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admin · Site Admin Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 16

I totally agree. That's why in my film "Endangered Species" I described the 2D animator's species (i.e. the one that is endangered) as 'Animaticus Drawersaurus" and their main predator as 'Corporatus Excecutus'. (And the worst of these being 'Eisnosaurus'!) :)

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idragosani · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 85 Location: Germantown MD

admin · Site Admin Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 16

Yes. Once the festival is done for this year and I've finished the last few scenes of my Fire Gods project, I plan to put together a 'greatest hits' collection of my animation from over 30 year in the business. All proceeds from this will go to the Animaticus Foundation. I'm hoping it will be available for Christmas, or at least in the New Year... all being well!
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idragosani · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 85 Location: Germantown MD

RMills · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

I'm currently working on my own film as well as doing freelance timing for Universal Studios on "the Land Before Time" tv series. I work around quite a bit in the industry but enjoy working on my own film which I'm doing on a tablet pc using Mirage.

tonymation · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

I actually used Mirage to create the artwork on the cover of my new book. As I suggest in the book I do see it as a major factor in the future of 2D digital animation, although I haven't had an opportunity to investigate its entire potential on a significant film project yet. Combined with a Cintiq tablet I think it has to be every modern animator's dream though!

Anyone else?

Thanks for visiting the forum by the way! :)
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RMills · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Yeah, tony you actually used some of my artwork in the book. the screenshot of Mirage with the eagle flying is an example I posted on the Buahaus website of how to do multiplane type of effects.
I'm doing a film that is 2K in resolution on a motion computing tablet PC. it gives me the ability to draw directly on the screen like a cyntiq yet I can take it anywhere I want. I actually did a lot of the animation while riding the train to and from work while I was working at Disney. It's great to be able to take it with me anywhere.

Scuzzbopper · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 20 Location: Vancouver BC

I've been working on a 2D/Stop-Mo animated short film for several years now called 'Storytime with Nigel.'

If anyone is interested, I do have a production journal here...

http://madkap.diaryland.com/older.html

but I've discontinued it on that site so any further updates would be on my blog, or I've been thinking about creating a new blog specifically for the film itself.
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Nancy Beiman · Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 50

I'm about to spend three weeks on a communal farm in Virginia to clear my mental palate. I just wanted to get away from animation and academe for a while.
Once back, I have some good leads on the materials for the presentation Tony wants me to do at the new festival--Greg Ford has promised to help get some of the Warner material (this studio also now owns the Fleischer and Lantz materials, so that takes care of Verne Harding and Lillian Astor.)

I will also be creating a workshop for my Singapore lecture at the end of November and prepping for next falls' classes at RIT. Come to think of it, that WILL take most of the summer.

THE OTHER EDEN has been entered in eight festivals, rejected by one so far; we'll see if it plays in any of the others.
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MarkBorok · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 15

I've been working on a Flash animation inspired in equal parts by silent-era cartoons and naughty postcards from the same period. It's called "A Tart for Art's Sake".