welcome, new intern heads!

...Mark, Evan, Nishant, Meghan, Grant, and Garion!

We meet again on Friday after 2D Computer Animation. Have your revised sample files and shots from last week ready (if you don't have the whole shot complete, then just show what you have), so we can discuss texture and color and address any questions that might be floating around.

see you then!

Chris

greetings from the windy city!

I am taking over this blog, one last time! I wanted to wave hi from beautiful Lake Michigan and Chi-Town.  I hope the Ogre-ing is going well and hoping to see an updated animatic soon!  

Take care, guys!

Eric Nielsen

Head of Motion Heads Alumni Association (MHAA)

sand, sand, sand...

ogre turns to sand from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

janelle's ongoing conversation with grains of sand...

by gum it's october 3rd already...where is this year going to?

ellen's background machine.

wow, a post from janelle, that hasn't happened in a looooong time. : D 

keep 'em coming.

so, not to be outdone, here are my photos from the same session - back in the studio after a bit of a hiatus, a solid afternoon of image-making from all three mo'headers, although as janelle says, ellen has no equal for sitting down and getting on task and staying on task through post-lunch food comas, computer malfunction, and natural distasters.

sand animation...in pencil - kinda pointillistic. but don't worry, there's an animation end in sight...

tune in next week's thrilling episode: "You, Too, Can Draw Little Pencil Specks for Two Weeks Straight!"

janelle with headgear.

ellen likes her grapes.

ogre on the floor, with cell phone guy.

animation perspective.

time for maui cookies.

self portrait with big green leaf.

tools: pencil sharpener, hourglass, water.

we're back! or chris is, anyway.

Chris was in Ottawa for the animation festival last week, so we missed a session. I missed two. Shhh, don't tell anyone...

Out of the three of us, Ellen works the longest without naps or cookie breaks. She's a background-drawing machine!

I'm sure Chris didn't mean to look this menacing, but it made me draw faster, anyway.

I've been animating sand for...forever. And I will be, forever more. That probably means the next two weeks. Or so. I can't tell time anymore. All I see is saaaannnndddd....man, I should go to the beach and study that stuff. Or just go outside and play in the dirt. It's almost Halloween, so as long as I wear a dinosaur costume, no one will suspect anything. It's the most flawless plan!

Obviously, it's time for another nap.

guilty pangs of artistic guilty.

so guilty, oh, the pangs! no work done on the film since ottawa. came back, got blasted with administrative and classroom busy-ness, and caught a cold. and today, saturday, slept in a little, walked to the museum, saw a bit of the indian fête, walked back, ate an indian dinner, then futzed around, watching Raoul Servais (no waste of time, but still, you know, how's this bloody film gonna get done!).

welcome to new interns Grant, Meghan, Evan, Nishant, and Garion! we'll get crackin' this week, never fear. :  D

red in the street in ottawa.

the ogre and the mermaids

France has invaded again!

today was thursday

janelle, ellen, and I worked today on ogre. looking forward to rusty joining us. we also ate sandwiches and ate cookies. life  is good.

also passed out the new business cards, all squared-off and shiny, this time the ink won't scuff off so easily.

school's back in swing, so time has once again become scarce.

no photos, but will post the latest pencil when a window of opportunity presents itself.

 time poo bo poo fleep...

aloha to eric!

eric is heading off into the sunset - sunrise, migrating north where the love is and hopefully a career await!

toiling over sand, surf, and sun for over a year with us, we will miss his melodic mumblings while sitting by the warm glow of the monitor, his perusings about Apple and all their wonder, and talk of the iPad he didn't buy.

but we realize that this adventure must take place, and in hopes of escaping the industry of food art one fine day, eric must take his chances in the frozen north and go for the gusto.

so bon courage, sir eric, and keep us in the loop with news of your adventures!



*of course you realize you've been relocated into the "alumni head" category on the "about" page.   : D

make us proud, son.