The Magic Window

Other than Nefarious’s birthday party (the one with her school friends, not the family one that we had on her actual birthday), I’m not sure what else the weekend contains. Nefarious wants me to take her to see Furry Vengeance, a movie in which comical animals (as live-action “actors”) beat up on Brendan Frasier to stop a building development — she’s been dying to see it since seeing the trailer, but I think I’ll wait until a weekday. Going after school is actually much nicer because the theatre isn’t over-flowing. I think I’m more inclined to go eat ice cream at the park, maybe bring my Kindle along and read for a while.

Anyway, animation time. As always, this was made in the free/open-source/shareware simple 2D animation tool Pencil (also using this tool for video to image series, and this tool for image sequence to video conversions, both free again). Music is by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones (Those Memories of You, which adds a layer of unintended but not unappreciated sentimentality).

10 Comments

  1. habi wrote:

    what a hilarious video. looks like you had great fun!

    Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 2:57 am | Permalink
  2. emily wrote:

    that video was great..

    you should make one that goes over your head and your head is animated.. or you stick your arm through it and it is an animated arm…..

    Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink
  3. Laura wrote:

    That is great! What an extremely fun project to work on together!

    Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 9:16 am | Permalink
  4. Elizabeth wrote:

    mesmerizing!

    Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 2:00 pm | Permalink
  5. Melissa wrote:

    That is amazing! Loves it!

    Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
  6. Justine wrote:

    very creative and original. I want to be a cartoon too!

    Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 10:34 pm | Permalink
  7. sarah r wrote:

    Hello! I’ve been reading you since BME & never said hi because I don’t know you, but I was reading a food-geek sort of blog & saw something I think I remember you mentioning some time ago – vertical farming in cities? Someone’s trying to do it, thought you might be interested.

    https://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/92477004.html

    Monday, May 3, 2010 at 12:46 pm | Permalink
  8. Thanks, Shannon. That brightened my day.

    Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 7:50 am | Permalink
  9. nicole wrote:

    The love you have for your daughter is so awesome to see. She’s a very lucky little girl…she’ll have so many amazing childhood memories to look back on because of your creativity.

    Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 9:15 am | Permalink
  10. suzanne wrote:

    Oh excellent!!

    Monday, May 10, 2010 at 9:58 am | Permalink
Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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