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This one is actually incomplete, but I like it anyway, and it might be interesting to see one that's in progress.

Falcon Lords Animated Music Video!

Major props to my pal Chris Miller for doing such a kickass job on this animated music video!!



I was originally asked to do it but had difficulty finding the time- and I knew Chris would do a better job anyway, so I gave the Falcon Lords' his name. I think this was the right choice, because I'm totally amazed at how great a job he did- I see stuff in there I probably wouldn't have even tried but Chris did it and rocked at it!!!

I hope they make a whole series of this stuff- wouldn't that be awesome?? Would you watch it?

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ASIFA-Atlanta Animation Draw 9

Thanks so much to Michael Landau for the awesome soundtrack, and to all the participating artists!!

Next Animation Draw is Saturday, March 13th at WonderRoot, 3pm-7pm. No experience necessary!

ASIFA-Atlanta
Animation Draw 9

Participating Artists

Daniel Bordua
Tony Twilight
Elicia Mitchem
Sasha Phillip
Danielle Yarbrough
Adam Bruneau
Hannah Cocke
Bradley Bailey
Brian Evans
Bryan Fordney
Cameron Stuart
Kevin Elphick

Music by
Michael Landau

Produced by
Brett W. Thompson

Sponsored by

ASIFA-Atlanta
www.asifa-atlanta.com

WonderRoot
www.wonderroot.org

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Despite all their offerings, the king was still sad!

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This is an old one!

ASIFA-Atlanta elections are tonight; I have to run it. I hope it goes smoothly!

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One Minute Fluidtoons on Paper

One Minute Fluidtoons on Paper from Brett W. Thompson on Vimeo.

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Daily Drawing, with no eyeballs

Someone challenged me to draw one with no eyes and this is what I did! I think I remember drawing it in the car, possibly.

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I think this one might be about feeling overwhelmed.

Daily Drawing and Snow Pictures

I drew this one about a year ago, while it was snowing in Atlanta.

It snowed just recently too! Playing in the snow was tremendously fun. Cameron and I sledded:



I used a Fellini's pizza box as my sled:









Hannah and Cameron and found a huge snowball and rolled it, Katamari-style, making it even bigger:





This dog was interested in the huge snowball too:



I love how it left a trail as it picked up snow:



I climbed on top of it before we left:

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Idea for a (very) short animation.

I've also realized that if I do eight drawings per day, I could have 30 seconds of animation at the end of a month (at 8 fps)!! I might try to do this. Drawing on paper's really satisfying, and this amazing scanner (MP780) makes scanning so easy...

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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.

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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.

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.

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!

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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!

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I think Kelly Duane liked this one? The pointiness, especially, which is a little unusual for Fluidtoons!

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Since I forgot to post one yesterday, I'm posting two drawings today.

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

A show of one minute long films from around the world.
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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I think I drew this one on a plane to Costa Rica for the Montezuma International Film Festival. I was totally having trouble with my paint markers semi-exploding, but I like how it turned out!