JunkForest is portable! • 832 days ago
Ok, forgive me if nobody cares about this, but I think its super cool. After I purchase this portable Canon scanner from a friend (I’ve been trying it out today – works pretty good) I can fit everything I need to work on JunkForest in my backpack and take it wherever I want/need to go! So now if the squirrels that live in my attic get too noisy I can just hit the streets and work somewhere else. Here are some pics with descriptions on how this is gonna work:
First, I need a portable pegbar to be able to draw accurate frames of animation on my acme animation paper, and the way I can get that portability is by popping the plexiglass off of my light-table and there you have it – portable pegbar!
Here are all the pieces to the portable JunkForest office, from left to right, starting at the top:
• The portable Canon scanner (LIDE 80)
• My backpack
• My iBook, in its bag, with my old 4×6 Wacom tablet on top.
• The aforementioned plexiglass with pegbar embedded on it – shown with frames of animation intact.
• Sheets of ACME animation paper in a protective plastic case with a zipper.
Tada! All items fit (snugly) in the backpack.
Here are all the pieces laid out in workable fashion on my wooden spool/table in my apartment to give you an idea of what my portable workspace could look like all set up and ready.
Here I am, the lone adventuring animator on the move, looking for sweet action to be had. Little do most on-lookers realize what magical devices I have in my inconspicuous backpack.
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Sam/Me Comparison • 842 days ago
I thought this was funny… If I part my hair down the middle I’m starting to get Sam wings!
New addition to the studio • 1005 days ago
I recently purchased a slightly older iBook through my friend Brian, who had the hook-up at an Apple store at the time. You can see it sitting there to the right. Now I can take my work on the road if I need to and nerd it up in style!
(Its also been handy for escaping my currently A/C-free house this summer to work over at a nearby coffeehouse…)
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Huge poster • 1142 days ago
I made a giant poster using this web software with the slightly unsettling name The Rasterbator and put it up in my room/studio. Its very cool!
I printed it out on 63 sheets of 8.5×11 paper and its almost 100 inches wide! The image is from Castle in the Sky, my favorite movie.
Click here to view a nice big version of the picture.
“New” Studio picture • 1186 days ago
My building is cold these days, so I moved everything into the living room near the gas furnace. Heres a small picture:
Two early photos • 1342 days ago
These two pictures were taken by my friend Dan while I was down in RockSprings Texas, working on JunkForest while doing media stuff for Camp Eagle down there.
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The first picture is me working late one night on the teaser in this old shack on the campgrounds. It houses all the guy counselors during the summer, and we were there in February of 2003. Dan and I had to fill about 4 giant trash bags full of leftover trash and food and filthy camp clothes before we could stand living there.
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The second photo is after the teaser was finished. This picture was taken while I was still at camp, but we had moved to a new(er) place on the grounds that was much nicer after giving it a good steam-vacuuming. I had just rendered out the whole thing while playing Zelda (barely visible on the TV to the right) and Dan and I had just watched it. Dan had some wine on hand, so he broke it out and we celebrated.
Ah, the memories! Thanks for the photos Dan! And thank you Camp Eagle for letting me stay with you while I worked on this crazy thing!
Woodchuck caught! • 1377 days ago
A picture of the woodchuck (taken today) sitting on top of his hole thats dug into this shoddy wall near my front door. The longer I look at this photo, the more I fear for my safety. Theres menace in those eyes!
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My aquarium • 1387 days ago
My Aquarium
The fish most visible – and thats see-through – is one of the gold pristellas, and the other ones that are blurry are the incredibly active zebra danios. Those suckers chase each other all day and are impossible to photograph.
Those plants are just starting to really grow, it will be cooler when they get big.
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G5 • 1390 days ago
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Im in the process of transferring my files over to my slick new dual 1.8 G5. It runs like buttery angelic string music compared to my crusty old G4.
I need to get the ethernet repaired on it though (which means no internet connectability yet with it- doh!), which shouldnt be too big a deal since its under warranty and all. Hopefully it gets worked out quickly, even though Ive heard some bad things about our area’s Apple Specialists… hm.
Update (07-19-04) 5:40pm
I got it back from the Apple guys today already. Guess theres not anything seriously wrong with it at all…They just deleted my settings and made new ones and it worked. I feel sort of silly having not been able to figure it out, but at least the ethernets working now…woo!
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Me Working • 1399 days ago
Here I am hunched over my light-table. All the years of slouching and bad posture have prepared me for the physical strain of animation I think.
I knew it would come in handy one day…
The open book next to me is The Animator’s Survival Kit by Richard Williams. Fantastic resource and its one of the key motivators for me becoming an animator. Check it out if youre interested in that sort of thing.
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