Citing artistic differences
Every artist needs one…
I have Ms Em for instance – someone that you can bore to death with your half-formed ideas, sketches and schemes.
How she sits there listening to me babble on, covered in ink, looking like a five-year-old I cannot understand.
But more than that, she’s someone that I trust… if she says it’s no good I believe her, because she understands what I’m trying to do.
Being a bit ‘net shy, she probably doesn’t get as much credit as she deserves, especially for the animations (aside from plying me with coffee, bringing me all sorts of reference books and generally pointing me in the right direction, she also has to endure listening to the same bit of music endlessly pouring out of my office).
So really, this is me saying thanks for helping me get things done, things like this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FVKkbAqqAUo
It’s the Fingerprints animation, and it turns out that Britt really liked it, which means so do I.
Thanks Em.
Philip J Schadenfreude on 
That was awesome.
Very very cool! You should be proud!!!!
Nice. I wish youtube had higher resolutions
Quite nostalgically beautiful, the typist slowly becoming covered by red lines is a very nice image. But I don’t know if there were too many koalas, or not enough …
By the way - what the heck is that in the last frame above??
A briefcase … holding a … double-spined book?
When your pupils dilate and cramps
overwhelm you, turn up the ultrasound.
I think it is a suitcase with some clothes and an over-nite bag in the middle.
I’m loading on youtube now.
I’ll let you know in an hour or so when it works.
That was very cool.
Was expecting a Tarantino movie to start at the end.
Beautiful work, as always. As Mike said, it really should be seen at a higher resolution than YouTube can handle. The fingerprints all kind of mush up into a grey mess.
The action fits well with the music. As franzy said, the typist scene was very nice. There is something about this video that is kind of like an old style movie opening… maybe that’s what you should try next.
very nice.
was that a Swedish flag in there?
Thanks, that’s really kind of y’all.
Youtube did its usual job of compressing it way too much (my first two attempts to upload it looked, and sounded, even worse). However, I can assure you that there is a DVD quality, high resolution version… which should be being played at an annual mod night in Nashville.
Franzy, I had to put a koala in there if I was going to show the full range of fingerprints… and as Ben said, that last cell is a packed suitcase… Mmm, double spined books though, might have to look into that.
Ben and Joseph, spookily accurate – I’m starting on the opening credits for a documentary of the environment this week. That means it should be ready in about six months /sarcasm. Actually I have until the end of April for that one.
And Tia, well spotted, it was indeed a Swedish flag.
citing artistic differences, the band broke up in may?
i hope this is the reference i think it is!
BFF? It might be
tis, tis! yay!
Well spotted… actually there are a ton of music references that never get noticed… I always have music on when I’m coming up with comic ideas and drawing them.
I would have thought this one was pretty obscure.
well they ARE pretty brilliant, and i AM a pretty huge fan
Yah I got that one too, nice. The anim was pretty although I’m not sure I quite get it. You in Nashville? I’m in Cookeville. Look me up, we’ll play Smash Brothers or something.
I think I live about as far from Nashville as international treaties allow.
I’m afraid I’m a Limey, David.
That said, I am partial to a session of Smash Brothers…
That’s alright, they reformed without me, and got a brand new name. Also, I don’t have a Wii…. accident on the operating table. “Shortages” if you read me. So. A Limey, huh? I’ve only ever heard that word with “bastard” appended to the end of it.
I getcha. It happens.
As for limey, that’s true, but we’re claiming it back.
where did that term come from?
do you eat lots of limes?
I think it’s from the color of their teeth?
Or the colour of their skin, lime being white.
And I though limes were green. : )
Limes are green, Lime is white.
I don’t (I lack the necessary quantity of gin), but the term limey comes from the fact that British sailors used them to ward off scurvy at sea.
It’s a vitamin C thing.