Hang around long enough, some things just seem to repeat themselves!
Here lies the residue of "The Animating Apothecary," a source of obscure ephemera and thought, created fresh(ish), but now reduced to howling into the wind, sketching in sand, and nibbling at the crustier extremes of an overbaked society. Instagram? see - https://www.instagram.com/animating_apothecary/ - content (c) 2006-2024 Jim Middleton
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Friday, September 20, 2024
Post 700 - Benjamin Franklin and A Republic - Editorial in Big Rapids Pioneer 20 September 2024
I considered first just making a comment about the essay, but the piece is so well written that I decided to lift it straight from the readers' page of the Big Rapids Pioneer. That it needs to be said, in a region of Michigan where the erosion of civility and intellect is at times stunning, emphasizes the concurrent erosion of who we are as a nation -- and what it means to exist as a supportive society. End of soapbox.
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Monday, September 16, 2024
Post 699 - The Beans and Animators - Blending Art and Melody!
This only took six renders to fit into the blog! Woo-eeee! A better copy is on Vimeo 
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Post 698 - Evolving Slide Show - Astro Boy and Diplomacy
This is evolving - time restraints squeezed out the discussion from the recent ASIFA Central retreat. I figure if I leave it here, I'll get around to filling in the gaps sometime...someday...somewhere!
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| The translation of information struck me by the comparatively minimal number of characters in the Chinese translation. 5000 years with a language must certainly offer the opportunity for denser meanings to each character - something that I suspect may take longer to understand than your typical Rosetta exercises. |
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| "Let's Rocket" - ominous in the current international climate! |
Friday, September 13, 2024
Post 697 - Slideshow of Sfumata Progress - #2 and #4
For the ASIFA Central retreat, September 7, 2024
Post 696 - Just Playing Around Again
I like to dust off this file every now and then, just to see what effects can be added... from 2020
The Good Guys Do Win, On Occasion
Monday, September 09, 2024
Post 695 - Slides for an ASIFA Central Retreat - The ANIJAM around the Plympton IAD Poster
Yep, we got Bill Plympton to sketch out the ASIFA IAD poster for this October's celebration - so to give it further attention, we're going to work on animating the frames in its representational "storyboard." Here were the specs, as provided to ASIFA Central at its autumn retreat September 7, 2024:
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| This particular slide demonstrated an animated gif based on a "morph" program. It was lame, but it was intended only as an example. |
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| (see? lame) |
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| This example is shown in an earlier blog posting on the same image, back in August. |
And this test, already posted:
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| The vimeo link in this takes to the August "progress report" as the project was just starting its move into the consciousness of the group. |
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| And that's it! If you're an ASIFA member and wish to contribute, you can pick two frames and have your way with them. Nearly 100 have reviewed our initial discussion of the project in this blog, so I'm optimistic for a good turn out. We made it part of a 90 minute "bean" workshop during our September ASIFA Central retreat. The animator of each segment retains all rights to his/her/one's work, and it will be shown on the ASIFA Central youtube channel and posted on this blog. Oh the fame!!! |
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