Right Wing Epic Fail. AGAIN.

Well once again the boys and girls on the Right have effed up entirely. In yet another attempt to scare the bejebus out of America over the issue of same-sex marriage (which apparently now constitutes a "gathering storm" or some such stock footage + scary music), they have formed a new group called the National Organization for Marriage. That's right. The boys and girls against gay marriage have formed a group for marriage. You figure it out. I can't.

Oh but it gets better. They have also decided to call their marriage campaign "2M4M." Once again missing the meaning of terms that people living in reality are familiar with (re: Teabagging), they apparently have no idea that this abbreviation is used on craigslist.org to signify a search for gay threesomes. "2M4M" means "two males for male." HAHAHAHAH! Get a brain, morans!

I'd like to link to their laughable video, but I don't want to give them any further traffic. I beleive they are the proverbial "cranky fucktard with letterhead" that used to keep the networks scared to death over their programming, never knowing it was just one guy with a printer. Some are taking them seriously, but knowing now how it's done, I'm not impressed. Anyone can do this sort of video in an afternoon, maybe two if you want to polish the acting.

What a bunch of losers.

Splin Doctors Challenge: Christian Bale Rant

Oh this is just awesome. I usually follow Daniel Huertas' blog because he's a good animator and his work gives me a good idea of what I should be working towards. He made this entry for the Spline Doctors Challenge : Christian Bale Rant and won second place. I love it especially because I regularly hurl expletives at my computer whenever projects aren't going right. I mean, it's not my fault it's screwing up right? I think I make those faces, too...

Enjoy.

WTF?!? Part Two: Gays That Hate Being Gay, but Love Dating Fag-Hags. Or Their BF's. On the Next Tyra...

Oh dear. The really fun part comes at 07:15 when Tyra tries to understand all this nonsense. She does a pretty good job until her neurons all fire at once and make her head explode.

P.S. Love the audience hottie with the red tie. Call me.

WTF?!?

I want both of these people destroyed. Immediately.

Shouldn't I be animating or something?

Just for fun.

BEHOLD!

This is the result of loading up a shotgun full of keyframes and shooting it at a timeline. And then just converting all the tangents to "shameful."

I was trying to get some blocking done on another dialogue shot and was getting frustrated with the process. I feel like I have to suss out my process every time I start work on something. It's my purgatory I suppose. My animation soul, it appears, must first be purified before being accepted by whatever animation god (Thor (oh some of you will find that funnier than others)) I've pissed off this week. I have to be more disciplined and start animating every single day.

Anyhoozle. Take a look at this and feel free to critique. Any words are helpful, even if you are not an animator. Even though I've marked it a WIP, I probably won't revisit it. I was just playing around and need to finish up the other dialogue piece (or two) and the other stuff, too, whatever they turn out to be.

P.S. I'm well aware of the hiccup at frame 77 (or so).

New Character Rig from Jason Baskin

Here's a new rig, Blake, from Jason Baskin, creator of the Bloke, Blik and Blok rigs. The rig comes with a variety of physical appearance options built in and very dynamic facial controls, including a nifty control called "autoLid" that keeps the eyelids traveling with the eyes. Blake is served up with a how-to YouTube video. Go check 'em out.