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Monday, October 20, 2008
Ford pulls-out of Truck Series, but signs 5 year deal with Roush (ESPN.com)
Profile of Jamie Little and Shannon Spake (godanriver.com)
Mike Helton answers TV questions (hamptonroads.com)
Darrell Waltrip says The Chase is boring (Orlando Sentinel)
Behind the scenes with ESPN at Martinsville (Roanoke Times)
David Poole talks to Brian France (Charlotte Observer)
SPEED gets into bistro biz at PIR (Carolina Biz Journal)
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30 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Car counts seem to be cyclical with the issue of short fields coming up a few years ago. That led to questions about if NASCAR's TV contract with the networks stipulated there had to be a 43-car field. Is that the case?
That's not accurate. We're supposed to have a reasonable field of cars. That's NASCAR's determination as to what a reasonable field is.
John. Not trying to be rude here. But you always seem to mention how the network contracts for nationwide and cup have to have full fields and I always knew something was fishy about that. Mostly since last year there was a few times the then Busch Series had 41 and 42 car fields.
- October 20, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
No problem, both the Nationwide Series and Truck Series have been discussed here with regard to the number of "real" teams.
We have never said network TV contracts were for a full field except for the Cup Series under the former TV agreement.
This has been a point debated in the media across the board where Cup is concerned. What does NASCAR have to deliver on the Cup side?
As you know, the Nationwide Series is a mess with "start and park" teams who don't even run to the first pit stop. Of course, they have no pit crews so that makes it tough to refuel. Remember ten teams packing it in when it rained in Montreal?
In terms of the Truck Series, we are watching it die...plain and simple. Even as Mike Helton says no plans to reduce field size the series has Dodge and now Ford gone for 2009.
There is no sponsor for next season and absolutely a total lack of TV coverage outside of the races. It is a total disaster.
In terms of the Cup Series, the wording of the new TV contract has been something up for discussion since it began back in 2007.
Now, Helton says "reasonable" is the key word. That is fine. It should be a good discussion after Daytona in 2009 to see just what that entails.
Currently, there are 25 Cup teams with enough sponsorship for next season according to the traveling press corps. Does that sound reasonable to you?
- October 20, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD - Thank you for the links! It was to say the least an eye opening read. Ford pulling out of the Truck series, wow, you are right we are watching the series die right before our eyes.
Can the N'wide series be far behind? Lack of sponsors is bad when Jr is having a tough time finding one.
BTW is Mike Helton a lawyer? Just wondered since he answered the questions with almost non answers regarding "reasonable field" of cars/trucks.
I'm not a fan of boogitty stuff on Fox. I just admire DW for saying out loud the Chase is boring. Makes me feel better, I thought it was just me, & my irritation at a networks fixation with it.
Thanks again for a great Monday read & all the work you put in here
- October 20, 2008 at 2:09 PM
- Photojosh said...
Trucks are screwed, that's for sure.
Start & Park is annoying since there isn't much reason for it but to have a "full field" (whatever that means going forward).
Though I do appreciate people like Stanton Barrett being a second car to the track to use as a sort of "testing" car (since he doesn't have the money to run real tests) and using the start & park money to help finance his real team car. It's been proven over and over that being a small time team, even in nationwide, is a tough row to hoe in today's nascar.
- October 20, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
And Stanton has put a lot of his own money working as a stuntman into his team. So with whatever he does get from races/sponsors, he's also putting his own funds in there. While he's no where near a consistent mid-packer, he's definitely trying to do what he can with what he has.
- October 20, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- majorshouse said...
I think we are definitely seeing the truck series die especially now that Ford is pulling their factory support and let's face it, this chase thing sucks and it always has and I am not sure what a reasonable field means, but if you have 25 cars that can race, then make a great race out of it and let's get decent tv coverage for the money that is being paid for it and I agree that the chase format has always been a pure bore.
- October 20, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- delenn said...
I find a lot of these articles annoying, because of the Nascar point of view. Nascar is still burying its head in the sand. "Helton said he feels NASCAR needs to explain to longtime fans that this is still the NASCAR you fell in love with and allow them to accept all of the most recent changes." No its not. Not even close. WAKE UP NASCAR. Just because Mike Helton says its the same product doesn't make me believe it. LISTEN. Don't just ignore what everyone is saying. LISTEN. And then do something. Without us (the long-time fans) Nascar is nothing. No sponsorships, no money, no jobs. I don't need time to accept the recent changes. They are killing the sport I love.
"France and NASCAR President Mike Helton promised the sport's leadership would focus this year on honoring its history and securing the bonds with longtime fans -- bonds that by many indications might need such nurture." That means do it, not give lip service to it.
That means Rockingham, the Southern 500 on Labor Day. That means minimising cookie cutters. That means a stock car, not a COT. That means dumping the chase. That means ESPN producing a telecast not a 5 hour promo for Hendricks cars, or a lesson in reading numbers from the side of cars. That means drivers who can get out of the car and express their feelings (verbally or with fists) without a Nascar fine. That means tickets at a price a fan can afford. That means cars look like real cars. That means the Brickyard 400... Do I need to add any more?
France and Helton have got Nascar into trouble. Will they succeed in getting it out of it again? The odds aren't looking good.
- October 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- Wisconsin Steve said...
Something tells me Darrell Waltrip would think the Chase was exciting if FOX were broadcasting it.
- October 20, 2008 at 3:12 PM
- Photojosh said...
I'm not saying the "Chase" is perfect. But people like to forget that there were boring years under the old system also. Not every championship was a "down to the wire" affair. Plenty of them were decided well before the end of the season.
- October 20, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- jamie said...
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- October 20, 2008 at 4:10 PM
- delenn said...
Not every championship was a "down to the wire" affair. Plenty of them were decided well before the end of the season.
Exactly, and that is not a bad thing. This should be a fascinating race between the early winner and the late streak.
- October 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Did not understand your comments. Please come back and re-phrase them.
- October 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'd much rather see the truck series go away than seeing the US automobile industry waste valuable resoruces, in a time of crisis, leading to their demise, and thousands of their employees out of a job.
Budgets have to be tightened, and racing is a luxury.
ESPN could devote an entire segment of NASCAR Now to the trucks, and that would not change anything about the state of the economy, and its influences on the auto makers.
The truck series was on its way down all along when fans didn't fill the grandstands. No people = no coverage.
- October 20, 2008 at 4:26 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 4:26PM,
I could not disagree with you more. The NCTS has been the best racing of the three NASCAR national series for the last two years (the new TV contract).
This series serves the non-superspeedways and short tracks that are critical to the survival of racing across the nation.
The dive in the stock prices of the American car companies has absolutely nothing to do with the NCTS.
As you may know with the other professional sports, integrating the TV coverage including the preview, review and Internet video is vital to the survival of any sponsor-driven sports organization.
No one understood this better than Bill France. Having a viable NCTS racing a diverse schedule in 2009 should be top priority.
- October 20, 2008 at 4:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
I don't think that the chase is boring on its own. I think that the ESPN coverage that focuses only on the 12 chase cars makes for a boring racecast.
If nascar had a 500 lap race at Martinsville starting only 12 cars it would be hard to watch. So,in my opinion it is the focus of the broadcast not the chase concept that is boring.
Frank in Sebring
- October 20, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- Anonymous said...
The dive in the stock prices of the American car companies has absolutely nothing to do with the NCTS.
You completely missed my point. The automakers are struggling, and have to make cuts somewhere. The truck series makes perfect sense given its exposure, and relative importance to the other two series. Maybe in your mind, Sprint, Nationwide, and Craftsman series are all peers, but, there is a clear pecking order.
That is EXACTLY what Ford and Dodge have done.
I want Ford to survive, and their workers to be gainfully employed. If that means they need to spend less money in racing, then so be it.
- October 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
I know that this is off topic but it is a fun thought. Did an unpopular Nascar rule actually help JB win the truck race at Martinsville.
Remember a few races back Nascar ruled that the Toyotas had to run a smaller spacer. One that restricts the amount of air entering the engine. Less air means less fuel. The stiochiometric mixture (read perfect mixture is 15 lbs of air to 1 lb of fuel). So,less air less fuel, more mileage.
Don't mean much just a thought...
Frank in Sebring
- October 20, 2008 at 5:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
From scenedaily.com:
"ABC's broadcast of Sunday's Tums QuikPak 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway earned an overnight rating of 2.9 from Nielsen Media Research, Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Daily reports.
The figures is 12.1 percent lower than the 3.3 ABC earned overnight for the Martinsville race in 2007."
It's just as I figured. Talladega is going to be the high point of the Chase in ratings, and from Charlotte on, it's all downhill from here.
- October 20, 2008 at 6:04 PM
- darbar said...
