Floydfest X

You know how it goes for me at these things... I get all my camera cards cleared and ready to document every unforgettable moment...

Only to come back with a handful of boring pics.

Yup...
This is Floydfest X
5 days of camping on a mountain top
11 stages of local and global music
14,000 people
8 police officers

And No Judgment!

I have a special place in my heart for the free children of Appalachia, we share common roots.



(obligatory backstage access gloating)

I have a lot of artistic visions I picked up here, so I may return to this theme in the future.

Peace

Love

Freedom

Blessings

Forever

-r

Springing Up to the next milestone

So I've been taking classes again and thus, I have been splitting my "mindforce" between my incredibly evolving jam band and my Early Childhood Education classes.

I've been writing a lot of papers, working on a lot of group projects and learning a lot of really useful things.

On Thursday nights I meet up with my jam group and each day we have met up, we have learned a little more and improved our talents.

So there has been little room for art.

I did manage to make these...

These 2 illustrations were for a quick PowerPoint on the need for more men in Early Childhood Education.

(Though it looked more like a 5 second highlight on the issue of how men fear being judged the wrong way for working with young children...)

I've been going over different studies in anthropology, census data, history, academics and a bunch of other fields. The results are indicating to me that very young humans around the world basically do better if they have an equal balance of honest men and women in their lives.

So hopefully I can do what I can to restore balance (aka: Social Equilibrium)

I made it through my first ECE introduction course pretty successfully. The course was not easy. But I mean that in a good way because it was designed to give you a taste of what you can expect in workloads should you seek a career in Early Childhood Education. In some ways it felt more like a gatekeeper course because only hard workers and team players are going to make it through. Another good thing about the introducation class was it's ability to be done while working a full 9-5 on the side. Yes it was worth it! The teacher is one of the few I have had in my life who is quite honest with the class and knows what she is talking about. She is also very approachable and communicates a lot with her students.

I feel confident that I can continue my education in ECE and eventually work in the field (Though I'm still not quite certain on where my talents could serve best...).

Oh well, I've reached another milestone on the path, I can see the next one on the top of yonder hill... I lift my foot and move forward.

-Peace, Love and Blessings

-R, Mar11

to the pharaho in Egypt.

-GOD command's you pharaoh, set His Children FREE!

and to the people of Egypt;

Peace is the flame we hold in our hands...
use it as a torch to guide, not a torch to burn.

look to yourselves, look to the brothers and sisters around you.

UNITE AS ONE

ONE LOVE

ONE HEART

Beat the song of One Love upon your heart;
If you beat it always in Truth, you will have freedom.

And the rest of us will be inspired to join you.
You have reached the crossroads now.

The beginning of the end...

...of the year has begun.

Happy Pre-Holidays

Full Circle

2010 is proving to be a year of transition.

Transition of consciousness, of health, of appearance, of attitude and now I'm making the transition into a new animation project...

I'm not going to go into all the details, but the general story is based on interpretations of the Medicine Circle.

Here are some initial character sketches for now.

"Bobby" ver.1 dimensions

"Bobby" ver.1 emotions

"Bobby" ver.1 Ink Trial

"Bobby" ver.1 tone map

"Spirit Kachina" ver.02 Character Dimensions

First page of the new sketch book for 2011-2012

...which I took out of the book to prevent damage (go figure)

-PEACE-

New Pencil Test

Here's a few seconds of the long 3 minute sequence from "MKT"

Sketchbook Update Feb, Mar, Whatever...

Yeah, I've been busy with stuff and have not had too much to add to the Sketch book in the last 2 months, I do still draw, but it's mostly when I'm cracking down on the animation which ain't gonna draw itself.

I worked on this slowly between February and March. I want to give it a real scan and color detail it when I get a chance.

Sendakesqe...

Lunch Box Update

I finally had some time to kick out the lunch box track into the computer so I could give you this update of Mankind Triumphant progress.

Some of these Pencil Tests are mine and some are from my student workers at VCU.

Happy new decade...

Hooray, it's 2010 and I'm back in the good ole office, cleaning all the class room projectors and taking stats on their bulb life, while re-loading the OS on a fried MBPro and burning some language CD's for ESL.

I wonder what fun new things this new decade will bring? Over the course of the last 10 years, I watched America get reduced to half the man it used to be.

Is it all up from here, or will we fall right back into the slime and be forced to re-evolve?

The Studio...

