Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Sweatbox001
A sweatbox in animation terms was a projection room where the director and animators would review and cirtique the dailies and pencil tests.
Friday, January 1, 2010
THE LAST HOORAH!!!
Okay ... today is New Year's Day ... the time to make those yearly resolutions. I have to draw in my horns and stop spending. Today was my last ... for a awhile.
Even though my degree is in Fine Arts specializing in Cinematography, further specializing in Animation, I felt ill equipt to do my Dulci-Toons cartoons. So I've made a major splurge of books, DVDs and supplies. Yoko thinks I don't need these things. And maybe I don't need everything. She thinks I could teach the class. And maybe that's the problem. I did. When I was in college, I did a 6 minute cartoon using a friend's character. Cannibas Cat was a bell bottom wearing 30s styled character. I used this character in the hopes that when Walt saw his character up on the screen ... he would get off his duff and do what I knew was in him. It didn't work. But I did. I can remember all the work. I spent days. I would get up eat breakfast and go back to my dorm room work until lunch ... go back work until dinner and after dinner work untill bed time. I was doing double frames or 12 drawings a second. Then I went back and inked them in. After that was done it took an 18 hour day to film it.
When I think about it I am amazed that I was able to do this. I animated straight ahead. I didn't see any pencil tests. Hell I was lucky to have a camera to do my project. I had to check out a camera ... a 16mm Bolex. The technology was circa 1912. I used paper and the cut and slash system. When my peers at college saw this work, I became a big fish in a little pond. Shortly after this I attended an animation course ... the only one that USF offered. I require a filp book and to watch cartoons. When there was a question it was directed to me and not the grad student teaching the course. I didn't learn anything.
And that was 30 years ago. Technology has advance. I remember as I was leaving they were getting something called a video camera. Now days I can do everything I need with a computer. The scanner is my camera and I don't even have to wait for the film to be process. Back then the Preston Foster book was it. Today I have 2 great animator's books. The DVDs will give me access to some of the greatest cartoons ever made. I can watch them frame by frame. I finally have an animation table rather than my Father's tracing box the use to write lesson plans on acetate rolls.
My education is finally about to begin.
I have made one more purchase. .. sort of ... I am trying ... if I can get the credit card company to co-operate ... I am buying the master class series of Richard Williams.
http://www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com/index.html
Light a candle for me please.
Even though my degree is in Fine Arts specializing in Cinematography, further specializing in Animation, I felt ill equipt to do my Dulci-Toons cartoons. So I've made a major splurge of books, DVDs and supplies. Yoko thinks I don't need these things. And maybe I don't need everything. She thinks I could teach the class. And maybe that's the problem. I did. When I was in college, I did a 6 minute cartoon using a friend's character. Cannibas Cat was a bell bottom wearing 30s styled character. I used this character in the hopes that when Walt saw his character up on the screen ... he would get off his duff and do what I knew was in him. It didn't work. But I did. I can remember all the work. I spent days. I would get up eat breakfast and go back to my dorm room work until lunch ... go back work until dinner and after dinner work untill bed time. I was doing double frames or 12 drawings a second. Then I went back and inked them in. After that was done it took an 18 hour day to film it.
When I think about it I am amazed that I was able to do this. I animated straight ahead. I didn't see any pencil tests. Hell I was lucky to have a camera to do my project. I had to check out a camera ... a 16mm Bolex. The technology was circa 1912. I used paper and the cut and slash system. When my peers at college saw this work, I became a big fish in a little pond. Shortly after this I attended an animation course ... the only one that USF offered. I require a filp book and to watch cartoons. When there was a question it was directed to me and not the grad student teaching the course. I didn't learn anything.
And that was 30 years ago. Technology has advance. I remember as I was leaving they were getting something called a video camera. Now days I can do everything I need with a computer. The scanner is my camera and I don't even have to wait for the film to be process. Back then the Preston Foster book was it. Today I have 2 great animator's books. The DVDs will give me access to some of the greatest cartoons ever made. I can watch them frame by frame. I finally have an animation table rather than my Father's tracing box the use to write lesson plans on acetate rolls.
My education is finally about to begin.
I have made one more purchase. .. sort of ... I am trying ... if I can get the credit card company to co-operate ... I am buying the master class series of Richard Williams.
http://www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com/index.html
Light a candle for me please.
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