Brett W. Thompson's art blog.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Friday, February 05, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
The second drawing is a sketch of a dear friend I met up with when I was in California for my day job. Drawing from life is quite difficult for me, though for a time I went to the ASIFA-Atlanta weekly figure drawing classes quite regularly. I should start again, particularly since started to read Drawn to Life.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
My One Minute Film that was in Amber Boardman's Show in Brooklyn
Amber Boardman put together a show called GIVE ME A MINUTE at her studio, The Shirey, in Brooklyn!!
She posted all the artist bios and videos!
It's a lot of work to put these kind of things together, and I'm so grateful to Amber for my first showing of film in NYC.
Here's the segment that my film is in:
Mine's at 2:15. I really liked Shai Zurim's film which is after mine, ooo!
Other videos here. Amber put them into interesting little groups, it's cool.
My piece was very spontaneous- I took a few segments that I started at previous Animation Draws and put them to music from jams with Cameron and/or Bradley.
She posted all the artist bios and videos!
It's a lot of work to put these kind of things together, and I'm so grateful to Amber for my first showing of film in NYC.
Here's the segment that my film is in:
Mine's at 2:15. I really liked Shai Zurim's film which is after mine, ooo!
Other videos here. Amber put them into interesting little groups, it's cool.
My piece was very spontaneous- I took a few segments that I started at previous Animation Draws and put them to music from jams with Cameron and/or Bradley.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
ASIFA-Atlanta Animation Draws 6, 7, 8
I finally put together the last three Animation Draws. Thanks to Aaron Barnes for doing the music!
Our next Animation Draw is Saturday, Feb 20th, 3pm-7pm, at WonderRoot. No experience necessary- we provide light tables, paper, and markers!
This time for most of it I used a Canon MP780 scanner, which happens to have an auto-document feeder!! I've dreamed of the day I could just put stacks of paper into a machine that would scan for me. I actually like the way shooting with a camera looks- it has a certain noise/warmth to it that I love, and sometimes the colors on the scanner are too bright. Shooting with a camera might even be faster (and iStopMotion, the program I've been using, is fantastic), but this MP780 is certainly much less work.
Hannah and I were about to toss the MP780 into the dumpster, but I gave it one more try (after Tak's birthday party at my place, wooo!!!) and was so amazed when it worked.
You can see it in action at the very start of the video.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Fluidtoons Sketchbook One now available!
So I put together a book of drawings and a few pages of comics! Now you can buy it (or download it for free) thanks to lulu.com.
I put this together as a portfolio piece for the MFA program in Experimental Animation at CalArts, but it was so satisfying that I may do more of these. The comics particularly seem to be popular, and I have tons more drawings I could put together.
A huge thanks to Erica Schreiner who showed me lulu.com with her amazing book, Hellos & Goodbyes, which is a collection of her heartfelt short stories and is wonderful!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Flyer for Poetry Night at WonderRoot 2/4/2010
Ben and Cameron asked me to do a flyer for their poetry night at WonderRoot. It was fun!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Daily drawing
I think Kelly Duane liked this one? The pointiness, especially, which is a little unusual for Fluidtoons!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Give Me A Minute / Friday Jan 22 / 6-midnight
Ooo, yay!
I have a one-minute animated film in Amber Boardman's Give Me a Minute show in Brooklyn, NY!
Info:
GIVE ME A MINUTE
I have a one-minute animated film in Amber Boardman's Give Me a Minute show in Brooklyn, NY!
Info:
GIVE ME A MINUTE
A show of one minute long films from around the world.
curated by Amber Boardman
curated by Amber Boardman
Friday
January 22, 2010
6pm - midnight
47 Thames St. #306
Brooklyn, NY 11237
(off the Morgan L between Morgan and Knickerbocker)
theshirey@gmail.com
http://www.theshirey.com
347.369.4475
ARTIST LIST:
Adam Ansorge
Anita Arliss
Signe Baumane
Robin Bernat
Amber Boardman
Osborn Brown
Matthew Burge
Katie Cercone
Zoe Chan
Tre Chandler
Monica Cook
Brandon Davey
Kate Davis Caldwell
Tina Deramus
Paulo Dos Santos
Maria Jose Duran Steinman
Sarah Ferguson
Nicolas Fraser
Marysia Gacek
Bill Gerstenmaier / Michael Murrell
Ragnheidur Gestsdottir
Edgar Grana
Carrie Hawks
Theresa Himmer
Ryan Johnson
Mark Kessell
Gary Leib
Mark Leibert
Gregg Louis
Eric Lundquist
Stephen Maine
Justin Mata
Suzanne McClelland
Sean McCormick
Alexandra Mein
Michi Meko
Steven Mitchell
Brigitte Neufeldt
Amjad Olabi
PES
Todd Redner
Ondrej Rudavsky
Jes Schrom
Stacy Scibelli
Ronen Shai
Olive Shaner
Cameron Stuart
Brett W. Thompson
Curver Thoroddsen
Angeliki Tsotsoni
Yi-Hsin Tzeng
Yonatan Ullman
Kurt Gilbert Wahlstrom
Lee Xi
Shai Zurim
*This is a one night event
but can also be viewed by appointment
and online at: http://www.theshirey.com
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