ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 69 SOME OF MY NEW WORK IS POSTED
From: "Steven Mullins" (smullins@no-spam)
Subject: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:12:22 -0700


Here's some goofy stuff my studio did with frog last Spring, when I was asking you guys a bunch of HD questions. You might see these videos around, in places like Best Buy, Circuit city and Toys 'R Us. As usual, not enough time to make them as good as I would've liked.


<http://frogdesign.com/design/digital/rich_media_sound_design/disney/index.html>


-steven




















From: "Fredo Viola" (aviola@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:21:25 -0700

Keeey-yewt!!!! Steven, those pieces look great. I'm up at 12:15 in the morning still working and those cute little ads were the perfect things to watch to get my head out of rendering and AE comps! Congratulations!



From: "Chris Gannon" (chrisg@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:05:46 -0700

Nice ones Steve - they really fit the brand well and they're fun and colourful too!


From: smulli (steven@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:06:46 -0700

Yeah, Disney were actually really cool, for once, but it was Motorola who were real picky.


There was an additional piece where a portable CD player was chomping CDs ala a certain video game character (wakka wakka) and Disney got all bent out of shape about copyright infringement and had us pull it. D'oh! All in all, Disney and Moto were pretty great and generally let us do what we want.


-steven

From: evol (dragich@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:33:58 -0700

great stuff smulli!

a fitting friendly frolic through the world of animation, under the guise of an advertisement.


- evol "persist @no-spam something & the world revolves towards you"


From: "Darcy Fitzpatrick" (darcyboy2@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:28:01 -0700

Those were great, but still I fear the crippling nightmares Disney gives me will continue to brake me in my sleep...



From: evol (dragich@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:51:01 -0700

crippling nightmares?

would they be concerning the way Disney swallows up the souls of their designers?


what i've heard is that they own any and all concepts developed (on the clock or off) during the duration of your empolyment

don't know if that's true or not, but it sounds rather totalitarian
or is it just the oversized heads on the silent and ominous nodding actors at Disneyworld that brings the bad dreams?


on a side note, i thought Finding Nemo was rather wonderful. i wonder if the story originated at Pixar or Disney?


- evol "persist @no-spam something & the world revolves towards you"


From: "Navarro Parker" (nparker@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:52:04 -0700

I think Pixar develops everything in house. Disney only handles the distrubution and marketing (and merchandising!).



From: "Steven Mullins" (smullins@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:12:28 -0700

Whoa! That was all Pixar. Disney couldn't possibly come up with anything that good. Pixar is the only reason Disney is around right now. "Country Bears" certainly isn't. With the exception of "Lelo and Stitch", good Disney movies are far-and-few anymore. They really let their integrity go. They do so much straight-to-video crap. Ugh.


-steven

From: evol (dragich@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:56:34 -0700

steven,

thanx for the info, i figured as much.

too bad Pixar can't/won't come up with their own distribution and marketing division.


it would be nice to see their projects stand apart from the Disney name.

Walt Disney : great man, bad company.

(though i did really like Lilo & Stitch as well)

- evol "persist @no-spam something & the world revolves towards you"


From: "Steven Mullins" (smullins@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:11:18 -0700

Well, Disney was great, but not too long after Walt died...

Look at the difference between all the nature/science/educational stuff we frew up with versus what you see on the Disney Channel today. Ouch.


As for Pixar's distribution, they're getting there. Disney not considering Toy Story 2 a real movie certainly didn't help. My experience has been that Pixar don't want ANYTHING to do with Disney, but they're just not allowed to do anything for a while.


-steven

From: "Darcy Fitzpatrick" (darcyboy2@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:54:01 -0700

We should really be careful. Disney are omnipotent and practically omniscient! They could be watching our conversation right now... who knows what terrible things they may do to us if we anger them?!?



From: "Steven Mullins" (smullins@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Some of my new work is posted.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:58:15 -0700

Sadly, I actually thought about that and hesitated.