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Earth : Europe : Baltic states : Latvia : Riga region : Riga
Riga[106] is the capital of Latvia, the largest city in the Baltic States, and the second-largest city of the Eastern Baltic. It holds about half of the country's population.
Riga is experiencing a new Renaissance as the capital of Latvia, and many large-scale restoration projects on old buildings have made Riga one of the most attractive cities in Europe. Most famously, Riga is home to the largest concentration of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) architecture in the world. Riga has become an increasingly popular destination for Europeans drawn by its old town, its historical importance, and its reputation as having one of the most sparkling nightlife scenes in Europe.
Riga was founded in 1201 by Albert of Bremen as a base for the Northern Crusades. It developed as the major trade hub of the Eastern Baltic during the high days of the Hanseatic League, ruled by the Archbishop of Riga. The Reformation reached Riga in 1522, which ended the Archbishops' power. After the fall of the Hansa, Riga became a part of first the Swedish and then the Russian Empires, before becoming the capital of independent Latvia in 1918. Riga remained as the capital of Latvian Socialist Soviet republic throughout the Soviet period, and emerged in the 1990s as the capital of newly-independent Latvia.
Germans have inhabited the city since its establishment by Albert, and throughout most of its history Germans were the elite while Latvians remained a lower class. Their position as the elite continued through the Imperial period of Riga. As such, much of the architecture in Riga has been heavily influenced by Germany. The Germans were forcibly repatriated after the Nazi occupation of 1941-44.
Much of Riga was bombed during World War II and the ruins were mostly left to decay until independence, when the government, realizing the tourism potential, began to invest in reconstructing and restoring the old buildings. Because of this, Riga has one of the most complete old towns in Europe.
The official language is Latvian, but in practice Riga is a bilingual city with Latvian and Russian as the main languages: 50% of the people are native speakers of Latvian and 50% of Russian, and the vast majority is bilingual. English is widely spoken by younger people and by people in the tourism industry, and also by some older people. German is also quite prevalent, but English is a much safer option in order to be understood.
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By plane
Riga International Airport ('Starptautiskā Lidosta Rīga' in Latvian) (IATA: RIX) (ICAO: EVRA), [107].
The following airlines offer service from/to Riga International Airport:
It is worth noting that Riga airport has splendid smoking terraces: a large glass shelter in front of the main building (upper level), adjoining the police station and used also as bike parking, and a smaller terrace after security checks, but this one is open, without a roof.
To travel between the airport to the city:
By bus
There are international bus connections to anywhere in Europe, including frequent service to Tallinn and Tartu in Estonia, and Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania.
By ferry
Tallink, [118], operates a daily ferry service between Stockholm and Riga. Prices start at €28.
By train
Latvian Railways [119] operates service to many cities in Latvia as well as a few cities in Russia, Belarus, and Estonia.
Trains depart for Moscow daily (except New Year's Eve) at 16:20 ('Latvijas Express') with an additional train departing at 18:10 from May to September ('Jurmala'). The overnight trip takes 16.5 hours and costs 85 LVL for a bed in a 4-bed cabin if the ticket is bought at the train station. The cheapest ticket for this train costs 25 LVL.
One overnight train bound for St. Petersburg ('Baltija Express') departs Riga daily at 18:50. The train takes 13 hours and costs 75 LVL for a bed in a 4-bed cabin if the ticket is bought at the train station. The cheapest ticket costs 21 LVL.
Trains operate between Riga and Valga, Estonia. From Valga, connections can be made to other cities in Estonia including Tallinn.
You can book tickets online via the Latvian Railways site up to 45 days in advance, but tickets must be collected from a station in Latvia. The exception to this is international tickets to Moscow and Saint Petersburg which can be issued as etickets in both directions.
Get around
Cars are not allowed in Old Town (although enforcement is somewhat lax at night), but vehicles making "deliveries" are. Therefore, you can take a taxi to the Old Town, but you cannot park a rental car there.