Did you all know there's a brand new version of the movie "Clueless" now being written? The new version will star France, Helton, Hunter and Pemberton as four clueless nudniks who try their darnedest to ruin what used to be the most wonderful of auto racing venues.
The complete BS coming out of Helton and France's mouths is beyond anything I've heard a head honcho of a professional sport speak, ever. "We've had all the change we think the sport can stand and needs" is so wrong on many levels. Yes, there have been changes, but quite a few of those changes have not been good for the sport. Cookie cutter tracks, boring Iroc cars with uninteresting racing, declining attendance (why all those "covers" on the grandstands at many tracks?), top 35 and other Nascar welfare has ruined the competition, drivers who only points race for the first 26 races in order to make the Chase equals BORING racing, trying to sell the COT as a competition equalizer, and the increased white bread/corporate licking/boring personality drivers begs major changes to the sport. And don't get me started on ESPN's horrific coverage, which Nascar ignores and fans continue to complain about.
As for Waltrip's comments on the Chase being boring? I agree and I've felt that way since the beginning. Face it, most drivers are only points racing for the first 26 races, so they can secure their spots in the Chase. Jeff Gordon said as much after the second Bristol race and Dale Jr said it right after Daytona. You're not going to see these guys go after each other, racing hard, for fear that crashing will hit their points totals.
As for the Truck series, it has produced the best racing, and most interesting stories this season. These guys are characters, and they race their hearts out, with real wheel to wheel racing. This is how racing should be in the Cup series---guys busting their humps and racing each other hard every week. But with the almighty dollar as king in Nascar, the great racing days of Pearson, Petty, Roberts and the rest died many years ago.
I just laughed my way through the article on Little and Spake. What a bunch of bologna. And since when is Jamie Little a full figured, plus sized woman? Is the author blind? While I am no fan at all of either Spake or Little, to call one plus size is in no way pertinent to this article and their supposed job performance (which IMHO is pathetic).
- October 20, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- Dot said...
Boy, are Helton and France out of touch. They can't see the forest for the trees. Here they made all those changes (most of them unpopular) and now they won't make any. Then someone thought to change the Bud Shootout. Good move. Another unpopular change.
Re, the COT. I agree with the safety features, good idea. However, racing them sucks. Why don't they get the crew chiefs together and let them work on them? The info could be shared among the teams so we could see better racing. I won't even go into the TV coverage. Btw, this is not the racing I fell in love with 12 years ago.
I liked what Mike Helton said about making headway. Yeah, heads way up.....
- October 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
JD- I'm still trying to find a credible source that confirms and explains Newton's allegations re Ford and the Truck series. Ford does not have a recent history of bright moves, but cutting off support of the one race series that showcases its best selling and most profitable vehicle would seem dumb even for Ford. Regardless of the current economy and gas prices, pickups are not going away - many people actually have real uses for them. To survive and be profitable, car makers must sell product - you can't cut enough expenses to generate a profit.
- October 20, 2008 at 6:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
@Dot yup heads way up...
Thats why I asked if Helton was a lawyer. He spoke much said very little & it wasn't relevant to the questions asked which were never directly answered.
- October 20, 2008 at 6:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
@Anon 5:09
According to JB (I think), the smaller spacer ia actually less fuel efficient. He wasn't sure that he had enough gas to do a victory lap.
- October 20, 2008 at 7:17 PM
- Anonymous said...
The nostalgia expressed by some NASCAR fans is no different than in other sports.
New York has 2 stadium going up. Thousands of the fans are furious with the Yankees, Jets and Giants. The cost to keep your season tickets are tremendous. There have been articles in the paper on folks who have had tickets for 20-45 years and can no longer afford them. Some of the fees for licenses are more than $80K. And these are fees (on top of ticket price) for regular every day people. Guess what? The owner's don't care. It's all about money and they are getting plenty of corporate money to cover the loss of individuals.
All fans, baseball, football, NASCAR, etc. feel they have made the sport. The only thing is that they did not put their money on the line.
The "stars" in al these sports never say, "Hey, I'll take less money." Just look at the purses. I can see the top drivers like Jimmie J and Jeff Gordon, but drivers who are 30-35 in the standings have their own planes and boats and take exotic vacations. I bet teen Joey Logano is a millionaire already.
It's all about the money. You cannot put the Jeannie back in the bottle.
- October 20, 2008 at 7:19 PM
- Sophia said...
"Helton said he feels NASCAR needs to explain to longtime fans that this is still the NASCAR you fell in love with and allow them to accept all of the most recent changes."
What another example of NASCAR thinking their stupidity will have us drinking their Kool Aid. NOTHING could be further from the truth. Yes there have always been changes in the racing rules but this COT is a mess. Safer yes but more expensive? yes? Impossible to drive? almost, yes.
This is why I no longer will SIT for 4 hours WATCHING PUTRID coverage on tv. I can check here during the race for more info than the tv.
I am no longer hitting jayski twice a day or even daily!
I'd rather just keep up on the gossip and the facts and what's going on with the drivers. And the post race shows of SR, VL and WT to keep up with all forms of racing.
Truck racing IS the best RACING and that stinking France family has the money to HELP BAIL THEM OUT imo.
thanks for all the links, JD. Appreciate all the work you have added to the site this year.
- October 20, 2008 at 7:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think the Truck Series is gone.
As far as the economic situation, immediate and future, my wife and I are cutting back. We are not in a dire situation by no means, but we sat down and did some cutting. My main cut was the $1,000 I spend between two race at MIS (camping for the week, tickets, food, etc.). Next year is going to be an "eye opener". You thought there were empty seats this year?
I know that I will be able to go down for a day and get a ticket for half price.......if my budget allows.
- October 20, 2008 at 8:33 PM
- Vicky D said...
If the sponsors start cutting back, I wonder if the owners are asking their drivers to take a pay cut to help the team? That would be the first thing to start saving money. Testing less would be next, but then only a couple of teams could probably keep up the pace of this year. Do Helton & France actually think old fans are happy with the "new" Nascar?
- October 20, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
There is a new post up about the Monday NASCAR TV shows. Thanks.
- October 20, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- stricklinfan82 said...
One of the linked stories said....
ESPN wants to appeal to more than just the die-hard NASCAR fan, so the race telecast will also include features on the drivers and taped sound bites from them.
It would seem to me that ESPN's "ignore the track" strategy referenced there is failing miserably. This lack-of-coverage style has driven many "die-hard NASCAR fans" to Hotpass, MRN Radio, and Internet sites for actual race coverage, and the "casual fan" is clearly not intrigued enough by Chase drivers filling the screen with calm pre-taped conversations or the live racing being interrupted with highlights of races from years gone by to stay tuned in.
Jayski has a great TV ratings breakdown on his site that I think everyone should read for some perspective on this subject.
Taking away the races that aren't "apples to apples comparisons" (races run on different days of the week in different years, races with long rain delays, races that had network shifts, etc.) - California (1), Darlington, Richmond (1), Dover (1), Pocono (1), Chicago, Michigan (2), Richmond (2), Kansas - look at the Cup TV ratings for 2008 vs. 2007:
Fox: 6 races UP, 1 race DOWN, 2 races EVEN
Speed Channel: 2 races UP
TNT: 3 races UP, 1 race DOWN
ESPN/ABC: 2 races UP (only the first race on each network, when fans didn't yet know what "2008 ESPN normal mode" and "2008 ESPN Chase Mode" were about to have in store), 5 races DOWN, 2 races EVEN
People can blame the CoT all they want for ESPN's ratings being down, but the CoT was still there when Fox, Speed, and TNT had their ratings improvements earlier this year. In fact the racing has been much better, in my opinion, during the ESPN portion of the schedule. The fall Richmond, Loudon, Dover, Kansas, and Talladega races all had very exciting finishes. People can blame the NFL all they want for ESPN's problems as well, but remember the NFL was still there on all these fall race weekends in 2007 as well.
When the on-track product has been basically the same throughout 2008 (if not actually better during ESPN's portion), and the other 3 TV networks saw their TV ratings rise while ESPN is seeing theirs fall, I don't think the network needs to look any further than the mirror in front of them for the cause.
It seems to me that all fans - NASCAR fans and "casual fans" alike - have sent a message loud and clear that they are not interested in ESPN's ignore-the-track approach to covering NASCAR.
- October 20, 2008 at 10:54 PM
- Tracy said...
Richard in N.C. - I agree, it's completely idiotic for Ford to pull out of truck racing, when the Ford truck has been around for working men for generations. My husband drives a pickup, always has, always will, and believe me, he won't buy another Ford if they're showing so little support for their own product.
Truck racing is simply the best out there. You see it all - wily veterans, youngsters anxious to make their marks, just plain old-fashioned racin'. I saw Dario Franchitti punted aside at Martinsville in the truck race last year, when he was clogging up the veterans, and I thought "hmmm, he ain't gonna make it in Cup." Guess what.
