"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful commited citizens can change the world...indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead
Saturday
Olivier Malric
...well, my man O, has left down under, with his better half, Meena, (to go even further down under...he's visiting NZ for two weeks)...and off to Shanghai, then "Frenchieland"...
Before he packed up his computer, he bashed out this one piece...(did I mention he's only had Painter for two weeks, and this is his idea of 'practice'?....talented f**ker!)
...He also taught me the only French phrase I know...I reckon the only one I'll need over there (ask him what it is if you see him...)
I'll miss you mate, you're a scholar and a gentleman, and a great friend.
muchMARVLOVE toyou!!!
...to check out more of Olivier's work, his link's on the right...
...also check out his blog, with his mate, Christophe Lautrette, another talented French-man (maybe it's something in the bagguettes over there...):
laroulotte.blogspot.com
...this'll be in the links list as well...
Thursday
"0 Days to GO!!!"
...or "Sh*t, Now I've got to find a real job..."
Well, here we are...since I'm too emotional to think of anything to write, I'll just post a copy of my "farewell email" to the past and present staff of Walt Disney Studios Australia...Bless 'em all!.........(sob!)...(sniff!)...
...the play is done...the curtain drops...and an encore?...well, we'll
see...
Ok, one day to go....I really don't know what to say...I think I'm still
in denial (somebody's going to have to pry my cold dead fingers from my
lightbox...). I'm hoping this email makes it 'real' for me.
I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to work here all these
years...but closing the door on one of the happiest times of my life has
been a struggle...
This has been (as I'm sure most of us feel this way) my dream job...my
"love-job", as they say. I know I will be hard-pressed to find a job
where I might experience the same passion as I've had for this one.
In the fourteen years I've been here (I'm counting my stint as a cel
painter...and with O.T., probably more...), I have never once felt that
it was actual "work"...or felt that I should be doing something else
with my life...This is definitely where I wanted to be.
That is, in part, due of course, to the job itself...to the fact that
most of us are being paid to draw...to DRAW! Being paid to do something
we love, something we're passionate about...(I still pinch myself
sometimes).
Don't get me wrong, of course there's been some really tough times over
the years (mostly trying to meet deadlines!). But even those
times...pizza-nights, weekends, all-nighters, etc., (which over the
years have cost me, I think, four relationships, countless sleepless
nights, a few stomach ulcers...and have driven me to smoke and
drink...), even those times, I think what has driven most of us is the
desire and passion to do good work...
If passion has driven us over the years, what has kept our spirits up,
and what has really made this whole experience memorable for me, are the
people.
The people we work with...past and present...being surrounded by
talented, like-minded, passionate people is what has made it all
worthwhile.
I've grown up (literally), with most of you guys...Each of you has
contributed to my growth, as an artist, and, most importantly, as a
person. For that I thank you.
Over the years I have made life-long friendships working
here...no...'friendship' doesn't really cover it...You guys have been
Family to me...
We've been through a lot together...good times and bad...and it's been
an honour and a pleasure working and playing with all of you.
Thank you for your friendship, thank you for the camaraderie, thank you
for the love...
...and if I can do anything for any of you, all you have to do is ask...
I feel hollow...writing this......Soon, I will only have great memories
to tide me over until we meet again...like they say, gotta say goodbye
to be able to meet again...(but honestly, where's the "good" in
goodbye??).
In a way, I feel like the luckiest person...to have had something that
makes saying goodbye so hard...
..."never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."......in a sense,(perhaps
overstated a bit) I feel like that's something we've done...and can do.
Well, as we all scatter into the four winds...I say, be well...do good
work...and damnit, KEEP IN TOUCH!
To absent friends, and to those who are here now...from my heart and
soul, thank you.....for everything you have meant to me...
Goodbye for now, I will miss you all so much...I love you all.
Marv
...or "Sh*t, Now I've got to find a real job..."
