Thursday, September 29, 2011
MovieMorlocks.com – Well, is he is or is he ain’t? 1:37 PM
MovieMorlocks.com – Well, is he is or is he ain’t?: … and I suppose you could say a star was born. Mose became something of a recurring character during this time and another song soon proclaimed “Old Man Mose Is Dead.” The author (with Zilner Randolph) of this particular ditty was none other than Louis Armstrong, who would perform this novelty number as part of his act for the next thirty years.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
games and toys 11:42 AM
Bayblade uses battling tops, Bakuman uses I have no freaking idea what those things are they use with the collectable card game. What else can be used?
Marbles.
That's right. Let's make a mock cartoon about playing marbles!
Gotta give it an awesome name, like SHOOTRZ or MAR-BI-LO or something like that.
And jack up the rules!
Marbles.
That's right. Let's make a mock cartoon about playing marbles!
Gotta give it an awesome name, like SHOOTRZ or MAR-BI-LO or something like that.
And jack up the rules!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
tales of two wheels 11:13 AM
This week. What a crap week.
Tuesday morning, go out to start up the mule to go to work and...it spun and spun and finally gave up on me.
Tuesday night, I get Ed to take me to Harbor Freight to get a jump box.
Wednesday morning, I jump the mule off. But, when I get to work it doesn't start on it's own. Battery won't take a charge.
Wednesday night, Ed and I go to, first Auto Zone, then Pep Boy's to get a new battery. New battery must be assembled, as in, I have to add the acid to the battery and then trickle charge the battery.
Thursday morning, I bungee the jump box to the mule to get through the day.
Thursday night, Ed and I go back to Harbor Freight to get a trickle charger. Then I make a battery.
Which brings me to today. I pulled out the old battery, install the new battery which had been charging all night, and....it worked.
In fact it's starting better then it did before. Which leads me to believe that the battery that had been in the mule was bad when I bought the mule.
Which makes me wonder what else isn't quite right on my brand new mule...
Tuesday morning, go out to start up the mule to go to work and...it spun and spun and finally gave up on me.
Tuesday night, I get Ed to take me to Harbor Freight to get a jump box.
Wednesday morning, I jump the mule off. But, when I get to work it doesn't start on it's own. Battery won't take a charge.
Wednesday night, Ed and I go to, first Auto Zone, then Pep Boy's to get a new battery. New battery must be assembled, as in, I have to add the acid to the battery and then trickle charge the battery.
Thursday morning, I bungee the jump box to the mule to get through the day.
Thursday night, Ed and I go back to Harbor Freight to get a trickle charger. Then I make a battery.
Which brings me to today. I pulled out the old battery, install the new battery which had been charging all night, and....it worked.
In fact it's starting better then it did before. Which leads me to believe that the battery that had been in the mule was bad when I bought the mule.
Which makes me wonder what else isn't quite right on my brand new mule...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
ProVideo Coalition.com: Creating Motion Graphics by Chris & Trish Meyer | Founders 9:17 AM
ProVideo Coalition.com: Creating Motion Graphics by Chris & Trish Meyer | Founders: When working with visuals, we often pick a tempo in terms of how many frames per beat (“fpb”) we want to time our animations or cuts against. To work this backwards to a tempo, take your frame rate (i.e. 30) times the number of seconds in a minute (i.e. 60), and divide the result (i.e. 60 x 30 = 1800, or 1798.2 for 29.97 fps NTSC, 1500 for 25 fps PAL, and 1440 for 24 fps film) by your desired fpb number. The result is tempo in beats per minute (“bpm”), which most musicians understand.
It is very common for us to animate at 15 fpb for video, which works out to the sprightly dance tempo of 120 bpm at 30 frames per second. A lot of music is actually a little slower than this; a very good number to use is 16 fpb (112.5 bpm). As it turns out, even numbers of frames per beat are especially nice, since they are easier to divide by two into sub-beats; fpb values that are multiples of two (2, 4, 8, 16, etc.) keep dividing all the way down to tiny musical intervals in convenient whole numbers of frames, giving you lots of choices of how to time your hits to line up with sub-beats in the music.
It is very common for us to animate at 15 fpb for video, which works out to the sprightly dance tempo of 120 bpm at 30 frames per second. A lot of music is actually a little slower than this; a very good number to use is 16 fpb (112.5 bpm). As it turns out, even numbers of frames per beat are especially nice, since they are easier to divide by two into sub-beats; fpb values that are multiples of two (2, 4, 8, 16, etc.) keep dividing all the way down to tiny musical intervals in convenient whole numbers of frames, giving you lots of choices of how to time your hits to line up with sub-beats in the music.