If only Speed could step in and give this series a visible, viable boost, this late in the season. If wishes were horses. . .
- October 21, 2008 at 10:03 AM


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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
You hear the word "style" used too much today. Young cartoonists excuse their lack of knowledge by saying they have a style. Even executives; folks who by nature are as blind as bats toss the word around as if it means something to them. They used to hate the word "style", but for the last decade and a half it has been trendy to pretend you like it.
People call that flat stuff you see everywhere a "style". If it's a style, then it's a style made up of mistakes-and the exact same mistakes that hundreds of cartoonist make just through natural ignorance.
Well at one time "style" did mean something, and actually had more than one meaning. Having more than one meaning confuses things by allowing people to equivocate between the meanings when they try to talk about it.
One meaning of style is "personal style."
Another is a wider general or "house style". Like the Warner Bros. style.
But within the "Warner Bros. style" are 5 or 6 "directors' styles".
Each director in turn constantly experimented and evolved his style.
Within each director's unit are individual animators' styles whose styles also evolved with time.
Looking wider, you can say the Warner Bros. style is part of the "40s pear and spheres style" which also includes Disney, Terrytoons, MGM and Columbia.
The "UPA style" is both derived from and rebelling against the "pear and spheres style".
Through all of these cartoons you can see similarities of wider principles. People confuse principles with style all the time.
When cartoon studios in Canada look at a good cartoonists' portfolio that has solid principles, they say "Oh you draw in John K.'s style". In other words if you draw well and solid and fun and non ambiguous, then you all have the same style, which is ridiculous.
Nick Cross, Jim Smith, Katie Rice, Helder Mendonca, Bob Camp, Vincent Waller
Then there is a whole group of people who draw in a generic style that is a combination of the "spumco and Tartakovsky style".
The above fake commercial is drawn in Dave Sheldon's personal style which came from a lot of influences out of the 50s rebellion against pears and spheres. Dave was one of many stylists I used on Ren and Stimpy. His style was probably the most influential of all the Spumco artists.Genndy and Craig McCracken did their own take on the 50s and created a lot of original stuff.
The imitators of this stuff from the last 18 years combined it into a non custom-made generic unindividual group style. It started in the early 90s in LA, and then made it to Canada about 5 years ago - right when great Spumco artists were being turned away by Canadian studios who told them they needed artists who could adapt to other styles - which meant could adapt to the style that rips us off ignorantly.
Now this resulting soulless flat broken glass style is everywhere and animation executives all think it is hip and modern - but then wonder why none of the shows are as popular as Ren and Stimpy or Dexter's Lab. D-uh!
An unevolving generic group style like fake-Disney, or fake-Genndy is a dead animal, unlike a wider group style like the "pears and spheres" 30s and 40s "style",
Hank Ketcham and Walt Kelly have very individual personal styles, yet both these very different looking finishes are based on the exact same principles of good animation drawing. They were both animators trained at Disney's who broke away from the stifling genericism at the studio to become successful on their own. They benefited hugely from their Disney training.
Harvey Kurtzman is not an animator, yet has a style that uses the same principles again.
This 40s animation technique of drawing is not really a style at all - it's a drawing approach that suits animation and is open to constant development, growth and experimentation - when it is in the hands of clever individuals who don't cage themselves in by the group style.
Whew! Now on to Harvey Eisenberg...
Harvey was an animator, then a layout artist at MGM on the original Tom and Jerry cartoons. Then he went into comics and used the 40s principles pretty generically at first,
but quickly developed his own individual style, and in turn adapted to the changing styles of animated cartoons over the next couple decades.
he was able to adapt to totally different looking styles, because he had his principles of drawing down pat, was really talented and knew how the more modern takes changed from the overall 40s "style" on the surface.
The link below will take you to some Yogi pages drawn by a few different artists, all trying to draw in the same "house style" but still letting their individuality come through.
My point? Good drawing skills are adaptable and give you more creative choices than blind imitation.
39 comments:
- SoleilSmile said...
Uh, John. A huge reason why studios went for the UPA derived "broken glass style" is because it's simpler to draw and does not return from the service studio overseas lookin' like Hell warmed over.
When I was a revisionist on Pinky and the Brain, me and rest of the crew used to lament over how our shows came back from Korea looking like sh*t. We all wanted our shows to go to TMS in Japan who always did a great job. However, only 13 shows out of 39 get to go that faboo service studio, the rest goes to Wang studios in Korea. To be fair to the Korean studios though: later on in my career I spoke to a few overseas Korean directors who told me that American TV SB artists would send work to to be laid out and animated to Korea with no evidence of perspective which is a bitch to pull on model and perspective in layout with all that line mileage to boot under an impossible deadline! Therefore, production designs became simpler.
I thought I already hemmed and hawed about this when I worked for you years ago. As I told the crew you had at the time, it's rare to have a director actually take the time to draw over your mistakes for you so it's easy to understand. Directors at other studios give their artists lecture on how to improve their work and then trust the bewildered pencil monkey to interpret the critique to a "T" once they return to their desks.
John, perhaps, your critique should be about vague direction and artists not REMEMBERING everything they learn in school, rather than an attack on the current retro house styles.
- Ryan G. said...
Hey John. Revisions are
- JohnK said...
John, perhaps, your critique should be about vague direction and artists not REMEMBERING everything they learn in school, rather than an attack on the current retro house styles.
Hi Ashanti
I don't know how you could direct non-characters in the first place.
Characters need to be created as characters, not as generic colorforms.
It doesn't cost any more to have good design.
- Jeremy said...
I just started looking into this blog---then...I sifted through all of the post previously! Mr. Kricfalusi thank you for having such a wonderful output and analysis of the Cartoon ---It keeps me inspired!
- Jeremy said...
I had just poured over this blog for the past few days....Thank you Mr.K for keeping me inspired and sharing such valuable analysis on the cartoon and its evolution!
- SoleilSmile said...
Characters need to be created as characters, not as generic colorforms.
It doesn't cost any more to have good design.<<<
Perhaps no one has thought of complex designs that can be successfully animated by a huge American/overseas crew for TV yet? Also, they are cultural differences that make character acting difficult for Western TV. Korean's are a lot more reserved than Americans. This is a gross generalization, but after when I complained about the acting mistakes committed by overseas studios, a Korean friend of mine told me just that. For example" never SB the "shaking of the head" that is seen in so many classic cartoons when a character is a state of disbelief. It comes back from overseas as a wonky chin to shoulder turn that ruins the scene. Animation is a lot easier when it's all done in-house.
It's a pity that studio heads are not going to shake up a system they don't see as broken for it still brings in money. It would be great to have animation projects done all in house again for TV. One improvement has been made though: studios are a lot pickier about who they hire for shows now. It's not enough to draw well, you have to able to act for the characters of the show's genre. The "warm body" trend of the 90's is over and I totally agree with the ethos. I should never have been on Futurama or Dilbert, but instead stayed at Disney and not been afraid to become the SB artist they wanted me to be ( I have a fear of promotions/extra responsibility-getting yelled at). I think I contributed to the ruin of Futurama to some degree, because I hated the characters so much. Thanks again for the rescue, by the way.
Lesson learned, I now hold out for projects that are within my genre, which are few far between because girls shows are rare, but great work when I can get it.
One thing though, In order to keep projects lined up, I have to accept management positions because smaller "start up" studios have trouble attracting leaders. So, I have a question for you:
How do you remember all of your solutions at once when the time comes? Furthermore, how do you face new challenges when they arise and still keep your cool? Do you keep a list of tricks at your desk that no one can see? A friend of mine who was a director at CN said that's exactly what a director's office is for--hiding all the tricks that don't quite fit up you sleeve:)
Leadership in the scary "everyone-yells-at-each-other" animation industry would be a great topic for a future post, John.
Now go finish your B-Day cake, you thing from another world you:)
- Caleb Bowen said...
The word style really does get used too much. I mistakenly used the word style on your Canadian bear post referring to the broken glass look. I should have said 'trend'.
- Mitch L said...
Nice post, some great art again.
It's hard. I still can't draw construction etc. good enough to draw good characters. I keep practising. And often when I show my portfolio for work they want to see more "style" (they want people who can do evrything). So I need to spent time working on things that could give me work here in NL, time I could use to learn more about good cartoon drawing. I hope that I get a job soon, so I can train more in spare time.
- Mister Zero said...
Yeah, I too have done this. I'm glad you made this post, it really helped differenciate a lot of things for me.
I'm no pro but just an amateur artist who does it as a hobby, but I've always been into cartoons and cartooning and your blog here is excellent.
Happy Birthday, btw! Long live the king.
- trevor said...
Are executives scared that if they let artists work on good stuff that it'll create a trend of originality that they won't be able to critique and therefore not pump out like sausage?
