I saw news yesterday about him. Very funny! Read here
And here youtube video, interview with this guy.
And more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6_eDt-ShQ
TODAYshow
Sleep Talking Man (STM)
January 22nd, 2010New Year
January 5th, 2010Hey all! I haven’t been writing for a while. Not too much write about, but I started new project that I reveal after couple months. Hopefully, I can finish it sooner than later.
New semester starts in a week and it will be the last one for me. I’m taking portfolio class, and will be looking for real job soon. I am applying for internship at American Greetings today also. Wish me luck! I really want to work with their Interactive department! It will be amazing experience!
With this new year I want to work more on my drawing skills and animation, so I’ll be posting more works as I progress.
Ultimate GA
September 21st, 2009I added new plugin today. This plugin will put Google Analytics code into your blog and also will track outgoing links and links to downloads.
You can find more info here
Local places for our personas
September 19th, 2009After we figure out personas for Stearn’s farm web site, we started to look for local places around the farm that they can possibly attend also.
Food attractions for schools:
I found a couple websites with a list of restaurants in Parma.
http://www.placesintown.com/parma/restaurants.htm
http://www.pluggedincleveland.com/restaurants/parma.html
http://www.urbanspoon.com/n/16/1528/Cleveland/Parma-restaurants
parks nearby:
Ridgewood Lake Park
Big Creek Parkway Snow Road Picnic Area
researched by Dan
School attractions:
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo (13 min from the farm)
Memphis Kiddie Park (15 min) http://www.memphiskiddiepark.com/
Cassidy Theater 14-20$ tickets (6min) http://www.cassidytheatre.com/
Parma Heights City museim 6200 Pearl rd.
IX Indoor amusement park (15min) http://www.ixamusementpark.com
researched by me
Family / Kid oriented restaurants in Parma, near Stern’s
- Smoothie Creations
7868 Broadview Rd,Parma,OH- (216)447-8823
- Mootown Creamery
7894 Broadview Rd,Parma,OH -(216) 524-1944
- Victorio’s Family Restaurant
6219 Pearl Rd, Cleveland, OH – (440) 885-3663
- Jordans Family Restaurant
11575 Brookpark Rd., Parma, OH – (216) 267-5353
- Eat’n Park Restaurant
2075 Snow Rd., Parma, OH – (216) 459-1517
- Caroline’s Family
5640 Pearl Rd, Parma, OH – (440) 842-2929
- Demetrios Family Restaurant
7851 Broadview Rd, Seven Hills, OH – (216) 447-4444
- Gus’s Family Restaurant
4377 State Rd, Cleveland, OH – (216) 661-5967
- Canarys Family Restaurant
14810 Puritas Ave, Cleveland, OH – (216) 671-8911
- Bob Evans Farms Restaurant
16500 Snow Rd, Cleveland, OH – (216) 267-3034
- My Place Family Restaurant
1061 W Pleasant Valley Rd, Cleveland, OH – (440) 888-6336
- MI-mi’s Family Restaurantunstarred
7528 Broadview Rd, Cleveland, OH – (440) 887-0818
- Gabe’s Family Restaurant
2044 Broadview Rd, Cleveland, OH – (216) 741-4466
- Steves Family Restaurant
4457 Broadview Rd, Cleveland, OH – (216) 749-7588
- Katherine’s Family Restaurant
7533 Pearl Rd, Cleveland, OH – (440) 243-7373
- Sforzo’s Family Restaurant & Pizza
5517 Memphis Ave, Cleveland, OH – (216) 351-3703
- Antonio’s Pizza
7401 W Ridgewood Dr, Cleveland, OH – (440) 886-2511
- TGI Friday’s
7729 W Ridgewood Dr, Cleveland, OH – (440) 845-2500
- Outback Steakhouse
6950 Ridge Rd, Cleveland, OH – (440) 842-6114
- Chuck E Cheese’s
7601 W Ridgewood Dr, Cleveland, OH – (440) 888-5700
- Denny’s
8111 Day Dr, Cleveland, OH – (440) 845-5094
- redlobster
7607 Day Drive, Parma, OH – (440) 888-0990
- Steak ‘n Shake
6880 Ridge Rd, Cleveland, OH – (440) 887-9201
researched by Jason
Historic places near Parma
http://www.clevelandmemory.org/
http://www.bedfordohiohistory.org/contact.php
http://www.rrpl.org/cowan_pottery/cowan_index.html
http://attractions.uptake.com/museums/ohio/cleveland/detour_s_wax_mus…
http://attractions.uptake.com/museums/ohio/parma/272433108.html
researched by Paul
Attractions for parents and kids near Parma:
Zoo- Cleveland, Memphis Kiddie Park- Brooklyn, Yorktown Bowling,
Swings & Things – Parma Heights (I think it might have moved to
Olmsted), Malley Chocolate Factory- Middleburg Hts., Cassidy Therater
and Swim Park, Kids Concoctions-Strongsville. Nike Swim Park.
