One way ticket yeah.
It took me soooo o o long
To Draw
But then I Drew
Monday, February 28, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
February Film Geekdom Plugs!
Another plug for the last couple of webisodes of my friend Chris Mich's show DIGGING STAR WARS - http://diggingstarwars.blogspot.com/. In the last two webisodes he compares The Star Wars films to Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon and Gone with the Wind And he welcomes his first guest: Independant film producer Phil Congleton. 
Also, another buddy of mine, Composer and Associate Professor of Audio Technology at American University, Paul Oehlers Has started a new show over at American University with his co-host Greg Smith, called GREATEST SCENE EVER - http://www.american.edu/soc/film/greatest-scene-ever.cfm
A show where Each program will have a central theme, ie: Westerns, Comedy, Action/Adventure, notable directors, etc. After an introduction that establishes that day’s theme, we throw out the first choice and play a clip from it. After the clip ends, we explain why it’s one of the greatest scenes ever (within that genre). And so on throughout the show.
In addition to having fun watching great film clips, our secret mission is to provide a conversation that’s enlightening and educating by providing the academic context in which films are made and seen by audiences.
Paul Oehlers(front), Chris Mich (middle) and Me (background)
Also, if you haven't seen it yet, check out Brad Bird receiving the Winsor McCay Award at ASIFA-Hollywood's Annie Awards - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQX0DF6A19I
And watch until the end.
Drawings to come soon, I need to scan stuff from my sketch book, and I'm almost done with a line up of character designs.
Drawings to come soon, I need to scan stuff from my sketch book, and I'm almost done with a line up of character designs.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A Great Story about the late John Dorman
"John was a wild man. Short in stature, huge in talent/skill/imagination, John was in every sense of the phrase a larger than life personality.
He was no saint, and I won’t try to portray him as one, but my God, how the man could draw. He was nothing short of brilliant, but his brilliance was always in the employ of other, lesser talents. I looked for samples of his work online & could find none to share, other than frame grabs of shows he’d worked on.
Poor, poor, poor representations of his awesome, original talent.
He could pull together the most amazing art crews & deliver fresh, innovative character designs, storyboards, & layouts for shows that…well, frankly, were undeserving of the time, energy, & talent squandered on them.
John was a Character with a capital C. He had a big heart, but one that was prone to break & often filled with aches & pains. His outrageous, oversized personality often put him at odds with others.
I have dozens of hilarious Dorman stories to tell, but too many of them either involve still living litigious @$holes or else innocent 3rd parties who might be hurt in the collateral damage.
So I will tell just this one, a mere middlin’ sample of John’s incredible legend:
While working on the animated Moses film, Prince of Egypt, John was assigned the task of storyboarding the parting of the Red Sea.
The Exec in charge had some Strong Ideas how the story should be told, or rather, re-told. Specifically, to make it more “female friendly”, the Exec ordered the scene written with Moses’ wife breaking his staff across her knee & telling him to have faith in himself if he wanted to part the sea.
John was not a very spiritual, much less religious man, but he knew enough about the Bible to know camel dung when he smelled it. Still, a job was a job & John needed the money, so he storyboarded the scene as written……but he also “plused” it a bit.
John turned the storyboard in and the Exec smiled at how well John had interpreted the Exec’s ideas, then noticed something and frowned.
“This is all wonderful work,” the Exec said to John, “but who’s this figure here? The one in the cape with the horned helmet and a big hammer?”
“Oh, that’s Thor,” John said. “I figured since you were [m]ucking around with the Bible I might as well throw him in.”
God bless ya, John, wherever you are…"
The Prince of Egypt Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
He was no saint, and I won’t try to portray him as one, but my God, how the man could draw. He was nothing short of brilliant, but his brilliance was always in the employ of other, lesser talents. I looked for samples of his work online & could find none to share, other than frame grabs of shows he’d worked on.
Poor, poor, poor representations of his awesome, original talent.
He could pull together the most amazing art crews & deliver fresh, innovative character designs, storyboards, & layouts for shows that…well, frankly, were undeserving of the time, energy, & talent squandered on them.
John was a Character with a capital C. He had a big heart, but one that was prone to break & often filled with aches & pains. His outrageous, oversized personality often put him at odds with others.
I have dozens of hilarious Dorman stories to tell, but too many of them either involve still living litigious @$holes or else innocent 3rd parties who might be hurt in the collateral damage.
So I will tell just this one, a mere middlin’ sample of John’s incredible legend:
While working on the animated Moses film, Prince of Egypt, John was assigned the task of storyboarding the parting of the Red Sea.
The Exec in charge had some Strong Ideas how the story should be told, or rather, re-told. Specifically, to make it more “female friendly”, the Exec ordered the scene written with Moses’ wife breaking his staff across her knee & telling him to have faith in himself if he wanted to part the sea.
John was not a very spiritual, much less religious man, but he knew enough about the Bible to know camel dung when he smelled it. Still, a job was a job & John needed the money, so he storyboarded the scene as written……but he also “plused” it a bit.
John turned the storyboard in and the Exec smiled at how well John had interpreted the Exec’s ideas, then noticed something and frowned.
“This is all wonderful work,” the Exec said to John, “but who’s this figure here? The one in the cape with the horned helmet and a big hammer?”
“Oh, that’s Thor,” John said. “I figured since you were [m]ucking around with the Bible I might as well throw him in.”
God bless ya, John, wherever you are…"
The Prince of Egypt Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
Genre: Drama, Animation, Kids & Family, Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and, later his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people. More
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