Well, here we are...since I'm too emotional to think of anything to write, I'll just post a copy of my "farewell email" to the past and present staff of Walt Disney Studios Australia...Bless 'em all!.........(sob!)...(sniff!)...
...the play is done...the curtain drops...and an encore?...well, we'll
see...
Ok, one day to go....I really don't know what to say...I think I'm still
in denial (somebody's going to have to pry my cold dead fingers from my
lightbox...). I'm hoping this email makes it 'real' for me.
I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to work here all these
years...but closing the door on one of the happiest times of my life has
been a struggle...
This has been (as I'm sure most of us feel this way) my dream job...my
"love-job", as they say. I know I will be hard-pressed to find a job
where I might experience the same passion as I've had for this one.
In the fourteen years I've been here (I'm counting my stint as a cel
painter...and with O.T., probably more...), I have never once felt that
it was actual "work"...or felt that I should be doing something else
with my life...This is definitely where I wanted to be.
That is, in part, due of course, to the job itself...to the fact that
most of us are being paid to draw...to DRAW! Being paid to do something
we love, something we're passionate about...(I still pinch myself
sometimes).
Don't get me wrong, of course there's been some really tough times over
the years (mostly trying to meet deadlines!). But even those
times...pizza-nights, weekends, all-nighters, etc., (which over the
years have cost me, I think, four relationships, countless sleepless
nights, a few stomach ulcers...and have driven me to smoke and
drink...), even those times, I think what has driven most of us is the
desire and passion to do good work...
If passion has driven us over the years, what has kept our spirits up,
and what has really made this whole experience memorable for me, are the
people.
The people we work with...past and present...being surrounded by
talented, like-minded, passionate people is what has made it all
worthwhile.
I've grown up (literally), with most of you guys...Each of you has
contributed to my growth, as an artist, and, most importantly, as a
person. For that I thank you.
Over the years I have made life-long friendships working
here...no...'friendship' doesn't really cover it...You guys have been
Family to me...
We've been through a lot together...good times and bad...and it's been
an honour and a pleasure working and playing with all of you.
Thank you for your friendship, thank you for the camaraderie, thank you
for the love...
...and if I can do anything for any of you, all you have to do is ask...
I feel hollow...writing this......Soon, I will only have great memories
to tide me over until we meet again...like they say, gotta say goodbye
to be able to meet again...(but honestly, where's the "good" in
goodbye??).
In a way, I feel like the luckiest person...to have had something that
makes saying goodbye so hard...
..."never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."......in a sense,(perhaps
overstated a bit) I feel like that's something we've done...and can do.
Well, as we all scatter into the four winds...I say, be well...do good
work...and damnit, KEEP IN TOUCH!
To absent friends, and to those who are here now...from my heart and
soul, thank you.....for everything you have meant to me...
Goodbye for now, I will miss you all so much...I love you all.
Marv
Monday
Sunday
The Perry Bible Fellowship
One of the best comics of all time!...oooh, that's a big call, I know (but I'm that kind of guy). For me, easily up there with Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County/ Opus (well, anything by Berkley Breathed), and the Far Side...
Artist/Creator/Film-maker Nick Gurewitch has created a comic with no recurring characters, seemingly random themes, and fantastic artwork which is rendered in a multitude of styles from strip to strip (sometimes, it even varies in the one strip!)...oh, to have such a variety of art direction in my own repertoire would be sublime!..oh well...
...and it's frickin' hilarious to boot!...a strange humour, that in three panels (sometimes four) can traverse the spectrum from cheerfully wholesome to downright morbid (sometimes horrific, but funnily so).....still, it's the kind of 'morbid' that warms my heart...
One of the only comics that genuinely provokes a sound to cross my lips, be it a hearty chuckle, or a thigh slapping guffaw.
Anyway, enough talking about it, just check it out at:
http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/archive.html
...or the link's on the right...as usual...
