Floyd Bishop

I think John C Reilly sounds a lot like Mr Jinks the Cat. Do you agree?

-Floyd Bishop

The first lesson of my free animation course just went live. The Cheap Ass Animation Class is designed to help peple learn animation for free. I love animation, and I enjoy talking about it whenever I can. This is just one more way I can talk about animation, while helping other people experience and create animation of their own.While the first class is pretty basic, it’s going to get a lot more involved from here. Keep watching!-Floyd 

Hey everyone. Fred said he hoped I would stop by from time to time to check in, so that’s what I’m doing. This is what I made this weekend for the Aniboom History Challenge. I dusted off one of my characters from the Bishop Animation archives, made a cornfield and some fireworks, drank some beers, and animated my arse off.If you like what you see, please head over to the Aniboom website and give me a vote.

San Diego Comic Con 2009 starts tomorrow. There’s going to be a ton of stuff to see, and lots of great events, parties, and panels. Are you going? What are you looking forward to?

Be sure to stop by the Sony Online Enertainment booth where I’ll be doing demos of our game Free Realms during the convention.

-Floyd Bishop

Here is the launch trailer for the Sony Online Entertainment game Free Realms. I have had a blast working on this game as a Senior Artist over the past year. I’ve worked on several games in the past, but this was my first MMO. Being able to help create a world, complete with entertaining characters, fun quests, and interesting stories has been a blast.

You can sign up for free at the official Free Realms website.

-Floyd Bishop

Drawing by friend, officemate, and fellow animator Brad Constantine

So what’s up with your posts? How come you’re not posting so often? Well, I’ve been sick.

I’ve been sick off and on since the beginning of 2009, but after several visits to the emergency room, the doctors finally figured out what my problem was and yanked my gall bladder. The surgery was nothing like the whiteboard drawing you see above.

Anyway, the point is, I’m feeling much better, and I’m getting back into posting more frequently. Posting on the blog is something I really enjoy, and as I get better, I hope to get back into daily posts again.

-Floyd Bishop

Free Realms has entered internal closed beta. Kotaku has the full story. I’m really proud of the look, feel, and overall quality of this game, and I can’t wait for everyone to be able to play it for themselves (but I have to).

-Floyd Bishop 

This is a piece I did to test out interactivity using YouTube’s new annotations feature. Send this to someone you like to see if they like you back.

-Floyd Bishop

This is a short film I made yesterday. My kids are the ones singing the soundtrack. The idea was to do a really quick little short, in the same vein as what you might see on Sesame Street or similar program.

This doesn’t count toward my goal of 12 films for the year. It was just made for fun. I hope you like it!

-Floyd Bishop

Here is my first short of the year The Ditching of 2008.  My plan is to do one short a month for the year, for a total of 12. There is no plan for stories, no continuity, no set style, no nothing. I’ve got some ideas for next month’s short, but beyond that, it’s wide open.

Let me know what you think!

-Floyd Bishop