One Mighty (difficult) Mouse (to draw)

Lesson 9A / 10 (Model Sheets) - Part 4 (Mighty Mouse)

(This is either Lesson 9A or Lesson 10, depending on whether you're following JohnK's numbering or the number at ASIFA.)

The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course - Lesson 9A/10 (also seen at ASIFA-Hollywood)

Notes:

• I continue to struggle with proportion -- notice the size of the head realtive to the body.
• I do a better job when I make my copy larger than the orignal. Everything seems to fall apart when I make my drawing smaller than the original. (Less room to cheat, I guess.)

Model sheet:

My stuff:

Truth in advertising

If potato chips were advertised in this manner, I wonder if I'd like them any less. Nah... I didn't think so either.

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Trying To Fill the Hole

One sure clue as to whether we're being motivated by aspiration or expectation is that aspiration is always satisfying; it may not be pleasant but it is always satisfying. Expectation, on the other hand, is always unsatisfying, because it comes from our little minds, our egos. Starting way back in childhood, we live our lives looking for satisfaction outside ourselves. We look for some way to conceal the basic fear that something is missing from our lives. We go from one thing to another trying to fill up the hole we think is there.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

via Integral Options Cafe

A 2 year old's brain - part 2

Craig commented that part one of this series was missing a "endless for/next loop for when said two-year-old doesn't instantly get what (s)he wants." Craig, this one's for you!

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Shifting seasons

Make no mistake, I LOVE my summers! I just can't remember the last time we had a significant spring.

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I am NOT the nanny

Tired of being mistaken for the nanny just because your kids look exactly like their father? Make it clear with humor! Check out my Cafe Press store.

Never one to miss out on viral marketing

I'm happy to comply with Munroe's (of XKCD.com fame) request to put a spin on a current viral marketing campaign. Here goes:

THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY

Tee hee.

Relative weights

According to Dr. Phil:

It takes 100 "atta girls" to erase one "you're not worth the trouble."

Though Dr. Phil typically uses this phrase in reference to raising children, I suspect a similar ratio applies to adults. When was the last time you called yourself stupid? When was the last time you gave yourself a pat on the back?

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puppet: with raincoat

This was created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.

For instructions please visit Craft Day.

A 2 year old's brain

There's a reason why people refer to this age as the "Terrible Twos."

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Foray into Cafe Press

Based on demand, I've opened up a Cafe Press store for my Motivation and happiness doodle.

While, it is not my intent to make this a highly commercial site, I am happy to entertain requests to create Cafe Press products with my images. If there's an image you'd like to see on a product, please leave a comment on the post in question or send an e-mail to the address listed at this blog. Products will be offered based on demand and my resources.

I don't plan on announcing every new image I make available. For your convenience you can check the "buy me at Cafe Press" link on the sidebar.

Lastly, does anyone know of a comprehensive Cafe Press type business that ships out of Canada?

Right or happy?

[Edited to add Cafe Press information at bottom of post.]

"Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?"

I don't know the origins of this quote, though I do know that Dr. Phil uses it often.

I wonder how much happiness fails to get experienced because people would rather be right than happy?

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(Items with a variation of this image can be purchased at Cafe Press.)

You thought we wouldn't notice

[Edited to add some links about protecting images at the bottom of this post. ]

You thought we wouldn’t notice is a "site dedicated to pointing out those thing's that give you that feeling of 'haven't l seen that somewhere before?' " Today's post is very interesting.

Other links about that post:

• Holy cow, Todd (Goliath) Goldman ripped me off!
• Did Todd Goliath (Goldman) Steal His Art?
• WebComics Controversy
  

It got me to thinking. What would I do if someone copied something I did? And made a tonne of money from it? Blech.

(I've already had someone reproduce something of mine while violating the terms of the Creative Commons license, and I haven't been successful at getting that sorted out. But at least they didn't take credit for it!)

On protecting images:

• Protecting Your Online Images
• How to Protect Your Digital Photos from Being Copied which concludes with:

"If your image is so valuable that you want to be sure no one ever steals it,
then don't post it online. That is the securest and safest method of protecting
your digital images."

Time to find new interests

Wouldn't it be lovely if everything you liked to do, commanded a huge salary?

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Do you really know about your web stats software?

Thanks to Debbie for alerting us about certain stats-tracking companies that may be installing cookies without users' consent.
Read more from:

• Eric Odom
• Geek News Central
• Xiled

And from the StatCounter blog:

A few months back, StatCounter was approached by an advertiser, offered lots of $$$, and asked to include a spyware cookie on all of our member sites…we refused on the spot.

You install StatCounter to track visitors to your site NOT to open yourself and your visitors up to being spied upon by phantom advertising corporations.

It appears, however, that other players in the world of webstats were happy to take up this offer…

The alleged offending code has been removed from my websites.