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Saturday, April 29, 2023

Post 554 - Perplexed Pachyderm Gets a Make-Over

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(c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary  "A Million and One Uses!" (later - a little more detail) also (c) 2023 Jim Middl...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Post 553 - More Visual Meatloaf - the collage test for 27 April 2023

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(c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary  
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Post 552 - Multiple Image Layer Test - Visual Meatloaf Pencil Test - 26 April 2023

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(c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary  
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Post 551 - More Pencil Tests for Unamused Founders

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 Six shots, waiting for conversion to video and subsequent edit (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Monday, April 24, 2023

Post 550 - The Founders are Not Amused - pencil test

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And with a bit of sound:  (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Post 549 - By Request

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 Not sure it it'll help their cause, but it was fun to draw animals in perspective... Sketch 1  Sketch 2 Sketch 3 - found a use for a gr...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Post 548 - Forearm Pencil Test

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This bit of sfumaterie may get done by summer of this year... another animated GIF "pencil test" -    First at 12fps render Then ...

Post 547 - Thinking About Frank Zappa...

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I always appreciated Frank Zappa for the solemn determination embodied in each of his performances, even if I didn't understand where ...

Post 546 - Determined Donkeys - Animated GIF "Pencil Test"

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 And onward through the animal kingdom! (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary And, heck - let's toss in some electron-free mu...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Post 545 - ASIFA International Announces Its 2023 International Animation Day Poster

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  (from Bri Yarhouse, IAD coordinator)  Announcing the 2023 International Animation Day poster designed and illustrated by the legendary Geo...

Post 544: Testing the Infamous Hall Pass - 12fps vs 24fps - Animated GIF images

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Version One: at 12fps Version Two: at 24fps Both versions (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary Could this become another Roadsho...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Post 543 - Elephantine Expressions for an April Weekend

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 Oh those color tests just won't stop! (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary And a bit more detail - (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, ...
Saturday, April 08, 2023

Post 542 - Sermon for Easter Weekend - A Barber Weighs In

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 (c) 2021, 2023, Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Thursday, April 06, 2023

Post 541: Happy Easter 2023!

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                                                       (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary As always, find those eggs before Ju...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Post 540 - From the Scattered Chemotherapy Chronicles

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  Going through The Chemotherapy Chronicles of 2020, I came across this, written while waking about 4am in late January that year:    The mu...
Monday, April 03, 2023

Post 539 - Oh, Octopi!

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                                               (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Friday, March 24, 2023

Post 538 - ASIFA Central April 2023 Newsletter

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                                                                                  (cc) 2023 ASIFA Central (use with permission, please)
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Post 537 - Uh Oh - You've Been WARNED!

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(c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary (pat pend reg US pat off)   And here's a link for an example! Flute Solo in Sfumatoscop...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Post 536 - Gif Test for Color and Clarity - and now with Added Texture!

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                                                            (c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary Well, it looks colorful, but it...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Post 535 - Well, When Two Favorite Comedians Merge ... That's a Thing!

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Buster Keaton, appearing as a cop in Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's "Coney Island," does Groucho before Groucho ever did ...