One Zombie in a Billion

A while back I was talking with an animator friend of mine about the lack of cartoons with realistic looking characters on tv today. He said in dismay, it’s due to a lack of folks in the industry who have draftsman skills (something Richard Williams echoes in the Animator’s Survival Kit).

It’s kinda disappointing. I’d love to see new cartoons that have that old school adventure style, not mention kick ass themes like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Pole Position and various others… here’s hoping the 80s redux wave will extend to a re-emergence of old school draughtsmanship and awesome cartoons.

Almost travel recovered from my trip to @media 2007. It was a great event actually, lots of wonderful talks, I especially enjoyed the ones from Jon Hicks, Jason Santa Maria, Simon Willison, Simon Collison, Drew McLellan, Hannah Donovan, Tantek Çelik and Andy Clarke, who did a bit about taking design ideas from comics, heh I knew those 18 years of reading was leading up to something!

Some food for thought to bring back to work, things like the scrum management process and getting php installed on our servers so we can use those cool little scripts for hCard and hCalendar transformations. Not to mention continuing my fight for changing our site from asp.net to django (never happen, but I can dream!).

Tantek’s talk enlightened me to the Sandbox theme for wordpress, which I’m now using on this design refresh, it’s chock full of lovely microformats.

Sketching in photoshop.