Monday, August 24, 2009
An Apple a Day... #5
Another installment in the "Candid Speakers" segment that will pop up from time to time. This time it features Banana speaking about his view on life and love. Candidly, of course.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
An Apple a Day... #3
Titled, To Live.
This particular comic was the first to be conceptualized, yet, due to other ideas being more fun, was the third to be completed.
This particular comic was the first to be conceptualized, yet, due to other ideas being more fun, was the third to be completed.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
New Beginings: An Apple a Day... #1
To commemorate this refresh, I'm posting the first comic from something I'm beginning to create, tentatively titled, An Apple a Day... However, if I decide to add different fruits to this than just an apple, well then the title will need to change, yes? If this turns out to be the case, the title will be Fruit Salad. I like both titles (though, I must admit, I'm a bit partial to Fruit Salad).
Oh, and this comic doesn't make sense at a glance. That's the point. I present a beginning and an end. The middle is up to the reader to fill in. Now without further ado:
Oh, and this comic doesn't make sense at a glance. That's the point. I present a beginning and an end. The middle is up to the reader to fill in. Now without further ado:
Oh my...
It seems I've been a terrible blogger. I've really let this place go. There are cobwebs everywhere and dust, inches thick, covering every surface, nook, and cranny. But, I've decided I'm gonna be a good blogger now. I can use this for posting work, thoughts, ideas, anything really. I doubt anyone will read it but, so what? So, starting today, this place will be different - overhauled in a way.
If, indeed anyone does read this, then perhaps a quick update is in order. First, I no longer reside in Philadelphia. I no longer create work for Motion Heads. The PSA for Fresh Artists was created and presumably never used. Or maybe it is being used in various donation meetings, just not on their website. The lego project was a week-long grind that was completed satisfactorily and looked great. But never in my life had I touched legos that were so dirty, grimy and hairy. After all that, I moved back to Delaware and tried to find a paying job in animation. In Spetember 2008, I went to New York with my buddy,Zach, and took a test at Little Airplane Productions. I didn't get the job, but Zach did. I came home and got a job working at Best Buy. It sucked but was a paycheck. Plus I met some nice people and that's always wonderful. Zach had tried for 6 months to get me a job at Little Airplane.
In March, they called me in for another test, claiming usually people don't test twice, but I get to under a technicality. Apparently in the time since I had taken the test and failed, miserably, I might add, they had decided to make up a tutorial. So I retook the test and did infinitely better this time around (it helped that I got some pointers from Zach beforehand...). Then a month passed and I recieved word that I didn't get the job again. Disheartened, I went back to my life at Best Buy, resolved and resigned to make the best of things. A few weeks later, Little Airplane called again, this time they wanted to offer me an interview. I went in, nervous to impress and fairly sure I'd fail again, but I interviewed like a champ. A few days later, I was offered a position working as an animator for The Wonder Pets! on Nick Jr. Ecstatic, I put in my resignation at Best Buy and went to work in the city. It's proven to be the best job I've ever had.
Come September 4th, I will lose this job. But that's not to say I can't come back. The season is over and the project is over. Hopefully there will be more work, and I'll be back, enjoying what I'm doing. Until then, I'll try to find something else. Freelance or something, I don't know.
If, indeed anyone does read this, then perhaps a quick update is in order. First, I no longer reside in Philadelphia. I no longer create work for Motion Heads. The PSA for Fresh Artists was created and presumably never used. Or maybe it is being used in various donation meetings, just not on their website. The lego project was a week-long grind that was completed satisfactorily and looked great. But never in my life had I touched legos that were so dirty, grimy and hairy. After all that, I moved back to Delaware and tried to find a paying job in animation. In Spetember 2008, I went to New York with my buddy,Zach, and took a test at Little Airplane Productions. I didn't get the job, but Zach did. I came home and got a job working at Best Buy. It sucked but was a paycheck. Plus I met some nice people and that's always wonderful. Zach had tried for 6 months to get me a job at Little Airplane.
In March, they called me in for another test, claiming usually people don't test twice, but I get to under a technicality. Apparently in the time since I had taken the test and failed, miserably, I might add, they had decided to make up a tutorial. So I retook the test and did infinitely better this time around (it helped that I got some pointers from Zach beforehand...). Then a month passed and I recieved word that I didn't get the job again. Disheartened, I went back to my life at Best Buy, resolved and resigned to make the best of things. A few weeks later, Little Airplane called again, this time they wanted to offer me an interview. I went in, nervous to impress and fairly sure I'd fail again, but I interviewed like a champ. A few days later, I was offered a position working as an animator for The Wonder Pets! on Nick Jr. Ecstatic, I put in my resignation at Best Buy and went to work in the city. It's proven to be the best job I've ever had.
Come September 4th, I will lose this job. But that's not to say I can't come back. The season is over and the project is over. Hopefully there will be more work, and I'll be back, enjoying what I'm doing. Until then, I'll try to find something else. Freelance or something, I don't know.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Long time no post
Its now been two months since the furor of the semester died off and the Senior Animation screening showed the city of Philadelphia what the students of UArts are made of and have to offer the world. My film was well received, but didn't take the best of show prize. Oh well, maybe next time.
During these summer months, I've been working at an incubator studio set up by two animation teachers at UArts. Dubbed "Motion Heads," we spend our time working on client based freelance work. It's a nice gig to keep busy during the summer but just a prelude to the real world, which is right around the corner and ready to wrap its arms around me and keep me in its ever entangling embrace forever. Right now, I've just finished a new demo reel to be shopped around, and I'm preparing to send off a mass of applications to various studios in New York and see if I can't get a job.
Incidentally, I have applied to Pixar for an open position as a full-time animator. I don't think I got it.
Back at Motion Heads, I'm attached to two projects; one more seriously than the other, but that's gonna change soon. One project is a web-based PSA for a start up organization called Fresh Artists here in Philly. Fresh Artists aims to get more money in the hands of Philadelphia Public School art teachers through various donations from corporations in the area. My PSA is an effort approved by them to help raise awareness for their cause.
The other project is just a segment of a Festival bumper that will require the use of legos. Should be fun. Plus, I get to play with legos while I work.
During these summer months, I've been working at an incubator studio set up by two animation teachers at UArts. Dubbed "Motion Heads," we spend our time working on client based freelance work. It's a nice gig to keep busy during the summer but just a prelude to the real world, which is right around the corner and ready to wrap its arms around me and keep me in its ever entangling embrace forever. Right now, I've just finished a new demo reel to be shopped around, and I'm preparing to send off a mass of applications to various studios in New York and see if I can't get a job.
Incidentally, I have applied to Pixar for an open position as a full-time animator. I don't think I got it.
Back at Motion Heads, I'm attached to two projects; one more seriously than the other, but that's gonna change soon. One project is a web-based PSA for a start up organization called Fresh Artists here in Philly. Fresh Artists aims to get more money in the hands of Philadelphia Public School art teachers through various donations from corporations in the area. My PSA is an effort approved by them to help raise awareness for their cause.
The other project is just a segment of a Festival bumper that will require the use of legos. Should be fun. Plus, I get to play with legos while I work.
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