researched by Rocki
Possible Restaurants for history buffs:
Rudi’s Strudel – offers ethnic specialties, old family recipes
Lydia’s Hungarian Strudel Shop
researched by Toby
Let me know, guys, if I forget something or someone here…
Personas for Stearn’s Farm Web Site
September 19th, 2009Persona for the web site is imagenary audience, “social mask”, fiction characters that represent the different types of people. You could read more about it in this wonderful post.
That’s what we come up with:
1. Teacher.
2.Parent/grandparent
3. People interested in history
What they would be looking for on the site:
Teachers:
Parents/grandparents:
For both:
Structured list for the Stearn’s farm website
September 19th, 2009Farmlife
Contact
Events
Visit info
History
Store
Help Us
Home page
Global
Stearn’s Farm Website Project Fall 2009
September 19th, 2009The result of our first meeting with client.
Embed swf test Boy1
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Web Design questions
August 31st, 2009General Q:
1. Why do you need web site? What is your goal?
2. Who are your competitors and do they have web sites?
3. Is there something you are known locally?
4. What are your main products and/or services?
5. Should this site affect or modify your company’s current progress?
6. Should this site have donation page?
Technical Q:
1. Is it going to be on Content Managment?
2. What we use to build?
3. Do you have hosting? How much and what’s the server?
Style Q:
1. Show us three sites (or more) that you like.
2. Do you have logo? (Is it workable?)
3. Do you have color scheme?
4. Do you have pictures? Do you need more? Who is going to take pictures?
5. Do you have written content? Who is going to write it?
6. Is anything we need to keep on the site (Our group: ask about Parma)?
7. Who is your target audience? How people learn about your company? Why does your taget audience need this website?
8. Do you have any events? What you do on it?
Money Q:
1. Free.
2. Timeline = semester
Homework for 8/26
August 26th, 20091. Set up your blog/notebook.
2. Post your blog link in the discussion called “Blog Links”.
3. Find 3 nice, small, historic places of interest sites to share.
4. Have fun!
I don’t know about nice or small, but here are some sites that I found. One of them about Mayak, nuclear complex.
http://archive.greenpeace.org/mayak/index.html
Here are two more sites:
http://www.kunstkamera.ru/en/
http://www.westsidemarket.org/
Import from Blogger
August 24th, 2009Ok! There is a problem that I can’t deal with right now:
I can’t embed .swf files in this blog. Although on Blogger it was pretty easy, here on Wordpress I need to upload some plugin. To use plugins I need more then just front page blog… My previous swf files can’t be seen in my posts that I imported from Blogger because of that. 
Anyway, I’m pretty happy that I can see my posts from blogger here and I don’t need to copy everything! 
Character Development _ Head Construction
August 21st, 2009 I started head construction some days ago, and I continue it now through Preston Blair book.
- Circle for head and tilt (guide lines) easier to draw if first draw cross in the circle(head) and then draw another circle (tilt) around it and inside the head… Tilt circles will not look like perfect circles though and more like thin ovals, because of the perspective.
- Flexible features are: mouth and cheeck, eyebrows, ears – little flexible and base of the ears, base of the nose – not flexible.
- Head can be different rounded shapes, it depends on the character.
- Tilt always changes! It depends on the expressions, speech, angle of the head, where is your character looking.
- Tilt will help to see where bases of the nose, mouth, eyes, ears (if any) should be.
Character Development _ Body Skeleton
August 18th, 2009The hardest part for me in the skeleton foundation is to figure out length and arrangement of the body parts. Like, for example, on the second picture where the cat is throwing the ball. The leg is up in the air and hand should be behind it, but on the skeleton structure it’s not clear (same where he is crossing his hands). When drawing the structure I should always keep in mind WHAT I want to draw, the finished pose, and trying to produce it on a paper with simple lines. It’s like ripping it appart and leaving only base lines, the skeleton. Also, the head always looks wrong. Probably because head already have some shape to it… It is hard to connect shape and lines together.
