Saving up for film festivals

Today for lunch I ate a can of sliced clams.

A couple days ago a loose eye lash fell into my eye. That's annoying. But you know the drill, right? You rub at it a little bit, and then if that doesn't work, you blink a lot. Blinking wasn't doing it either though. I thought for a while I was making some progress by rolling my eyes clockwise, but it always seemed to end up back in the same place. This continues to annoy me for almost two days before I try to just wash it out with water, by the then the corner of my eye is deep blood red. That doesn't work either, but I look in the mirror, and I realize that the lash somehow got lodged in my upper tear duct! It was literally lodged in my eyelid! My upper punctum, actually, as the image shows. I managed to finally get it out with some tweezers, a friend, and a great deal of concentration. It really sucked though!

Our animation studio has three employees. There's me, there's Erin Tanner over at http://www.erintanner.blogspot.com, and then there's our most important member, Bay Bay the cat. Usually she's in on time and never complains.. But see, Erin Tanner took her outside for the first time a couple weeks ago, and she was for the first time able to look up into the vast and infinite sky. Can you imagine looking into that bleak void for the first time? Bay Bay's productivity has dropped sharply, but we'll try not to let that delay Moon Diary too much.

The image above was posted on Erin Tanner's blog. I thought it looked really cool as a screen shot, so I decided to post it too.

Frame by frame gets pretty tricky. I recently got a part time job (Working for an Elevator Inspection Certification Company, yeah!) so the 8 hour animation days have been more like 2 or 3. I spent the last week or so working on this water effect pictured above. The image shows the outline of every shape in the water sequence, about 200 in all. It's a 5 second sequence in the animation, but at least it looks awesome!