late night at the cartoon factory
Jul. 2nd, 2002 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashSo I'm working at Spümcø again. Doing the Flash on what is hopefully the last of a five-cartoon contract with Cartoon Network dot com. It's about Yogi's little buddy Boo Boo and the exact relationship between the two bears.
For a while I was the only person doing the Flash work on it. Finally, there's someone else working on it, which means it has a decent hope of meeting the deadline. Unfortunately, the whole cartoon is in one hugemungous file due to John's love of reuse. So it's impossible for two people to work on it at once. The solution? Work in shifts! So obvious!
And who gets to be the night shift? Well, who struggles to work 'white man hours', never manages to come in on time, always stays a little late? Yep. Me.
(I was going to include a little SWF I whipped out of 'Peggy Working Night Shift at the Cartoon Factory', but Livejournal seems to toss the tags right out. So go here to see it.)
So I now hop on the bus with my bicycle at about 6, and get to work around 7. In the evening. I then stay here until 3AM, and bicycle home in the middle of the night, cutting straight through all of Burbank and into mid-Glendale where I currently live. It takes about an hour.
The first two nights, I rode my bike both to and from Spümcø. Surprisingly enough, my legs did not complain too much, despite the fact that it's been quite some time since I cycled regularly. The body part that did rebel was my scrawny little bottom... sitting on a bicycle seat for one hour is quite enough; two hours, even if seperated by eight hours in a soft chair, is Too Much.
Oh, and when I'm done with this cartoon in a few weeks, I should be switching over to work on the new Ren & Stimpy. Not doing layout or anything like that, unfortunately, just timing out animatics in Premiere. I seem to be stuck on this weird technical kind of path that I really need to break out of. But my name will be in the credits of Ren and Stimpy. This is so cool.
For a while I was the only person doing the Flash work on it. Finally, there's someone else working on it, which means it has a decent hope of meeting the deadline. Unfortunately, the whole cartoon is in one hugemungous file due to John's love of reuse. So it's impossible for two people to work on it at once. The solution? Work in shifts! So obvious!
And who gets to be the night shift? Well, who struggles to work 'white man hours', never manages to come in on time, always stays a little late? Yep. Me.
(I was going to include a little SWF I whipped out of 'Peggy Working Night Shift at the Cartoon Factory', but Livejournal seems to toss the tags right out. So go here to see it.)
So I now hop on the bus with my bicycle at about 6, and get to work around 7. In the evening. I then stay here until 3AM, and bicycle home in the middle of the night, cutting straight through all of Burbank and into mid-Glendale where I currently live. It takes about an hour.
The first two nights, I rode my bike both to and from Spümcø. Surprisingly enough, my legs did not complain too much, despite the fact that it's been quite some time since I cycled regularly. The body part that did rebel was my scrawny little bottom... sitting on a bicycle seat for one hour is quite enough; two hours, even if seperated by eight hours in a soft chair, is Too Much.
Oh, and when I'm done with this cartoon in a few weeks, I should be switching over to work on the new Ren & Stimpy. Not doing layout or anything like that, unfortunately, just timing out animatics in Premiere. I seem to be stuck on this weird technical kind of path that I really need to break out of. But my name will be in the credits of Ren and Stimpy. This is so cool.
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Date: 2002-07-02 05:19 am (UTC)New Ren and Stimpy
Date: 2002-07-02 09:10 am (UTC)He is going to ummm what is the word? Plotz?
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Date: 2002-07-02 10:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-02 02:10 pm (UTC)3AM, I'm finding, is actually some sort of sweet spot for empty roads. Earlier and you still have late-night party stragglers; later and you have people who get up early to do whatever. Riding from 3-4 in the morning, though, I only see about five cars in the entire hour-long trip.
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Date: 2002-07-03 01:08 am (UTC)Thanks, Mommy Roz. *grin*
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Date: 2002-07-02 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-02 02:27 pm (UTC)-Peggy