Gozie's Cartoons n' Stuff

Me ‘n’ my trusty steed

I heard that Matt Groening’s mother (AKA the inspiration for Marge Simpson) died recently and I scribbled this as I was feeling glum.  This is my little tribute to Mother Simpson/Mother Groening.

Happy early Mother’s Day, everyone.

Scribbles of me

Motion Media Test: Movement to Music

Song: “Moment’s Notice” by John Coltrane

Kickboxing scribbles

Experimenting with different mood lighting and rain effects.

Motion Media stuff

Dog Run and Walk

Pitchers

Animated Film Marketing (may contain spoilers)

I was watching Nostalgia Chick’s breakdown of the discrepancies of how Disney and Dreamworks market their movies vs. what the movie actually is. I guess this tactic helps get butts in theater seats, but I guess I’m not like most people.  More often than not, I find these discrepancies annoying.

I remember Disney blamed The Princess and the Frog’s so-called “failure” (it didn’t tank by the way) on the lack of appeal princesses have on boys, so they repackaged Rapunzel as the more kick-butt, adventurous Flynn-centered Tangled.  If I was a boy that really believed what Disney portrayed Tangled to be in the previews, how pissed off would I have been when I discovered it was actually another princessy fairy tale with that sunny pop-sounding score?  Or how about how Pixar marketed Brave as the adventure of a badass Scottish archer girl when the movie was actually a rehash of Brother Bear?  I skipped Megamind and Monsters vs. Aliens because DreamWorks marketed them as Shark Tale with superheroes and aliens respectively, but apparently those movies are a lot deeper than that.  The only positive I can think of about this is that I might have been pleasantly surprised that some of the Pixar movies were deeper/more heartfelt than they seemed (like Toy Story 2 & 3), but most of the time it just gives an inaccurate perception of the movie.

I saw a trailer of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 which condensed the film into two minutes of painfully obnoxious food puns.  There’s probably a lot more to the movie than that, but the trailer made me not want to spend my money to find out.  Way to go, Sony Pictures.

Triangle Light Test

Quick sketchbook scribbles