Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Driving through a neighborhood, I saw this graffiti. It’s real gang style I think, but then the hands are so good. PF 23. I don’t know what that stands for, but this looks cool. Wide, it doesn’t look as cool.
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James signs autographs at the Hint Mint pop up shop in Venice. It’s a prefab trailer home with a small yard and it’s a cute little spot. In the end it’s a one bedroom apartment type of spot that’s packed with mints. James did a few Hint Mint boxes and you’ll see those everywhere. His display was simple and the designs for the mints themselves were on display. They were selling tin printed sheets for him to sign. Big wallpaper. After we ate at the Calbi BBQ truck. I have since heard it’s owned by Baja Fresh. After we did a fake painting job, but Harry Kim makes the perfect model for these chubby babies in the painting.
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James Jean was candid and fun to talk to with a live audience. This is at the Tateuchi Forum which is a nice amphitheater. It’s part of JANM and is a great place for something like this. James started off with a presentation and then I just had a fun and hopefully revealing conversation with him. It went for over an hour and a half and I have to give James credit for doing a great job and basically being honest. He left it all out there for whoever came to check us out. (above photo by Thomas Nakanishi) Color Ink Book! James signed some goodies later and had a new print.
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James Jean tonite. He’ll be showing his career, then it’s time to ask him some question. Have any? It’s free, come down and check him out. He’ll have a few of his new print. It’s not a cheap one, so there’s just a few. Then tomorrow come on down and make are with Stella Lai 11am. Saturday. Free Target Day, don’t pay a thing and come on down.
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Step 1, get a camera, know what you’re doing. Make sure it doesn’t move. Step 2, make you set, and set the boundaries of what the camera can see. Step 3. Do not do this on the floor like we did. On a table is way better. Step 4. get your animated pieces ready. Don’t make too many little parts or else it’s hard to animate them. Keep it relatively simple. Figure out a way that they can stick just a little and not too much. Make sure it doesn’t leave a residue or else you’ll be photoshopping a lot. Bolt / tape down the stuff that isn’t going to move. It’ll accidentally move if you don’t. Note: don’t animate where gusts of wind or passersby can mess your set up. Find an able bodied partner who won’t slow you down. Move pieces ever so slightly. If you forget some, oh well. On a table, or else you’ll be looking like this, and this isn’t good for your back This looks neat, but it doesn’t work. The strange drawing by the pencil. That’s a sketch of what you see when you look down another person’s shirt collar. (not while you do your animation).
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