So, today begins my first themed week on the blog.  Dry-Erase Week.  If you’ve been following my blog it may feel like dry-erase week is all ready underway but I have really only begun work on the animation I set out to do which is this music video for my buddy Broiler’s song.  I won’t finish the song this week but it’s a project deserving of at least a week-long focus.  I hope to do more “themed” weeks in the future because for projects dealing with some kind of artistic technique you need to spend at least a few days in a row working on it in order to see any improvement.

So for todays thing I continued animation on the music video.  I only got 14 frames finished but they could be my favorite 14 frames yet.  The lyric is about to go into “english muffin pizza” so I have this little toaster oven with two english muffin pizzas flying into frame to destroy the letters in Freeze Tag.  Each frame took a while to draw and I had to look back at my previous images often just to keep track of all the rubble and it’s direction and momentum.  I hope you enjoy.

SMOKING UPDATE:  I have not been very active with updating you all on my quitting smoking progress and I’m sorry for that.  The truth is many times I tend to forget while I’m typing these things up and then I post them and realize later.  I am still struggling with it.  On Day 105, the first day of my vacation, I quit again.  I went until Day 118 and cheated.  I had one cigarette and then I threw out the pack.  Since then I have struggled and given in here and there.  I have littered the streets of Fullerton with a few full packs of Parliaments.  Not very cost effective but it’s better than having a pack on me.  I am now chewing the nicotine gum to help me curb it. I am still “not” smoking.  I’ll try to update more often.  Still fighting.