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Monday, November 11, 2019

A GIF for Monday

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Wednesday, November 06, 2019

A GIF for Wednesday

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(cc) 2019 The Animating Apothecary
Friday, November 01, 2019

1930s Russian Drawn Sound: Nikolai Voinov's 'Paper Sound'

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Well, this showed up on youtube - and it's pretty impressive, so for the Russian audience, I link it thusly: https://www.youtube.com/...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

And now, to the Trick or Treaters....

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It's a wrap, a rushed rap, but there are other potatoes on this plate... so "regular" and "with effects" (bandwidt...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Wrapping Up Halloween GIFiness

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Up to 14 seconds of basic animation - another few dozen sketches and it'll be ready to render into video.  Here's the ongoing GIFi...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Seven Minutes in Seven Seconds

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The miracle of the GIF!  All hail the GIF!!
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Halloween Season Is So Inspiring

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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Just for the Sake of Clarity

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Friday, October 11, 2019

The Season Approaches

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V1 V1a - corrected the "catch" in the cycle - cleared the keyframe at the end of the animated symbol layer - it was saving...
Friday, October 04, 2019

Random Bedtime Thoughts

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Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Consequences of an Animation Conference - the OIAF experience

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Soul Töd - Animation Outline Music - 1917 Italian mandolin recording, 78rpm played at 45rpm Italic text represents translation fr...
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The Ottawa International Animation Festival - OIAF - Notes from September, 2008

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After a decade, a return to Ottawa, seeming oddly changed, or realigned, or ... something.  So this note came from a file from a 2008 visit...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Revisiting Sfumata - Number Two

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After completing #1 in 1998, #2 should have been a breeze.  After all, it had been begun two years before that, using the unsupported Autod...
Friday, September 20, 2019

"We only have to sell one!" - Chain Pharmacy Pricing Philosophy

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And, my, isn't that just ducky.... An international student came into my old pharmacy in January of this year, stricken with an...

ASIFA Central Notes of Thursday, September 19, 2019

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ASIFA Board Agenda Thursday, September 19, 2019, 8:30pm (11th meeting cancelled due to monster weather challenges in Grand Rapids, but o...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Because SOMEONE is having one! (now in THREE versions!)

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Video to Flash CS5 for initial title overlay, output as an insanely large Quicktime video, then into Vegas for layering, feathering, and...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

JUST IN TIME FOR PHARMACISTS DAY!

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About 5 years ago, I sent a note out to the local pharmacy association warning about telepharmacy percolating through the legislature in Mi...

Coffee Playtime - Experiments in Animated GIF to mp4

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Version 1 - Rough animatic (animated gif format) Version 2 - checking timing (mp4 render in Vegas) Version 3 - with video effect...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

ASIFA Central Meeting Notes - June 24, 2019 - backup notes for September 11th meeting (truncated due to weather)

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Present: Jim M (really hoping this phone ap works), Deanna, Chuck, Brad, Gretchen, Chris, Steve (hosting), Julie, Bob Topics: Summer Ret...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

Public Domain Observations - Seeking Stokowski

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Animation for the Ear (from the ASIFA Central Summer 2019 newsletter)         A rich musical resource, featuring Leopold Stokowski and hi...