IT'S A DRAWING!
Still picking my way through that Lovecraft book ... This is an attempt at capturing what looked, in my head, like a pretty cool scene in a movie, when the narrator and Danforth discover the ancient Antarctic city of the Old Ones* in their plane – though on paper it looks like the least amount of imagination possible went into it. If I had more time I'd have tried to come up with something more interesting for the architecture but this was the first impression in my mind, and I got a little preoccupied with trying to do values and atmospheric perspective in pencil, which didn't turn out terribly well either.
I wonder if Mignola and del Toro will ever get around to making this story into a movie, as they were rumoured to have been planning ... They'd do it right if anyone could. I'd love to see Mignola do a comic book of any of Lovecraft's stories because he has exactly the right aesthetic, which I'm sure is far from coincidence, but he seems to have lost interest in drawing lately. Sigh. (I bask in hypocrisy...)
*Not Susan Cooper's 'Old Ones,' though a crossover would be pretty hilarious... |
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| Wall-E |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|06:50 pm] |
Because I work for the company that's releasing it, and because it's animation, I get to see Wall-E twice for free! The first time was Wednesday night, when they showed it at the studio for animation employees and their families; the second is a Prince Caspian-like booking of an entire Burbank cinema on Saturday to show the rest of the company and their guests. This gives me the chance to do a two-pronged review, encapsulating my first impressions and what I take away from the movie the second time. I don't know if that is terribly interesting to anyone but me, but you're free to skip it if you wish. I shall endeavour to avoid spoilers whenever possible, but I can't vouch for the comments.
( First Impressions )
( Second Impressions )
Before I forget: stay for the credits. The art department really shows off, and even when they step off the stage it's entertaining for a while. If you can keep still for a little longer, there is a very short and wry little ding at the very very end.
So, what did you think? What was your audience like? Having seen it twice with grown-up movie people I have no idea how it's being received at large; even the ones with children have taught them to be respectful and quiet in the theatre. |
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| Bolt Trailer |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|01:52 pm] |
BOLT
Watch the trailer!
Thoughts? Impressions? Reactions? Positive or negative? Anything? |
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| Hiatus |
[Jun. 19th, 2008|05:42 pm] |
All right, Internet, I'm going away for a few days to recharge my homesickness, eat some real food, watch water fall from the sky, and remember what green looks like. With any luck I won't have forgotten how to animate by the time I get back, and might even have a couple drawings to post. Ta!
P.S. If you feel like acquiring some lovely art and helping out a friend of mine, go commission something from Salamandersoup! I'm sure she will finish her commissions much faster than I did. |
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| Play it Again, Humph |
[Jun. 17th, 2008|12:44 pm] |
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Radio 4 is back on the tribute wagon, having just had a Humph Sunday. Links!
Chairman Humph, a Tribute - Stephen Fry presents a special tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, through the eyes of his pals on the show and fans from Judi Dench to Radiohead.
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (April 17, 1994) - For all you folks who only discovered the joy of the antidote to panel games after he died, they're airing a series of archived episodes Mondays at 6:30pm BST/10:30am PST. Keep it up, Radio 4! It never gets old! I mean that sincerely! |
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| Nugget of Awesome |
[Jun. 15th, 2008|02:49 pm] |
opening 2D scene - now in Quicktime!
WARNING: You may go blind from sheer awesomeness. (My eyes! It's too awesome!)
I was extremely lucky that I got to see this come together (though I didn't work on it myself). It's astonishing how much it looks like the original concept artwork, but moving. Those flags at the beginning, for example, were gestural paint strokes, but they animate like flags and still look the same! And if anyone needs a lesson in arcs they just have to look at the swooshy kung fu bits because they are perfect. All the 2D character animation and, I think, most of the effects, were done by James Baxter; the rest is AfterEffects which was animated by a very small group of likewise very talented people. I am in deepest awe.
There's also the closing credits animation (in lovely big Quicktime which you can stopframe) which I think was done after they all moved to Dreamworks.
I have to wait till next weekend to see the rest of the movie, though... |
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