Oh, my! that's really interesting!
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There was an issue, I think it should be fixed now, see http://videosift.com/talk/Vimeo-Blocks-VideoSift>>

Haha! Cabbage! that's awesome..



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One day when I was chopping some cabbage, my kids bounced up and begged exactly like those chicks, although one lost interest once he realised exactly what was on offer...

Wow! Thanks for the Etch a sketch link especially! How detailed.... Ya, way too much time on their hands... When I was first starting digital painting I watched these tutorials that I thought were in real time. They really discouraged me until I realized they were sped up sometimes 10x!!! I'm so naive...*sigh*

Digital finger painting is strangely both more liberating and more restrictive. I'm still messing about with about 5 different apps trying to find one I could call 'user friendly'. On my home computer I have a lovely Cintiq -- you can see the image and draw on it with a stylus. I quite dig that. On my phone and my Ipad I can draw with my finger or a stylus. The finger painting is more awkward in some ways but to get the ipad/pod to pick up the motions of the stylus you have to press really hard! It's a bit weird. There's no real touch-sensitivity like on the Cintiq -- various apps try to simulate the look of it with tapering and speed = line width contols. So far not so good for me. But OTHER people are painting the freaking Sistine Chapel on their phones.. so the problem is probably not the tools but the user, ahem - me!
Still, I persevere! I swear, had I never seen the beautiful artwork people make on their phones, I never would have considered it possible. But I am intrigued.. and it IS fast! I can then upload those sketches to polish in a proper graphic program or just enjoy their speed-painting loosensess.
Are you a doodler?

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Well that sounds like fun Speculating wildly, since I totally lack the experience for an informed comment, I would expect that the ipad might be a little like water colour painting, in that a looser approach and taking what you get might work well but if you try to get every pixel exactly right you would be better off with another medium... and also that a few stray splotches or rough edges might not hurt the final product. Do you use a big touch pad on your main computer?

As for what they were smoking in the 70s, well in my parts it was only a few extremely mellow hippies in the hills, smoking so much weed that they hadn't realised the 60s were over In terms of animation though, I wonder if the 70s were the result of digesting the trippy LSD inspired experiments of the 60s and reacting to them, without perhaps actually being chemically enhanced. I wasn't yet 10 when the 70s ended though, so it's yet more wild speculation on my part.

Hey thanks! What a blast from the past (what were they smoking in the 70's?!) This reminds me of another whacky animator chick, Janet Perlman. Fun stuff.

I've been away from my computer way more than usual -- still checking in to watch sone of the new stuff now & then. I got an IPad 2, which I've been trying to learn digital painting on... It's fun but a little tricky so far.

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Fusionaut posted this 70s Sally Cruikshank animation, which I thought you might like (and, as you don't seem to have been around, you might otherwise miss it!) http://videosift.com/video/Make-Me-Pyschic

Thanks for this awesome link!!
I love that show -- you know what, I worked for that company in Berlin on an Asterix film and I'm sure the little critters in that video were just heading into design as I was leaving. They have such a knack for cute characters. The world needs more of that kind of humour. Love the ants getting ready for work haha...

Cat's Cradle is such a weird film! I never really 'got' it, but I adored the shaggy linework. I'm a huge Driessen fan. There are a couple of newer ones he's done with split screens that show the same story from different perspectives -- or other splits like land, sea, air.. I'd really like to see those again.

It's great to see such amazing animation here.
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Have you seen this before? http://videosift.com/video/Ted-Siegel-s-Wildlife

I only posted it because your comment on "Cat's cradle" got me to watch it (loved it btw, the moral would have be be "be kind to spiders"?) and then that reminded me of this.

Hey, thanks for quality-ing the Acorn 'Restoration'
You da bomb.

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*quality

Thanks for the promote!

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*promote

Hey, saw you liked this tune too! Thanks for adding it to your 'best tunes' playlist.
http://videosift.com/video/THE-ACORN-Crooked-Legs-from-Glory-Hope-Mountain

Oh, I'll have to go back and check that out!
I wouldn't worry about the crickets -- I post completely random stuff and try to just please myself. I'm often shocked at what people are into. Sometimes it's really nerdy, quiet, long, serious pieces, or other times it's mating cows slipping on ice. You just can never tell!
I like lots of music so if you ever want to make sure I see something, send me a link anytime!

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I'm glad you liked it, my last few have resulted in silence, perhaps with a few crickets!

It did look a bit like the little one hit herself with the mallet, she appeared to have the remnants of at least one black eye (more obvious at 0 seconds, but I told the embed to start later, when they actually got going).

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so pretty..
I was expecting someone to get a mallet in the eye there..

Ya! Got me a wee bit of Irish appreciation.

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Another Bothy Band fan? Fantastic!
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