As for the name?.. yeah, well...I'm sure there some angry Christians out there....watch your back, Nick...holy water burns!!!...(well, no...it's just wet...)
Wednesday
SURRENDERING...
"...I'm missing that taste of those thoughts I use to linger my mind about, and allow it to get lost in the sea of thoughts. I'm tempted to step out again and taste it. I haven't felt any excitment for a long time - no passion in me life :(."
"Umm,my hair needs mental help, its frizzy it's in a bun today..."
-- some excerpts from "Surrendering"...
...a wonderfully written site, filled with beautifully honest thoughts, personal insights, and random life stuff!..happy, funny, sad, inspiring...
Touches my soul and brightens up my day.
(...link's on the right.)
"...I'm missing that taste of those thoughts I use to linger my mind about, and allow it to get lost in the sea of thoughts. I'm tempted to step out again and taste it. I haven't felt any excitment for a long time - no passion in me life :(."
"Umm,my hair needs mental help, its frizzy it's in a bun today..."
-- some excerpts from "Surrendering"...
...a wonderfully written site, filled with beautifully honest thoughts, personal insights, and random life stuff!..happy, funny, sad, inspiring...
Touches my soul and brightens up my day.
(...link's on the right.)
Tuesday
Bernard Derriman
Animator/ Film-maker/ Sweater-vest-wearer...and (need I say it?), all around-nice-guy too!
Creator of award-winning shorts, music videos, etc......and the only man I know that can pull off the "sweater-vest" look....but only just...
Recently won the 'Netsurfers' Award, at ANNECY 2006, for the internet film: "Unlucky in Love"
Check him out at:
squetch.com
...or you know where the link's at...
...pictured above: screen-shot from music video "Everyone's Had More Sex Than Me" by 'T.I.S.M.'.
Monday
"12 Days to Go!"
...or "2 more Work-weeks!"
Ok...officially freaking out now....2 weeks to go??...oh, F**K.
30 people left in the studio...I'm left with 2 animators in Sfx...Daquiri and Phoenix...the two 'manly-men' of Sfx......Man-wich anyone?...
(now I'm thinking we shoulda done some sort of 'shirts-off ' calendar......um,...no.)
...or "2 more Work-weeks!"
Ok...officially freaking out now....2 weeks to go??...oh, F**K.
30 people left in the studio...I'm left with 2 animators in Sfx...Daquiri and Phoenix...the two 'manly-men' of Sfx......Man-wich anyone?...
(now I'm thinking we shoulda done some sort of 'shirts-off ' calendar......um,...no.)
Sunday
Friday
"15 Days to Go!"
...or "11 working days left..."
...besides the Sfx guys (miss you already!!!), also leaving today are:
*Helen Orth- Ink&Paint
*Dave Costello- Comp/Scene-Planning
Good luck to you in all your future endeavors!!!
..."Drinks" at 4:00!!!....(I think "End-Shot" started his 'drinks' at 9:00 am...)
...or "11 working days left..."
...besides the Sfx guys (miss you already!!!), also leaving today are:
*Helen Orth- Ink&Paint
*Dave Costello- Comp/Scene-Planning
Good luck to you in all your future endeavors!!!
..."Drinks" at 4:00!!!....(I think "End-Shot" started his 'drinks' at 9:00 am...)
Thursday
"FELT MOI"
Artist/'Felt-Moi' creator/Cosmic Manipulator, Meena Kim, has been, slowly but surely, breeding these lil' buggers to help in her quest for World Domination! (you should see their cute, little cages....aah, bless...)
"...some of your best friends in the world can be stuffed." --Meena Kim
Check them out at:
feltmoi.etsy.com
...pictured: "Ninja of Love" Bunny
FEEL ME!!!
Wednesday
"17 Days to Go!"
...or "38 still standing..."
Most ( 6, to be exact) of who's left in the Special Effects Dept. will be leaving on Friday...sob...(single, quiet tear)...
