“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” — Charles Bukowski Life is complex. Making art is complex. We don’t mind complexity. What we don’t want is complication. Yet complexity invites complication, implying more ingredients, more ways and more difficulty. Hence, simpler is… Continue reading →

” Every artist’s art is their coping mechanism — we make what we make to save ourselves, to stay sane, to find the slender cord of grace between us and the world. ” — Maria Popova There’s a lot of talk about Artifical Intelligence (A.I.) and art these days. There’s a lot of fear. When… Continue reading →

Taking effect immediately, I will no longer be accepting any new students or any requests for studio or group based animation instruction.* I love animation, always have and always will. For years, I’ve kept teaching and lecturing, staying on the sidelines of the industry, despite being offered various opportunities to return to it either as… Continue...

It’s a wonderful thing to live with focus. Our heroes, whether historical or fictional, have all possessed it and there’s perhaps nothing as important, pertinent and critical to the survival of our humanity. Without it, our minds wander and our actions bear neither intent nor structure. In other words, our lives become little more than… Continue reading...

Mistakes. We all make them. And more often than not, the person hardest on himself is the one making them. What’s important is putting any mistake into proper perspective and see it for what it really is: benevolent feedback. “We learn from failure, not from success!”― Bram Stoker I think that when we make mistakes… Continue reading →

People are always trying to control things: their finances, their feelings, their children, even what people think of them. A lot of effort often exercised in futility. In reality, there’s not much you can really control at all. In fact, so much of what happens seems so random, so irrational that we feel overwelmed by… Continue reading →