After taking a break from the light box, I decided to take some shots of the good ole home studio so you can see where the revolution currently goes down.

Above you can see the hole punch, the sequence organizers and a bit of the lunch box and copy stand where everything is shot in pencil test or in final. You might also note all my father's books lining the basement walls, in all we have about 10,000 now lining every inch ong the little house.

Here is the "Cock pit" where I draw everything. Currently I'm working on a WS sequence, so i have the bulky light box in place. I have a table top wheel I use for my regular sequences. All my x-sheets are lined up on the music stand and my character prop charts are on the left. My storyboards are printed out in a little booklet that I keep on a clipboard that I move around the studio. There is not one single wall in my house big enough to pin up all the boards.

Upstairs we have the comfy computer room where the Cintiq lives for all the touch ups. This is also my main editing machine, thus the mixer and monitors.

Here's a closer view of the machine with the wheel in the background being prepped for some ink transfer to pass the time away.

The Revolution goes on comrades!

The Party's Over

(messing with Wacom a la prima)

OK, the Glog has been drunk, the presents opened, the candles blown out, the candy boxes half emptied and the hangover is fading away.

I have a week before I have to be back in the office, but I have to spend as much of it animating my sequences as possible. Soon I'll be heading another production workshop at VCU and I've got a lot of sequences to prep and lesson plans to write.

So back to work...

Carbon Copies?

In 2003 I started my education at VCU School of the Arts and started to dabble in Charcoal and Pastels.
I'd go out on the net to photography sites and select a photo portrait to try an render with charcoal or pastels.

I enjoyed having high contrast figures in really dark settings.

At one point I took a class in Illustration, and showed my portfolio of portraits to my teacher.

She said all it meant was that I was a very talented copy machine...

I wonder how much money I paid just to have someone tell me that?

Creative Burst

Got home and colored it...

"Moony Mountains"

Rodger L. Perry
-12-08-09-

Pen ink and Photoshop.

Before it's lost forever...

"Portrait of a Boy"

(sold)

Upon dusting off the old portfolio to prepare for yet another career jump, I realized that there is a massive amount of material that I have done over the years that is just not in it, some of it pretty good stuff.

My personal view on the value of my own art was very existential in that when it outlived its usefulness, I gave it away, tossed it in the garbage or just plain lost track of where it went. In the past few years I’ve been working hard to keep high quality copies of everything I do on commission.

In next few posts I plan to show some art that was sold, lost or is somewhere out there.

"Portrait of Morgan"

(commision)

Sketchbook update II

I realized how useful the pencil sharpner is as I hopped out the door last weekend and tried to do a color pencil pic without them.
Me on a normal day

A reminder that I suck at parties...

"Disneyfied"

I usally don't draw animals... this was the first Horse/Zeebra I ever tried.

Sketch Book Update I

Been filling up my sketch book like a good little animator...

It's Fall here

Bears in Submarines

My Dream Dragon origional

Some old work.

I remember the days I could do nothing but draw all day long.

Found some old stuff on the HD

Figured I'd post it for fun...

Greetings and justifications

01/12/11 Note to the reader: The only constant in the course of life is "change" and this blog serves as more evidence to support that assertion. Below is the original mission statement I typed up upon creating this journal on Hand Drawn Animation, yet as you read along you will note the focus on Animation begins to spread out into other areas...

Right now I'm taking a Sabbatical from the craft, but hope to return to it when my energy is renewed.

-RP

Greetings to you, the random soul who has stumbled over this hastily created blog know as "Hand Drawn Revolution." So you may ask yourself, "what is the Hand Drawn Revolution..."

HDR is a communication blog set up by Rodger Loren Perry to:

1. communicate to his students about...
2. relate his progress in his pursuit of...
3. make critiques and share his personal views upon...
4. serve as a public archive displaying the technical guidelines and blueprints relevant to Mr. Perry's...

Hand Drawn Animation!

As for the "Revolution" part... well, in the course of my various disjointed rambling essay's, lectures, tirades and brief fits of absolute madness, my personal manifesto about the state of Hand Drawn animation in the era of the computer subsidized society will eventually shine through.

At this moment in time all that is relevant is that, I am an animator by night and employed with a Community College by day and as I get free time, this blog should (God Willing) grow and evolve into something more informative and entertaining. For now, I have no flashy graphics at my disposal, no videos ready to display and no knowledge of blogging what so ever.

All I have is my words, so enjoy, come back here now and then and be well...

-Rp