The Katmai bear cams are live again. This is not a drill. Bears! Bears! Bears!

When 903 Gully takes his place on the falls the season will truly have started.

#bears #katmai #fatbearweek

Much of game development is a series of word problems of your own devising. You go from an idea to a logical solution to a programmatic solution and then the pixels flit about as little sprites.

All right school math classes, you win. There was a useful application for that after all.

#gamedev #math #learning

Trying to push myself to do things I don't think I can do. Even when I fail, at least I discover the boundaries of my current abilities and figure out where I need to put in more work.

#animation #art #drawing #krita

I've been dabbling in reading some of the original dime novels from the 1860's. The sort that had simple paper covers. It's pretty interesting actually. Reading about a man who dresses 50 years out of fashion (which puts us at the 1810's for those of you keeping track) amuses me.

I'd like to think the authors would be pleased to know that what was considered disposable entertainment is still doing the trick 175 years later.

#books #reading #dimenovels

This one was fun to do. I didn't really have a plan. I just had some techniques I wanted to try. The rest I figured out along the way.

I'm definitely getting echoes of the Warner Bros. cartoons I watched as a kid. Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind watching those again now.

#animation #art #drawing #krita

The dream is a small yurt with a wood burning stove, a dog (or two... or three), my typewriter, a drafting table for doing pen and ink work and a chair and/or couch for reading and taking lazy naps between sessions.

While we're at it, why not a corner for developing film? Better have a record player in there too. And an electric kettle for making coffee. Oh yeah, and books man, books!

Okay, now I think we're getting pretty close.

#life #daydream #writing #art

I'm calling this one done. I learned some techniques today involving overlapping masses which will likely make for better animation and I'd prefer to start from scratch and get more mileage.

Also, I like this much better at 18fps (which is what this is). If 24fps is too fast, that means my sense of timing is off. I'll try to be more aware of that when I'm blocking in the next one.

#animation #art #drawing #krita

Essential listening. Original 1954 Gojira Soundtrack by Akira Ifukube.

#gojira #akiraifukube #music #vinyl #godzilla

This is still a WIP since I didn't have time to finish today, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. I attached the full-speed 24fps version and one slowed down to 6fps.

I tried to focus more on following the arcs of motion and rotating the forms across space and time. I could stand to do another pass to maintain volume a bit better (which I'll try to do tomorrow).

#animation #art #drawing #krita

I finished reading Foundation today. I really liked it. The fact that it tells the story of a massive galactic empire falling apart but does it with mostly relatively simple interactions between characters is pretty interesting.

I'm not going to jump into the sequels straight away, but I have every intention of reading them eventually.

#books #reading #asimov #foundation