Song of the Creative Professional

by on November 2, 2011 at 7:20 am
Posted In: Test

Okay, I confess! I’ve been dragged into the herd! Much to my surprise I did something I never thought I’d do (Especially after seeing some of the earlier animated commercials for it back int the day) Enjoy  My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! With any luck this is just a passing phase but one can’t help worrying… Today I caught myself doing a preliminary sketch for some… Fanart! (shudder)

But to the point one of the best part of these cartoons (after the fun characters, scripts and plots) are the very well done musical numbers. The one that I’m sharing is from episode 14 Suited for Success and is called “Art of the Dress”. It’s loosely based on “Putting it Together” from Stephen Sondheim‘s Sunday in the Park with George. I find myself liking it more and more mainly because  as a creative professional I’ve had gigs like the one Rarity is enduring before… and clients.

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1600!

by on October 29, 2011 at 11:02 am
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Just thought everyone would like to know we just passed the 1600 strip mark! Feels nice to start having the pace thing down again.

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Friday Museum Sketches

by on October 28, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Posted In: Art

Just going through some of the older stuff and decided to go with another sample from the Seattle Art Museum’s African mask collection. As I’ve mentioned before, I realll like the way they’ve been displaying these masks in context and I like the angle of the figure on this sketch.

The mask itself is Nigerian from the Chukwu Okoro, Mgbom village in 1960. It’s done in the Mkpere made of wood with a raffia backing.

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The Lorax

by on October 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm
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Just saw this sneak preview of the Lorax and I have to say I am skeptical as hell. It looks technically well done and I liked previous work by Illumination Studios, (Despicable Me rocked) but what I’m seeing so far looks like Dr. Seuss’s original material is tacked onto a different story almost as an afterthought. Why bother buying the licensing rights for something else when you can make something that’s all your own.

Of all the books by Dr. Seuss. I would think the Lorax would be the hardest ones to do… Do it wrong and it comes off preachy… Yes the Lorax IS preachy but it’s the good kind. Done right it should be operatic.

What I’m seeing here , and I’m hoping the trailer is taking a lot of this out of context is an attempt to do just another slapstick comedy. I’m hoping that this is deliberate misdirection, but… Danny DeVito as the Lorax, really?

 

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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by on October 25, 2011 at 9:52 am
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Today something fun. Fritz Freleng‘s “Rhapsody in Rivets” from 1941. It’s yet another version of Liszt‘s second Hungarian Rhapsody but it’s lot’s of fun and Fritz is one of my favorite animator of all time.  Besides Carl Stalling plays with the original material enough that the score becomes something entirely new.

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