State of the Art

According to the director’s commentary on the Ratatouille Blu-ray disc, this dog (hidden in silhouette in the movie) is featured in the upcoming movie Up.  The scene is near the beginning when Remy is running through an apartment - the one where he gets chased by a dog.  Brad Bird mentions that it was a teaser for one of Pixar’s forthcoming films.

Integrating My FriendFeed Comments Into My Personal Blog

Blogging

My grand FriendFeed experiment ended in success today!  After a week and a half of intense after-hours hacking and coding I finally found a solution that effectively brings in my comments from the FriendFeed social networking service and places them here in my own personal blog.  If you’re at all interested in how I did it or how you might be able to do the same with your own site, read on.

The Legacy

If there is any one thing I can point to as inciting my interest in character animation it would have to be the above special from 1981.  I remember clearly sitting in Ms. Guho’s Art Class at Hart High (c. 1988) when she turned down the lights and started this video.  I’m pretty sure I was the only one who sat enthralled for all 45 minutes or so, but when the lights came up I immediately knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

The high point, of course, was Glen flipping through his scene from The Fox and the Hound.  I asked my teacher if I could dub it (you know, with two VCR decks - old school style) and she was gracious enough to let me.  I must’ve watched this show 500 times over that summer.  It was also the reason why I decided to drop out of football 4 days into Hell Week.  Why get pummeled into the ground on a regular basis when I could be home still-framing through the classics and deciding which I liked better - top pegs or bottom pegs?

Thanks so much to whoever posted this.  It was on my long list of things to digitize and publish (I still have the tape), but unfortunately never seemed to get around to.

Automatically Grab RSS Feeds Into Expression Engine

Blogging

Success!!

I finally got my cronjob to work correctly on my server!  Now all my Tweets and other assorted RSS goodness from other sites can start filtering into my weblog...automatically.  Excellent news.

The Legacy

Assistant animators Al Stetter and Chuck Williams take time out for coffee during the 1960s.  Probably complaining about what a pain-in-the-ass Milt was to work with.

Must have been awesome.

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