Or is it just that they have all the money and have an inherent need to understand everything? Because if it's the latter, I don't think we should have to suffer just because they all have pea-sized brains that can't understand fun.
The only executives that seem to care about trying new stuff are the [adult swim] guys, and the result there is that A/V geeks like Tim and Eric and people who can't draw at all produce crap shows teeming with irony ( "See, the joke is that it's animation but the drawings don't look good and barely move.... ironic, huh?" ).
- trevor.
- JohnK said...
Perhaps no one has thought of complex designs that can be successfully animated by a huge American/overseas crew for TV yet?"
who said anything about complex designs?
Complex doesn't equal good character design.
Ed Benedict created great characters who were easy to draw on super cheap budgets.
- Phantom Spitter said...
John, I've been wondering and wondering and finally got up the nerve to ask you this: What do you think of these artists and cartoonists?
Robert Williams
Jules Feiffer
Johnny Ryan
Will Elder
Bud Fisher
George Herriman
Boris Artzybasheff
Stanislav Szukalski
- Mattieshoe said...
I don't remember ever seeing TMS Animation on Pinky and the Brain (except in the Christmas special)
were you talking about your work on Animaniacs? in the first season, a good third of all episodes were done by ether TMS or Startoons. (After that, TMS was almost never again used for a WB cartoon series)
- Mattieshoe said...
"Ed Benedict created great characters who were easy to draw on super cheap budgets."
They were easy to draw if you had a knowledge of cartoon construction and posing. to Korean Animators, the only thing that's easy to draw is Family Guy. (beacuse It's all tracing)
I recall watching an early episode of Tiny Toons recently, drawn by Akom, and wondering why one particular drawing was so much nicer then the others. turns out it was a direct trace from the model sheet, with everything the same down to the position of the eyes.
this is what "On Model" is to Koreans. they Don't understand that a Model Sheet is only for reference and that their animation should FEEL like the character, not just look EXACTLY as he does on the Model Sheet.
- Ryan Cole said...
So I'd been wondering since the last post, but didn't really know how to ask: If Canada is a nation of imitators, wouldn't an advantage of that mean that many artists produced here have more sense to adaptability than in other countries? Is that what you mean when you say that many Canadian animators are very skilled?
I'm always afraid that everything I draw is less of an inspiration of other artists and more of a meager imitation. I've turned my nose up to my own work when people compliment it as being very Chuck Jones-esque or Don Bluth-y. How would I know if I were just imitating, rather than adapting?
- Biff Boulder said...
what's the 11mars1 image from?
it's quite interesting.
- captain ahar said...
Just wanted to say thanks. I've glanced at the blog before in reference to specific posts (by request of some friends), but haven't expressed any interest to follow it closely... until now.
After reading back through the archive, into your recounts of Canadian animation, and the cultural attitudes of my great northern neighbor (I speak from Grand Rapids, MI woot), I am hooked. Funny stuff, but more importantly, I am deeply curious about the time line of shows you have going.
My computer now seems to not have Flash enabled properly, so no video watching for me. But rest assured, I shall sift through the videos later.
Thanks a lot, the awkward stares I am getting in the computer lab due to my laughter were worth it.
- Gabriele_Gabba said...
John something is happening on T.V now that i can only describe as pure horror.
There seems to be this new type of generic (SUPER) FLAT flash/toonboom animation hitting the screens.
Its low budget and its impossible to describe how it makes my eyes bleed.
They are using 3D animation tools like IK/FK skeletons to animate 2D like puppets.
What is this new trend and where did it come from?
I saw this one today:
- pappy d said...
"My point? Good drawing skills are adaptable and give you more creative choices than blind imitation."
A personal style of drawing isn't just about how you perceive the world, it's also about your personal misperceptions. Drawing in someone else's style is like interviewing them. The choices they make about what to emphasise or omit, their own strengths & weaknesses, job history & personal insights are all reflected. It's like when you kill your enemy & eat his liver while it's till warm. You absorb his courage. In somewhat the same way, you collect little glimmers of brilliance from other artists.
Style is about the meaning you project onto the world. It's not a few clever tricks & gimmicks that you use to "brand" yourself in the marketplace unless of course, you are genuinely shallow & stupid.
In animation design, there also needs to be some cold rational thought given to industrial design. How do you fit the design to the project & the budget? When all cartoons were animated with 12 to 24 fps., the industry evolved the "sphere & pear" look because it offered the best entertainment/cost ratio. In college, I hated that look. There were so many graphic styles in print in those days & all animation could do was this one hackneyed look. As I learned to animate, I came to appreciate how practical this style was. It was built to move. Flash is a diferent set of tools with different potential strengths & some really creative & intelligent design has been done for it.
I love this guy:
Most kidvid is just recycled UPA with more violent timing & colors & a jagged silhouette which announces it's newness in comparison to the ovoid Tom & Jerry look.
- captain ahar said...
gabriele_gabba said:
"What is this new trend and where did it come from?"
At the very least, I think it is safe to say South Park would have something to with the trend. If you take a look at some of the production work for the show, you'll see their high-class workstations running powerful 3d software. They set the 2d elements like a thinly constructed stage foreground elements separated from background and so-one. They even use lighting to give the impression of shadow beneath the simulated paper cutouts.
- Shawn said...
Amen, brother John!
BTW, I love that cartoon with the pincushion man. Show more stills from that!
- JimSoper85 said...
Hey John,
I have a bit of a conundrum on my hands. I hate to ask advice in this manor (in the middle of a discussion) especially because I know you're busy at the moment with the new show and keeping up with your blogg… but if there is anyone whose advice I need right now it's yours. (I'll stop pussy footing around)
I have an action adventure show, three years in the making, that a few other animators and my self put together. We've already pitched this to Cartoon Network, who passed on it because they felt they had "action adventure" covered with "Teen Titans" and felt the show wasn't dumbed-down enough for kids. Right now through mere luck I've been able to secure great contacts at News Corp and Fox who are willing to listen to me (EVP of HR and the CIO). My family thinks I should focus more on pitching myself to them (getting a job) then pitching the show. I'm split because I've heard nothing but soul sucking horror stories when it comes to working for large animation companies, but I also know that it's necessary to slave in the industry for a while and pay your dues before they allow you to have a show.
Once again I don't mean to turn your Blogg into "Ask Amy" but I don't know any one who has more knowledge and experience with this then you…
Do I take the job they offer and pray it doesn't rip the life juice out of me while I continue working independently on the side? Or do I go full fledge and start up a small time animation company with these other animators, doing enough freelance work to keep our heads afloat while we continue to pitch the show?
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated. And thank you for your time.
- crazyharmke said...
flat tv's
flat ipods
flat phones
flat woman
flat notebooks
and also flat cartoons!
"flat" seems like a virus that infected everything!
What you say is so true...
- Larry Levine said...
John, Great post.
The great Bill Melendez told me the first & foremost importance on being a cartoonist/animator is to develope your own indivdual style & not get hung up on or be rigidly glued to always being exactly on model. Rod Scribner is a perfect example.
This creative direction 'draws' the difference between classic Termite Terrace & 1970's Filmation (no offense to any Brady Kids & Archie Funhouse fans).
- :: smo :: said...
this is an awesome post! the fundamentals are soooo important! in college i tried to teach myself by referencing 20's and 30's cartoons and such but i didn't really "get" construction and basic fundamentals until after college and going back to preston blair.
even so, it IS a really difficult thing to draw other people's characters, especially without injecting personal style [or messing up proportions] that's why i love that yo pushed people to take the blair exercises totally literally and make sure all the images you draw look exact and could be overlayed and look traced. it's great proportion practice.
that post about drawing bugs and the dog from that avery cartoon is great too. awesome exercises!
- Jake the Animator said...
wow. this art is inspiring.
i agree with everyone here.
except the idiots. you know who you are
- SoleilSmile said...
I referring to line mileage when I mentioned complex designs, John.
The Simpsons shows were coming back from overseas looking way better than Pinky and the Brain (unless TMS animated it). WB took notice.
- SoleilSmile said...
Mattieshoe, I was at WB when the meeting was held that informed us that TMS wanted to work on their own projects and no longer wanted to be a service studio. Everyone left the meeting so dejected. Who wants to do their best on a board when all their work is going to come back from Wang animation looking like crap? Furthermore, all the WB people who may have known a way around the problem took off for WB feature, so there was a less experienced crew, not really green, but not quite "invincible" yet on the floor. Therefore, Pinky and the Brain's second season looked wonky. Volumes would change in animation and no one at Wang would use straights against curves, to give the characters weight and the asymmetrical shapes that John here preached about. It was quite sad. I think everyone just wanted to cry at their desk after that fateful meeting.