I found that I don’t like the skeleton foundation much, thought it is helpful to know it, and probably in some situations it will help me to keep proportions correctly.
Character Development _ Body built from circular and rounded forms
August 12th, 2009 I got animation book by mail yesterday. I mean I got it today, because lazy post office worker couldn’t bring his ass upstairs. Instead I got message in the mail that he/she missed me (I WAS HOME!) and I needed to drive to post office to take this package. My husband’s package came in a same day, but it was smaller and it fit into the mail box Well, I get angry and upset easily, but can’t really do any harm to people, so I cooled down in a couple of hours and brought myself to the post office today morning.
Here are my new pictures and notes. I started from the begining of the book and really like it so far! Also, as ususal, I added one picture of my own, trying to draw it with new concepts that I’ve learned.
Character development:
- think what type (ex. goofy, cute, screwball) you want to draw
- rough sketches (idea)
- add features and details
1. Cartoon construction:
- proportion is important! (use head measurement o.o)
- keep reference drawing of the character when animating
2. Body built from circular and rounded forms:
- circular, rounded form – general parts of the body, rest is around this parts.
- better on screen, easier to animate
Well, I get angry and upset easily, but can’t really do any harm to people, so I cooled down in a couple of hours and brought myself to the post office today morning.Here are my new pictures and notes. I started from the begining of the book and really like it so far! Also, as ususal, I added one picture of my own, trying to draw it with new concepts that I’ve learned.
Character development:
- think what type (ex. goofy, cute, screwball) you want to draw
- rough sketches (idea)
- add features and details
1. Cartoon construction:
- proportion is important! (use head measurement o.o)
- keep reference drawing of the character when animating
2. Body built from circular and rounded forms:
- circular, rounded form – general parts of the body, rest is around this parts.
- better on screen, easier to animate
Lesson #3 Body
August 10th, 2009This is the third lesson by Preston Blair’s book. WEll, really it’s number four, because I skiped one where I needed to redraw and correct the first one…. I hate to perfect my work doing it over and over again. It’s so boring! Except, of course, if it’s not my job when people pay me for pictures (I wish I have this kind of job though!). I really think that perfection comes with practice, and practice should be different and interesting every day. I draw couple body examples from the book today, and after that I draw my own character. That way I’m not just copying Preston’s great pictures but trying to understand concepts on my own experience.
Lesson #2 Stretch and squash on heads
August 6th, 2009Drawing stretched and squashed circles first will help to understand how the head should look like. Also I catched myself on making faces while drawing. Probably, it helps me to feel the emotion better, I was trying to respond to the picture. If the dog is angry, I was making angry faces…
Another note on today’s lesson: do not afraid to stretch or squash more then you want to. My mistake was that I didn’t see difference on my pictures. Stretch and squash were almost the same. One of the cool design principles is to make different objects REALLY different. Smth extra small with extra big together. It brings attention and contrast.
And one more thing: I found helpful to draw the arrows to show the movement of the head. First, I was drawing construction, then arrows, after that I was checking and redrawing if needed my construction and then I draw the elements of the head.
Lesson #1 Construction – The Head (end)
August 5th, 2009Last page of the lesson 1. Searched for people who are doing same lessons. Seems like they all stoped working on it after the first one. Will see how it goes with me. Also I looked through other lessons on the site and don’t like the idea of copying Preston Blair’s picture with exactly every detail. I think the most important thing to learn here: principles and a lot of practice. Even if I’m drawing circles and lines – I must draw it every day. Just don’t let your pencil be dull (although I use mechanical pencil hehe ).
Lesson #1 Construction – The Head (cont)
August 3rd, 2009I feel very lazy today, but did the lesson anyway. It is probably not as accurate as I wanted it to be. Also, I ordered animation book by Preston Blair today.
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1
July 30th, 2009Lesson #1 Construction – The Head
July 30th, 2009Не знаю можно ли здесь переключать язык на английский. Видимо нельзя. Когда нибудь заведу платный блог. Пока буду на английском пытаться царапать. Простите за грамматику
Today I’ve got through Lesson One. There is a link there where you can see every page of the first book by Preston Blair.
Although, I’m not finished with the lessons, here are sketches 
that I’ve done today:
