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I just got this message a few hours ago. It’s been really easy to pull messages straight from my desktop since I’ve installed this new messaging system.
Animation Hotline is a series of online animations that use messages left on my voice-mail for content.
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This was for the Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart and it was a message left in German, so unless you can understand German, it’s difficult to understand. I’m guessing that even if you do understand German it’s still difficult to understand. Someone told me that he is talking about fear and about being afraid so I tried to make imagery that went with it as best as possible.
This isn’t a new one, but it’s an animation for Valentine’s Day. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Animation Hotline is a series of animations where I use messages left on my voice-mail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because this project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so CALL!
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I’ve been telling people for a few years that I’m moving to Detroit, but then someone asked me if I’d ever been to Detroit. Of course I’d never been to Detroit, I just had it in my head as the artists’ utopia. So someone, I think Serena, told me that I should go to Detroit and check it out, then make a decision. So I’ve been saying for months and months, maybe a year, that I’m going to go to Detroit, but I never go, so finally, not this weekend, but next weekend, I’m going to go.
This one was a little more involved and I was able to experiment a little bit more. I got this call this morning, but my new phone system makes it really easy to listen to and use the most recent voice mails.
If you don’t already know, Animation Hotline is a series of animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!
animationhotline.com
I’ve started following job offers and posting references on a website called Thumbtack.com which has been helpful in letting people know that I am here and available to get hired for animation work. It seems to be a pretty widely used site, at least for people looking for animation in the New York area.
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I haven’t done any new animations in quite a while, but I just went to Ottawa Animation Festival (#OIAF) last weekend and had such a good time and was inspired by so many people working so hard at their craft that I started to feel like all I’ve been doing is commissioned work and haven’t been working on my personal work as hard as I could be. I was supposed to go to this animators’ party this afternoon, but I think they’ll understand if I skipped it to do some animating.
I’ve had this message for a while, it is Kevin Hosey’s story from the Hint Fiction Anthology. It was something nice and simple to get me back into the groove of things.
If you don’t already know, Animation Hotline is a series of animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!
To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, published by W. W. Norton and available wherever books are sold. robertswartwood.com/
Whew. So long since a fresh new Animation Hotline video. It felt so good to do whatever I wanted to do and not have to try to make sure it looked good or looked right and could experiment and make mistakes and just have fun.
I have a chance to go to Cannes this year with the Animation Hotline, so I’ve got two things. First, I need people to leave messages about ‘The Other’. See the website for a more detailed description of what I’m looking for. But if I choose your message it will be played and premiered at Cannes in May 2012. The second thing is that I’m looking for help to fund me attending a networking workshop at the festival (Cannes) so if you know anyone who wants to help with that, again, information on the website.
animationhotline.org
I’ve been watching a bunch of Queen videos on youtube lately and I told my friend about it. Today when he came over he said, “Did you just draw Freddie Mercury?” Um, wow, yeah, I guess I did.
Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!
animationhotline.org
To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline
Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!
animationhotline.org
To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline
I used some new techniques with this one. The last scene has three layers, the image, a mask of the person walking and a still image of another painting. I haven’t really used a lot of post-production in the past, but it was nice to try different things and layer the images.
Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!
animationhotline.org
To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline
A little light on the color, but sometimes I feel like I rely too heavily on color and sometimes I need to just make something with a simple line and little or no color.
Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!
animationhotline.org
To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline
Electric Literature had me do one of the Single Sentence Animations for them. They give you a sentence from one of their stories and then let you do what you want with it. The sound is a high school show choir singing a rendition of Surfing USA, it’ll make more sense if you read the story.
Classic Pat and Vannah, on Vannah’s first day at the office. Does Pat say something greasy?
Animation Hotline is a series of daily animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!
animationhotline.org
To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline
I know this isn’t so much using the chalkboard, but sometimes it’s fun to switch it up a little bit and try something different.
I was thinking I should edit this down but after listening to the message a few times I really couldn’t cut out any of the message. She is so sincere and so excited and thought that to edit anything would be taking away from the beauty of the message.
I believe the ethnologist and engineer Raine Borg said it best with his statement, “A key is a symbol of all forces that open and close, bind and release. It stands for liberation and incarceration.”
I didn’t stick to the narrative on this one and instead just drew images of a traditional holiday meal. I forgot the pumpkin pie though.
This is the fifth of the HSI animations. I finished it a few days ago but then I wasn’t happy with the scale and the rotate at the same time, but then I went back and tweaked it a little bit and now I think it looks better. I don’t do a lot of movement in post, I try to do it all in camera, but I thought this one would work. Maybe it is like trying on a new pair of pants that you know look good, but just don’t fit right yet.
My parents had a light blue VW bug for the first five or six or seven years of my life. I remember climbing in the very back, that little spot behind the back seats and under the rear window.
This is the third in the series of HSI animations. I was trying to think of what a comfy coat would look like and there was this one coat I used to wear fifteen years ago that was similar to this one. It was the warmest, most comfortable winter coat I’ve ever worn.