Sunday, August 30, 2009

Busy and Lazy

Well folks, i've been mostly lazy since my last post. In ... Decemeber? woof, sorry about that. Also for the last several months (but not all 8) i've been retardo busy on various projects. One of interest is animation for a live stage production of 'Harold and the Purple Crayon'. Check your local theater's schedule for details and show tours. They needed about 55 minutes of animation. I was Assistant Director for a summer animation workshop, and lead various interns to create this piece, trying to do as little work as possible, only to do touch ups at summer's end. Well most of the interns fell through in either not completing their scenes, not getting them to me on time, not timing their sections to the music, or arranging the timelines in confusing and obscure ways. They wanted the 2 weeks between the workshop's end and the 1st stage rehersal to finish their scenes ... well in general they didn't finish up to standards, save for very few moments. About 10% was usable.

So for the following 2 weeks (including the moment this is being written) I had to finish and correct all their work. As well as create entire scenes from nothing. (needless to say, these scenes all done by me, had little tweaks and corrections later on) During these 2 weeks, i had to adjust tweak and create whatever they needed, while simply finishing uncompleted scenes. On average i was getting 1.5 non-consecutive hours a day. Some days i got 4 hours not in a row, some days 20 minutes. Needless to say i was fairly irratable toward the end of it all. Me and the director, great guy in all honesty, were pleasantly wanting to kill one another the whole time. We were both pissed at the beginning state of animation, and all his changes were expecting me to be as good as i boast. Even at modest levels, i'm phenominal. Regardless, he asked for 10 hours of animation, and with my other paying job in the way, i would only have 6 hours to work on it. If i gave up showers, sleep, shaving, and any version of food prep.

Anyways, i can't comment on the ending to this story. But in the middle of my morbidly sleep deprived state, i made a small comic about one of the HUGE plot holes of Hellboy 2. If you saw it, enjoy how much time the movie wasted with its story. If you haven't seen it, this is basically a story spoiler, but not a movie sploiler. Regardless, i loved HB2's visuals. And i loved small sections of how the story unfolded. But here is one of my frustrated moments of the movie. I plan to have many more Plot Hole Theater comics. I have plenty to say on my favorite Trilogy. stay tuned