Happy World Animation Day!

If you didn't know, today is World Animation Day. I am celebrating at Vancouver's artsy theater, Cinematheque, which is holding a free screening of Canadian and International animations.

A few of my favorite animation shorts I like:

Madame Tutli Putli
Don Herzfeldt's rejected tv commercials
Balance
The Ghost of Stephen Foster
Creature Comforts
The Old Man & The Sea

There's another stop motion animation, the name of which I've forgotten, which involves two rocks on the side of a road and their conversation over centuries. The use of speeding up and slowing down time is really well executed. If you know what I'm talking about by all means let me know what it's called!

And here's a flash animation that I created for class (a shorty short short) for you to enjoy:

Tracing practice

Today's image:

Assignment for Illustrator class: tracing an image. I added in my own text and background. Totoro sure is cute.

Wordle

Today's image: a mashup of my tags from my del.icio.us account, made in a program called Wordle.

Not really sure what the program is for, except to look cool... but hey! It DOES look cool! Create your own here.

How I spent Canadian Thanksgiving

Today's image:

A Macintosh apple from Spokane's farming area, Green Bluff. There's nothing better than a fragrant apple from an orchard and fresh pressed hot cider on a freezing autumn day.

The first of many

Today's image:

Fun with shiny buttons.

Photoshop Editing

Storyboard idea

Today's image:

Assignment for one of my classes: a storyboard for a commercial for a public library. I used Corel Painter for the sketches, then storyboarded using Celtx.

Silly premise, but funny and effective, I think. Now who wants to film it?

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