Senior SFX Animator- Olivier "Frenchie" Malric
SFX Animator- Mike Leske
Sfx Anim. Assistants- Adriano Mondala, Jon Baker, Roehl deGuzman, Stuart Packwood
...thanks guys, for all your hard work over the years...Be proud of the fact that we always got it done in the end...I'm proud of, and to have worked with, all of you!
...or "38 still standing..."
Most ( 6, to be exact) of who's left in the Special Effects Dept. will be leaving on Friday...sob...(single, quiet tear)...
Senior SFX Animator- Olivier "Frenchie" Malric
SFX Animator- Mike Leske
Sfx Anim. Assistants- Adriano Mondala, Jon Baker, Roehl deGuzman, Stuart Packwood
...thanks guys, for all your hard work over the years...Be proud of the fact that we always got it done in the end...I'm proud of, and to have worked with, all of you!
Tuesday
Adam Phillips
...ANOTHER Super-Nice guy...with talent up the yin-yang!!!
Artist/ Animator/ Flash-Master/ Weapons-Expert/ Pain Merchant...
Creator of Bitey...and other multi-award winning films...
Check it at:
biteycastle.com
...or, again, the links' on the right...
Monday
Sunday
Friday
Stevie Dean
...another super-talented artist......B*yatch!!!
...part-time cynic, full-time redhead, and another all-around-nice guy!!!...('cept he'll glass you at the pub if you look at him funny...)
Check him out at:
darklieness.blogspot.com
...or the links' at the right...
Feel 'im!
...oh, he's Irish...but that ok...
"21 Days to Go!"
...or "3 More Fancy-Friday-Drinks!"
aaahh...Friday-Night-Drinks...this tradition has recently become quite the "upmarket" event. Thanks largely to the premium beers and bottles of wine ( I stress 'bottles', as opposed to casks...). Also, attendance has bizzarely swelled in the past few weeks considering there should be less people employed now.....hmmmm...you don't think ex-employees are coming back in to take advantage of the free, top-shelf grog do you???...naahh, that couldn't be it...
Thanks Phil, for the spread...YAY PHIL!...(any chance of the hard stuff soon?....Cristal, maybe?...gin&juice?...no?...ok...).
Three people are leaving us today...
*Andrew Burchett -SFX (that's my boy!...taught him everything he knows, but not everything I know)
*Ian Richards -CGI
*Jason Trevenen -I/B Lead
Thanks for everything guys...we'll miss ya...Good luck for the future and keep in touch! (that scene better be finished before you leave Andrew!)
...or "3 More Fancy-Friday-Drinks!"
aaahh...Friday-Night-Drinks...this tradition has recently become quite the "upmarket" event. Thanks largely to the premium beers and bottles of wine ( I stress 'bottles', as opposed to casks...). Also, attendance has bizzarely swelled in the past few weeks considering there should be less people employed now.....hmmmm...you don't think ex-employees are coming back in to take advantage of the free, top-shelf grog do you???...naahh, that couldn't be it...
Thanks Phil, for the spread...YAY PHIL!...(any chance of the hard stuff soon?....Cristal, maybe?...gin&juice?...no?...ok...).
Three people are leaving us today...
*Andrew Burchett -SFX (that's my boy!...taught him everything he knows, but not everything I know)
*Ian Richards -CGI
*Jason Trevenen -I/B Lead
Thanks for everything guys...we'll miss ya...Good luck for the future and keep in touch! (that scene better be finished before you leave Andrew!)
Thursday
Olivier Malric
Uber-Doober-talented artist, a good friend, cool dude, and just an all-around-nice guy!
...this sexy MoFo can draw!
Check out his site:
olipaf.com
...(or click on the link to the right), and enjoy!
...oh yeah, he's French...but don't hold that against him.
Wednesday
Tee from "Thats Them"
--(photo courtesy of thehundreds.com...the "Shutup!!! blog)......i'm feeling it!..GIMME!..(i'm a lrg).
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