The Sylvester and Tweety crew, was thankfully spared and TMS finished out the contract on that show. Lucky devils.
- Appropriation. Naturalistic. Stylistic. Conceptual. said...
I think what has to correspond with those appropriated "genndy" and "disney" has to be the Bruce Timm/ Paul Dini superhero "style". With inspiration from the great Fleischer bros. Superman cartoon. Its as if all current superhero/comic cartoons watered down their principles while not taking into consideration of great artists who visually defined the dynamic "comic" look such as Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, up to Darwyn Cooke.
p.s.- after the liddell-evans fight how do see the 205 arena panning out, anderson silva moving up again and flushing it or Forrest Griffin running it?
- Emmett said...
Great images in your post Mr. K.
Now I feel like a bland artist. I envy the artists who hang out with you Mr. K. Everything you know, they instantly absorb. I just started a sketchblog (although I hope to put other artwork up there). I'm probably asking for a beating here, but could you possible look at it, and give me some tips on what I should be working on skill-wise.
- Rudy Tenebre, esteemed secretary. said...
I love what Vincent W. does on his own (the ink sketches). It's a real departure from the debatable "non-style" of Spumco style. And also nothing like what he is asked to produce in the workplace, (certainly havn't seen the likes of it IN a Spumco cartoon).
Quit your jobs, embrace drawing in-itself, an mebbie there's a future for drawing, if not animation.
- Joseff!!1 said...
Hey John,
Quick question about the post,
if you would improve your skills as a cartoonist, is it necessary you should study other books on art for exaple realistic figure drawing so then we could adapt that skill on the cartoons or keep practicing on cartooning only?
- ByTito said...
John, really it is very difficult to find good comments about animation and drawing here in southamerica.
Thanks your blog, we can find them very easy.
And from a master like you this is easiest!!
- Tony C. said...
Really enjoyed this post John. The examples are fantastic, and I'm already checking out the blogs by Vincent Waller, Bob Camp, and Helder Mendonca.
It's also good to see some great, well thought out comments.
Thank you as always.
- Gabriele_Gabba said...
captain ahar,
Thanks buddie, that does make some sense and strangely i also heard that they used 3D software to make South Park, but i just never understood why.. i kinda still don't!
- pappy d said...
It's really asking a lot of the overseas animators that they care about the quality of the work. It's all piecework or paid by the foot. a friend was supervising for H-B in the 80's in Seoul. It was winter & (lacking central heat) they had these stinky coal oil heaters under the desks. Being so cold out, they had no ventilation & by the end of the shift, everyone had headaches from the carbon monoxide. One assistant finally decided to get up on her hind legs & complain to management. During the next air raid drill, she was picked up by troops & disappeared for a few days. When she returned to work, he never heard a peep out of her again.
Bill Melendez was a fine animator & a real nice guy but I can't help thinking his advicde was hindsight. He'd been animating Peanuts since 1959. Maybe he was trying to tell you to be Charles Schultz.
- captain ahar said...
Gabriele_Gabba said...
I feel strange knowing this stuff about South Park, even though I don't watch it.
The gist of their reasoning is, as far as I've heard it, so they can preserve the standard that Matt and Tre used to hand animate the first shorts using cut out paper shapes. They have standard models they can re-use in a heavily controlled environment. given the kind of time restrictions I've heard thrown around for the show, its seems like a load off that they don't have to worry about an animator sneezing.
At the same time using the 3d environment it allows them to simulate that aesthetic they were going for (i.e. somewhat imperfect geometry, animation (un)smoothness, and the afore-mentioned shadowing).
In a weird way, the process makes sense. I just can't shake the sense that, all the same, it is a really strange solution to a problem.
- serth said...
I hereby find this blog very informative and inspiring. Inspiring so much enough for me to donate.
I will read on and continue to practice my craft with far more knowledge backing it.
- El leo said...
Hi john! i'm practicing with some human expressions and digital inking.i know it isn't the best work around here, but i wanted to shared it with you, maybe some observations, be hard, please. my name is leo, from venezuela, check this illustration i made yesterday for a party
and some details: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonardogonzalez/2850567547/sizes/o/in/photostream/
and here:
i used this as reference for the astronauts...
i'm practicing this digital inking on illustrator, but my home pc is freaking slowly, so the wacom makes some mistakes and sometimes the lines aren't too smooth.. for the background i tryied to use neutral, complex colors, to make the characters pop up from the illo.
well, i had some time without checking your blog, now i gotta do the homework and keep drawing.
thanks soooooooooooo much
btw. my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
(tricky, isnt'it? =)or firstname.lastname@example.com


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2012-13 Season in Review
The Nebraska wrestling team finished 13th at the 2013 NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa with 38 points after compiling an 11-6 dual record. Sophomore Robert Kokesh (174) led the Huskers, finishing third, while James Green (157) garnered All-America honors for the second consecutive season with a seventh-place finish.
Five additional Huskers joined the pair in qualifying for the NCAA Championships: Ridge Kiley (141), Jake Sueflohn (149), Austin Wilson (165), Josh Ihnen (184) and Caleb Kolb (197). Ihnen and Sueflohn each fell one match short of All-America honors in their respective weight classes.
Ihnen, a senior, finished his NU career with a 100-41 record, including All-America accolades in 2012. Sueflohn, a sophomore, won his first two matches before falling in the semifinals to eventual champion Jordan Oliver of Oklahoma State. Sueflohn lost in the following match as well to Dylan Ness of Minnesota.
Kiley, a senior, made his third NCAA appearance but came up short in both of his matches to ranked opponents. He finished his Nebraska career with a 71-54 record over four years.
Wilson and Kolb each made their first NCAA appearances in 2013. Wilson, a redshirt freshman, lost his first match of the tournament but responded with three straight wins in the wrestleback bracket before dropping the next to North Dakota State's Steven Monk. Kolb, a junior, went 1-2 with a sudden victory over Northwestern's Alex Polizzi.
Kokesh cruised through the first three rounds at 174 pounds before losing a sudden victory to Oklahoma State's Chris Perry. The following day, Kokesh avenged losses from earlier in the season to Iowa's Mike Evans (3-2 decision) and Minnesota's Logan Storley (3-1 sudden victory) to finish third.
Green fell in his opening match to unseeded Kyle Bradley of Missouri but bounced back with four consecutive wins in the wrestleback bracket. After losing by pin to Virginia's Jedd Moore, Green won a 14-4 major decision over Clarion's James Fleming to take seventh place.
More than four months before the NCAA Championships, the Huskers opened their season at the Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open in Brookings, S.D., on Nov. 4. Nebraska claimed seven weight class crowns, including 174 where Kokesh and Tyler Koehn tied for first with no contest. Ihnen, Green, Sueflohn, Tim Lambert (125), Shawn Nagel (133), Skylar Galloway (141) and Brandon Wilbourn (165) added weight class titles.
Nebraska, who was ranked No. 9 in the preseason, opened its dual season with a two-match road trip to Greeley, Colo., and Laramie, Wyo., Nov. 10-11. Against Northern Colorado, freshman Eric Coufal started at 125 pounds and won a 1-0 decision over Jesse Meis. Coufal's victory marked his lone dual win of 2012-13. The Bears won two of the next three matches to knot the score at 6, before Nebraska won the subsequent five. During that stretch, NU earned a pin and two technical falls to build a 28-6 lead. Redshirt freshman Donny Longendyke (HWT) lost the final match of the dual by a 3-2 decision, but the Huskers won 28-9 to start the dual season on the right note.
Nebraska won its first four matches against Wyoming by major decision to build an early 16-0 lead. However, the Cowboys reeled off the next four, including a pin at 125 pounds to cut the lead to 16-15. Galloway and Kiley won crucial decisions at 141 and 149 to secure a 22-15 win over the No. 19 Cowboys.
The Huskers returned home to host three matches Nov. 16-18, including No. 1 Minnesota. In front of an NU Coliseum crowd of 1,869, the Golden Gophers jumped out to a 15-0 lead by winning HWT, 125, 133 and 141 pounds. Sueflohn put Nebraska on the board with a major decision at 149 and Green added a decision to cut the lead to 15-7. The Huskers lost four straight matches by two points each to close out the dual and suffer their first loss of the season, 27-7.
Nebraska fared better two days later against North Carolina and South Dakota State to improve to 4-1. The Tar Heels won at 125, 133 and 141 pounds to race out to a 12-0 lead, but Nebraska never looked back in winning the final seven matches en route to a 25-12 victory. Kokesh's pin gave the Huskers a three-point lead, and Longendyke added a major decision, the first dual win of his career.
The Huskers and Jackrabbits split the first four matches for a 7-7 tie as Nagel and Galloway won at 133 and 141 pounds. Sueflohn suffered his first loss of the season after a 6-0 start to Dustin Walraven, 3-2. However, Green's major decision at 157 pounds started a string of six straight wins to close out a 32-7 victory. Kokesh added a technical fall, Ihnen provided a pin and Kolb notched a major decision for NU bonus points.