By foot
Streets are mostly asphalt, with Old town and some random streets being cobblestone; some smaller streets outside the city center may be unpaved. Sidewalks are predominantly asphalt everywhere. Riga's Old town is best explored on foot, especially since it is not very large and cars are not allowed anyway. Cobblestones, where present, are round rather than flat, so comfortable shoes are recommended. Be advised that due to the neglected drainage system, there have been around 2-3 times last year, when especially heavy downpours have caused a couple of central streets to be flooded approximately to ankle level for several hours each time.
By taxi
Taxis are reasonably-priced but you should be careful, as they may not necessarily follow the shortest route to your destination, especially if you appear to be new to the city. Occasionally, taxi drivers will try to overcharge you, but the majority are honest, courteous and very helpful. Many drivers speak a few words of English.
Always watch the meter, because some drivers cheat customers by increasing the price by pressing a button on the meter. If in doubt, take the check at the end of your ride, write down the number plate of the taxi, and call the number on the taxi to complain.
By public transport
The city runs the trams (street-cars), buses and trolley buses. They all use the same e-ticket (e-talons), a single price covers any one route independent of the distance. Note that the same number may refer to a bus, a trolleybus and a tram all following different routes. On the stops, numbers of trams and trolleybuses are preceded by "T", but numbers of buses by "A".
There are several railroad lines running through the city, and Passenger Train [120] runs electric trains that connect the very centre of the city with suburbs and nearby towns; if you know where you need to go, it may be quite convenient to use a train, as they all go from the single central terminal and are by far the fastest public transportation mode. However, note that the trains run much less frequently (especially during winter in some directions) and that the railroad system is not integrated with the city public transportation, so in some occasions there are no tram/bus stops near a train stop in the city. See more about trains in Latvia article. Ticket prices for trains within city limits are comparable to other city public transportation modes, but they do change with distance travelled.
Taxi-bus (also called mini or march-route bus) services: operated by private companies, generally hold 10-11 people in a bus (seats only, at least officially), you must purchase the ticket onboard (cash only, approximately 0.50 LVL, depending on the operator). Usually drives by and stops at overlapping city public transportation stops, otherwise can stop anywhere were permitted, so flag it to get in, and ask driver to stop in order to get out. If a route covers the city from one end to the other, you may be asked by driver how far you go, and would have to purchase two tickets, either beforehand or at a city centre stop. The taxi-bus services are being overtaken by the city at the moment, so there may be major changes in near future, such as organizing the routes so they would less overlap with the rest of transportation.
Timetables and routes for both city transport[121] and taxi-buses[122] are available on the Internet. Stops are marked by a blue rectangular sign with a stylized white image of the vehicle and lists the numbers that stop there (taxi-buses are mostly unlisted). Timetables are also usually posted at stops and are fairly accurate.
Tram lines are numbered 2-11, bus lines 1-55, trolley bus 1-27. Taxi-bus lines have numbers 2xx. There may still be some Riga region bus lines with numbers like 8xx. Be advised that there is virtually no information on timetables, routes or connections onboard. The stops are generally announced on trams/trolley/buses, newer vehicles also include running line with next stop information (buses) or LCD screens with the list of next 4 stops (trolley buses).
Trams are generally the fastest public transportation apart from trains. Although they are on street level and the rails are not always physically separated from the rest of the traffic, in all but the busiest rush hours they get their way. Taxi-buses are smaller and thus more maneuverable than buses and trolley buses, making them second only to trams.
"E-talons" system for trams, buses and trolley buses
(As of August 2013, SIXT Latvia) SiXT rent a bicycle is a self-service bicycle rental available to both residents and guests of Riga. There are more than 130 bicycles available for cyclist in Riga centre and outside of it. http://www.sixtbicycle.lv/en/riga/. Alternatively, ask your hotel if they provide bicycle rental.
By car
There are several car rental offices in Riga airport as well as in other parts of the town. You can even rent a cheap soviet style car. However, be that parking in old town can be paid only by SMS and the cost can reach up to 10€/hour. Take into account that on working days the traffic in and around the center may be very slow, in particular congestion is usually present on the bridges over Daugava. Allow plenty of time for driving. Driving drunk is considered as a serious law violation. Besides high fines and seized driving license one may easily end up serving 10-15 days in an administrative arrest Maximum alcohol contents in the blood must not exceed 0.5. There are plenty of police patrols and it is very common to be stopped for alcohol test.
By boat
All the boats stop near the Stone Bridge (Akmens Tilts), which is right next to the House of Blackheads -- the Riga Tourist Information Centre, in the old town. During summer the following boat transport is available:
Riga is divided into two parts by the river Daugava. Old (medieval) town is in the centre of the city on the east side of the river. It is surrounded by a ring of ~19th -- early 20th century architecture, followed by a mix of private 2-floor house districts (many also pre-WW2) and Soviet-era 5-18 floor apartment districts, with an occasional factory (especially near railroad lines). The term "centre" loosely refers to quite a large area around Old town limited by the river to the west, the railroad lines to the east and south, and without a definite boundary to the north.
The areas usually most interesting to tourists are the Old Town and the area around the Freedom Monument, located nearby.
A walking tour is by far the best way to see these two districts. The tourist office, located inside the House of Blackheads, offers both guided tours and free pamphlets, complete with detailed descriptions of many buildings, for independent walks. These walks cover the old town and the nearby city centre sights as well as heading out to view the Art Nouveau district. It's all pretty small scale so it's easy to do each of these in around an hour, or linger and read every detail in the booklet - in the absence of any signs or plaques around the city the booklet gives you an insight to what you are seeing. Private companies also operate tours. If you want to get away from the 'touristic areas' Alternative tours on bike and on foot are also available, as well as a free city tour that runs everyday from St Peters Church at 12:00. Look for a yellow suitcase.
The Riga Card [131], which costs 10Ls-18Ls, has discounts for museums and some tourist attractions.
A guided tour is always available at [132] or a virtual walk through the Old Riga is available at [133].
Old town is not the only place worth visiting though. Very old and well preserved city districts unvisited by tourists are Agenskalns and Tornakalns, just over the Stone bridge.
Old Town
The area around Old Town is mostly built between 1860 and 1914 and has many buildings that resemble Berlin, Paris, or Rome. Many Soviet-era movies set in Western Europe were filmed here as the buildings can make the city pass for a city in Western Europe.
Triangula Bastion - 11 Novembra Krastmala 17. Modern building with an excavated fragment of historical Riga fortification wall system which protected medieval Riga city from attacks from war ships. Also Triangula Bastion has the best view terraces in Riga. Open 9:00 – 22:00. Free entrance.
Around the Freedom Monument
Other Sights
Riga, as the most vibrant and cosmopolitan city of the Baltics, offers countless opportunities to sample both local cuisine and international favorites. Latvian food can be hearty, using a lot of potato, cabbage, beef, pork and fish. A diversity of foreign cuisines is also available -- sushi restaurants in particular are currently in vogue.
Riga is a major nightlife destination for tourists and bars here are often open later than those in other European cities. On average, bars in Old Town will charge 2 LVL per beer and bars outside of Old Town will charge 1 LVL per beer. A specialty liquor is Riga Balsam, which is an acquired taste.
Riga is known for a sparkling nightlife. There is a difference in style between 'Russian' clubs and 'Latvian' clubs.
Stay safe
In general Riga is a quiet and safe city where you are unlikely to have any trouble.
When visiting bars and restaurants make sure you know the price before you order and keep track of your spending, so no cheating is possible. Beware of scammers who strike up conversations out of the blue and invite you to visit their favorite club or bar; this is often a favorite way for the fraudsters to rob the foreigners, and the police are unlikely to help if you get scammed.
US embassy has issued travel advisory for clubs and bars in Riga which are involved in crimes against foreign clientele. For whole report please read this page [135] from US Embassy (includes a list of establishments involved). See the infobox near the Drink section for a common scam run in Riga.
