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[Dec. 1st, 2009|08:27 pm] |
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[insert witty comment about non-blogging, possibly cite clinical depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder]
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I had some animation work to do, which I might post if I can figure out how to embed .swf files in here. Also I made a video presentation for a girls' school or something, which means I had to learn how to film people and work in After Effects, so it was kind of fun and I was relieved that people actually liked the end product. I do not feel very confident about my work being good enough to show people and I get very embarrassed when they like it, I am kind of messed up that way. |
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| i are not ded |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|05:57 pm] |
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I juſt got streſsed out and ſank back into my pit of depreſsion for a while, as uſual. ſometimes the antidepreſsants do not quite do it for me and I get all anxious and then I get apathetic and I ſtop things like blogging and perſonal correſpondence. Then I get all anxious that people are not going to like me becauſe I have not blogged or emailed them and the depreſsion gets worſe and now here we are :) But I do want to try and get better at this blog thing.
Here are ſome concept drawings from the ſhort film I have been working on:
Betty experiences Newton's third law of motion
Betty chaſes a bruſh-turkey with a rake
lemons are funnier than oranges
Betty ſnaps
I juſt ſpent a week on holiday at the ſeaſide with my Mummy and I am feeling a lot better, ſo maybe there will be more updates now. I ſhall try, or at leaſt I ſhall try to try :P |
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| mary and max and betty and sparklepuss |
[Apr. 3rd, 2009|08:55 pm] |
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I went to a preview screening of Adam Elliot's (director of Harvie Krumpet, in case you didn't know) new stop-motion feature film Mary and Max on Wednesday. The film is about the pen-pal friendship between Mary Dinkle, an 8-year-old girl living in Melbourne and Max Horovitz, a 44-year-old obese Jewish man with Asperger's syndrome who lives in New York.
I thought it was brilliant. It was sad and funny at the same time. Actually I cried more than I laughed, but it made me happy in the end. Also I have Asperger's and I thought the bits that dealt with the condition were totally true to life, and some of the Aspie humor was very funny. I thought some of the other bits where almost everyone else laughed were not so funny, but that is just me, I guess.
When the film ended we got to have a Q & A session with Adam Elliot and his producer and partner-in-crime Melanie Coombs, which was neat. What was really neat, though, was when that was over and my animation teacher Andi introduced me to Adam and Melanie. We exchanged business cards and then I got invited for drinks with them, which is extremely neat. Andi had me show them my drawings, which they really liked, and she told them about my short film Samwich. I think she wants me to enter it in more festivals and stuff. I made a Betty & Sparklepuss drawing which I gave to Adam, and he drew me a picture of Max from his film, with the words "never eat anything bigger than your head". It is nice to meet people you think are really cool and have them not think you are a nurt :)
Today I met with Andi about my honours film project, which will also be about Betty and Sparklepuss. It will incorporate some kind of physics stuff to tie in with my research essay but it is mostly about the eponymous characters. Andi wants me to create more detailed character maps for Betty and Sparklepuss, and to map out the garden and the story. Also she said I should create a "wish list" of Australian actors I would like to do voice and narration, because there is always the off-chance I might somehow get them to do it. I have no idea who I would get though.
I made some concept art too.
Betty tries to pull a vegetable out of the ground and experiences the laws of physics. And possums.
And some life drawing.
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| eated |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|09:07 pm] |
Betty experiences the joys of gardening
It is a ſordid tale which may be told ſome day.
Just a doodle of ſome ſort
My Dad aſked me how the knight can ſpeak with his head miſsing. Perhaps his vocal chords are ſtill attached or ſomething, I do not know, It juſt came out that way, pleaſe ſtop aſking awkward queſtions kthxbye. |
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| linoprints |
[Mar. 16th, 2009|10:45 am] |
I finally got ſome linoprinting ſtuff from the art ſhop and made ſome ſmall prints. I am ſtill working out the beſt way to ink and print theſe things, maybe I need a preſs or ſomething.
ſword guy (arrowed)
ſea monſter (rawr)
I am really happy with the way the letters came out in the ſecond one, but I made a few miſtakes with the monſter and the waves. The monſter's upper lip is ſuppoſed to point downwards inſtead of upwards. My Mummy (oh and by the way it is her birthday today HAPPY BIRFDAY MUMMY!! <3 ) ſays it is fine but if I really do not like it I ſhould go and do it again. Perhaps I ſhall becauſe it is making me go all OCD.
I like linoprinting, I think I need ſome more inks and ſharper tools. |
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| i has a font |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|05:50 pm] |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) bernica suggested I make a font from my handwriting with www.yourfonts.com, so I did. I wrote down all the letters on the template with my fountain pen, and then because I am obsessive-compulsive I edited the templates in Photoshop to make sure they all looked nice. So it looks like a kind of idealized version of my printing.
It sort of looks like a bold version, so maybe I will tweak it some time to make non-bold and italic ones.
The only thing my font lacks is a medial or long s (ſ) to uſe at the beginning and in the middle of words. I like the long s becauſe it is ſo old-timey. If you cannot ſee it, try ſetting your page encoding to UTF-8 or Unicode or ſomething. I am going to uſe it more often.
To teſt out my font I made this ſilly whimſical picture with my favorite ſea monſter.
Mum thinks theſe kind of pictures are funny and that I ſhould draw more of them? |
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| first days of school |
[Mar. 8th, 2009|07:12 pm] |
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And already I am beginning to feel a little bit stressed. But stressed it a good way, I think.
( school stuff )
Also it was my birthday on Thursday, so now I am 29. Funny, because I do not feel 29. I still feel like a child, except I have a car and I can buy booze. I still have no idea what I am going to do when I grow up, perhaps I shall stay at Uni for a bit longer until I do.
We had rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) for dinner, followed by the obligatory cake.
Fish always look so serious, which is weird because they are so funny :) |
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