Wallrus, an animated wall project lasting four years and involving 8 animators, kicks off at 6PM on Thursday , September 9th, 2010 in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park. Local artist/musician Clyde Petersen will create a large scale animation destined for a music video. Check out the cool logo on the left and postcard at the bottom designed by [...]
After screening at the NW Film Forum in January and at the NW Film Center in Portland in April, ‘Animated Art’ comes to San Francisco this Friday, August 27th. Curated by Salise Hughes this program of shorts includes my A Moment’s Reverie, as well as many works by other SEAT (Seattle Experimental Animation Team) members, [...]
I was lucky enough to be invited to the preview screening of Tales from Earthsea (preview of its US release – it officially opened on Tuesday, while it came out in Europe a couple years ago at least) at the Harvard Exit Theatre. I knew there was controversy surrounding it, and I wanted to like [...]
Damn that took forever. Bed now.
My studio is open this Thursday for the Capitol Hill Art Walk. Come one come all! Address: 1520 11th Ave, above Purr, dial #94 for entry. Date: Thursday August 12th Time: 6PM-9:30PM Nibbles will be eaten, wine will be drunk! See an animated work in progress. You will also get the chance to see new [...]
While I was cleaning up my hard drive, I found this test from last week or so. I took these test pictures to see if three replacement cut-outs, in different stages of rotation, was enough to give a smooth illusion. And also to see if I’d drawn them well enough to looks like they were [...]
I officially started shooting the other day. Here are pics of the animation stand set-up with the scene I’m currently shooting. As you can see there are a lot of layers, and a lot of those cut-outs are moving at the same time, so it is quite a time consuming scene. I’ll probably be using [...]
Well, the Artist Trust Art-B-Que yesterday was awesome. Met some lovely people, ate some lovely barbecued burgers and bratwursts, some (other)people won lovely raffle prices, and everyone was treated to awesome music by Miho and Diego and animation by SEAT! Check out these pictures of our one digital looping projection and Eric Ostrowski’s two 16 [...]