So I finished off the sketchbook Joan made for me back in 1999, which I rediscovered in March. I just finished my first week on a new job, for a new (for me) studio, on a new movie with a whole new group of people, and it’s coincided with getting a new sketchbook. It’s a celebration of new-ness! It’s all good.
Emma reading a magazine at the orthodontist’s…
Jack reading Calvin & Hobbes.
My friend, and fellow storyboarder, Dan Sweetman has co-created some animated craziness on YouTube. Check out Cotton Candy Autopsy. Great drawings, goofy slapstick humor 🙂
Dan’s illustration work is fabulous. His official site for Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children has a lot more to look at.
She’s waiting, filling out forms.
Now I’m waiting, this is what I see. Thank goodness for the sketch book.
I’ve always admired the ancient oak tree in their yard.
Today we got a special invitation from some good friends to see the third Pirates Of The Caribbean movie at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. It’s an ancient theater, renovated to better than it was in the 1920s, no doubt, which is now owned by Disney so they art direct the heck out of it for the movies they show. Many of the original props from the movie decorate the lobby and several original costumes of many of the characters are on display for viewing after the show in a museum area downstairs. Before the show began an organist on stage dressed as a pirate played several Disney movie scores, ending with the Pirates score. It’s a fabulous sounding organ that was all dressed up for the occasion too. I knew I had a limited time to sketch him after we were seated, because once he’s done the entire organ and organist mechanically drop down below the stage as the lights dim. I just finished the sketch when this happened, which amused my son quite a bit. We went with a large group of friends and their kids. It was a lot of fun.
Anthony Zierhut 