Seated Figure

MAN do I hate drawing hands!  I need a new scanner, would you believe me if I said that the shoes and socks are black on the original?  Seriously! 

I hate that it picks up all the shading strokes that can't be distinguished on the original, and none of the light lines that make up the hair and other fine details. 

Fundamental Wrongness

Something I love is finding out that I'm wrong about the way something in the world works.

What I Played in 2010

Just like Notch!  Okay, I was planning on doing this anyway, but his blogpost got me to do it now. 

Serpent Babel

Today I talk about the Bible and Snakes and Harry Potter and Milton, I guess.

Infinite Elephants

Here's the latest thing I'd like to share.  From the fantastic mind of Vi Hart, doodling infinite elephants.

 

Those of you who know me are aware this is a pretty fantastic representation of the way I think at any given moment.

Fall

Autumn Song

Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the heart feels a languid grief
   Laid on it for a covering,
   And how sleep seems a goodly thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

And how the swift beat of the brain
Falters because it is in vain,
   In Autumn at the fall of the leaf
   Knowest thou not? and how the chief
Of joys seems—not to suffer pain?

Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
   Bound up at length for harvesting,
   And how death seems a comely thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

--Dante Gabriel Rosetti, 1883

Thoughts: The Secret of Kells and Traditional Animation

Traditional animation is a dying art.  Within, why this is bad, and how a small film by a no-name studio fought back.