Sunday, February 8, 2009
Paintings of Progress
Jeremy Geddes is an illustrator, who's work I saw in Spectrum. Definitely quite the impressive Thingamujig Of The Day.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
The Following Followup That Follows
Is here! As promised, the second Thingamujig Of The Day for the hypothetical morning readers to wake up to! Though it still follows the date constraints of a single Thingamujig per day, as more than one could be too much cool. Too much cool, it is well known, is perfectly capable of freezing all of the fluids in a human body. Seeing as how any readers will likely be human, and human bodies tend to encase a large amount of fluid, allowing these fluids to be frozen in the reader's bodies would be not only very irresponsible, but also quite rude.
If only there could be found some witty segway to move from freezing all of my readers' bodily fluids to the Thingamujig Of The Day, which actually has little to do with freezing anything. However, it is quite cool. In fact, the plausible segeway could have been that The Thingamujig Of The Day is cooler than average, since it is almost two Thingamujigs!
Don't worry, however, it is just slightly less cool than the temperature required to freeze your body into a human popsicle.
What is this Thingamujig posessed of such coolness, you ask? It is not only a link to the webpage of The 11 Second Club, but more specifically to their resource page, wherein can be found many high quality rigs to be used for computer animation.
The 11 Second Club is the spiritual successor to the 10 Second Club, which was a monthly animation contest in which contestants created a ten second animation to a specific, monthly audio clip. However, due to various issues, the site was closed down. The domain has had a 'coming soon' banner for a good while now, and it doesn't seem it will resume at any point in the near future, if ever.
AnimationMentor.com (oh dear....this is getting cooler than I thought....so much information!) has taken the liberty of creating a successor site. Their audio clips are supplied monthly, at 11 seconds in length, with the prize being a professional critique from a seasoned animator.
Not only does The Thingamujig Of The Day contain this information, but it also links directly to their oft overlooked resource page, which contains links to a series of relatively good rigs. In the blog keeper's opinion, the androgenous "Andy" rig is the best. However, "Max" is also a very nice rig, though the Andy facial controls seem to be somewhat more capable in his limited initial tests.
If only there could be found some witty segway to move from freezing all of my readers' bodily fluids to the Thingamujig Of The Day, which actually has little to do with freezing anything. However, it is quite cool. In fact, the plausible segeway could have been that The Thingamujig Of The Day is cooler than average, since it is almost two Thingamujigs!
Don't worry, however, it is just slightly less cool than the temperature required to freeze your body into a human popsicle.
What is this Thingamujig posessed of such coolness, you ask? It is not only a link to the webpage of The 11 Second Club, but more specifically to their resource page, wherein can be found many high quality rigs to be used for computer animation.
The 11 Second Club is the spiritual successor to the 10 Second Club, which was a monthly animation contest in which contestants created a ten second animation to a specific, monthly audio clip. However, due to various issues, the site was closed down. The domain has had a 'coming soon' banner for a good while now, and it doesn't seem it will resume at any point in the near future, if ever.
AnimationMentor.com (oh dear....this is getting cooler than I thought....so much information!) has taken the liberty of creating a successor site. Their audio clips are supplied monthly, at 11 seconds in length, with the prize being a professional critique from a seasoned animator.
Not only does The Thingamujig Of The Day contain this information, but it also links directly to their oft overlooked resource page, which contains links to a series of relatively good rigs. In the blog keeper's opinion, the androgenous "Andy" rig is the best. However, "Max" is also a very nice rig, though the Andy facial controls seem to be somewhat more capable in his limited initial tests.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Real Cartoon Creatures
Today's fine Thingamujig of the Day is presented to us in the not-quite-as-fine evening. Why? Because the author of said blog of the fine things of their respective days does not make enough personal gain of any kind from "said blog" to merit being adamant that each day the mythical "readers" (which, in all likelyhood, do not exist) of the blog be able to wake up and find a new fine thing in the morning. However, on the bright side, the following morning will present these hypothetical "morning readers"(again, let us not forget that readers of this blog of any kind, regardless of nocturnal or diurnal preference, do not exist) may wake up to find two new Cool Thingamujigs, upon which they hath previously not laid their sites.
Along with this, today's fine Thingamujig presents us with some interesting situations of what most would refer to as "reality", composited into cartoons. Those same people would also claim that "reality", being "more important", should merit enough respect so as to demand that it be stated the Cartoon was composited into a shot of reality. These persons(who's existance we shall not acknowledge in this blog) would, however, be quite wrong.
Regardless of the offending person's unfortunate misconceptions, the writer of this blog does indeed hope that the hypothetical readers would enjoy today's Cool Thingamujig Of The Day, were they to witness its glory.
Along with this, today's fine Thingamujig presents us with some interesting situations of what most would refer to as "reality", composited into cartoons. Those same people would also claim that "reality", being "more important", should merit enough respect so as to demand that it be stated the Cartoon was composited into a shot of reality. These persons(who's existance we shall not acknowledge in this blog) would, however, be quite wrong.
