Day 100. I wish I posted this one last night because I had the chance to but instead opted for bed. Day 101 here has been hectic! I arrived at work this morning and had a TV spot to get out very quickly and then the internet went down! I started writing this post at […]
It was midnight when I drove home from work, thinking to myself “What am I going to do today for my creative thing?” I don’t like it when I let it slide that late to come up with something but sometimes it works out. I had this idea back on Day 079 for my […]
This evening I decided to finally put some effort into my song for the latest Monome Community Remix Project. The deadline is fast approaching and I haven’t put enough focus towards it. This one is the seventh of the remix projects and the theme of this one is toys. Everyone uploaded a sample of a […]
This was waaaayyyyy harder than I thought it was going to be. Driving home from work I thought to myself about my post from “Day 067 / Drama In The Kitchen” and how it would be cool to do another version of that. The inspiration for that original post was from my buddy Dean. […]
This evening I decided to continue work on my song for the latest MCRP (Monome Community Remix Project). We had some friends over for drinks so I didn’t get started on this one until pretty late. I was hoping to finish the track but unfortunately my session wasn’t as inspiring as two days ago (Day […]
Some of my renders after watching the Grayscale Gorilla tutorial on SubPolygon Displacement. It was pretty fun to mess around with this one. I definitely see myself doing a little audio to animation with this effect. It’s very Autechre. On another note I have gone 24 hours without a cigarette. As I write this […]
So, I’m posting a couple of these late because our hotel in Morro Bay didn’t have internet. The day pretty much consisted of Jenny and I running around the house either watching after June or making sure everything we needed was packed. We didn’t actually head out onto the road until about Noon. Once we […]
To begin with, today I was a real loser because it happens to be Jenny and I’s 8th wedding anniversary and I completely forgot. She let it go for most of the day but then she mentioned it while we were having a discussion about how with June in the hotel room only one of […]
Today Jenny and June and I went to the Monterey Aquarium. What a beautiful aquarium they have there! Before leaving I asked Jenny if I could quickly revisit the jellyfish section before leaving. I took some beautiful video there. For my creative thing I think I may have bit off more than I could […]
Jenny, June and I got breakfast this morning and decided rather than head into the city we’d stay in Berkeley all day instead. It was a beautiful day. We stopped at our favorite place in Berkeley, Urban Ore. Urban Ore is a giant warehouse and outer yard filled to capacity with stuff. All sorts […]
Today was surprisingly overcast all day in the city. It didn’t bring us down because all Jenny and I were doing today was a shopping on our favorite streets in San Francisco. One of our favorite streets is Valencia St. in the Mission between 17th and 22nd. Dotted along this strip of pavement are lots […]
What a crazy long day! It was one of those days that actually feels like two very different days combined into one. Jenny and I got up real early to get out of Berkeley in order to make it down to Fullerton in time for me to attend the Handmade Music – Los Angeles event […]
Today was all about the baby. She was feeling better but still had a bit of a fever and it was really a hot one out as well. Jenny and I pretty much stayed around the house and took care of the little one. Once June was off to bed I opted for a […]
Today I got a text message from my friend Dantes. He bought himself a Canon 7D about 9 months ago and since then he’s been experimenting in every sort of […]
Todays creative thing is a springboard from two of my previous posts, Day 105 / Abstract Displacement and Day 095 / Audio to Animation. On Day 095, I learned how to use music to modulate parameters within Cinema 4D into animation that matches the music. On Day 105, I learned an interesting material facet called […]
Last night Jenny recommended that I try out sewing for my creative thing. At first, I was going to turn it down because my plan was to do a patch on the modular. Boy, am I glad I didn’t turn her down. I found out that I can actually sew. Even after Jenny went to […]
Tonight, I mistakenly forgot to think about my next move. Inspired by the last page of MAD Magazine, drawn by the absolutely unbelievable Al Jaffe, I decided to do my own fold-open drawing. The ones from MAD magazine actually work in reverse order and usually make some clever point. I thought I could […]
Doing these interviews with people are interesting for me because it really becomes a confidence issue. Jesse La Tour is a person that I’ve been interested in for awhile now but he’s also someone who I hardly know. So approaching him was truly the challenge. Luckily, he appreciates creativity and was wonderful to talk to. Jesse […]
It had been a pretty full day with family get-togethers and house cleanings. It wasn’t until late last night that I got started on my creative thing. It’s always tough when I let the creative thing wait until the end of the day. Lately, I’ve been interested in doing more drawing. Except […]
Today Jenny and I had the luxury of having an all day baby-sitter. Her mom came by and picked up June in the morning and then Jenny and I went to town on her sewing room. The sewing room is just what we refer to it as because it was meant to be Jenny’s […]
Today I decided upon the song I will attempt to animate to for my dry-erase animation. It’s a song that my buddy Brian Keegan wrote. Keegan is a lyrical wizard in my opinion. He does mostly hip hop but this song was part of a collection of songs he did with my buddy Tony under […]
Tonight I continued the prep for my whiteboard animation. I worked on what animators call an x-sheet or exposure sheet. The brits have a much cooler name for it, the dope sheet. Basically, it’s a timing guide for animators. It can have information like camera instructions, dialogue phonemes, music cues and comic beats. But most […]
Tonight I took my first stab at hand-drawn animation. It was tough! It was a very enlightening experience though. I did a walking sequence. I could have just done a stationary walk cycle but instead I decided to have him move across the screen which made it extra tough for me. I scrapped my first […]
So I gave the walk animation another go tonight and this time it was even tougher! I seem to have the most trouble with keeping the proportions consistent over time. I created a more complex character than my last one so I had a lot of trouble keeping the oval head shape consistent. What I […]
So tonight I went back once again into the world of the dry-erase animation walk cycle and I instituted a couple of ideas that I had yesterday to improve on my results. I feel like the ideas worked this time and I was able to animate this character of some complexity and keep his proportions […]