ross goes to canada

• zoologic
• an episode of Pic Pic ( Belgian )
• another episode of Pic Pic

here and here and here

you can pick one, two, or three of the above!

This Songsmith thing is actually really impressive no matter what can be said about the quality of the music ( a fair bit).

a few character sketches that I did tonight

and also this: http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

woah!

a sketch/color study for my final film at VFS

Things are gearing up to start final film production here.  It’s, of course, very exciting and also a bit frightening.  The most interesting part from my perspective, I think,  will be  seeing how I feel about my film idea at the end of 3 months.  I can’t imagine liking it at that point since it’s tough to like any single idea for that long… though, I still like the idea of running a lottery– there are exceptions, thankfully.

In the “hey check this out!” arena– you should check out this page, especially if you want to find a free version of openCanvas that allows you to collaborate over the Internet.  I haven’t tried out the online collaboration aspect yet, but if anyone wants to…  that would be amazing.  “Awesome” is another good word.

Also, I finally got around to reading another Harry Potter book.  It was good.  I would give a detailed opinion but over 3,598 people already beat me to it.  Anyways, there’s this:

cool stuff happening at the MIT Media Lab

• an excellent short film– La Revolution Des Crabes
• another Yann Tiersen song– Rue Des Cascades

• Great post over at Temple of the Seven Golden Camels– Blood and Posture
• Drawings/photos of Vancouver over at Splinter In Your Eye

I just got back from seeing the movie Coraline with some friends from school.  It was a really amazing movie that you should see and hear and experience also.  If I wanted to be nitpicky– which I do, since otherwise this post would be rather short– the last few minutes of the story up to the conclusion didn’t contain the sheer wonder that the rest of the movie had.  To be completely honest though, I have no idea if the conclusion could have been better– conclusions are tricky things because the story must come to some sort of ending ( or conclusion).  Taking the time to tie every story point shut may be boring but leaving story points dangling may leave the work feeling unfinished.  Anyways, it was very very (very) good.

some Coraline related links:

• trailer for the movie
• Art of Coraline panel ( video ! )
• just a few of the amazing artists who worked on Coraline: Jon Klassen, Shane Prigmore, Shannon Tindle, and Dan Krall

In unrelated news, here’s possibly the most geeky thing ever:

… I made it awhile ago for a Scientists Valentine’s Day Card thing.  I regret nothing and everything at the same time.

• An album called Dark Was the Night
• voice drawing
• turn your handwriting into a font
• personal life update: scanning in a sketchbook and then sleep!

I ‘ve been thinking about purchasing Autodesk Sketchbook Pro recently for its awesome pencil tool, but I just created a pencil brush for Photoshop that seems to do the job pretty well.  At the moment it looks like I’ll save some money.

I’m not quite sure, but I think I based the brush on one by Dave Nagel from this website

Anyways, you can download the pencil brush here