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

DreamDragon Nov-2008

-Because there is still love out there...

(Pen/Ink and Photoshop)

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...

Step One

Well it's been many months now since I updated this thing... as a daily blogger I'm a failure...but with good reasons...

…The chief being I’m employed.

…just not as an animator.

Upon following other animator’s blogs, I see even in “The Industry” there is not much call for animators, even less for those who still animate by hand. What jobs there are in that field are offered in Brazil, Canada, India and such… North VA?

No…

If I’m going to work in an animation house making movies and shows of high artistic standards and deep engaging plots, I’m going to have to build the studio myself.

The game plan now is to get a job in Richmond. I see Richmond VA as being a fertile place to build an animation studio from scratch. Cost of living is decent, plenty of nice old stores and warehouses that can serve as an HQ. VCU is a big arts school, so there would be a nice talent pool and I’d be about an hour away from the beach or mountains.

If nothing else, the traffic is much better than LA or NY.

Anyway… Richmond is step one.

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