Nebraska ended November and opened December at the Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev., finishing fifth with 89.5 points. Kokesh and Ihnen claimed crowns at their respective weight classes, while Sueflohn took third, Kiley earned a seventh-place finish and Green finished eighth.
The Huskers hosted Arizona State on Dec. 8 before wrestling Wisconsin on Dec. 9 at the NU Coliseum. Ihnen earned a win in the first match before the Sun Devils rattled off three straight decisions at 197, HWT and 125 to take a 9-3 lead. Nagel, Kiley and Sueflohn bounced back for NU to give the Huskers a 12-9 lead. Green was sidelined at 157 pounds, and senior Ross Grande stepped in against Cody Combs. The difference was a Combs escape in the second period that gave Arizona State a 1-0 decision and tied the match at 12 heading into the final two. Wilson gutted out a 2-0 decision before Kokesh's 8-3 decision over No. 14 Blake Stauffer clinched an 18-12 win.
The Badgers defeated the Huskers, 19-17, the following day. Like the Arizona State match, Ihnen opened with a win but this time a 17-0 technical fall to give NU a 5-0 lead. Wisconsin erased it quickly and surged to a 16-5 lead of its own through six matches. Sueflohn responded with a major decision, but Grande fell by a 4-2 decision, giving the Badgers a 19-9 lead into the final two matches. Wilson won an 11-5 decision and Kokesh tacked on an 18-2 technical fall but it wasn't enough.
The Grapple at the Garden in New York, N.Y., on Dec. 16 provided Nebraska the chance to compete in the first-ever wrestling event at Madison Square Garden against two future conference foes: Rutgers and Maryland. Freshman Skylar Wood earned the start at 125 pounds but fell in each of his matches. Wilbourn stepped in at 157 pounds and completed a 1-1 performance.
The Scarlet Knights captured wins at 125 and 133 for an early 7-0 lead. Wilbourn's major decision along with decisions by Kiley, Sueflohn, Wilson, Kokesh, Ihnen and Kolb in the next seven matches gave Nebraska a commanding 22-7 lead. The Huskers lost at heavyweight but held on for a 22-10 win. The victory marked Head Coach Mark Manning's 170th at Nebraska.
The Terrapins and Huskers battled through a back-and-forth dual that came down to the final match. Nagel and Kiley earned early wins for a 7-3 lead before losses at 149 and 157 gave Maryland a 9-7 advantage. Koehn made the most of his first start at 165 pounds in a 13-2 major decision over Anthony Guidice to give NU an 11-9 lead. Kokesh added a pin in the next match for a 17-9 score. Ihnen fell by sudden victory to No. 10 Jimmy Sheptock, before No. 16 Christian Boley won a 3-1 decision over Kolb. Holding a 17-15 lead, Longendyke fell in the first tiebreaker, 3-2, to Carl Buchholz. Maryland won the match, 18-17, and the Huskers fell to 6-3 overall.
Nebraska closed out 2012 at the Midlands Invitational, Dec. 29-30 in Evanston, Ill., tying for 15th with 39 points. Kokesh won six matches, picking up his 50th as a Husker in the process, en route to the 174-pound title. Over the course of his championship run, Kokesh outscored his opponents 46-7 and added two pins. Wilson went 4-2 at 165 pounds but didn't place. Nine additional Huskers wrestled but didn't make it to the second day of competition.
As the year shifted to 2013, Nebraska embarked on a two-match road trip, Jan. 11-12, facing No. 11 Michigan and No. 18 Northwestern. The 17th-ranked Huskers welcomed back James Green at 157 pounds after he was sidelined for over a month due to injury. He opened the match with a victory, giving NU early momentum. It stopped there as Wilson was pinned in under a minute in the subsequent match to give the Wolverines a 6-3 lead.
Kokesh continued his dominance and Ihnen added a technical fall to give the Huskers an 11-6 lead. The Wolverines bounced back to build a 16-11 lead of their own by winning at 197, HWT and 125 pounds. At 133 pounds, Nagel turned the tide with his first pin of the season, in 2:14, over Rossi Bruno. Kiley added a four-point barrier by winning at 141 pounds, before Sueflohn dropped a 3-2 decision in the final match. The 20-19 win marked Nebraska's first in Big Ten duals.
The following night, the Huskers took an early lead and never looked back in winning seven matches for a 25-12 triumph over the Wildcats. Sophomore Spencer Johnson (HWT) earned his first dual win of the season, 6-0, after stepping in for Longendyke. Nagel continued his success from the previous night in Ann Arbor with a major decision at 133 pounds. At 157, Green proved he was back by handing No. 2 Jason Welch his first loss of the season, 9-8.
No. 14 Nebraska returned home on Jan. 18 to face No. 5 Illinois in front of 1,365 at the Coliseum. Nagel couldn't continue his momentum from the previous weekend, narrowly dropping the first match, 10-8, to No. 11 Daryl Thomas. However, Kiley, Sueflohn and Green responded with decisions in the next three matches to give NU a 9-3 lead. Koehn fell at 165, but Kokesh and Ihnen edged ranked opponents for a 15-6 lead.
Following Kolb's loss at 197, Johnson gutted out a crucial 3-1 decision over Chris Lopez to clinch the victory. Nebraska defeated the Fighting Illini, 18-15, for its first win over a top-five opponent since Jan. 20, 2008 when the Huskers took down No. 2 Oklahoma State, 22-13. The victory also improved NU to 9-3 and gave the Huskers a three-match win streak over ranked conference opponents.
The No. 13 Huskers dropped their next match at No. 1 Penn State, Jan. 27, by a score of 33-9. Sueflohn pinned No. 3 Andrew Alton, and Kokesh added a decision over No. 3 Matt Brown to lead Nebraska. Kiley and Green lost by narrow margins but it wasn't enough against the Nittany Lions.
The Huskers returned home for the final dual at historic NU Coliseum on Feb. 1 against Michigan State. The unranked Spartans challenged the Huskers on Senior Night, but a Nebraska redshirt freshman ended the match in dramatic fashion to send the crowd of 1,742 into pandemonium. Trailing MSU 19-17 before the final match, Wilson pinned Nick Proctor in 3:45 to clinch the 23-19 NU victory.
On Feb. 10, the No. 13 Huskers fell to No. 2 Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, 31-7. Sueflohn and Ihnen won their matches to lead Nebraska. Kokesh's 22-match win streak was snapped at the hands of No. 4 Mike Evans. Green also lost a close match to No. 1 Derek St. John.
No. 13 Nebraska headed to Ithaca, N.Y., on Feb. 17, for the NWCA National Duals to face No. 11 Virginia and No. 10 Cornell. The Cavaliers won the first two matches for an 8-0 lead, but the Huskers won the final eight en route to a 28-8 victory. Cornell also took an early lead, winning the first three matches to go up 10-0. Sueflohn, Green, Kokesh, Kolb and Johnson all won their matches, but Nebraska never led in a 19-17 setback.
At the Big Ten Championships, March 9-10 in Champaign, Ill., the Huskers finished seventh with 61 points. Sueflohn and Green advanced to the championship match in each of their weight classes but all were pinned to finish second. Kokesh, after losing his first match of the tournament, surged to a third-place finish. Ihnen notched a fourth-place result and Nagel took eighth for Nebraska.


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Chanel Cantere and Sina Mauga were named to first team
Taft College landed seven players on the All-Central Valley Conference volleyball team.
The all-star team was selected in Taft Wednesday by a vote of the coaches.
Sophomore outside hitter Chanel Cantere, who leads the team in kills and defensive digs, and sophomore middle blocker Sina Mauga both made the first team.
Cantere ranks fourth in the state in kills and Mauga is the second best blocker in California.
Earning second team recognition were sophomore setter Rachel Kapesi, freshman outside hitter and defensive specialist Tiffany Mapusaga and sophomore middle blocker Ono Taotofi, the tallest player on the team at 6-2.
Sophomore middle blocker Madison Lawley and freshman setter Tyra Williams earned honorable mention recognition.
The Cougars finished 17-7 overall and 10-4 for third in the conference behind undefeated Fresno (14-0) and second place Porterville (12-2).
TC is ranked eighth in northern California and awaits Sunday's playoff seeding meeting to see who and where they will play.
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Intel to Develop New CPU Architecture for OLPC Use
Intel isn't content to cede any portion of the CPU market to rival AMD and to compete on all fronts -- including the OLPC market -- Intel plans to develop a new CPU architecture.
No current Intel processors fit the specifications for the one laptop per child notebook program (OLPC), so Intel is designing a new processor specifically for the ultra-low cost laptop category where the AMD 433MHz Geode LX-700 reigns king.
