Books &Daily post 02 Sep 2009 08:35 am
Friends’ Success
Jeff Scher has one of his excellent animated pieces on the NYTimes site. Once again the music by Shay Lynch has supported the piece and completed it at the same time. A fine piece of music as well as a fine piece of film music. The themes anticipate some of the turns that Jeff takes in his anthem to the end of summer. Take it in and wonder how this could ever have been done in cg. These pieces get better and better for me.
- I’ve recently bought the DVD of Ponyo in Japanese with English subtitles. The film has some strong differences. I saw the movie in English again last night and took some notes. It was my third viewing (2x in theater – once on video) and the film holds up in spades.
I’ll report on what differences I’ve heard later this week.
Howard Beckerman was at that screening – he came with John Dilworth. We said hello and Howard handed me a press release:
(Click to enlarge.)
Should be an interesting talk, if you have any interest in design or the development process.
- Stephen MacQuignon was a mainstay of my studio for quite a few years. From 1987 through 1993 Steve was the backbone of the coloring department working on many of my principal films – all pre digital. He left animation seeking other fortunes.
Lately, he seems to have found some success with a number of children’s books which he’s recently illustrated. These can be bought on Amazon for a fair price.
Steve tells me that at least three of the upcoming books have yet to hit the market. It’s nice to be busy. We’ll look forward to collecting them all.
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on 02 Sep 2009 at 12:44 pm 1.Stephen Macquignon said …
Thank you Michael,
I have enjoyed creating these picture books; it is a good feeling to be participating again in someway to the art world.
If any one is interested they can follow what I’m up to by visiting my blog site
http://stephen-sketch2color.blogspot.com
on 15 Sep 2009 at 8:07 pm 2.Chris said …
I was wondering when you are going to post your analysis of the differences between the original version of Ponyo and the American dub.
I keep checking your blog (er . . . splog) everyday . . . but . . . nothing!
on 16 Sep 2009 at 7:29 am 3.Michael said …
I haven’t had time to look at Ponyo again critically. It’ll wait until I can. You might go here for an evaluation. Daniel Thomas MacInnes has a lot to offer on his site.
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