HEAVY METAL:

Evil glowing orb

Tells its tales of destruction

Fan service movie

Painting, oil on canvas backed board by Harold Whitaker, 1949. Blacksmith's Shop, Dairycoates Shed, Hull.

Science Museum

Waving Flag Cycle Study - From "Timing for Animation" By Harold Whitaker & John Halas

I'm procrastinating my (rigged) animation homework! And you'll never guess what with....animation studies! Throughout the past year I've been constantly reflecting, frustrated with myself for not being a good animator. Despite me now nearing the end of my first semester as a 2nd year in animation school, I still don't know a lot of the fundamental basics. So alongside the 51 exercises I'm doing (I'm doing it...I swear...exercise 3 is almost done just some volume and easing issues to be adjusted) I'm also just going to make myself pick up the pen and animate! Studies are really fun to me, it's mostly just copying instructions and provided images, then playing around with the drawings slightly.

Now that I can do this, I'll try apply this sort of wave with fabric into my own original animations >:)

Easier Ways to Get an A

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by ArgylePirateWD

Switching gears to a career in education after Nathan died had not been one of his better decisions, Harold has to admit.

Then student and retired soldier John Reese starts stopping by for office hours.

Words: 6978, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Person of Interest (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harold Finch, John Reese, Bear (Person of Interest), Rick Dillinger, Theresa Whitaker

Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, (VERY divergent), Professor-Student Relationship, Alternate Universe - College/University, Getting Together, Rinch Fest 2022

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Resources

Websites:

https://characterdesignreferences.com

https://www.animatorisland.com

https://blog.sakugabooru.com

https://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com/?m=1

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/channels/

Books:

* "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams

* "Sketching for Animation" by Peter Parr

* "Timing for Animation" by Harold Whitaker, John Halas

* "Animated Storytelling" by Liz Blazer

* "The Nine Old Men" by Andreas Deja

* "Setting The Scene" by Fraser Maclean

Hevy Metal (1981) Gerald Potterton.

Smoke (1995) dir. Wayne Wang

Good old Theresa Whitaker. The first in a long line of women to realise that whilst Harold is a brave little baa-lamb, she’s going to have to weapon up and do the defending for the both of them.

The Great Debaters (2007) Review

The Great Debaters (2007) Review

Based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson who was a professor at Wiley College in Texas. He inspired his students to set up the schools first debate team and really challenge not only themselves but others and leading to challenging Harvard in 1935. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)

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Smoke (1995) dir. Wayne Wang

Vision Quest (1985) - trailer

A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter takes up temporary residence at his home.

Smoking Guns 1934

365 Day Movie Challenge (2019) - #106: Smoke (1995) - dir. Wayne Wang

After the incredible success of “Chernobyl,” I have officially declared this summer to be the Season of Jared Harris, so I have made an effort to fit as many of his film and TV appearances into my viewing schedule as possible. Besides season 1 of “The Terror,” the comedy Fathers’ Day (1997), the biopic The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) and more yet to be reviewed, my plan included the double feature of Smoke and Blue in the Face, a pair of companion films made by the collaborative team of director Wayne Wang and writer Paul Auster.

Wang is a Honk Kong-born, California College of the Arts-trained filmmaker who started out making low-budget indie features like Chan Is Missing (1982) and Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985) before vaulting to the big-time in Hollywood with The Joy Luck Club (1993); Auster, meanwhile, grew up in New Jersey but eventually made New York City his home, using it as the inspiration for his “New York Trilogy” of novels: City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986). Auster used his the borough he made his home, Brooklyn, as the setting for the films he made with Wayne Wang, a choice that I love since it is where I have lived for my entire existence.

Smoke, which is undeniably the superior of the two films, is a clever and warmhearted study of the intersecting lives of several Brooklynites and how they all find themselves confronting the ghosts of their past during the summer of 1990. Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) is the proprietor of a smoke shop (as well as an amateur photographer) and he enjoys waxing philosophical with his customers; Jimmy Rose (Jared Harris) is Auggie’s sweet, intellectually-challenged assistant; Paul Benjamin (William Hurt) is a one-time novelist who has been unable to complete another book ever since he lost his wife and unborn child, victims of a botched bank robbery; Rashid Cole (Harold Perrineau) is a teenager who has witnessed gang activity and crosses paths with Paul while on the run; in a nod to The Wizard of Oz, Aunt Em (Michelle Hurst) is Rashid’s concerned guardian; Cyrus Cole (Forest Whitaker) is Rashid’s long-lost father, who has been out of his son’s life for over a decade; Ruby McNutt (Stockard Channing) is an old flame of Auggie’s who reappears without warning, sporting an eyepatch and a bleached-blonde coiffure; in a single, standout scene, Ruby takes Auggie to meet Felicity (Ashley Judd), a troubled young woman whom Ruby claims to be her and Auggie’s daughter.

I didn’t expect Smoke to be as affecting as it is, just because of the Crash-like nature of its overlapping, “everyone is connected” storylines. But the plot strands weave together in satisfying ways - even if it’s a stretch to imagine Harold Perrineau, then in his early thirties, as a high schooler, plus Forest Whitaker (only a few years older than Perrineau) as his presumably middle-aged father - but the acting, writing and direction are impressive across the board, holding the piece together as a whole. Most wonderful of all is the set of sequences that end the film, in which Auggie tells Paul the Christmas story to end all Christmas stories, a narrative which is then reenacted by Harvey Keitel and character actress Clarice Taylor for the film’s end credits. Auggie’s monologue is a reminder that Harvey Keitel is one of American cinema’s finest actors, a guy who is as capable of holding your attention with gentle smiles and subtle vocal inflections as he is with Bad Lieutenant-level brutality.