Animated Views Interview

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that the online interview for Animated Views Magazine has posted.  Animated-Views

Check it out if you have the chance.

It's basically about Disney animated sequels and a little behind the scenes look at the process and the projects. 

enjoy

AristoKitty II Leftovers

Recently, I've been contacted by Animated-Views.com for an interview.  Animated Views is essentially an animation appreciation site that takes time to delve a bit deeper into the background of some recently released animation type projects.  Since there is a release for Little Mermaid III due out soon, I was contacted regarding that particular project.  In actuality I've only participated in the first sequel, Little Mermaid II, so the request was a mistake but the editor, Jeremie Noyer enjoyed the interview so much he decided to dedicate an edition based on that material.  That should be coming out later this month (Oct 08) and I will add a posting regarding that when the time is right. 

 

In the meantime, I had been reminiscing about some past projects.   I had the chance to work on Artistocats II as well as Chicken Little II for Disney.  Unfortunately, both of those projects were shelved before hitting actual production (should I take it personally?).

Since some time has passed and these projects never will see the light of day I thought it would be fun to share a small clip from the Aristocats sequel.  I had the opportunity to board the climactic sequence of the film.  It was particularly fun since there wasn't much in the way of scripting for this section.   It was one of those "The villain chases our hero and a bunch of exciting and interesting things happen.....(board artist to fill in the blanks)"   

Well it can be intimidating but mostly it's quite liberating and enjoyable to work this way.

Here is a clip representing that part of the film.  

As a side note, these panels were created at a scale of roughly 2.5 X 4.5 , because of the tight deadline.  Don't try this at home.

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A Little behind the curve.

Well since it's April of 2008 and I'm submitting my first entry into a blog ever, I guess you could say that I didn't exactly rush into this.  Quite honestly I don't have much interest in blogs in general.  I mean, who really gives a turd if I saw a lame movie this weekend and I feel I have to vent about it.  Or maybe I took some great pics on my trip to the Grand Canyon and I feel that the rest of the world is demanding to see them.  (Actually I've never been to the Grand Canyon- that could be a rant in a future blog) 

 

Really a blog is an extension of the idea that Andy Warhol had back in 1968.  "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

I guess the future just wasn't getting here fast enough for most folks so they decided to take matters into their own hands.  It went like this... Jerry Springer... Reality TV....Blogs.

Not positive about the order but you get the idea.  We just can't wait to get ourselves, our faces, our ideas and even our dirty laundry into the homes of others.  

So if that's really my opinion why am I wasting time with all this typing?  Well since I'm not about to get on Springer and throw chairs at my cousin for stealing my wife, I figured I'd give this one a try.  20 million bloggers can't all be wrong.  Besides I get a little uneasy being so ignorant about something the rest of the world takes for granted.

So, what do I have to share that's so worth while?  Well since I've been pretty busy with work these days, how about a look at my new logo (work in progress) for my newest venture.  Brain Freeze Entertainment which launched as of January 08.  I'm currently working on a pretty cool web site for this endeavor and will be blogging about that soon I'm sure.

Enjoy

Tod