Few specifications on the new Intel architecture are known at this time, other than it will be cheap and aimed at the specifications of the AMD processor currently being used in the OLPC system. Yahoo! News is reporting that Intel considered using existing mobile processors including modified versions of the Celeron M and the upcoming Silverthorne processors, which were specifically designed for mobile systems.
Those processors were ruled out because Intel says the small size, low cost and low power consumption required by the OLPC laptop are unique enough to warrant a new architecture. While Intel processors aren't powering the official OLPC, Intel parts are used in similar systems including the Classmate PC and the ASUS Eee.
The ASUS Eee PC will be shipping soon and is going to be sold through Newegg.com and Best Buy. That system features a 7-inch screen and should be quite power efficient. However, the retail price for the system is more than the target cost of the OLPC, which originally was aiming at a $100 price tag.
Prices for the official OLPC system have since increased significantly over the original $100 target.
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When I am putting together new things to share with you, I find that a few posts in a row will follow a theme usually dictated by the season's current bounty. January was all about eating greens every which way and this month seems to be about apricots, peaches, pale rose.... not the edibles, but the colors.
Lately I've noticed that color is coming into play in my kitchen in a big and unintended way: last post I was dreaming of the warm glow of summer in the Corfu, and now I find myself instinctively drawn to a palate of blushing Cara Cara oranges, deep purple radicchio, and magenta shallots. And next week, I've got a little kumquat treat to share with you... again those colors are calling my name these days!
I've read of the importance of eating foods of all colors, not just for aesthetic reasons but for health. This instinct seems natural, so I think I'll just ride this rose colored wave until my body takes me in the next direction.
Note: this salad can be modified in many ways and this recipe is far from rigid or exacting... If you cannot get your hands on Cara Caras, use whatever navel oranges are at their peak at your market. And instead of almonds, roasted hazelnuts would be great here. And if you don't want to go to the effort of roasting the shallot, the salad will still be good.
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Isn't this painting beautiful?Eddie has been doing some posts about 2d vs 3d graphics, so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon.
In old style cartoon paintings, none of the lighting attempts to be "realistic", which to me is the appropriate way to render a cartoon.
Most CG movies I've seen try to light everything sensibly, which translates to without imagination or an artist's touch to me. Certainly without fun or cartooniness.
Even when they attempt to be less realistic, it just looks like blurry Photoshop to me.
Compare it to the beautiful, clear and natural painting of Lady and the Tramp above. With much less work, but a lot more skill and confidence, it achieves more depth ...or "reality".
Characters can't even make eye contact in CG, let alone ground contact.
It seems the more real the execs try to make this medium, the more unreal, floaty and cheesy it looks. And it costs a zillion times more than actual entertainment made by real entertainers and cartoonists.
CG studios have an unnatural obsession with spending a fortune trying to outdo each other making realistic water. Can someone explain this fetish to me?
I mean, I can turn on the tap anytime I want for free and the water looks even more realistic.
They also seem obsessed with seeing who can make the ugliest plastic humans. I'm not sure who the winner is in this contest. There is a ton of competition.
Humans are hard enough to do in 2d, but in 3d they are guaranteed to look like rubber cadavers. But they refuse to give up.
It seems like a medium that fights everything that comes natural to cartoons and animation. - and for that matter-live action, which it thinks it is emulating.
Unlike this old time illustration/cartooning combination style which is full of life and appeal.
Anyway, I have nothing against the idea of rendering or shading in cartoons. I loved these old cartoon paintings from Golden Books when I was a kid. Still do. They don't look fake at all. They look fun, perfectly natural and have the joy of an artist's hand caressing our CG-wounded eyeballs.
This kind of rendering is not photographically real but it has a much more artistically controlled kind of depth than a camera can give you. The effect and appeal depends completely upon the skill, talent and personality of the artist. It's also way more natural, in effect more "realistic".
What I find unappealing about most CG is how unimaginative and soulless it looks. It looks like a machine made it, instead of an artist. We have all talked about why this is so. Is it the inherent handicap of the technology? Is CG like photoshop? Like, no matter how good a traditional painter or artist you are, you simply can't get Photoshop to look as good as your real paintings. Is that the problem with CG?
Or is the problem that the people in charge of billion dollar studios just choose to be machine like and unartistic? It's very hard to say. I know many artists who have great skill and talent who work at these studios, who in private tell me they hate the limitations (both of the medium and the executives), but I also read on blogs that CG is limitless in its creative scope. That's what I would imagine - if I hadn't already seen a dozen CG movies that all look equally mechanical, bland and like not a living soul ever touched them.
Also interesting to me is how good these low tech old viewmasters from the 60s look and they are just photographs of sculptures . The "realistic" lighting doesn't hurt these.
These Flintstones Viewmaster sets are beautiful. Why doesn't someone make a cg movie with this much design and appeal? Surely it would cost a fraction of the outrageous budgets of the average movie today and look 20 times better. How much can a good designer cost?
These suggest that CG could actually make fun looking more natural and artistic movies.
Someone on Eddie's blog said that CG is still in its infancy and that's the reason it's still so primitive compared to 2d. I don't know about that. It's at least 20 years old and characters still can't talk naturally, walk on the ground, have weight or be actual characters.
2d developed at an incredible pace. From Steamboat Willie to Snow White in 9 years. CG, to me anyway, is still crawling its way towards Steamboat Willie. At least Ub Iwerks' first films were able to have characters look at each other....and they were actually imaginative and fun on top of that.
..and CG animators have the advantage of 30 years of golden age cartoons on video that they can freeze frame and study, whereas the people who made the great more natural cartoons had to create all the techniques from scratch.
Well I still believe, against all the evidence, that it is possible to find a way to use cg artistically, abstractly and even in fun cartoony ways.
I just wonder how long it's going to take, and in the meantime ... why will no one make some 2d for a fraction of the cost that is much easier to make natural and fun?
A much lessy risky enterprise.
The most creative animation I ever saw in CG was something Chris Wedge made in the late 80s for a Nickelodeon logo. I forget what it was called. It was a funny little character made up of disconnected tuber like blobs. It was funny, imaginative, appealing and magical. It was using the medium to do what you couldn't do in any other medium.
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The state issued school grades on Friday, and 13 elementary and middle schools fell to D level.
Talk about D-Day.
The state issued grades for elementary and middle schools on Friday, and 13 of them fell to D level.
Another 13 dropped from B to C level. One school maintained its C.
Nine schools earned a B and only four got an A.
The performance might have been worse: Because of shifting requirements, the state Board of Education recently decided that, out of fairness, no school could drop more than one letter grade this year.
Only elementary and middle schools got their grades on Friday. They were based largely on FCAT scores. High school grades won't be released until November or December.
The state has implemented higher achievement levels on many FCAT and end-of-course exams. In all, there have been 13 changes made this year and 19 the year before.
The result: It's difficult to compare grades from year to year, since schools are adjusting to the new scales and expectations.
School officials statewide expected their districts would suffer, and the fear was justified: According to the state, the number of "A" schools dropped from 48 percent to 29 percent while the number of "F" schools increased from 2 percent to 4 percent.
"We saw this was coming," said Janet Weldon, Marion County's director of guidance and student assessment.
"It's good to expect more of students," she added. But, by the same token, it will take time for schools and teachers to adjust.
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Eighth Street Elementary, Madison Street Academy, Dr. N.H. Jones Elementary and Shady Hill Elementary all maintained their A grades.
Ward-Highlands kept its B and Reddick-Collier kept its C.
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Two combination schools, Fort McCoy and Horizon Academy, both dropped from B to C.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following was submitted as a response to Mayor Richard Davidson's March 1 column, "The economics of economic development."
Let's get our history straight about the facts of economic development from someone who was there, and not someone's acquired idea of how he thinks it was or should be.
In June of 1973, Paul Clemons and Ed Lusk, doing business as Medella Enterprises, bought the land now known as Walmart land from CE Eliff. In July 1977, Robert Foster and Larry Neff, under Red Carpet Enterprises, Inc., bought the land from Ms. Elizabeth Potts and started the plans to build a Ramada Inn motel (Neosho Inn).
In 1979, the city of Neosho committed $90,000 to run sewer to the intersection of highways 60 and 71. Robert Foster and I ran the water from the Terrace Motel to the Ramada / Neosho Inn, and the city helped with the sewer which ran from Neosho Boulevard to the golf course and on to the intersection of 60 and 71 highways. The total cost was approximately $250,000, with the city contributing $90,000 and Bob Foster and Larry Neff contributing $160,000. This got city sewer and water service to the south part of town and across 60 highway for the Walmart property.
