THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Onto show 20 this week.  Count down to the end of the season for me.  There’s only two more show to work on and the season ends. I’m hoping I can get put on a show as a layout artist or a Story reel artist once I’m done with boards.  That way, I don’t go on hiatus.

In the meantime, I’ve got Acts 1 and 3 of show 20 to worry about.

ART

I’m taking a break from thumbnailing my script this week.  I just haven’t had the time or energy.  I’ve been filling a little drained.  I think last weeks big work load did it.  So instead here are some sketches from my sketchbook of one of my favorite writers ever, G.K. Chesterton, done with a red color pencil under drawing, Pentel brush pen, colored with Copic grey and black markers and a white Prismacolor pencil for the highlights:

“THE Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the Materialist’s world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. The Materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the interesting person before mentioned is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.” ~GKC: ‘Orthodoxy.’

“TWICE in my life has an editor told me in so many words that he dared not print what I had written, because it would offend the advertizers in his paper. The presence of such pressure exists everywhere in a more silent and subtle form. But I have a great respect for the honesty of this particular editor; for it was evidently as near to complete honesty as the editor of an important weekly magazine could possibly go. He told the truth about the falsehood he had to tell.” ~GKC: ‘The Outline of Sanity.’

“WHEN learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.” ~GKC: ‘Illustrated London News,’ November 7, 1908.

VIDEOS

The video below is this years Oscar winner for the Best Animated Short Category.  It’s beautiful.  I noticed that the acting on the man is very much in line with the acting you would see Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin do in their silent movies, even down to the sped up looking timing.

It’s also worth noting that there isn’t any dialogue at all in this movie, which really shows how animation is not tide to any voice acting. If you find this film moving, it’s not because of anything a film actor has but rather, it’s all do to how good an actor the ANIMATOR is and how well the story was told. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adzywe9xeIU&feature

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