lamentations

was in the middle of a board when I got the itch to draw a barbarian. been a while since I've drawn anything for myself. BLAGH back to work.

Finito. Text may be altered.

Brush me.

WORD.

here's A drawing Mr. Puga

brrrrrrttt... there. crapped that out about a month ago. Just don't have time for anything but writing lately. so there. nyeh!

I dig the music.

Yoshinori Kanada tribute made by someone that isn't me.

I'm just gonna quote wikipedia...

Yoshinori Kanada (金田 伊功, Kanada Yoshinori^?, born February 5, 1952 in Nara, Japan) is an influential Japanese animator.

Best known of his popular work in 1984, Birth, one of the first OVAs released in the market. He may not do much character designs, but he is famous of his character animation skills, his characters literally come alive on the screen. His work in Galaxy Express 999 (1979) and Harmegeddon (1983) has been very influential to an entire generation of animators in Japan. These two works also served as partial inspiration for Takashi Murakami's Superflat art movement. During the 80s and 90s, he has worked with the famous director, Hayao Miyazaki closely in several movies from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind to Princess Mononoke. Also, he is known for breaking down the directorial system in animation allowing individual key animators to exert their own style into a particular work.

Amazing to see how one animator giving power to individual directors on productions led to a multitude of stylistic movements on Japan that are still going strong today and continue to create even more influences. Anime is not one dimensional and shouldn't be counted out simply because there are no "anime historians" around to talk about the GOOD qualities of eastern animation. For the most part the West largely ignores the amazing things they get away with that are simply taboo in animation over here.

Eastern and Western animation are fairly similar in how homogenized they are stylistically. Western has their generic "look" just as the East does. However, we excell at our qualities just as they have certain things that they absolutely kick our asses at. The unfortunate part is that we hog the spotlight despite how stifled I think our industry is, whereas they catch a lot of flack for being "cheap" yet they excercise much more freedom and experimentation in their craft. Chew on that I suppose.

electrocute him then set him on fire.

Galactic Mail from Asterokid on Vimeo.

This was so nice. seeing 3d getting to a point where it actually FELT genuinely cartoony and not just pose to pose zippyness you'd find in even feature quality 3d animation.

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Anyhow, I guess I should've said it sooner but I'm doing board revisions for a show that you'll hopefully see sometime next fall on Cartoon Network about a certain big cat of a lightish red persuasion. It's pretty cool, learning a lot and also having some of the negative aspects that we've all heard about on other blogs being brought to hilarious reality.

Biggest lesson learned since working there; tv animation is a collaborative process and no one sets out to make a bad cartoon on purpose. The general education (cinematic and storytelling-wise) of the crew combined with obstacles and obligations presented by the people actually paying for the show all effect how well a show works... or doesn't. No one's out to destroy cartoons, but it does feel like there's just a TON of overanalyzing and "fear of ____" on the part of the executive side that just forces the writing of shows into a corner.

So you get a lot of sighing and eye rolling and "well, what can ya do? We gotta work around it."

yeah...

AND THE PROM IS TOMORROW!!!

I don't think the actual US Akira remake will be as much of a sell out as this video postulates, but it does bring up (in very broad terms) the VAST difference in sophistication of content between what you can generally find in Western animation and Eastern animation.

And it made me laugh, which is the only real reason I'm posting it, of course.

Bill Moyers and Susan Jacoby on the American Failure in Education and Reason

Blagh

My laptop is dead. The economy is about to collapse. Here are some boards.

Cal Arts?

So what happened to Cal Arts? One might ask themselves if they cared at all about this blog or happenings in my life (which might well be like 3 people).

LIFE... that's what happened.

Despite my efforts over the last year or so I can only guess that I just didn't fight hard enough or the tidal wave of happenstance was just too strong, but the cards simply aren't in place. A lot of cruddy things happened during the summer to prevent me from having the resources to go and a fair amount of GOOD things are happening right now that are pulling me away from focusing on school.

It's down to doing what Cal Arts would've done for me anyway, only I'd be doing it on my own and without having that safety net of school under my feet or going to school and simply delaying my struggle to hopefully give me a better shot somewhere down the line.

If you know me then you know that whether I'm in school or not, I don't stop learning and drawing and trying to get better. Maybe in another year. A year to get out of debt, repair my credit and be more self reliant and prepared for bigger tasks. But by then I might have already achieved my goals.

Nothing is ever certain no matter how well you plan things out. That's the biggest lesson I've learned so far.

Anyway, maybe I'll see some of you guys in Corny's class.

More Bakshi

Bakshi talks about his works, including "Hey Good Looking" which is almost impossible to find in stores...

but available on torrent ;)

Done.

Crap. I just noticed how it looks exactly like the other pinup I did. Will rework colors for the POSTER version, eh..? Anyone interested in posters? yeeeeessss? *wink wink*

Thrash Trash

meep morp.

"el" to the "oh" to the "el"

By Roger
By Roel
By Carl

Welcome to the wondiferous world of caricature artistry. Done by my co-workers...

goodness.

Share and share alike...

Looking for visual inspiration?



http://ffffound.com/

A blog that basically looks for interesting images and puts them in one convenient place.

The Fastest.

Top: Rough version of the Derby Girls flyer (second version). WIP. Just alying out the typography. Need to work more on the hierarchy of type, change some things here and there. but I like this version MUCH better than the pink one.

Middle: YO. word.

Bottom: Sup cutie.

I want to be THAT guy.

Animation heads NEED NEED NEED to check out the "Journey to the West" promo for the 2008 Olympics that has been produced by Gorillaz honchos, Damon Albarn and my style-saint, Jamie Hewlett.

KLIP

Now I'm going to put my pants back on.

Here's more on their Journey to the West project. Did I mention it's an Opera?

This message will self destruct...

My buddy Dave Igo called me up last night to inform me that the guys who do The Cryptics were 3 pages short, so instead of filling up the extra space with lame ads they needed some pinup art pronto. Done and done.

16 hours with breaks and watching the Science Channel. addictive.

What I'm into...

At the moment it's, Studio 4C's "Amazing Nuts!" series of short film/music videos/project demos by their various in house directors. Read a bit about it here.

See it:




there's a bunch more, but you can find em yourself.

Oh, and J.U.S.T.I.C.E.'s video for "Stress":


raddddd...

version 1

temporary idea.