Georgette Plays A Goth, a Channel Frederator Featured Film!
George Pfromm is an animator and illustrator in Boston. He also teaches animation and character design 2 days out of the week, which George claims is just an excuse for him to leave the house.
If you ask me, I think that’s a pretty cool reason.
This week George’s music video Georgette Plays A Goth for the group, Tullycraft, was featured on Channel Frederator.
1) How long have you been animating/drawing George?
I’ve been drawing pretty much non-stop since I was a little kid. My dad was actually a very good artist and he would sit down with me a lot and show me how to draw stormtroopers, Cylons, and Darth Vader correctly, since that was all I was ever interested in. I started at it professionally around 1993, doing storyboard work for ad agencies, then took a traditional animation class and went after flash work.
2) How did you hook up with Tullycraft,and what was your process on creating the video for them?
“Georgette Plays a Goth” is a song by the Seattle band Tullycraft off of their new record “Every Scene Needs a Center”. Being from Seattle and living out in Washington most of my life I’ve known those guys for a long time. A few of us were roommates for a while back in the early to mid nineties. I know one of the band members used to always suggest having me animate a video, but Sean who wrote “Georgette” said that this song reminded him of one of my storyboards, so he let me go at it.
As for the process, I just started scribbling out boards in one of those little Moleskine storyboard books, scanning them and then putting them into Flash. Then I busted out the backgrounds, character designs, started keyframing and animating.
3) Did you ever go through that whole Teen Angst “Goth” Stage in high school?
I never did go Goth in high school, but I threaten to now, almost daily.
4) Do you have a Favorite goth band?
The Gothic Archies, hands down.
[*Editor’s Note: Nice Answer. I love whatever incarnation The Magnetic Fields are.]
5) What are you working on Currently?
I do a fair amount of illustration work, teach animation and character design a couple of days a week, and am making a lot of new art for some upcoming events and shows next month and early next year. I have also been working on an animated property of mine, The Queen Bee, and posting the work as I go over on Channel Frederator Raw, which has been a lot of fun.
For more of George’s coolness, Go visit his site, Honolulu Dogfight (dot) com, or his blog-title of the same name.
Thanks George!
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