another work day, movie night coming up

we spent thursday working together in the studio, animating at the wheel and coloring at the stylus.

with all of us crammed into this little space, I imagine this with forward nostalgia as the "early days," when chairs slid down the wooden floor incline towards the center of the room if you didn't find a way to anchor them down, when you could hear Eric making various sounds to himself, where Janelle occasionally lapsed into staring immobile at the wall for undefined periods of time, where I worked at the filing cabinet because there were only three desks and debated with Eric about the relative mertis of various Apple devices, and where new head Ellen wondered how anyone ever actually got any work done in this environment.

ah, the good ol' days...they happen in the present, you know. remember that.

we didn't use the cintiqs this time because I forgot to take them out of their cases. oh well, definitely next week. to me, the chief advantage was the kickstand, which increased the drawing angle so you could sit up straight and not lean into, bent over like a pretzel, squinting at the screen. but I'm alternating between the digital and the analog world at the moment, drawing with the pencil and coloring with the stylus.

and on saturday we're having another animation movie night, this time with the 2011-12 annecy dvd's, + whatever else is brought up to the table. hooray for home-made beer from ellen and andy!

after some "this and that," the ogre drawings now sit in a single filing cabinet - one with two filing drawers (what a find). Uhuru always has something tempting, walking by it. except of course on mondays, when they're closed.

everyone has a post-ogre project they are considering throwing at Motion Heads, except me - my next film is going to be a solo effort: a moving doodle, stripped down and more improvised, more jazz, less linear. so I'm looking forward to contributing to someone else's notions.

the accordion place moved...wonder how much the rent in that now empty space...big enough to set up a hammock? would have to be big enough to accommodate two or three disc desks, plus...a stop-motion set, workshop area, and the requisite computer stations: a mix of real things with computer things. and a lounge. and a little refrigerator. and a projector/screening area. and the vegetable garden out back, or at least an herbarium on the window sill.

so that's it for now.

see you soon and stay tuned: we're working on putting sequence 02 together in color.