In January 1980, the motel was opened with access only from the north on the existing outer road. This was far from ideal, but it was all we had. MoDOT would not allow us access to 60 highway. MoDOT rules on intersections state a road must be continuous on both sides before an intersection can be allowed. Walmart was not interested in the Clemons / Lusk property unless they had access from 60 highway to the north. In a cooperative effort, Robert Foster and I donated the property that is now Lusk Drive from 71 north at the stop light (the old Plymouth Rock motel) to the stop light on 60 highway, and the City of Neosho paid for labor and materials to put in Lusk Drive, spending several hundred thousand dollars. I believe the record will show that Neosho Economic Development Tax donated $10,000 toward the cost of the light at Lusk Drive. Lusk Drive now runs all the way through to Industrial Drive and is designed to go all the way south to AA highway as an outer road to meet MoDOT requirements. The Walmart property would never have been developed without the access from the north and the entrance off Industrial Drive to the south. I would also point out that the property that the Walmart store sits on belonged to the Adams family and they, in turn, sold enough acreage to Mr. Clemons to make the project work.
The signal at Clemons Drive was never in the original Walmart design plan. Clemons Drive was allowed by the city at the request of the developers, Mr. Ed Lusk and Mr. Paul Clemons, and also paid for by the developers.
MoDOT was doing improvements to 71/59 highway and those improvements included the closing of some of the crossovers on South 71 highway. Mr. Clemons owned approximately two outer lots in front of Walmart (currently Long John Silvers and CBT). These lots had no access to the 71/59 highway. To get this accomplished, MoDOT required the City of Neosho to take over South 71/59 because if the city wanted to give an access between 60 highway and Industrial Drive on 71/59, the new proposed road would not meet MoDOT required distance between intersections Highway 60 and Industrial Drive.
The City Council voted to take over 71/59 by bringing the highway into the City of Neosho and relieving MoDOT of its responsibility. They then gave Mr. Clemons the access to what is now Clemons Drive and the city continues to maintain 59 highway south and recently spent several hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money (according to the Neosho Daily News) to complete much-needed maintenance to the road, and will continue to shoulder the cost of maintaining this four-lane highway for years to come.
The citizens of Neosho have always been aggressive when it comes to industrial and business growth. The most recent benefit of our aggressiveness is the Lowe's store, which received a reimbursement of about $400,000 (from TIF funds) for infrastructure that was necessary to have adequate streets and drainage.
Why this history lesson? Mr. Clemons and Mr. Lusk are to be complimented for their staying power and working with the City of Neosho, for without the city funds and cooperation, their land would not have been developed and the project never would have happened.
Who gained from the city's support and investment in these projects?
• Mr. Foster and I did because we gained access to 60 highway.
• The landowners north of 60 highway did.
• The landowners east of 71/59 highways where Lowe's is located did.
• The citizens of Neosho did in sales tax revenues, capital investment and the creation of several hundred jobs.
• Mr. Lusk and Mr. Clemons, along with their heirs, of which Mayor Davidson is one, did.
Now there are businesses around Walmart, i.e. motels, two banks, the new Aarons and area for future growth east.
Until recently, the Neosho City Council had always worked with developers and understood that our community prospers from growth that creates jobs and an increased tax base. There has been little growth in the last three years and no doubt this will continue until the city council must get back to working with the citizens and developers that are trying to create jobs and growth for the betterment of Neosho.
It is very important to note that approximately 50 percent of the sales taxes collected by businesses in the highway 60/59 area are paid by Neosho's citizens. The other 50 percent comes from loyal regional shoppers and if Neosho doesn't continue to grow the retain base, another community will and the regional shoppers will go elsewhere!
In closing, let me say that for 25 years, I have chaired the chamber's economic development committee. Neosho has used different methods of public tax incentives to help local businesses and industries expand or new ones locate to Neosho, including Marco Products / Mayor Richard Davidson's expansion in 2010 (per public records at the courthouse).
He and all local industries should get tax breaks for expansions, just as they would in surrounding cities and states. If we do not continue to offer incentives to businesses and retail through tax programs, TDD, TIF, and enterprise zones, other cities will and Neosho will suffer.
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Guide to Pet Tanking Heroic Morchok
Just over a week ago the video above appeared on YouTube showing Lazyguide of Ner'zhul pet tanking 10-man Heroic Morchok. I already had an inkling this is possible after the Warcraft Hunters Union on Icecrown took down Morchok on normal mode with a 10-man hunter group in July, but I never researched it any further at the time.
Because the video appeared after my guild's weekly Dragon Soul run, I had to make my own attempt a week later on the next lockout. We had already planned to try new things on this raid because our paladin healer wanted to try single healing Heroic Ultraxion (which was also successful), so convincing them that Heroic Morchok can be pet-tanked was not difficult. After all, I already had a reputation on my server as the hunter who tanked Argaloth back in tier 11. (At one point I pet-tanked Argaloth every week for over a month.)
Our kill took five attempts or so after playing around with group arrangements and positioning and improvising pulling strategies, but it was successful. With one lockout remaining before Dragon Soul is no longer considered "current", this guide should help anyone wants to try out this encounter for the final week of Cataclysm.
Before we start, I do want to make one disclaimer:
You do not have to choose the Beast Mastery specialization to tank Heroic Morchok.
I personally pet-tanked with a Marksmanship specialization because I can use the hard-hitting combination of Aimed Shot and Chimera Shot to generate more Misdirection threat to my pet.
Although all pets can now be a tenacity pet, I would still recommend using a turtle or a beetle because of their respective abilities Shell Shield and Harden Carapace, which can reduce damage taken by 50 percent for 12 seconds.
One talent is required in pet tanking this encounter: Spirit Bond, which gives the hunter and his/her pet passive healing. Blink Strike can also be useful for your pet's quick positioning, but is optional if you are already comfortable with pet management.
Three major glyphs are also required: Glyph of Misdirection, Glyph of Animal Bond, and Glyph of Mending (not to be confused with Glyph of Mend Pet).
Finally, you will want to create a Misdirection macro to go along with your glyph. A simple example is below. (Nanghul is the name of my beetle, so you will want to change that.)
#showtooltip Misdirection
/castrandom [target=Nanghul] Misdirection
/yell Misdirecting to Nanghul!
If you would like to create a safety margin for your pet's health, bringing along a Flask of Steelskin might not be a bad idea.
This encounter can be done with two or three healers, depending on how comfortable your healers are with healing your pet. You will want an additional tank to pick up Morchok's twin Kohcrom.
The pet should make the initial pull with Misdirection from the hunter. The other tank should not use taunt abilities for the first phase of the fight. This is because once Morchok splits into two, he seems to maintain the aggro table from the first phase. We would like to avoid an accident where the other tank finds himself tanking Kohcrom and Morchok at the same time.
Because Morchok splits to the right, the hunter (blue circle in the blueprint above, with the pet marked in orange) should be positioned to the group on the right. One healer should be assigned to each group. The third person in the hunter group can be another healer or a DPS which can drop his own aggro table (I will explain why later).
Once the other tank has stabilized Kohcrom's position, the remainder of the encounter can now begin. Stomp does not affect the hunter pet, thus it can be entirely avoided with everyone in the hunter group staying at least 25 yards away from Morchok. Additionally, with more people on the left group, the damage from Stomp can be split across more people.
Two people must remain with the hunter because Resonating Crystal splits damage among three people in 10-man. (Damage is split among seven people on 25-man difficulty, so at least a 19–6 group split will be necessary in that encounter.)
The tricky portion of the encounter begins when Morchok and Kohcrom draws everyone in with Earthen Vortex. When this happens, the hunter pet appears to despawn and drop all aggro from the boss, thus prompt reapplication of Misdirection toward the pet is necessary. This is when the other DPS with the hunter should use his aggro reset ability to make it easier for the hunter pet to regain aggro. Not doing so may result in chaos.
Pets are also not affected by Black Blood of the Earth, so send it toward Morchok immediately after Earthen Vortex is over. This and prompt reapplication of Misdirection will help the pet gain aggro quicker.
Once Black Blood of the Earth is over, the encounter repeats itself. As long as no one in the hunter group is within range of Morchok to take damage from Stomp, the encounter should go on without a problem.
Occasionally you may find that Resonating Crystal is placed within the Stomp range. If that is the case, you will want to either reposition your pet quickly or stay away from the Resonating Crystal until after Stomp has finished casting.
It is theoretically possible for two hunters to individually pet tank Morchok and Kohcrom if Kohcrom can be immediately picked up once he is summoned. Because their mechanics are identical, it might also be possible for a 10-man all-hunter group to defeat the encounter using the principles I described above.
If an all-hunter group is not possible, bringing along two healers (one for each group) should suffice, with an even 5–5 group split between Morchok and Kohcrom.
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put the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab
inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back!
LoL I know this is completely off topic but I had to tell someone!
20 September 2014 at 21:50