First things first, I am posting from that new wonderful little iPhone app that came out for Wordpress. That said, it’s here to get me to post more often.
Today a few of my coworkers and I shirked out Nickelodeon duties and made our way over to the Children’s Museum of Mannhatten. My new boss was also in our little our group. We went to go see it’s small exhibit of original Golden Book illustrations.
A word about this; a coworker of mine suggested that I do a series of tutorials on Flash drawing and animation. Examples will be taken from my film for more indy related stuff and some examples from work files and processes used in game development. I have always believed that its good karma to share all that you know. That said I will attempt to share all that I know. Enough said, now for the first lesson.
LESSON 01
Efficiency in Flash is important. Whether you are working on your own or on a production team, you need to get your work done as fast as possible. In this lesson I will explore JSFL plugins for Flash.
JSFL (Javascript Flash) is a script language that lets you perform certain tasks with in Flash. The best analogy I can come up with is that its a harder to work with version of Actions in Photoshop. That said its not as easy to use. I personally have no idea how to make any of these, though that doesn’t mean you can’t use them. First you will need to get your self a copy of Adobe Extension Manager. You will Extension Manager to install all the following extensions.
Its been a few hours of work and digging, but now I have it, a totally re-imagined portfolio. Well maybe not totally, I do have about 3 works that I kept from the old one, mostly because I have no new animal drawings that I can find, I will have to check my laptop again to make sure. Hum… I swear. Any who click on the “portfolio” link above and that will take you to all the new works! Enjoy!
Update: So I didn’t have to look far to find more drawings, I guess I just over looked the folder :P
My Coworker Allison sent me this awesome link show examples of animation that has New York in it. I think I can add to this a bit, though this is a pretty exhaustive list.
Hey look at this I’m on a f*cking roll here. This is like the third post this week… I just finished this sketch that had 6 previous incarnations. What I wanted was a girl longing for someone to the right of her, at a cafe. I am going to finish this as a painting on a large canvas (24″x30″, still not sure if I’m going to do acrylic or oil. There will also be another image to the right which will have the interest. The idea behind this is I want to start dabbling in fine art and pushing the boundary of what is cartooning or illustration and fine art. As these two field blur you start to find cross over like Makoto Aida’s works. I know its Japanese but it has definitely influence American culture at least in how I was brought up, thus my art tends to hearken back to Anime instead of UPA. That said that is the reasoning behind the style. The over arching theme is feelings, there will be others as well as variants, this one is longing.
PS - crits are welcome!
Girl in Cafe (aka “longing”)
Oh boy second post in two days, well I should be working right now on a video for myNOGGIN, but I just had to post this page that I animated. Basically we have these pages on Nick Jr.’s website called landing pages and these are usually used as introductory sections for show titles. Our newest property is this really wonderfully animated show called Ni Hao Kai-lan. I have not been this excited to have worked on a page since doing Wonder Pets!. Its a really wonderful show and if you are into animation I suggest having a look at the show on Nick Jr. With out further adieu here is the page.
Happy New Year, for that matter Happy Chinese New Year! It has been so long since my last post. Well I did post, about my store, but then I took that down as it fell through. I learned a lot from the experience a lot which I will apply to something similar in a few years. So for now I am keeping all of it to myself including the idea ;)
In the meantime I have been working on my film “Automatic Doors”. Its never really a good idea to have your whole work in progress online, so instead I will post out of order 1 minute chunks of rough animation online. Currently I have a little over 50 seconds done right now.
So I broke down the other day and headed over to the AT&T store near my building in Times Square. Unless you have been living in a cave for the past few days you undoubtedly heard that Apple dropped the price of its mu touted iPhone device, originally the 8 GB model was $599, now its $399. Right away that got me thinking and i felt that all the trade offs were now worth while, I will get to my dislikes later.Unfortunately the price cut has over shadowed all news with the new iPod devices, and on trading days when Apple’s stock should have risen it has fallen almost 10 points. The other devices include a video iPod Nano, big hard drive and UI upgrades to the “iPod Classic” (80 GB and 160GB models!) and a thing called iPod Touch, which is basically an iPhone with more space and no phone. It was WiFi too! Whats even better is they are releasing an iTunes WiFi store that can be used on the iPhone and iPod Touch, a great way to nab impulse buyers. Read the rest of this entry »
I always cringe when I see articles on line similar to the following article from Reuters (Big media seen playing hardball with Apple). Specifically this quote:
“If there isn’t any video you want to watch, the device itself is worth less money,” Forrester analyst James McQuivey said of the iPod and other Apple products, such as the Apple TV set-top box and the iPhone.
James, you just don’t get it do you? Most people who own video iPods who want to have their DVD’s on their iPods just use one of the many programs that allows people to RIP DVDs. Not to say that I do this because it would violate the DMCA. However copying what you already have purchased is legal under US copyright law, so long as its not digital in nature. DMCA says you need to repurchase. That aside there are many many ways which people use to take their pre-owned content and make it available on their digital media player. Most of them are quite easy.