Peachpit: Animating Rhythm And Dance > Understanding Tempo 9:16 AM
Peachpit: Animating Rhythm And Dance > Understanding Tempo: The key to animating dance is to let the tempo of the music drive the animation. Determining the tempo simply requires a watch. Count the number of beats in six seconds of music. Multiply this by 10 to get the beats per minute (BPM). When you have this, you can determine how many frames you'll need per beat of music. For example, a common BPM is 120. At 24 frames per second (fps), the frames per beat would be this:
24 fps x 60 seconds = 1440 frames/minute (fpm)
1440 fpm/120 BPM = 12 frames/beat
24 fps x 60 seconds = 1440 frames/minute (fpm)
1440 fpm/120 BPM = 12 frames/beat
Tutorial: ANIMATING RHYTHM AND DANCE 9:16 AM
Tutorial: ANIMATING RHYTHM AND DANCE: Of course, if you want to be precise, or if the shot is particularly long, you can certainly read the track and mark down exactly which frames the beat hits. In this case, you will never be more than a half frame off on your sync.
It must be noted that characters can dance with or without music. If the character is dancing an unaccompanied jig of joy, then you can just pick a tempo and go with that. I usually pick 120BPM, simply because it's easy at a half second per beat.
It must be noted that characters can dance with or without music. If the character is dancing an unaccompanied jig of joy, then you can just pick a tempo and go with that. I usually pick 120BPM, simply because it's easy at a half second per beat.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The Periodic Table of Exploitation 1:21 PM
The Periodic Table of Exploitation: Study up, folks, because you damn well know there’s going to be a quiz on this. You need to see at least one film — preferably more — from each of the people on this, the periodic chart of fundamental exploitation elements.
Hand lettering hits the Web - All Salon - Salon.com 9:52 AM
Hand lettering hits the Web - All Salon - Salon.com: Enter the Internet. A quick search on Archive.org (prompted by the hand-letterer's forum) provided tons of full scans of amazing hand-lettering instruction books from the late 19th century through the mid-20th. I brought these books with me and had an amazing time learning. Please enjoy my favorites: "The Sign Painter" (1916), Lettering (c1916), "Elements of Lettering and Sign Painting; (1899) and the extensively named "The Art of Show Card Writing: A Modern Treatise Covering All Branches of the Art ... With One Hundred and Fifty-three Illustrations and Thirty-two Lettering Plates, Comprising All the Standard Ancient and Modern Styles" (1922).
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Mayerson on Animation: I Have An Idea for an Animated Film. Can You Make It For Me? 6:23 PM
Mayerson on Animation: I Have An Idea for an Animated Film. Can You Make It For Me?: People generally don't understand how labour intensive drawing and animating are. They also assume, as Bissette points out, that artists are devoid of ideas, just sitting around waiting for somebody to give them one. The problem is never finding an idea, it's finding the time and money to work on an idea.
SRBissette.com - “Draw My Graphic Novel! Storyboard My Movie!” 6:23 PM
SRBissette.com - “Draw My Graphic Novel! Storyboard My Movie!”: (1) It takes years to do a good graphic novel; Maus took over a decade to complete, as did From Hell; Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby was one of the faster ones at 5 years, and all required multiple funding sources, grants, and/or multiple publishers to complete. It’s a bear.
Yes, many lesser graphic novels are done in months; most of those show it.
(2) Cartoonists have their own projects they’d dearly love to afford to do, many of those lengthy works.
We rarely get to them due to the eternal question: How do I eat/pay rent/mortgage while dedicating my life to this venture?
Yes, many lesser graphic novels are done in months; most of those show it.
(2) Cartoonists have their own projects they’d dearly love to afford to do, many of those lengthy works.
We rarely get to them due to the eternal question: How do I eat/pay rent/mortgage while dedicating my life to this venture?
Friday, September 09, 2011
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011
Midnight Illusions - When Jpop Covers West Pop 10:21 AM
Midnight Illusions - When Jpop Covers West Pop: 4- Knocking on Heaven's Door - Angela Aki
Who could imagined that a song written for a cowboy movie was going to be that important? Well, Bob Dylan wrote it in 1973 and made one of the best songs in music history, and is among the 500 greteast songs of all time. This song has been covered by Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Roger Waters, Bob Marley, Aerosmith... Even Avril Lavigne has her version. Angela Aki sings a japanese version of it it in her album "Answer" It's a a very interesting proposal with Aki's piano and drums. Aki's video version has only pianos, but the album version is more dynamic. Good cover of a good song.
Who could imagined that a song written for a cowboy movie was going to be that important? Well, Bob Dylan wrote it in 1973 and made one of the best songs in music history, and is among the 500 greteast songs of all time. This song has been covered by Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Roger Waters, Bob Marley, Aerosmith... Even Avril Lavigne has her version. Angela Aki sings a japanese version of it it in her album "Answer" It's a a very interesting proposal with Aki's piano and drums. Aki's video version has only pianos, but the album version is more dynamic. Good cover of a good song.
