Goodbye, Disney.

"Animation doesn't work without someone who believed, and Roy believed."
- Peter Schneider, the former president of Walt Disney Feature Animation

"Two of Disney's pet projects in later years included efforts to save the peregrine falcon, which was inspired by a nature film he made, and the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he helped carry out the dream of Walt and his father to build and sustain a top arts college in Southern California."

This man was more in my heart than even I knew. Goodbye, Roy. We will try to continue your mission and passion, knowing that it means more than most will ever understand.

Kmye-chan's Christmas Giveaway 2009!



Hope this works. (Edit: YAY!)

Little Update

Still working on drawings, trying to FINISH pieces, which is proving slower than I'd have preferred...

One letter of rec down! One to go!

Illusion of Sanity

A smidge over a month to go... Portfolio Time!

Dusty Illusions

Old posts from the AnimtedBuzz.com forums... Stuff I'd like to keep in mind for various reasons.

Mario:
But then again, the fine artists don't seem to take the time to learn any technique at all. It's all theory for them. I just personally respect a piece of art a lot more when it has thought behind it along with an equal amount of skill used to create it.

This goes for my program, too. A lot of people are so eager to get right into "art" mode but are too lazy to grind it out and learn technique/craft/skill. How can you possibly understand how to push the boundaries of an art form when you are so arrogant to disregard what has been done before you?

Picasso was revolutionary in art history but he worked his ass off to understand design, painting, drawing before trying new things. I agree with that philosophy. I think what I get frustrated about is that I see too many people around calarts bullshitting their way through school and I'm often left wondering what the hell everyone is raving about.

Mario (again):
Anyway, there is animosity towards the students (like myself) who have the mindset and expectation of getting a job right after school because to many people, this path has less artistic integrity to it. It's the same old story. The commercial artists vs. the independent artists. Neither is right or wrong. it's just what you choose to do.

Mario once again:
great thing about Pixar is that they have the trust from the public unlike most other studios. They decided to put out quality and that's what people associate with their films. Even when times are shitty for CG animation, the one studio that will remain successful is Pixar. Everyone back home who watched Cars recently said they loved it! Even with all the criticism that people will throw at Pixar they will prevail without a doubt. I have the greatest respect for them because of their dedication to quality.
(Sure wish he would post on the forums again)

May add more later.

3D Illusions

"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."

-Walt Disney

OH GAWD YOU GUYS! I am SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!

I just saw an ad for Toy Story and Toy Story 2- playing TOGETHER- in theaters IN 3D!!!!!!!!
Both films for the price of one! Can you believe it?! SO AWESOME!

Starts October 2nd and for TWO WEEKS ONLY! Midnite showing- HERE I COME! ... if they have one... And if it doesn't even play in this damn city- I WILL GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! I must see these films! IN 3D! XD

I feel like a little kid all over! XD Hehehehehe

Troubled, Worried Thoughts

I am so conflicted lately.

I know no one really reads this- this is almost more just for me to put it down somewhere and try to get all of this out of my head... Otherwise, I think I might go crazy.

All I can think about is school, art, school, art, school, and art... Also, my mind seems to finally be starting to wake up from it's hibernation. (This would be almost 3 years now it's been asleep.) My mind is starting to perk up in the late hours of the night/ early hours of the morning- the time back in high school that I was MOST active with my art.... When I got all my good ideas, when I did my best work. To be possibly coming back into that is a thrill I cannot even begin to describe. It almost gives me hope that should I be accepted to a school- yes, at this point I am not even just saying one in particular- that I may perhaps fulfill what I will need to do. I am so completely aware of the amount of work that will be expected of me. And though I relish the idea of it- of working on something that ISN'T my job- I worry that I may be getting too old to do it with the zeal of my younger days and fellow artists.

But I am also struggling with this whole concept of style and where I am going with my work. It's like- one minute, I will be so completely THRILLED at something I've drawn, then the next second, it seems, I am back in the dark, wondering what the hell went wrong between the drawings... I like some of the experiments I've been doing, but also it kind of feels like it's not "me". Like maybe I am trying too hard to do something else. I dunno... I'm also bored with the "classical" work I've been doing. Like- "Oh, okay- ANYONE could have done THAT! How blasé!" And yet- this is the kind of stuff that back in high school I would have given up my LEFT HAND FOR!

Have I perhaps come that far? Or have I not moved an inch? What am I doing? Where am I going with all of this? What is it that I am trying to say?

Or do I truly have anything worth saying at all?

Again- as no one truly reads this journal, as of yet, these questions are more for me. To try to understand myself and my work, what I am trying to do and where I am trying to go with it. They are questions that MUST be answered before I jump into that void, otherwise I am lost to the blackness.