I’m working here starting this week until someone kicks me out. Shouldn’t be long, just take a peep at the ridiculous talent packed into that blog put up by the crew!
Glad to be helping out on a project for one of their feature animation clients and the guys (Ricardo Curtis and Wes Lui) are very good about easing the transition from a full-on freelancer to a full-time staffer with benefits.
(BENEFITS?! Can you believe it? Better get the family’s teeth done before they twig onto me…)
The other day on PBS I watched a documentary I can’t easily forget. It’s called ‘Dr. Teller’s Very Large Bomb’, about Dr. Edward Teller’s development of the hydrogen bomb, the atomic bomb’s bigger badder brother.
There was one extremely tense moment during the calculations, shortly before the very first hydrogen bomb test on Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. Doctor Teller had calculated that there was a very good possibility that after the bomb’s detonation, the entire Earth’s atmosphere would ignite - and not stop burning. Another colleague double-checked his calculations and found that Ed had simply misplaced a decimal.
I’m just starting to finish up on this movie…then onto the next jump - where I’ll land is anyone’s guess. A dislocated shoulder on my drawing side is throwing a wrench in the plans, but it’s manageable. Kinda like the sweat that runs in your eyes when you’re trying to figure out your next move.
Gonna be out of touch for a month or two, because work has really heated up. That title above is just about all my little brain has running through it right now.
So, I’m reposting a panel I did that was part of a strictly volunteered sample and isn’t related to the actual film ‘9′ in any respect. (It’s from a sequence I made up before I got the job). Needless to say, I’m having a ton of fun on this production even though it’s heavy work.
Plus I have the pleasure of working with other boarders like Ryan O’Laughlin, Tom De Rosario, Cal Brunker & Norm Lemay, and Troy Quane, Jeff Dickson, the unforgettable Angelo Libutti and the indomitable editor Nick Kenway…not to mention the two hundred or so talented animators, layout & BG artists, art directors, programmers and everyone else at Starz Animation in Toronto.
You can read more about this awesome project at the director’s site HERE, or on an old Cartoon Brew post HERE.
Using other new materials, some [scientists] are working on rudimentary Harry Potter-like cloaks that make objects inside of them invisible under the right conditions — the pinnacle of stealthy technology.
The other day I was supposed to meet some fellas for a few pints in Toronto, but I couldn’t make the 200 km drive…
So, I decided to stay at home & play in the snow with my boy…
After that I went snowboarding…it was pretty good.
I like snow.
So does my son.
It runs in the family.
No, really, it does.
Last post from the home studio for a while. Next week I’ll be in a real-life Studio with honest-to-gosh peeplez in Toronto (working on this cool looking feature)! I’d better wash and put some trousers on…