Regardless of the offending person's unfortunate misconceptions, the writer of this blog does indeed hope that the hypothetical readers would enjoy today's Cool Thingamujig Of The Day, were they to witness its glory.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
The Right KIND of Bullshit
I myself, not another, would like to distinctly, with powerful words, proclaim my favor and respect towards this, the Cool Thingamujig Of The Day.
What could this, "this" be that merits such a vast level of respect and favor as "this"?
Well, "this" is perhaps the greatest essay I have read in any recent span of time. "This", give me hope that I will, in fact, distinctly enjoy my time spent in my English class, wherein we study what has historically been my worst subject, namely English.
"This" essay is an essay on academic bullshit, or "bull", as the author somewhat more kindly refers to it as. The basic premise being that "bullshitting" you way through a conceptual topic is superior to the churned out lists of facts that persons often present. The reason being that this(simply this, not "this" this) "bull" displays a greater amount of real understanding of the important concept at heart. Therefore, those C grade lists of facts are inferior to those large streams of structured, long winded, and overly "wordy"(it's a technical term) papers that are often failed(assuming the teacher is smart enough to catch the attempted bullshittery). However, neither of these sole components should merit a high grade. The reality is that the intertwined relationship of the two requires both of them in order to achieve a highly marked paper. The bullshit also merits a fail, however, it's a slightly more valuable failure. Since it at least demonstrates that some amount of value was gained.
What could this, "this" be that merits such a vast level of respect and favor as "this"?
Well, "this" is perhaps the greatest essay I have read in any recent span of time. "This", give me hope that I will, in fact, distinctly enjoy my time spent in my English class, wherein we study what has historically been my worst subject, namely English.
"This" essay is an essay on academic bullshit, or "bull", as the author somewhat more kindly refers to it as. The basic premise being that "bullshitting" you way through a conceptual topic is superior to the churned out lists of facts that persons often present. The reason being that this(simply this, not "this" this) "bull" displays a greater amount of real understanding of the important concept at heart. Therefore, those C grade lists of facts are inferior to those large streams of structured, long winded, and overly "wordy"(it's a technical term) papers that are often failed(assuming the teacher is smart enough to catch the attempted bullshittery). However, neither of these sole components should merit a high grade. The reality is that the intertwined relationship of the two requires both of them in order to achieve a highly marked paper. The bullshit also merits a fail, however, it's a slightly more valuable failure. Since it at least demonstrates that some amount of value was gained.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Going Out Like A Man On A Date With Death
Today I present to you instructions on how to properly kill yourself. I second the article's opinion in that too many 14 year old girls are trying to slit their wrists, or overdose themselves with "painkillers" like aspirin.
What, you ask, could be the potential remedy to this malady of death's design?
Why, the answer, of course, is by killing yourself in the manliest way possible. In order to best facilitate re-skewing statistics in the favor of all those decent in this world, if one were to kill oneself, one must ensure that is is performed in the absolutely _manliest_ way POSSIBLE.
So, without further ado, please read the list and take the manliest way out that is feasible for whatever situation in which you may be.
This is, our Cool Thingamujig Of The Day.
What, you ask, could be the potential remedy to this malady of death's design?
Why, the answer, of course, is by killing yourself in the manliest way possible. In order to best facilitate re-skewing statistics in the favor of all those decent in this world, if one were to kill oneself, one must ensure that is is performed in the absolutely _manliest_ way POSSIBLE.
So, without further ado, please read the list and take the manliest way out that is feasible for whatever situation in which you may be.
This is, our Cool Thingamujig Of The Day.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Intricately Amazing Simplicity
Many believe there are formulas to success and good entertainment. Most successful enterprises have some sort of guideline for how they operate. In the film industry(with this current thought being more directly aimed at animation in a particularly specific sense) this generally means a common form as to how the characters are designed, the colors schemes are chosen, the plots are organized, any one or any many more of these can follow a form of formula from the vague to the decidedly un-vague and particularly precise. I am thoroughly amazed at the simplicity and amazing execution of our exceptionally fine Thingamujig Of The Day.
Their formula?
Two pieces of foam, three sticks, a handful of pencils, two kazoos, a guitar, a guitarist accompanying the guitar, and an excellent puppeteer accompanied by a strong character with tremendous determination make this brilliant video brim with utterly brilliant BRILLIANCE!
Their formula?
Two pieces of foam, three sticks, a handful of pencils, two kazoos, a guitar, a guitarist accompanying the guitar, and an excellent puppeteer accompanied by a strong character with tremendous determination make this brilliant video brim with utterly brilliant BRILLIANCE!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Nasal Brilliance
The narrator/host of Our Fine Thingamujig of the Day has one of the most infuriatingly nasal voices I've ever heard, which definitely does not assist in mitigating the distinct cheese factor that the aforementioned video possesses.
Nonetheless, this is quite the interesting little insight on storyboarding, while focusing on the Disney perspective of the subject.
Apologies for missing the prior day of the Cool Thingamujigs of Days will be bypassed, and instead replaced with a secondary post later in this calendar day.
Nonetheless, this is quite the interesting little insight on storyboarding, while focusing on the Disney perspective of the subject.
Apologies for missing the prior day of the Cool Thingamujigs of Days will be bypassed, and instead replaced with a secondary post later in this calendar day.
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