Coming up with lasting names for things is quite a challenge I suppose. Jon, Nathan, Stamos and I have discussed creating (writing/illustrating/animating) a comic about ourselves, which so far is untitled, but it's pretty fun to entertain the possibilities of this thing. I've already designed the Jon character, but I need to reconfigure his joints for animational purposes and then construct an animation test. I want to start on the other character designs soon, though. I can just imagine a poster or a t-shirt design with these characters on it, ha. Although this endeaver is currently for fun and for our own entertainment, it'd be nice if it Homestarrunnered one day, make money off of it or something. Hilarious. At least for some of us it'd be portfolio material (writing Stamos, sound design/composition Jon, illustration/animation for me..) I'm not sure about you Nathan, ha... just kidding. ;)
I've been inspired by the Venture Bros series. Such a great cartoon, the stories are actually very well-written too; highly comical and entertaining.
I love animation. I love analyzing the frame-by-frameage and understanding motion, and the concept that everything you see is the product of an incredible amount of tedioussery (and patience). It's not very hard, it just takes extra discipline; which to me is admirable upon the review of others' work.
Nice, I found the blogspot for the Storyboard and Design Supervisor for Venture Bros here!
I like your comment about the difficulty of lasting names. Take the person who named "nothing." If they were successful at making it last, were they?
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