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When Lawrence Tech celebrated Veterans Day with a ceremony in the Buell Management Building atrium on Nov. 11, mechanical engineering student and former Staff Sergeant Kirill Pavlov brought the meaning of service into focus with a personal anecdote from the liberation of Baghdad in 2003.
While his Army artillery unit was guarding a base of the former Republican Guard of Saddam Husein's regime, dozens of Iraqi citizens came to the gates to inquire about relatives who had been arrested without due process and were never heard from again.
"I saw how the people appreciated being free from Saddam's rule," Pavlov said. "I knew then that we had done a good thing."
After graduating from Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Pavlov enlisted in the Army in 2002 and within a year was part of the force that liberated Iraq. He was trained as a crew member for the Palladin, a mobile artillery piece with a shooting range of 18 miles. Later he served on the infantry patrols that were so dangerous to our soldiers due to roadside bombs.
He returned to Iraq for a second tour in 2005-06 and also served in Afghanistan for 13 months in 2011-12.
Pavlov acknowledges that the ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq has made it harder to judge the ultimate success of the American mission, and there are similar uncertainties about the ultimate outcome in Afghanistan.
But he remains convinced that serving in the military was both the right thing to do for his country and for himself. "Being in the Army provided me with an amazing set of experiences. I gained a lot personally. I grew in my ability to lead people and deal with stress," he said.
When he left the military in 2012, he set his sights on a job in the aerospace industry and decided that the best path would be a bachelor's degree program in engineering. He was considering several other universities when his father suggested Lawrence Tech. A major attraction was a pro-veteran attitude that both he and his family saw at LTU.
He has also been impressed by the service provided by Norma Julka, LTU's financial aid and veteran affairs coordinator. "Norma is amazing. She takes care of everything," he said.
Almost 100 veterans take courses at LTU during an academic year.
Pavlov believes that earning a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Lawrence Tech will provide the educational foundation that he needs for his chosen profession. He considered transferring to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor to enter its aerospace degree program, but opted to stay at LTU and minor in aeronautical engineering.
"I love the small classes and my professors' attention to detail. It has been an awesome experience," he said.

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Drama took the form of teenage angst, peer pressure, struggles and decisions Thursday night as "Tumbleweeds" opened to a full house at the Old Town Theater.
Drama took the form of teenage angst, peer pressure, struggles and decisions Thursday night as "Tumbleweeds" opened to a full house at the Old Town Theater.
The play, written by a team of Burroughs High School students and massaged with help from Hungry River Theater, took on a life of its own as its cast of eight explored different meanings of life as students.
Each character played his or her part well, whether it was a scene of exploring the highs and lows of high school romance, struggling with grades, combating peer pressure and, abuse with alcohol.
Ridgecrest and BHS served as the backdrop to the event, localizing the pressures that students feel as they catapult through their senior year in high school and into adulthood.
The play also has a slow buildup, gaining powerful momentum as it progresses.
At center stage is David Johnson, who plays James. He kicks off the play with a monologue, reciting philosophical musings that end with the initials "RDP."
These monologues are interspersed throughout the production, serving as a break between acts.
"James" is a student struggling with his final year of school in everything except physics. His grades slump, confidence is always elusive, and it is portrayed that he has lost drive. This is offset by a group of friends, a cadre of high school kids with varied talents and interests, including "Abby Foster," the supportive but outwardly confident and smart girlfriend, played by Madi Freese.
"James" and "Abby" provide a counterbalance to one another, buoyed by a genuine teenage relationship laced with the uncertainty that once high school ends, they face separation as Abby stands a better change of going to college far away from Ridgecrest.
"James" is also shadowed by a young girl who is constantly rattling off statistics, whether it's the population of Ridgecrest or the percentage of high school students who drink alcohol by the time they are seniors. The girl, played by 13-year-old Jollea Marshall, goes unnoticed throughout the play except by "James." Marshall's character turns out to be a powerful device revealed in the epilogue.
Humor in the play is anchored to the reality of challenges and problems the students face as graduation grows nearer. This is offset by Marshall's character, who continues to provide statistics at various points to illustrate the struggles the characters face. It provides a stark, clinical impression to the studies conducted in real life.
