Meeting Mefull

Mark Fullerton aka mefull was in New Orleans this week for a screen-printing convention and we had the chance to meet up and chat about all things stop-mo! Mark and I have been buddies online for a few years now, but it was wonderful to meet a Moe in person and really put a face to a name. I brought along my early Jenny Greenteeth foam pup, we talked about the city a bit, and touched on many a stopmotion topic. It was truly a pleasure to hang out with you, Mark, and I hope we get the opportunity to do it again sometime!

Dorian Gray Animated

Finally, here is the animation that I submitted to the Art-in-a-Box show. I am not pleased with several aspects, mainly the de-aging of the portrait, which was much more difficult than I thought it would be. I ended up with only 2 sec of animation, painted too many/too big brushstrokes per frame and finished repainting it entirely too quickly, but I was trying to make the July 30 deadline and did not have time to repaint and reanimate. This is really the first time that I've incorporated "live action" shots (the curtain coming down, for example) and I'm not sure how I feel about them. I love the look but somehow feel like I've cheated :)

Enjoy!

The Picture of Dorian Gray from Ubatuber on Vimeo.

Art In A Box Announcement

Howdy all, still working on getting my computer up-and-running....here is a link to the announcement for the RHINO gallery Art-in-a-Box show featuring my Dorian Gray set!

http://rhinocrafts.com/2009/09/07/art-n-a-box-otober-show-is-getting-closer/

Updates and Grown-up Life Junk :)

Tons going on lately, sorry about lack of updates....my Lady is now at 22 weeks, expecting our first baby, a boy....he's about the size of a puppet now, a good 8", and this week I felt him kick for the first time, amazing....tentative name: Roman Alexander Roche. We are also in the final stages of purchasing our first home, have gone through the headache-and-stress-inducing process of financing and inspections and negotiations and we should be closing on the property at the end of the month, and moving in throughout October. I still have not gotten my computer back, its waiting on a part for repair, but I will have to figure out something this week because I have to deliver my Dorian Gray box to the RHINO gallery by Sept. 20. I'll probably ask the shop thats doing the repair to pull my files from the harddrive so I can try to edit them on another computer. As soon as my computer is back I'll post some photos and the final vid. Peace out.

Box - YES! Computer - NO :(

Good news! My Dorian Gray box has been accepted for the Art-in-a-Box exhibit in October!!! Unfortunately, I write this from my local library as my computer has been struck by lightning (I think) and is inoperable. Hopefully all is well with it though, because my Dorian Gray footage is still on the hard drive, not backed up on disk, AAARGH!! I will be bringing it for repair today, ***fingers crossed ****

Frank Darabont - Walking Dead - AMC

The Walking Dead

I don't often post about entertainment news, unless it has me super-jazzed, which this does....Frank Darabont is "close to signing" to write/direct a TV series adaptation of Kirkman's graphic novel zombie survival series "The Walking Dead" for AMC. I loved the comic series, excellently written with wonderful characters, and, yeah, zombies. I hope this happens!

Dorian Gray - Done!

Animation is done, though in my haste to finish I rushed the de-aging of the portrait, only ending up with about 2 seconds of footage when i really wanted it to be a slow process....much more difficult than I anticipated....que sera sera...I'm not done with the editing or effects but I cobbled together a preliminary "draft" to send along with my submission to Art-in-a-Box....the box is done, sealed up in plexiglass and (hopefully) ready for exhibition. I'll post the completed clip in a week or so, I need a little break from this. And I know just how I'll spend the break...the Lady Julianna, suffering some insomnia due to the pregnancy, went out and invested in World of Warcraft, a massive multiplayer online role playing game which I've started playing also....I can totally see how people can lose themselves in a game like this :)