Phew - busy times!
After flying back from the Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles, getting hit by the flu and some nice ear infection (hooray for antibiotics), plus needing to move into a new appartment (the ceiling in my old one was starting to come down after the last winter storm [no joke!]), I finally had some time to upload my photos from the AM Graduation in San Francisco.

I had such a blast - and so did everyone else. What a great experience to meet all those inspirational and creative people (students and mentors) for the first time in person, face to face! You guys rock.
I’m sorry I haven’t kept up for the last week, but I will correct my non-doings asap.

Without further ado: here are the Pics!

Preview Version (work-in-progress) without title graphics.

I recently started having fun coming up with character designs based on existing (past and present) people. Intro Manolete, Spains most legendary bullfighter. Even Heminway only had praisings for him in the novel Death in the Afternoon.

One of the funnest things to do as an animator is taking video reference of yourself. (You know, for those really hard to get right moves…) The results are most of the times worth a good laugh:

A few days ago I stumbled upon some of the most impressive and inspiring animation I have seen in a long time. It’s from Richard William’s doomed lifetime project The Thief and The Cobbler, creator of Who framed Roger Rabbit and author of the Animator’s Survival Kit.

Williams worked almost 30 years on this, spending most of his personal funds and bringing legendary Animators like Ken Harris or Art Babbitt aboard.

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