I had this teacher at Sheridan College, back in the 80s, who would teach us a design class as part of the Classical Animation program. He was the text book version of uncool. Not like the fun, goofy other teachers who would show us cartoons in class and make us laugh and try to win […]
Forty years ago today Walt Disney World opened it’s gates to the world, creating, arguably, the last “greatest American establishment”. Steve Jobs and Apple (inexplicably entwined with Disney) comes close as a corporation but it’s not exactly selling “memories”, per se. I digress. Covering more land than they know what to do with (27,400 acres […]
I’m digging through my box of comics, downsizing, removing the non-valuable ones and I come across this – Issue #1 of Lethargic Lad: It was created by a group of animators and one teacher within my class at Sheridan College. These were the “cool guys” that sat at the back of the studio who were […]
1/3rd the way through, people! This shirt reminds me mostly of my time as a Classical Animator (Sheridan College graduate). The picture doesn’t show much but if you get close the design is actually a rough sketch of Shere Khan, loose construction lines and all. Disney did a series of rough sketch shirts like this, […]
I just finished reading Dan Lee’s obituary in the paper. I’m kinda freaked. Dan was in my class and a roommate for a year while we both went through Sheridan College’s Classical Animation program. When he popped open his portfolio the first week of class and showed us his drawings, we all knew he was […]
If you own a PS2 I seriously recommend you get this game. Simple premise: Your dad, the form-fitting, cat suit wearing, bulging codpiece protruding King of Cosmos has accidentally knocked all the stars from the sky (the cut scene looks like he’s soaring through space drunk and his speech pattern suggests he is, regardless of […]
Cartoon Brew tells me that Rock and Rule (aka DRATS, to you Canadians) will be out on DVD next week. I remember one of my teachers at Sheridan College going all glassy-eyed when discussing the making of this movie. He told us how for the final scene where the demon rises up, the animators tried […]
I was born in Toronto but was whisked away at the tender still-soft-in-the-top-of-my-head age of 3 months to live in Brockville. Brockvegas was created as a stopping point for tired truckers between Toronto and Montreal, a way station, if you will. And that’s where I lived until I was 17. I now reside back in […]
Cartoon Brew tells me that Rock and Rule (aka DRATS, to you Canadians) will be out on DVD next week. I remember one of my teachers at Sheridan College going all glassy-eyed when discussing the making of this movie. He told us how for the final scene where the demon rises up, the animators tried […]
I was born in Toronto but was whisked away at the tender still-soft-in-the-top-of-my-head age of 3 months to live in Brockville. Brockvegas was created as a stopping point for tired truckers between Toronto and Montreal, a way station, if you will. And that’s where I lived until I was 17. I now reside back in […]