Rob Richards, host of the Animation Backgrounds Blog (always worth a look), has another interesting blog called Cels and Setups. It’s a great guide to collecting, restoring and displaying animation cels. I love pouring over the before-and-afters.
Good news (I hope). You no longer need to register to comment on The Fairly Odd-blog.
A few people have been sniping at me at the change in our comments system a few months ago. We added Disqus (pronounced ‘discuss’) after checking it out at the suggestion of our Tumblr friends, and realized it was a powerful way of not only for commenters to start a conversation directly with each other, but an easy way for them to discover other people in a wider community of blogs they might want to start reading.
That said, I probably made it a little harder to use than necessary by insisting that everyone register at Disqus before they could post. Aside from the folks that got confused, the extra step discouraged at lot of people from participating at all. That’s why the change.
Hope this makes it easier, and fun-ner, to be a part of our blog community. Please let me know.
Good news (I hope). You no longer need to register to comment on Frederator Blogs.
A few people have been sniping at me at the change in our comments system a few months ago. We added Disqus (pronounced ‘discuss’) after checking it out at the suggestion of our Tumblr friends, and realized it was a powerful way of not only for commenters to start a conversation directly with each other, but an easy way for them to discover other people in a wider community of blogs they might want to start reading.
That said, I probably made it a little harder to use than necessary by insisting that everyone register at Disqus before they could post. Aside from the folks that got confused, the extra step discouraged at lot of people from participating at all. That’s why the change.
Hope this makes it easier, and fun-ner, to be a part of our blog community. Please let me know.
If you are interested in a FLASH of enlightenment, check out these Alan Watts Theater cartoons. They were produced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame. According to Cold Hard Flash, animators Chris Brion and Todd Benson are the folks who keyframed original recordings of Watts.
I hate to break it to you, but you missed out on seeing a very cool show at the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland. Oh well, so did I. It was called “Animatus” and it featured the work of Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee, who creates exquisite and intricate skeletons of cartoon characters.
Jerry Reed, actor, guitar legend, and Scooby Doo Guest Star has passed away. He was 71.
Aside from his Scooby Doo appearance, most people may remember him from his role as the Snowman (his CB handle) in “Smokey and the Bandit”.
Learning to play guitar at age 8, on a cheap guitar, he later dropped out of high school to go on tour with Ernest Tubb and Faron Young. He mastered the instrument.
He was a great talent in film, television, and music.
He’s one of the musicians I listen to most when I’m animating. He’ll be missed.
Jerry Lieberman was one of the most prolific animation producers in commercial animation in the 1970s, and somehow or other (I think I saw his reel) hooked with with my partner Alan Goodman and me while we were the creative directors at MTV and Nickelodeon in the 1980s. Jerry was great to work with, and ended up making dozens of our 10 second network IDs for almost every cable network we branded, from The Movie Channel to HA! and of course MTV and Nick. Once we got comfortable with each other and he realized we weren’t kidding about creative freedom, he started reaching into the community he was most comfortable with, illustrators with an edge. He introduced us to the great Lou Brooks, and, for this piece, the afore referenced Kim Deitch. I’d stopped following comix at that point, so I didn’t know his work, but after we were done I made up for lost time. He did a great job.
To complete the picture(s), I think Tony Eastman directed, and the music was done by our great friends Eugene Pitt & The Jive Five. And, as I’ve posted before, the Nickelodeon logo was designed by Tom Corey & Scott Nash.
