People should learn something new every day. Today, I learned that if the show had instead been called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turkeys”, no one would have watched it.
October 27, 2009
October 24, 2009
Blob Monster – Icon
Creating the animation for yesterday’s blog post took up a significant amount of my free time, so I’m gonna have to be a little lazy about today’s blog post. I know that quite a few of the people visiting my site also visit other forums, so I created these:
They are 100×100 pixel icons, and if you want to use them for any reason, be my guest.
In other news, if you’re one of the people coming to my site looking for new word puzzles, I highly recommend ClockWords. It’s a very simple concept for a word game that relies on your speed and word creativity to beat, and the music is wonderful too.
October 23, 2009
Blob Monster – Animated
After drawing the blob monster last week, I decided that I really did want to animate it, so this week, I did. I started with one of the sketches from last week’s drawings, and worked from there to create a general goopy monster animation.
I’d forgotten how even the smallest animations take quite awhile, though… I’m probably going to have a much smaller post tomorrow to fulfill my two-post-a-week promise.
October 17, 2009
Blob Monster
A few months ago, I said to myself that I should design a blob monster of some kind. Blob monsters always looked kinda fun to animate, so today, I finally got around to designing one. The first few drawing attempts (top row) were pretty dismal, but I eventually found a design I liked.
He’s a little rough around the edges, but I like how he could go from being “totally disgusting” to “happy and only partially disgusting”. I hope I remember to animate him someday.
October 13, 2009
Puzzle – Geography Corners
The picture below represents two places in the Western Hemisphere. Can you figure out where they are?
The answer is…
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October 10, 2009
Puzzle – Animals Eaten
Uh oh! It looks like a large group of animals has been eaten by a different large group of animals! Each word on top is the name of an animal with some letters missing, and the letters missing are the name of an animal from the bottom. Each animal on the bottom is only used once. Can you place them all?
Expert challenge: See if you can complete the puzzle without looking at the animal names on the bottom!
October 5, 2009
Wordpress Issues
Wordpress has apparently updated its blog service, and in the process deleted the custom style of Screenhog.com. Hopefully I can figure out how to get it back. Grr.
October 3, 2009
Alphabet
There are a lot of early sources that I can point to that made me want to become an animator when I grew up, and one of them was definitely Sesame Street. Oh sure, it was a lot of puppet stuff most of the time, but there were also lots of little animated segments, including ones that taught the alphabet.
These little animations inspired me seven years ago to create an alphabet animation of my own, and while I’d like to do a better one someday, this type of thing still brings back memories of my early childhood.
October 1, 2009
Word Search Puzzle – Over and Under
This is just a regular old word search puzzle… except for one thing. Every word or phrase that you have to look for contains the word “OVER” or “UNDER” at least once. That word is replaced in the puzzle by an appropriate symbol… for instance, “DISCOVERY CHANNEL” is in the far right column, going down from the first D. Can you find all of the words and phrases?
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