Category: Notes
Cease and Desist
July 8th, 2005You may have noticed that I don't have any of my personal AM lecture notes posted on this site anymore.
Or maybe you didn't notice. (If not, you should be more observant, after all, observation is one of the first lessons to being an animator!)
Anyways, on June 15th I found this "Cease and Desist" order pinned to my front door with a deeply embedded shuriken.
The note went on to say that my online lecture notes were too detailed and were giving away too much supa-dupa secret info, and that if I didn't stop posting them, the three Great White Animation Ninjas were going to take turns animating horrible things happening to a voodoo rig that strongly resembled me, (that my friend, could be the poster child for run-on sentences). I had but no choice to comply, as I have seen the things that can be done with these voodoo rigs and obviously don't want to experience such horrible trauma myself...
That being said, Boom, Shawn, and Carlos were actually very cool about the whole ordeal and merely asked that I take down my lecture notes and refrain from posting such detailed accounts of my experiences at AM. I found this to be completely understandable, as I wouldn't want to give away trade secrets or help anyone circumvent AM in anyway. So I apologize to AM as a whole, and strongly urge anyone that enjoyed my notes to seriously check out AnimationMentor.com, and see if maybe it would be a good fit for you. It has been an awesome experience for me thus far, as well as everyone one else I know that is going through it.
On a side note, I do still want to help out anyone interested in the art of animation in any way that I can, so I will be posting other animation notes that I posses. Some are my own personal notes from lectures that I have attended by cool people such as Ed Hooks and Dr. Stuart Sumida, as well as a collection of notes gathered from various sources on the web, graciously sent to me by Kaveh Michael. I'll try to upload a new set of notes every week, or every other week, depending on my schedule and current bandwidth. I also have several of Andrew Loomis' books, of which none are still in print, in pdf format. If reading in your browser suits you, you can go ahead and start reading here, otherwise hold your horses and I'll make one pdf available per month.
In the meantime, don't forget to check out The Animation Podcast. Clay Kaytis has done a swell job and has managed to already score some truly awesome interviews in the few short months that he's been doing this.
Enough of my blabbering, time to get back to work.
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