THE  SIMPSONS NEWS

Turns out the show is in fantastic shape. We were told Friday night that they had upped our deadline a day.  This meant that instead of finishing our work on Tuesday evening we had to be done by Monday evening.  Thankfully, the show was is such good shape that the director wouldn’t have minded showing them the show as it stood on Friday.  As far as he was concerned,  anything we finished Monday would be icing.  It was great the be in that sort of situation.

FAMILY

Dante hit a milestone this weekend.  We converted his crib into a toddler bed.  He was VERY excited when he discovered what we had done. He bounce around and did a small little Dante dance before laying down  on the bed with his butt in the air.

The reason I thought I ought to do it was because Saturday morning, while Alesha and I where still in bed, Munchkin and Dante woke up.  They played in the room a little bit (Dante in his crib, Munchkin with the toys in the room) but after about ten minutes or so, Munchkin decided to leave the room.  She opened the door, got out and shut the door behind her leaving poor Dante trapped in his crib with no one to play with.  He began to cry.  Usually Dante is perfectly happy as long as his sister is there with him handing him toys. This was the first time Munchkin had every left the room while Dante was still in his crib.  I felt really bad for the poor boy.  He couldn’t even follow his sister out of the room. So I thought maybe it was time for him to be able to.

It was fun to watch him explore his new found freedom on the monitor, after I’d left the room. First thing he did when we put him to bed was get up and go over to play with toys.  Well, not really. He got up and touched a toy then went back in the bed.  Guess what he really wanted to do was know he could if he wanted to.

Of course, there was a few things that we had to teach him not to do, like get up during bedtime, go over to his sister’s bed and sit there, while his sister is trying to go to sleep.  He’s learning little by little.  He hasn’t fallen off the bed yet.  We have cushions on the carpet just in case.  I’m happy for the little guy.  He’s doing great. Unlike Munchkin when she was moved to a toddler bed, Dante hasn’t done any sleeping on the floor.

BLOGS

My friend Shane K. Sowell started up a blog last Month.  Shane was a storyboard artist on The Simpsons Movie. He was mostly over at the Fox studios.  At that point I was no longer doing storyboards and I worked with him doing story reel work. His blog came to my attention when he linked his blog to mine.  When I followed the link I discovered the following picture:

Now you know why I draw myself cute in all my cartoons.  Who want’s to looking at THAT in the cartoons? Seriously though, it cracked me up.  I really like the drawing.  I later discovered he had e-mailed me about it and I wrote him back my appreciation.  Interestingly, he had drawn his drawing from a picture he took of me at the Fox Lot during one of our lunch breaks.  It turns out that, it’s exactly the same picture I put up in my ABOUT ME section of this blog.  I’d forgotten he had take the picture and had given me a copy.  He got a kick out finding out I used his picture for my blog.  I’ve updated the ABOUT ME to credit him for the picture.

Check out the rest of his blog. He’s got another drawing of a fellow storyboard artist as well as many other drawings.

Thanks again for the drawing Shane.

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