THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Show #8 has begun. That’s the show I’m working on right now. Directed by Lance Kramer with Assistant Director (A.D.) Tommy Tejeda. Lance has been on the show forever. Long before I showed up. When I first started working on the show, Lance was a layout artist like myself. He’s a lot a fun to work with. I first worked under Lance when he was an A.D. for Director Bob Anderson. Lance is a huge Star Wars geek and Indiana Jones geek. He even named his dog Indiana. His side of the office has a bunch of little Star Wars figurines all over.

Tommy is from Argentina. He was also on the show when I first began working there. He wanted to try something new after working on the show for so long so he decided to try out for a position on the Superman Animated series at Warner Brothers. His artwork impressed Bruce Timm and he got hired. I forgot how long he was there, needless to say he ended up, not only working on the Superman cartoon but also on the new Batman animated show, Batman Beyond, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited. All shows that I absolutely love! After the shows were over, he came back to The Simpsons and quickly became an A.D. after a short time doing Layout. Tommy is also a Star Wars geek.

Working with them is a blast. It’s fun talking with them because all we do is talk about geeky things.

We are just finishing Act I and next week I’ll begin working on my section of Act II. I’ll explain the process of making a Simpsons episode in a later post. Just thought you might like to know a little about one of the directing teams that make up the Simpsons crew.

MY WEEK

Just thought I’d get one more article in before next week. It’s going to be a really a crazy one. I spent most of Saturday on the computer checking the blog and working on downloading plugins for WordPress that I can’t seem to make work. I’m just computer stupid. I feel like the computer is mocking me sometimes.

Sometimes I feel the computer is mocking me.

I’m really surprised at how much feedback I’ve gotten on just one post. Makes me happy.

I discovered that the WordPress website theme I was using wouldn’t let me modify it without recoding it, so I changed it. In other words, it didn’t have widgets. Problem was that all the other themes had messed up RSS feeds. So I just copied and pasted the RSS feed code from the last theme and I stuck it in this one. That helped.

FAMILY

It was my dad’s birthday yesterday and I forgot to call him. I’m a terrible son. Luckily I was able to wish him a happy birthday at a family get together that same night. HAPPY BIRTHDAY POP!

It was my father-in-laws birthday the day before, which I think is kinda funny.

I took The Munchkin for a walk today. “The Munchkin” is my pet name for my eleven month old daughter Elizabeth Haley. I took her for a walk so I could let my wife Alesha have some time to read the new Harry Potter book. (She got it this morning and as I type this she is almost done with it. SHEESH!) Our walk was very long. The Munchkin and I entered a DVD/Video game store I like to go to sometimes and came out with an eight dollar Teletubies DVD for her. We also went into a Borders books store and I saw a book about the art of ‘Surfs Up‘ (the Computer Generated (C.G.) movie about surfing penguins). I personally feel that, that movie was horribly over looked. I thought it was fantastic. The story was great, it was really funny, the documentary feel of the movie was unique, and the designs where incredible. I don’t know why more people didn’t see that movie. (Can you tell me why you didn’t see it?) Needless to say, I wanted to get the book, but I can’t because I’m saving my money for Comic Con. (Sigh) hopefully I’ll have some extra cash for next month.

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