http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:43:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Éditions Nathan, a French publisher contacted me back in February about purchasing the rights to one of my comics to print in an English textbook for 14 year old French students. Well, the book has been published and I got my copy in the mail today. The comic appears on the ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/08/08/comic-helping-educate-french-students/ This is a snapshot I took Friday morning of the road across the street from my house. I was about to hop in my car and head out for work when I saw the sun starting to break thru the haze; So I grabbed the camera and ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/27/photo-op/ I dusted off an old illustration which seemed fitting for this week's IF topic.   http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/26/illustration-friday-canned/ Here's a cool comic blog from UK artist Mike Smith. He draws comics about his life on a weekly calendar. Love that idea. I also like his style and sense of humor. I can relate to this weeks comic (seen above). http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/03/blogshank/ Pilote OVNI Uploaded by garybaldix Here's a cool Flash animated pilot called Ovni (en. for UFO) from Paris-based Blue Spirit Animation. This is one of a series of 52 five minutes shorts for a French family channel. Found this one thanks to good old CHF. Love the sound effects like the ping pong ball ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/02/ovni/ Here's the completed film, the theme this time was Carnival. I'm responsible for the beaver with the silly hat, eating a corn dog. You can also check out photos of the event here. http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/23/d-d-boston-ii-completed-film/ I participated in the second Drinking and Drawing Boston event last night at Paddy O's. Another successful event that brought a lot of  artists together to create an animated film.  This go around we had an added treat, Dave Schlafman, a talented and successful animation director presented his work and held ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/19/drinking-and-drawing-boston-part-ii/ The good people over at Cold Hard Flash have put together a list of the top ten animated Flash films. They posted the animation along with great background info on the artists. Very inspirational stuff. Good to see some of the classics on there as well as some great films ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/13/10-best-animated-flash-films/ These rough sketches are ideas I was sketching out for a university student computer services t-shirt design. The project was tabled before I got too far with it. But I thought I'd share these drawings anyway. I'm certainly due for a post here. Also Drinking and Drawing - Boston II is ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/13/student-sketches/ Here's an illustration I created for part of a campaign letting college faculty know about the eSylabus web repository coming out this Fall. http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/05/21/esyllabus-marketing/ http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/05/05/illustration-friday-seed/ http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/04/23/moodbot/ The nominees for the 2nd annual Channel Frederator Awards. The Freddie awards user submitted cartoons that have appeared on Channel Frederator through out the past year. Lots of great nominees this year including the classic Weird Al, 'Trapped in the Drive-Thru' video that I posted a while back. And another one ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/04/16/channel-frederator-awards/ The Drinking and Drawing Boston video is complete. I was able to get a couple cracks at the light table night, including the first 8 frames of the video, so don't blink. It was fun event and I'm looking forward to the next one. http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/04/06/drinking-drawing-boston-completed-video/ I had a chance to participate in the 'Drinking and Drawing' event on Monday night at Paddy O's in Boston. It's an event dreamed up by Dan Meth and Frederator and first kicked off in NY before hosting this one in beantown. That's me working away with a pint of Guinness in by ... http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/04/02/drinking-and-drawing/ Here's a series of clever animations from Simon Tofield an animator at  Tandem Films. Enjoy. http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/03/16/simons-cat/ Much like the one posted below, here's the illustration I did for the Saint Patrick's Day email going out to BC faculty.   http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/03/14/saint-paddys-day-email-graphic/ Pearce Sisters is a unique animated film from director Luis Cook at Aardman. I really like the style of this work. You can learn about the unique process here on the production notes page. http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/02/14/the-pearce-sisters/ Here's an illustration I whipped up this week for use in an html email going out to BC faculty reminding them about the CMS change next semester. There will be more of these holiday themed comics.  Next up; one for St. Patrick's Day. http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/02/13/valentine/ Designer/illustrator Frank Chimero has an ongoing series of illustrations inspired by the shapes of American states. So simple and yet so clever. Fantastic idea and nice style. http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/02/13/united-states-of-stuff/