animayshun improfessional! » animation http://meridiandream.com/blog drawing, storytelling, blogging. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:53:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Finishing a Storyboard http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/02/03/finishing-a-storyboard/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/02/03/finishing-a-storyboard/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:50:21 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=1021



First comes the contentedness as something you created leaves your hands…


… then comes the general pride in launching something special …


… then comes the immediate panic as you see all the things wrong with it and immediately want it back.

But it’s gone. Another one out the door!

]]> http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/02/03/finishing-a-storyboard/feed/ 2 Pickin’ up chicks http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/01/29/pickin-up-chicks/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/01/29/pickin-up-chicks/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:26:58 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=993 There was a Reddit thread recently where people were trying to come up with the best pickup lines. This one was the absolute top o’the pops.

I bet it has a 100% success rate.

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I always wondered how they came up with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”. There are so many other possibilities for adjective/noun mashups.

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I have a goal for the (potential) hiatus time to finish a personal project. I’m building the story now…

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