animayshun improfessional! » art http://meridiandream.com/blog doodles & such by jim mortensen Tue, 15 May 2012 19:32:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 V-Day http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/02/14/v-day/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/02/14/v-day/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:01:42 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=1053
Happy V-Day!


]]> http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/02/14/v-day/feed/ 0 Dorothy http://meridiandream.com/blog/2011/08/03/dorothy/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2011/08/03/dorothy/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:41:27 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=978 An old turnaround, recently cleaned up. I was re-imagineing characters from The Wizard of Oz.. Soooo many things I would do differently in this turn now. But I still like the proportions and her attitude. I wanted to make her a little more innocent rather than the pain-in-the-butt that Judy Garland’s Dorothy is.

]]> http://meridiandream.com/blog/2011/08/03/dorothy/feed/ 0 Tai-Jutsu Stress! http://meridiandream.com/blog/2011/03/21/tai-jutsu-stress/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2011/03/21/tai-jutsu-stress/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:30:32 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=676 A couple of my coworkers (Fawn & Carrie) as well as Kris & Michael and other storyboarders have been posting little stories about adventures. I got inspired to write one about a recent experience…

One day a couple of weeks ago, one of the creators of the show I work on invited me to his Tai-Jutsu class. His name starts with a J too, so I’ll call him JToo.


He’s a black belt in a couple of martial arts (I think… don’t hurt me!) and has been doing it for many many maaaaany years. I’m a total n00b to the martial arts. I like going on adventures and making a fool of myself, so I thought “Why not!?”


Tuesday. I show up, and I’m one of the tallest in the class. It always makes me a little nervous to stick out, even though I’m not a giant (I’m only 6’3″!). But I decided to get over it in the spirit of adventure.

We tumbled, rumbled, trumbled, tussled… and I painfully rolled on my neck a couple of times. Generally it was fun though!

Thursday. I come again for another class. This time JToo is there. Again, he’s a black belt, and I’m kinda nervous. Cause… y’know… he employs me.

We bow, do our thing, and then Sensei tells me to try a particular move out on JToo. JToo grabs my wrist, and I’m supposed to do a little ditty of a move that results in taking him down. AHHHHHH I’m about to poop my Gi!

I always have this innate fear of hurting other people. JToo is completely supportive…

…but I leave the class terrified that I had hurt him.

Friday. At work, I can’t help but shake an innate fear somehow I’m gonna get punished for taking down a dude who helps sign my paychecks.


Luckily, Friday 6pm came & went without that little pink slip. Yay for still having a job!

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Coming in August.

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Coming in August.

]]> http://meridiandream.com/blog/2010/03/16/extrovert/feed/ 0 Sympathy for the Exhausted http://meridiandream.com/blog/2009/12/14/sympathy-for-the-exhausted/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2009/12/14/sympathy-for-the-exhausted/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:59:38 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=602 We did some private-room karaoke on Saturday night, which was an absolute blast. I had the brilliant idea to do the “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones.

Good Lord, I forgot how long that song is.
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