ENTRY #3: TIME + ROBOTS

Restless...there's an idea or two for the next Blink Kitty Love roaming around and a need to add another character (wait and see, we hope), but then there's the WHEN do I pull out the Wacom tablet and start doodling and if I pull out the Wacom tablet and start doodling will it look anything like what I've already envisioned in my head.  It usually doesn't.  Sometimes, (Envy, Part 1), it starts as a conversation at the Starbucks at the Target where Gayle and I sit with our separate cups and watch people in the parking lot, clouds in the sky, and the birds between.  Then that steeps in my head for awhile and then 1 am some morning it explodes out.  But today's explosion was pastels -- I've been in a robot mood; I think they're the next craze or trend or something (today I wondered if I should have made Blink Kitty Love a robot band and Gayle looked at me like I was crazy -- but maybe they are?!???!!!  Nah...unless, you're some kind of crazy loaded with money and Apple/Mac/iPod swag executive who wants to fund an animated robot band series, but I don't think anything mechanical would survive the kind of friction crushes can create.  

Where was I?  Robots.  So I pastelled them.  Twitter drove me to it; two of the guys I follow keep mentioning robots. And there was a link to cool robot photos.  So I had a fit of creative whimsy on this beautiful black paper with pastels.

Nice, eh.  And the Wacom tablet gets dragged out for World Of Warcraft (ok, I admit TK and I share a few hobbies) with the little brother instead of FlipBooming(last night) and there's theatre meetings and Moliere prep and the Disney Channel with Flash (Flash is very committed to the Disney Channel and currently having seizures too frequently so we're spending quality Flash time).  And I did toy with the idea of trying to finish a Blink Kitty Love a week (and that may still happen), but first I'd have to lay in supplies(tea, chocolate, pizza, Perrier, Pellegrino, tea, turkey + provolone subs).

Right, busy...so this entry is basically what an animator does with his or her time when not animating -- and there was the blogging like a fiend craze last week.  Plus walking and eating and...well, other stuff...and a lot of thinking.  And watching and...

This.  Good night.