some doodles i did while watching the state of the union yesterday




I'm sure we were all sad it was w's last.

more shots. I'll get some more hand-drawn sketchbook posts up in a week or so.

don't stare directly into the sun

here are some stills from the title sequence I've been working on today for liz toonkel's "fashion kills." I guess you've got to see them moving. Fun stuff to work on. And the film is pretty baller.

just keeping the shots coming. quantity over quality, I always say!

I think last week I accidently upgraded to quicktime 7.3.1. I'm running mac os 10.4.11, and I didn't know there would be a problem running after effects cs3. Now, all of the sudden, if I try to render something out with audio, I get this:

then the program crashes and quits.

I guess I need to downgrade quicktime. Anybody know which version isn't so lame? Or how to? I think I could downgrade to quicktime 6, but then itunes and lots of other apple programs start to bug out.

My next project is definitely going to be traditional.

Thought I might talk a little bit from time to time about how Chicken Cowboy has come to take this direction. As for the visuals in and after the showdown, I owe much to good old mark rothko at MoMA:


I can never look at rothko, albers, or gauguin without getting pretty excited about colors.

Anyhow, here are some more shots.




Don't worry, there aren't too many of those onomatopoeic shots.

the secret weapon


great when the sun's on your back.

another one of the gang.

the showdown

in the saloon.

Happy New Year!

Here are some more images. They both look a lot cooler when they're moving.



The shots are going faster than I thought they would. Sad to think about how much time I've spent with after effects in the past year, but I still think it's the best way for me to work right now. For the kind of shorts I like to make, it's always been pound for pound the easiest way to economically get a story and direction across.

after this project, I want to steer in more of a traditional direction. Push as I try, there's definitely an energy in something hand-drawn that is so difficult to produce digitally, whether abstract or realistic. I've got some ideas. We'll see.