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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Post 655 - The Very Late-February ASIFA Central Newsletter

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Post 654 - Another Good One, Gone - Brandt Rowles, FSC Prof from the 1970s

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  Brandt was one of the best teachers I never had!  My first meeting with him came on the heels of his departure from Ferris, when he came ...

Post 653 - The Romans Had a Number for That!

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OK, we detest the passage of time, not merely for its relentless, single-direction, but for the implications of age expressed in the randomn...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Post 652 - Leftovers In A File - ca 1973

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How it appeared in 1973, on Super 8mm film, Tri-X B/W film stock The original sketch, with a blue ball-point pen, before discovering Rapidog...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Post 651 - What to Do With All These Memories? Make a Cartoon Test!

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This may find itself into the script for Sfumato #5: (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Anatomizing Apothecary  
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Post 650 - Internalization, but in TECHNICOLOR!

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 Hey, the fun never stops! (c) 2024, Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Post 649 - Keeping Things Inside - The Sequel

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 Dang - these things can go on forever!  Rather surreal, almost like being inhabited by an alien life form... (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The In...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Post 648 - Keeping Things Inside

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 Amazing what turns up when going through the files... (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Anatomist
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Post 647 - A Test for Sparrow's Celebration of "The Amour Mosaic"

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The song isn't in the public domain for this one, so it's not included here, and the film inserts have yet to be assembled...but Spa...
Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Post 646 - Homer and Its Pioneers - A Reprint from 1888 - Now on Amazon

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This was an exercise in process, not profit, and a sincere desire to make otherwise unseen history again visible.  A physician in the small ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Post 645 - ASIFA Central's 50th Celebration Lasts ALL YEAR!

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(cc) Jim Middleton/ASIFA Central  

Post 644 - Ribbon Run Color Test A-B-C

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 Color progression tests, along with some internal adjustment "on the fly" -- All (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Post 643 - Effects Test - Shadow Up A Canyon

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 Not sure what will come of this... This terrifying moment (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary May even use it for something li...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Post 642 - EXTRA! EXTRA! ASIFA Central Hits the BIG FIVE-OH!

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  (cc) 2024, ASIFA Central, reprint with permission, please
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Post 641 - Color Balance Test - Scherzoo

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(c) 2024 Jim Middleton, Animating Apothecary  
Friday, January 12, 2024

Post 640 - Gimme a Hand - or at least - A Tonearm! - updated 18 Jan 2024

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  (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary With Enhancement: (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary  And other useless tou...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Post 639 - Another Beginning

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 After about three false starts since 2008... (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Post 638 - Uncovered Abandoned Project - ca 2007

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It may reappear, "someday," as well...                                   (c) 2007, 2023, Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary  ...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Post 637 - How Things Begin - with a tiny test from 13 January (hey, there's a blizzard outside!)

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 9 drawings in a 21 frame loop, based on a late-50s intermission film with a significant associated ear worm! AI isn't all that much hel...
Monday, January 01, 2024

Post 636 - Coming Soon to a Festival Near You!

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(c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary   Likely the "final cut" - click here