Don't Sweat the Technique
Celebration! The endless frames that were painted for Magyar Posse's Whirlpool of Terror and Tension were not created in vain as the video was accepted to compete at the Oulu Music Video Festival (www.omvf.net) which takes between the 6th and 10th of September.. We would have been disappointed to say the least had the video not been accepted to the competition. Lauri ( the guy on the right side of the picture ) is the Art Director of Las Palmas Films. He's worked his ass off doing this project for the past few weeks so hopefully the video is well received by the audience, as well as the jury of course. Me and the other two Lauri's (Betonfoot and Oktopus) have black ink stained fingers as a reminder of a few weeks of animating the old fashioned way. Hundreds of frames. Bloody frames. The word alone gives me shivers now. I'm exaggerating, of course. It's been exhausting at times, but the more you work for a project, the more you can appreciate the final product. But this is no mere product; it's a work of art. xD
Meanwhile, I've got a translation project on my hands which I should get done in two weeks. The subject matter of this particular translation project is not exactly my cup of tea, but I welcome the challenge. Like animation, translation is a technique sport. So don't sweat it. I got it covered. Peace.
Inanimate
How does inanimate become animate? How does animate become inanimate? Simple. Take a bunch of people (animators), make them draw an unfathomable amount of inanimate pictures (frames) in order to create animation, and in the process, watch them slowly become inanimate themselves as the enormous workload sucks all lifeforce out of them. Sounds pretty dramatic, huh? Über dramatic. Animation isn't like that at all, except when the deadline is approaching. I've been helping out a friend of mine who's working on an animation project, a music video, to be exact. It's fun in the beginning, but when you paint 100 or more frames of the same scene it gets a bit tiresome. And this is just a small animation project.. I take my hat off to all animators. Keep on animating. U rock.
animate VERB 1. to give life to or cause to come alive. 2. to make lively; enliven. 3.to encourage or inspire. 4. to impart motion to; move to action or work. 5. to record on film or videotape so as to give movement to: an animated cartoon. *ADJECTIVE 6. being alive or having life.7. gay, spirited, or lively.
inanimate ADJECTIVE 1. lacking the qualities or features of living beings; not animate: inanimate objects.2. lacking any sign of life or consciousness; appearing dead.3. lacking vitality; spiritless; dull.
Travel Jones
This morning a letter dropped through my mailslot, or what ever you like to call it. The time was around 09.30. My head was still a bit heavy after a good night of alcool consuming, but I was able to make out the label on the letter: "Kilroy Travels". At that point, I had a pretty good idea of the content of the letter. Indeed, a few moments later I was holding in my hands a pair of tickets, or rather a wad of tickets with all kinds of strange markings and numbers and codes and such. I was able to decipher some of the numbers and words to reach the conclusion that these tickets would get me on the right flight to Sapporo. Nice. The travel fever is finally starting to kick in as I'm looking at the tickets. Concerete evidence of my forthcoming exile...Yes, you could say I'm eager to leave this place called Oulu. It's nothing dramatic, just ultimate boredom.
exile NOUN 1. a prolonged, usually enforced absence from one's home or country; banishment.
2. the expulsion of a person from his native land by official decree. 3. a person banished or living away from his home or country; expatriate.
boredom NOUN the state of being bored; tedium.
Can you dig it?
Celebration! The endless frames that were painted for Magyar Posse's Whirlpool of Terror and Tension were not created in vain as the video was accepted to compete at the Oulu Music Video Festival (www.omvf.net) which takes between the 6th and 10th of September.. We would have been disappointed to say the least had the video not been accepted to the competition. Lauri ( the guy on the right side of the picture ) is the Art Director of Las Palmas Films. He's worked his ass off doing this project for the past few weeks so hopefully the video is well received by the audience, as well as the jury of course. Me and the other two Lauri's (Betonfoot and Oktopus) have black ink stained fingers as a reminder of a few weeks of animating the old fashioned way. Hundreds of frames. Bloody frames. The word alone gives me shivers now. I'm exaggerating, of course. It's been exhausting at times, but the more you work for a project, the more you can appreciate the final product. But this is no mere product; it's a work of art. xD