Another core issue is substance abuse that manifests itself in the complicated challenge between "Trenton," a junior played by Alex Tellez, and "Jennifer," played by Karina Costanzo. Both characters are intelligent, but "Trenton" is driven by a need to excel and make his parents proud. His attraction to "Jennifer" is seen at first through the filter of a puppy-crush, but over time evolves into a deep concern for "Jennifer."
"Jennifer," on the other hand, is on the opposite side of the spectrum, as her accomplishments amount to little to no notice by peers and friends, and she receives no encouragement from her parents. Her choices throughout the play set her aside from her friends. Her choices lead her to abysmal grades and a penchant to party that becomes a struggle with alcohol throughout her senior year. This is amplified by her decision to hang out with party kids from outside the group, "Miranda" and "Chase" (Rebecca Rumph and Joey Davis, respectively), both of whom abuse alcohol.
Twins "Olive" (Payton Tuthill) and "Aiden" (Conor Heaton) can be described as the glue of the group. The twins are drama students, showing confidence both in their decisions and a flair for living life. Their odd antics allow themselves to act as confidants in a way. Both also show an independence instilled by the death of one parent in a drunk-driving accident, and the imprisonment of another. It is implied they are more focused on the future as drama professionals than other coursework. ("Olive" thinks a filibuster is something that Senate does to prevent the passage of a bill in Congress, while "Aiden" knows it's only a "good way to stall.")
All characters struggle with their own inner demons and uncertainties, especially in the relationship between "Abby" and "James." As the play progresses, the gap in their relationship widens. "James" finds a confidant in "Richard" (played by Giovanni Velasco), a popular football player later revealed to be a hard worker with no friends but a passion for writing. While "Abby" initially shows jealousy and uncertainty over how her boyfriend can confide in a stranger and not her, she later begins speaking with "Richard."
Relationships are frayed when "Trenton" and "Jennifer" are at odds over the latter's decision to party and abuse alcohol, despite the former's genuine concern about the problem. "James" and "Abby" have their own split, especially when "James" overindulges by consuming an entire bottle of wine and tries to force "Abby" into sex following a night in with friends, but is stopped.
Things reach a climax when all members meet at an end-of-the-year party and "Richard" is the victim in a drunk-driving accident. The monologues read by "James" turn out to be from a journal written by "Richard," the last entry being a completely personal one.
This forces many characters to take a hard look at their lives and make mature decisions, notably for "James" and "Abby" as one departs for college and the other makes a solemn promise to do better.
Overall, the themes give an impression from the students' eyes of what life is like for teenagers growing up in a small town like Ridgecrest. The use of statistics by Marshall's character, revealed to be "Callie," a key part in "James'" past, takes realities of local statistics, such as a rising crime rate in Ridgecrest, and the graduation rate.
All characters showed considerable talent, and rather than use the play as a tangent, they stayed on task and have made the production a compelling snapshot of how they feel as students.
The play runs through Feb. 15, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., and a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturdays. Tickets are $10 at Red Rock Books and at the door, at the Old Town Theater at 215 W. Ridgecrest Blvd.


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Friday, October 09, 2009
The Bigloaf Variations
1) Soccer Mom
2) Groundling
3) Relative of executive
4) Comic Book Writer
Did I miss any?
Bobby Bigloaf is a nerdy kid who longs some day to become a comic book writer (and then transfer over to the more lucrative business of writing cartoons). Just about all comic book writers wish they could draw but give up after finding that God didn't grant them the gift and instead choose to tell the artists what to draw.Bobby reads comic books voraciously (like I did when I was a kid). He tries scribbling his own versions of all his favorite characters in underpants, but gives up and instead dreams of becoming the writer of underpants stories, a much simpler goal. He writes letters to the editors of all the comics and sissies up to them. When he grows up he will attain the comic book-writers' #1 visual symbol - scalp disease.Bobby is a real Momma's Boy and his mother is always worried that he will hurt himself or catch cold (especially on sunny warm days), so dresses him in protective gear every day before sending him off to the neighborhood bullies.
