On Wednesday I started doing my taxes by tallying up my income for 2013/14. Because this is so exciting, I live-tweeted it. This year’s count is unusual in that, most years, I am employed on a full time contract for at least part of the year. This one, not. — David Blumenstein (@nakedfella) June 25,…
Category: Dayjob
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…
Anti-Procrasto Week
This week is a big week: it’s ANTI-PROCRASTO WEEK. My workload lightens up a bit this week so I’m setting myself some tasks to take care of, the stuff that gets pushed back when I’m being paid to draw talking penises or animate moustache demons. — 1. Precinct scripts We now have three scripts at…
“Beggar hand”
I’m animating freelance on one episode of an animated TV series. The way this works is that I receive an allocation of shots to animate, and refer to the storyboards for a guide as to how I go about it. The board artist on this episode is lazy. The drawings are good (very good! better…
Comic Book Funny starts tomorrow
Thanks very much to Amid at Cartoon Brew and Aaron at Cold Hard Flash for featuring our Comic Book Funny animation on their sites! Tomorrow at the first COMIC BOOK FUNNY this season, your host, Jo Waite will be surrounded by her favourite teapots and a generous pile of cucumber sandwiches. Male models PAT GRANT,…
Take me to the pilot
Happy new year! Happy Oshtraya Day! I realised I’ve been lucky enough to work on a lot of animated TV pilots lately, so I thought I’d write a bit about how they’ve worked and what happened with them. When I don’t name names it’s because the work isn’t out in public yet and confidentiality applies….