This Mystery Work In Progress that I’m supposedly working on is in the back of my brain, wedged behind a bunch of other things that are more urgent. Many months have gone by, and it’s growing restless. Writhing around. It’s eating a hole in my head. Hopefully I can carve out a little time to placate it pretty soon.
Here’s an interview I did a little while ago with Taylor Jessen for the Animation Show. It’s mostly about Learn Self Defense, for the upcoming DVD. We also talk a bit about the new Mystery Work In Progress. I ramble a bit, but that’s just how I am. Enjoy.
The soon to be released Animation Show Volume 3 DVD will include my animated short, Learn Self Defense. The rest of the DVD is wall to wall, high-class independent animated short goodness. I highly recommend it. The DVD ships May 30, but pre-ordering is already underway at the Animation Show shop.
Along with the DVD release, the Animation Show was kind enough to print two T-shirts promoting my comic, We The Robots. They are really cool about promoting the animators they work with, and I can’t thank them enough.
So, go order your copy of the DVD, or a We The Robots T-shirt! (additional shirt designs will also be available at wetherobots.com in the near future, so stay tuned)
Hiya, everyone! It’s been a looong time since I’ve updated this ol’ production log. I’ve been busy doing the comic over at We The Robots. That takes up all my time lately, so the animation projects have suffered a great deal. I’ll be posting some more stuff here soon, but in the mean time I wanted to encourage anyone who’s interested to:
Go VOTE FOR MAKE MINE SHOEBOX at Channel Frederator. It’s up for best Flash animation. I don’t know what happens to the winners, but it would be kind of neato, so I appreciate any votes.
Thanks! I’ll post more updates on some other goings on soon.
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: HALLOWEEN 2007
INTRODUCTION, PART 3 OF 3:
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: HALLOWEEN 2007
INTRODUCTION, PART 2 OF 3:
To start my new robot comic, I made a 3-part introduction, which I will post here one chapter at a time. (don’t worry– the comics themselves are not this long and wordy)
Check back on Halloween for the official launch!
INTRODUCTION, PART 1 OF 3:
jump to: CHAPTER 1 | CHAPTER 2 | CHAPTER 3
It’s hard to explain the relationship between the animated Work In Progress, and the non-animated comic strip that goes with it. Both take place in the same fictional world of robots. The short is more broad and doesn’t revolve around any specific robot, where the comic strip has several regular characters.
But there is at least one moment when the strip and the short cross paths. This still from the comic strip depicts some robots coming across a skeleton under a berry bush. What they have stumbled on is the aftermath of one of the scenes from the short.
That seems to be the only moment where the two stories overlap so far. That’s all I know.
My mom recently retired from many years of teaching elementary school. She collected hundreds of childrens’ books over the years, which she has now passed on to her grandchildren. Among the books in one of 3 huge boxes we received was Ed Emberley’s “Great Thumbprint Drawing Book.” I came across it the other day and looked through it for the first time since maybe 3rd grade.
It seems to have been, for better or worse, a terribly strong subconscious influence on some recent work of mine.