Slab 'N' Ernie love to beat up little nerds because that's what they are genetically disposed to do. It's all part of the childhood neighborhood ecosystem. It's God's plan. There's no point in getting mad at them for it. At least they don't listen to Horror Core.
Now to the real point of the post: Character Design Variations
When I design a character, I do it by feel. I try to make the design match the personality of the character, but I don't tie it down to the point where all the proportions are exactly measured.
Instead, I design a general structure that can be modified somewhat - as long as it follows the adjectives that describe him.
Bobby is fat - but a certain kind of fat. Soft fat wrapped in tight skin.
His head is overall 2 clumps of fat that aim up into a rounded point.
His cranium is smaller than his cheek area.
His nose is long and points up at an angle.
He wears thick coke-bottle lensed glasses that are held together with medicine tape.
He has freckles on his cheeks, elbows, ass and knees.
His upper lip is high up on his face, leaving a longer fat chin area.
He wears a clean white shirt with a pocket protecter, shorts and rubber galoshes over his shoes.
OK - that's about as far as words can describe him. You wouldn't then try to describe each structural element of him in terms of exact angles and ratios relative to each other:
His nose is on a 45% angle and is as tall as his eyebrows, etc...
Model sheets at most studios (at least today) try to tie down the exact proportions of a character, even while having a generic design that has been used many times before. You are not allowed to vary the proportions or design and that is called "on-model". All the fun police at studios and networks love their on-model rule.
I don't believe in "on-model" to that extent. I believe in "generalized on-model". Does the drawing of the character match his general description? Do the expressions and poses match his personality? Can it be constantly varied and improved upon?This allows the artists a lot more freedom than they would get at a regular studio - but I am a stickler that it still looks like the character - you don't change the essence of the character, but you have some leeway to draw in your own style according to your moods.
Under these conditions...
As long as the specific drawings you do are:
1) good
2) funny
3) the expressions and pose are specific to the gag, the character, the emotion and the story
4) Look like the character to the audience and me - not to the production manager
This theory of mine caused me to have some really heated arguments with my favorite character designer Ed Benedict. Bill Hanna though obviously agreed with my approach because he used to call up his freelance animators and describe Ranger Smith to them over the phone.
34 comments:
- Kali Fontecchio said...
Pretty drawings!
You draw so pretty!
How did you get such pretty drawing skills? Pretty, pretty princess!
- Chris said...
WOW!!! I love the off-model/on-model approach you developed to your cartoons. It definitely matches the golden-age approach or we wouldn't be able to discern one animator's sequence from another.
Bobby Bigloaf is a great character, too. Nothing groundbreaking as far as the stereotype, but he looks great! Or maybe it's his name that's got me diggin' him.
Move over, Jimmy!!! There's a new Idiot in town!
I don't know, John. All the characters in Alice in Wonderland are "on-model", and it sure is a fun movie to me. Especially the tea party scene!
- ThomasHjorthaab said...
wonderful! thanks alot john!:)
new stuff
- John Scroggins said...
Here's an excellent interview with Sal Buscema.
He talks about his work process, the Marvel Method, and how he thinks that comics aren't just for grown-ups.
Interview with Sal Buscema
- bergsten said...
OK (asks the complete neophyte).
So how does your unique style tie into character design? I can look at these drawings and know immediately that "you" drew (or at least designed for someone else to draw) them. There's a "JohnK meta-style" overlaying the character's design.
How do you describe THIS over the phone?
(Bonus questions: Why draw on lined paper? And what's with the multiple colored pens in some drawings? SAID I was a neophyte!)
- drawingtherightway said...
Hey John I was just curious about something related to character design. You said that you liked your job as a character designer on Heathcliff in a post a couple weeks ago. I looked up your name on imdb.com and saw that your job on The Smurfs was as a character designer as well. In a post you made a while ago you said that you hated working on The Smurfs. I was just wondering why that character design job sucked and the Heathcliff one was great. Weren't you allowed as much creative freedom on The Smurfs?
