joy in mudville?

Huh. I just did a "wink"* for AG with my own art, rather than licensed stuff. It's the first time I've ever done something in Flash with my own art instead of other people's drawings. The keys were drawn in AI with attention paid to how I'd probably want to animate them; symbolizing wasn't a nightmare process of cutting up and extending the shapes in Flash. Barring a few little roundoff glitches in the translation, everything flowed well.

I actually kinda had fun doing it.

In Flash.

Fancy that.

It wasn't the fun of doing full animation in pencil - this was only six drawings, run through AI and then given the Flash process. But my pride-in-craft kicked in and this was easily something you could stick on TV, if you had a TV show that was a shameless rip-off of Samurai Jack with a cute mouse in the title role. (I borrowed my old Ensign K designs for this, which is moderately appropriate: I designed him not too long before images of SJ started showing up in the animation magazines, and was grumpy that Genndy got to be the first guy out there with a stark no-outlines show.)

Maybe I'll even animate something for myself someday, in my own style zone. That would be nice.

I took too damn long on this one, though. It's the first time I ever did the layouts for my Flash work; maybe I'm allowed.

I also did this. ( Read more... )

* Flash animations that show up in the middle of your MSN Messenger chat window, if you use the official client, and pay some money for 'em.

a list

Top Ten Beatles Tunes I Am Glad To Have In My Library, Now That I Ripped Kin's CDs:

(I have all of these on vinyl or tape back in New Orleans, BTW.)

1. Savoy Truffle white album
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown) rubber soul
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hears Club Band (Reprise) sgt. pepper
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps white album
5. Octopus' Garden abbey road
6. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window abbey road
7. Back In The U.S.S.R. white album
8. Wild Honey Pie white album
9. Glass Onion white album
10. Blackbird white album

I like the White Album.

This is not my Top Ten Beatles Tunes, it's just ten that were not on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack (nineties release), because that's the only one I had on CD for the longest time.