Here is another animated set up in my CB world series.
CB world 3
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Roscoe – Inner Life
This past Christmas my wife gave me “Wimbledon Green” by Seth. I found it to be a great read and was inspired by the idea of creating work for yourself without the pressure of public scrutiny. I have not tried my hand at creating comics in quite a few years, but inspired by Seth I have started making some comics in my sketchbook. Here is the first. It is based on the life of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and will be part of a series I will post here as I finish them.
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More gifs – circus themed
These are all circus related. I love the circus and so should you. Yes, I know the animals seem sad and clowns are scary, but they only exist to entertain you. It is not ironic or cynical and perhaps the concept is a bit out of time, but when was the last time you experienced a pure 19th century art form with your impure 21st century brain.
The circus is that rare form of entertainment that seeks to engage on a local level and only on that level. There is no global circus media conglomerate. They move from town to town. Spend a few days putting on the greatest show on earth before moving on to the next town. It exists only to entertain and delight. You deserve to be entertained and delighted. When was the last time you attended the circus. You owe it to yourself to give it another try.
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Tanks version 2.0
Attempt two. I have decided to break the tanks apart and animate separately them under the camera. This is a test to see how well that will work. I am also testing out a different paper to see how it would hold up. It is a bit like drawing on a grocery bag.
Tank version 2.0 from Joel Jonientz on Vimeo.
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Tanks version 1.0
Sometimes the work gets away from you. That is the case here. I was interested in creating a lightning sketch drawn animation along the lines of what I have done in some of my chalk board pieces. Lightning sketch artists were some of the earliest commercial animators. Working in vaudeville during the early part of the 20th century their act consisted of rapidly modified drawings on an easel pad which transformed before the audience’s eyes. That was my intention in this piece, but more often than I would like to admit I end up failing in myself in the execution of the work. So this ends up as a study instead of a finished piece and I will try to implement the lessons of this failure in version 2.0.
Old People and Clouds – much closer to finished
Old people and clouds - ready to animate
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Sketchbook – notes on Revisionist History
In the second of post in this series I have found two pages of notes pertaining to the animated work revisionist history. At the time I was creating this series of drawn/animated works I was interested exploring the addition of my brothers voice into biographical animated narratives. I also threw my wife and cat into the mix.
page 1
Here is the final
page 2 and 3
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Sketchbook – notes on V.P.
I was recently looking through some old sketch books and found notes on work both made and unmade. I will be posting some of these in the future.
This is the first of what will be a number of posts with notes on my short animated work The V.P.
I originally created this work as a flip book and have somewhere in my possession a version of it that works as such. I would have most likely left it in that format, but was asked to submit a short animated work on a political theme to an exhibition. I honestly don’t remember whether or not I sent this in for submission. Most likely not. Here is the final format for your viewing pleasure.
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