Bad Dates

OK - so here's the blocking for my first dialogue assignment! Yes, gentle children, Timothy Dalton won. And so, here's the worst first date ever. Remember that in Blocking, we only lay out the essential "key poses" that will define the action, which will later be smoothed and inbetweened.



I also have a another revision of the Hitchhike - and there will be one more coming as well.


Also, I again participated in the AM Weekly Sketches. This week's topic was "Rock Star." So, I came up with this awful pun. As always, click for a larger view:
I figured, "Hey. A shooting star is a rock, right? Get it? Rock star?" I can hear you not laughing. Argh.....

I guess it's also kinda depressing, because he's so excited, yet he doesn't realize that he'll burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. Poor fella. Yeah, I need help. ;-)

Talkie Walkie

OK - so this week we start working with dialogue, which is a HUGE can o' worms, but one I'm very eager to open. So to start, we had to pick 3 lines of dialogue from movies that we'll animate for the rest of Class 3. I narrowed these down from 6 possibilities (lines from Spalding Gray's monologue Gray's Anatomy, the film version of Noises Off!, and the cult unknown Biggles: Adventures in Time were the three that didn't make the cut.)

I don't yet know which one I'll be animating - that'll be up to which one my mentor thinks will be the best choice. The first and last are from Hot Fuzz, and the one in the middle is from Catch-22.



And here are the thumbnail drawings I did to plan out the animation for each. Like I said, only one will be used - and I'm hoping it'll be Clip #3. I could really have fun with that one.

As always, click for a larger view.
I also have a final revision of the Pantomime assignment:



I also had simultaneous disappointment and joy this week. The disappointment: Quaker Oats has discontinued manufacturing their Cinnamon Sugar Chewy granola bars - the only ones on Earth that didn't contain something I'm allergic to. However, the joy is much better - I discovered this week that Entenmann's donuts do NOT give me a migraine! So even though I'll have to tough it out in a world without granola, I can now eat donuts again! I can put this up there with the soy American cheese that doesn't give me a headache either. Now all I need is a fake peanut butter (and some of my sister's homemade jam) and I may be able to start living like a normal person for once!

Knotts Landing

So this week we finished up our Pantomime shots. This, of course, meant a full week of 4-hours of sleep per night for me. But, methinks it was all worth it.



I'm really happy with the way this turned out. There were a couple suggestions y mentor gave me for spicing it up a bit more, which I'll hopefully have time to try this week.

So now, we start scouring movies and TV. Why? Because our next assignment is... Dialogue! Holy hell! I'm rather leaning toward a couple lines from the film Hot Fuzz, but I'm gonna keep looking through the vast collection.

I also hung up some more art in my apartment this week. It's got to be the strangest Christmas gift I've ever received - right up there with those Ear Candles.

As always, click for a larger view. That's right, ladies and germs! It's The Incredible Mr. Limpet himself, Don Knotts! It even came with a Certificate of Authenticity (as if you could fake this.) It's by far the most ridiculous thing I own, so naturally it had to go up on my most prominent living room wall. Now if I could just find one of those Remains of the Day Lunchboxes I'd be set for life!