Time Laps, QuickTime & Much-Maligned Producers:

Stop Mo Time Laps:
One of the few advantages of spending the weekend rendering out animation files to submit to a composer is that things, long put off, finally get done.

Back in April I was cursing QuickTime on the net for being so money grabbing on the PC platform, and trying to figure out some way to get QickTime files into anything usable without buy the damn program yet again.

Long and short, I never did get a good small size render of the Stop Mo Expo Animation Jam Time Laps footage that I could post to the Internet. So at long last, here it is, along with the footage from the jam itself. (below, a stop motion penguin juggling & Aki Umemoto animating said penguin)


CLICK image to watch footage:

Animation Jam Project:
It is finally looking good for getting a DVD of the 3 ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Jams produced. Again I find myself in that much-maligned roll of producer.

Producers, Scum or Slime?:
[soapbox]
You know what, you can say anything you want about producers being parasites feeding off of creative people, and some do, but when it comes down to the wire and you want to get something done, somebody has to step up to the plate.

There is a lot of stuff that creative types won`t or can`t do and that falls to the producer. So give your producer a hug, you wouldn`t be able to get it all done without us. And remember some producers are creative types that will put on the evil hat, when nobody else will, just to get the job done. [/soapbox]