Your Source For TMNT News, Current Events, and Culture!
Today, Craig Farley shared a video via his facebook page.
Jimagination (1999) I made this movie for Jim Lawson and Pete Laird to potentially use on a loop at cons or online to promote their Planet Racers comic. They never did use this.
At the time, I was making 3D models of some the Planet Racers bikes and robots for Pete and so it seemed natural to animate them somehow and I w…anted to try out a lot of the stuff I was learning about video editing and compositing 3D models using multilayer workflow. Which means rendering the 3D in separate passes for the lights, reflections and shadows etc., just like the big movie studios do it. I was very precise and measured that hallway and built a 3D model to match it, with lights and all, so that I could ‘catch’ shadows and reflections of the robot in the 3D app and composite them into the live action video.
I also felt that it would be a cool memory of the artist’s studio area at Mirage. Looking at this now, I think I was right about that. That whistling in the movie is what one hears when Jim Lawson is happy and drawing and the radio in the background is stuff Jim used to listen to at work.
Jim told me that when his kids saw this, they were a bit alarmed that the robot was sneaking up on him.
Note: When you’re looking down the hallway… that’s my door, first on the right. Seen in this movie: Jim Lawson, Michael Dooney and Eric Talbot and Lone Wolf Robot.
☠ ☠
“Budget Cuts” A visual and interactive commentary on the financial crisis gripping the city of Colorado Springs.
Featuring the work of local artists, produced from reclaimed materials, each targeting one of the many dilemmas weakening our community. The …state of affairs in Colorado Springs is a constant topic of discussion all over the city, and Rubbish hopes to present imagery that will stay in the collective mind of the citizens of 80903 and beyond…
TONIGHT!!! join us for the opening of BUDGET CUTS- featuring THE LOST CITY by spika, and works by stan baldwin, gloria lynch, logan bartlett, juanita canzoneri, tokka, adam leech, nethery wylie, joseph fernandez, lorenzo white, bradley flora, josh kennard, erin jones and lorelei beckstrom!
OPEN @ 5:30 pm. Live Music from The Ghost of Micheal Clark, Goodnight Stranger, and Eavesdrop beginning at 7:30
Closing reception will be Friday, April 2 from 5:30 to 11:00pm with music from Megan LeFurge, John Strelec, and The Spaghetti Harvest @ 7:30
Local illustrator and urbanist J. David Thorpe will be giving a talk on the why, what, and how of the Colorado Springs infrastructure on Sunday, March 14th @ 3pm.
Rubbish Gallery is located at 17b Bijou Street, in the alley behind Old Chicago and across from 15c. We’re open Fridays & Saturdays from 5:30pm-10:30pm, or by appointment @ 719.355.0280. email us at lorelei@rubbishgallery.com
Our good friend Vaughn Michael found this little tidbit of information on the interwebs:
Playmates Toys is moving its US offices to Los Angeles from Costa Mesa, CA and expects to be settled into their new home by April 1st 2010. This move is on the heels of a restructuring of the U.S. organization in an effort to reduce overhead and focus all our resources on strategic partnerships and key long term brands such as Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & iCarly, Michael Jackson, Hero:108, DreamWorks’ Shrek and Rainbow Brite. “We are very optimistic that our changes will have a positive effect on our business and are thrilled to be moving to contemporary new offices in El Segundo hoping to attract new talent from all over the LA area.” said Lou Novak, President, Playmates Toys.
Original Source: http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=216&itemid=15579
Rumor had been circulating earlier in the month that Playmates had recently laid off up to 50% of their production staff. This certainly seems to be in line with those rumors.
Brodie of The Technodrome shared this sketch of Leonardo he did on recycled material. I liked it so much I couldn’t not put it up. You can see more of Brodie’s work on his blog!
