That’s what dreams are made of
Lisa Dempster wrote a cool article about achieving your dreams. I just want to provide a short rebuttal. 1. Know what you want I know what she means. I want lots of things. Often it’s tempting to grab low-hanging fruit because it’s close by (the very reason Sarah and I leave fruit in random places [...]
“Bret Braddock” drafting
I spoke on a panel at the Emerging Writers Festival last week and gave a little presentation on how I draft an episode of The Bret Braddock Adventures (a weekly webcomic about a lousy workplace you should really be reading). They let me put up some images of the stages in doing one of these [...]
Transmedia Vic Conference Day
What’s transmedia storytelling? It’s what we used to call “multiplatform”, or “cross media”. Essentially, I think it just means “stories told across more than one platform”. Like a TV show that does little online videos that fill in a bit of backstory. Or those nifty games I’ve talked about before that were staged online and [...]
Get An Animated Christmas Card From Nakedfella Productions For $500
It’s the end of the year, which can be a slow period for freelance animators like me. So I thought I’d offer to make your company’s animated Christmas card for only $500. I like making funny cartoons cheaply. Would you like one, made just for you, to send to customers/clients, wishing them a happy holiday [...]
Tweeted on 2010-03-31
Went on comics camp the other weekend to hang out and draw! Everybody’s blogging it; here’s one from me: http://tinyurl.com/yklavmu #fb # RT @NYWF: “My thoughts go out to all those last minute NYWF application writers out there” Get your app in! http://youngwritersfestival.org/ # Synth-pop magic: Billy Ocean conjures Star Wars cantina-style weirdness in video [...]
All plans and no followthrough makes David edgy
I spent 2009 planning and scheming and writing and talking and thinking. Lots of thinking! This was all good stuff to do, in addition to the freelance work I had. But I did very little MAKING of STUFF! I made a zine of some of my old articles and prose writing and took it to [...]
P.J. Hogan on being told how to write by dipshits
I love this little article from the Australian Writer’s Guild magazine. It’s by P.J. Hogan, director of Muriel’s Wedding. The stuff about Lift-Off feels familiar.
Scatterbrain
Leadership Lately I’d been thinking about all the work I’ve been doing toward getting The Precinct happening. It’s kept me very busy, but probably not as busy as I would be if were making the show itself. So I probably need to get used to this level of activity! I’ve been wondering what kind of [...]
No, really, I’m a writer
My day job at the moment is animating on the second series of Dogstar! The same trailer, in Japanese: I worked on the original series a few years back. As Australian kids TV goes, it’s pretty shit-hot (this means “good”). So Michael V (my deskmate) and I would amuse ourselves by coming up with ideas [...]
Production begins on The Precinct, episode 00b: “Playing To Win”
YES! So, as I mentioned previously, I’m starting up a new Precinct short animation, the goals of which are: to give viewers a bit more of the story we’re dealing with in the series to reveal a bit more about Det. Ackersley’s personality to show lots more ACTION and fast cutting to shamelessly wallow in [...]