The Visit is a short animated film I was working on about 5 years ago. I was unable to finish. However, the story is so captivating to me and my drive to finish projects so strong that I am gearing up to complete the thing sometime this year (2014). The story is my adaptation of an old Ukrainian folk tale about a little girl who is cast out of her home to live in the forest. It’s a pretty serious and tough little story. No laughs really.
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New Film: Lunch With Bardot
My latest little film. It’s actually a cinegram. The subject is trains. Time. Memory. The present doesn’t exist. You can’t find it with measurement. You can’t even define it. The future is not there yet. You cannot see it. The only thing that really exists is the past. I say that because we can all see the past – some more clearly than others. But we can most certainly see it.
A cinegram is a short motion picture that uses images and text that are packed with meaning and suggestion. It’s my new word for things I once referred to as film poems.
Here’s the poem from inside the movie:
Lunch With Bardot
Trains run on time
With passengers asleep
Temporarily forgotten
Between observation points
Colliding lines
Of fictional transport
Awkward Office Moment 2: Poem for National Poetry Month
This is my poem offered in celebration of National Poetry Month. It’s called Alongside too Soon.
Awkward Office Moment 1: An XtraNormal Animation
I’ve found a fantastic online 3D animation service called xtranormal.com. You choose characters and settings, then you write your little script and choose facial expressions, movements, camera angles, and sounds. When you’ve put it all together in a simple list, you press a button and in a few moments you have a movie! I think it’s very well done.
I’ve made a little movie called Awkward Office Moment 1.
Funny AIG Bailout Cartoon
Cartoonist Matt Bors has posted a funny AIG cartoon on his blog. He’s got a whole site full of these. He was inspired for this strip by the AIG executive who recently resigned and whined about how the company was treating him. I guess I’d whine too if I woke up one day and realized I was evil.
Adventures in Cartooning: Turn Your Doodles to Comics
Adventures in Cartooning is a book that teaches kids about cartooning and comics in general. The basic idea is that you can draw comics if you can doodle. It’s drawn like a doodle comic and it goes over drawing, laying out comic panels, storytelling, and having confidence in your own doodling skills.
There’s an online preview here.
Thanks to BoingBoing for posting this.
Browser Game: Magic Quest
elcome to a land of adventure, quests, potions, gems and castles. Magic Quest is a unique, totally free, 3D, Flash adventure game for all to enjoy.
attle ogres and ghouls for your very survival. Search for gold and gems with magical powers. Find secret knowledge and figure out the hidden clues. Then sail the seas on your heroic quest to save your kingdom from the dark wizard, Ravelor.
Browser Game: Astro-Blaster
Calling all Space Rangers! Climb into your spaceship and blast your way through an asteroid storm as you progress in rank from a lowly Space Cadet to Space Admiral. 10 levels of play.
Browser Game: Sea Pirates
Take command of your ship and sail the seas in search of a pirate fortune. See if you have what it takes to rise from a lowly sea dog to a pirate island governor. Sea Pirates combines strategy with arcade action to give you hours of pirate fun.
Browser Game: Zobar the Ancient Mind Reader
He knows all. He sees all. You cannot keep a secret from this practitioner of the ancient arts. Pick a card… any card…
Browser Game: Zombie Swarm
A horror game for zombie movie fans. Zombies are taking over the countryside. You’re just one person against swarms of the undead as you try to save yourself and the nearby city.
Now with online competition! Play for top position in the all-time top 20 players list!
WARNING: This is a first-person shooter game in which the player destroys zombie monsters. May not be suitable for young children.
Age 13 and Up (Contains animated weapon fire and shows destruction of undead zombies.)
Browser Game: Undersea ABC
A learning game that’s fun! Kids can help Larry Lobster save the Super Sub by learning their ABCs.
- A learning game that’s fun! Kids can help Larry Lobster save the Super Sub by learning their ABCs.
- Excellent educational tool for grade levels preschool, kindergarten and first grade
- Kids get constant feedback on their performance with voice audio, music and sound effects
- Super-simple controls – kids just point and click
- Completely random letter generator – the game is never the same twice
- Larry Lobster guides kids through the alphabet with ‘sounds like’ words
- Complete upper and lowercase alphabet options
- Teachers and parents can see a full report on how a child performs in each game – all correct and incorrect answers clearly displayed
Browser Game: Tomb of the Mummy II
The puzzle that drove hundreds of thousands of innocent players insane returns. It’s even worse this time. Try your hand at breaking the curse.
WARNING: This is a frightening horror game. May not be suitable for young children.
Age 13 and Up (Contains difficult puzzle.)
Browser Game: Tomb of the Mummy
Tomb of the Mummy is a terrifying, brain-twisting, head-bashing, nightmare of a horrific puzzle.
Do not try this puzzle if you suffer from any kind of a health condition that could be affected by sudden and extreme fear.
Get comfortable. Get safe. Get ready to think.
Not intended for children under the age of 13.
Browser Game: Vampire Hunter
Use your crossbow to defend against the attack of the vampire. Our new horror action game is a terrifying treat for Halloween.
WARNING: This is a frightening horror game. May not be suitable for young children.
Age 13 and Up (Contains animated violence against bats, ghosts & vampires.)