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• 02.14.10
  A History Of Rose Madder Part 2: Rising Stars Of Manga Art, Comics, Oh my wacky job, Rose Madder, Shop talk, Theory for free | (0)

  The series is a coming-of-age story of people in their early twenties, that twilight zone between the teen years and adulthood.  It's a time where hard decisions are made and responsibilities are shouldered...whether you're ready or not.  It's about the bubble of carefree, teenage self-absorption suddenly bursting and coming to terms with harsh reality and the closing of windows of opportunities.  It's a teen drama about the end of the teen drama.  As such, it will appeal to older teens and young adults, and may be of special interest to readers who have been following shoujo manga over the years and are looking for stories reflecting their ...
• 12.27.09
  A History of Rose Madder, Part 1: A Love-Gone-Wrong-Song Art, Breaking my arm patting myself on the back, Color!!!, Comics, Rose Madder, Shop talk, Theory for free | (0)

  OUTLINE-ROSE MADDER-"Is That All There Is" ACT I 1) New York City-The Present a) Open on the white, wintery sky. We hear "Heat Wave" by Martha and the Vendellas. Pan down to reveal the city in snowy splendor. b) More of the city. Visible holiday decorations and displays. End on the apartment window of Rose Madder. The alarm clock is buzzing. 1) Rose is a woman in her mid-twenties; out of school, overeducated, unemployed and somewhat adrift. c) Inside her bedroom. Rose is face down on the bed, asleep. Rose's calico cat ...
• 09.28.09
  Sit Down Shut Up: “Hurricane Willard” Oh my wacky job, Sales pitch, Shop talk, Theory for free | (0)

  Hulu put this up a day late, which probably means it'll be gone in 16 instead of 17 days.  I did the opening "Miracle on a bike" sequence, which actually took about a week to storyboard, given the layers of background kids that had to be drawn.  Funny that a week's worth of labor ends up being about 15 seconds on the screen.  Personally, I would have allowed the entire sequence a little more time to breathe, but it was the style of the show not to linger on anything.  Besides, throughout my storyboarding career I've rarely seen an animated ...
• 04.09.09
  Adventures in audio Comics, Oh my wacky job, Sales pitch, Shop talk, Spandex fetish, Theory for free | (0)

  Somehow I was talked into a hideous, rambling, freestyle riff on pop culture, storytelling, comic book trivia and Ice Castles with the always-affable Ted Seko on his IDIOT ENGINE podcast.  It's so nice I had to do it twice!  So if you really want four hours of my dulcet tones, well...
• 03.27.09
  The Last Vaudevillians Oh my wacky job, Theory for free | (0)

  Last month I went to a seminar on animation acting, where it hit me that in the peculiar fraternity I belong to (which includes women--pardon the language), we're the last inheritors of an aesthetic that has long vanished everywhere else. This seminar proposed that John Barrymore--along with Charlie Chaplin--was something of an acting standard to strive for.  I'd never really thought about animation acting in that way before, that it's an artform that relies on techniques established in the first third of the twentieth century.  Techniques that, if a live-action actor were to use them, would seem extremely stylized and somewhat ...

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