- Andrés Sanhueza said...
I've read a lot of corporative "style guides", that have the exact technical details of how the brand logotype and allusive graphics have to be displayed for graphic design stuff. The theory of character design should apply to "style guides" as well?
- Kaiser Fate said...
I remember in the Aeon Flux animated series (the one from the nineties that was original and opposed to Hollywood formula, totally unlike the asinine movie), Peter Chung wanted Aeon Flux to look exactly on-model in one specific episode that revolved around the concept of clones (or 'copies' as he called them). There were two Aeon Fluxes and he wanted them to look identical, but beyond that episode he gave his animators more leeway.
I know in the two minute shorts, there was one episode with some extremely "off-model" shots which Peter Chung openly liked which were done by a very experimental Japanese animator. You could tell it was Aeon Flux but the fact she looked and moved a certain way really added an element of dynamism that you don't get if you stick to a set of rules and specifications too stringently.
- Niki said...
I've tried this exact thing once before. There's a women I've been repeatedly drawing and and I got it down to this. Miss Luup is an uptight early 30 something. She's a single mother and thinks she's "refined" and better than all of her friends, but if she feels nostalgic for youth she'll revert towards he old hippie habits. She dreams of a world safe for her son and everybody does the crap that they're supposed to, which has lead her to dressing up in tight underwear and fighting her neighbors. She loves children in general but they don't like her, and try to avoid her. She has a mother's figure, she's got a small cranium but a big frog jaw, which she goes to extreme lengths to keep hidden. a small chest and big behind, thick legs that tapper into small feet, with thin arms and tiny hands but she's taken a liking to wearing large gloves. She wears a body suit most of the time and adds a mini jacket if she feels like it and a scarf to cover her throat and a suffocating belt to look thinner. big round eyes two big bangs and two small ones that curl on her cheeks, while the back of her hair is stiff and stands up, she uses a hair band to separate the two halves. I actually didn't realize how long this was. I should make a post on this so you can see her.
- Niki said...
Sorry for another thing but I made the description after you made this post. I caught on in a few different ways.
- Gad said...
great designs
reminds me of the human characters in the Preston Blair animation lessons book.
i always wondered if all that kid class hierarchy system of nerds and bullies and all that is real, or just some thing the media invented...
thanks god i didn't have all that as a kid' i would have probably been a nerd. thanks god we didn't have comics, only good old TV, so i was lucky to be more influenced by ren and stimpy rather then the fantastic 4.
- Peggy said...
Best drawing of the Thing ever.
- Alex said...
"When I design a character, I do it by feel. I try to make the design match the personality of the character, but I don't tie it down to the point where all the proportions are exactly measured."
John, suppose one's in an animation program in college, and the professor insists the character's proportions are kept consistant.
I believe in your method of general on-modelness, as it's more visually appealing. It is, however, hard to animate that style versus consistant proportions.
As I'm a student of sorts, should I 'listen' to the prof. for the sake of a good GPA, or stick to your guns and be an animation deviant?
- O gato said...
I really like the designs of the bullies! :D I imagine them having the same voice actor who did the bully in the show Billy and Mandy.
- JohnK said...
"As I'm a student of sorts, should I 'listen' to the prof. for the sake of a good GPA, or stick to your guns and be an animation deviant?"
You should be very conservative while learning. You can't change proportions all through a scene if you want the action to be smooth.
I change the characters sometimes from scene to scene for certain emotional effects. But I don't recommend that to beginners.
- akira said...
i love bobby bigloaf! slab and ernie are much better with him around too! i wonder what his voice would sound like.. does "uncle" Eddie ever do cartoon voices?
p.s.how much would you charge for a drawing of Lockjaw (of the Inhumans) (i'd love to see your Medusa (from the inhumans) too!)(man i wish you were making an inhumans cartoon!)
- Chip Butty said...
John, god knows you spend enough time decrying animation writers but holy crap it's just so funny when you do. What are the features of a "Groundling" cartoon writer? I know they're responsible for Animanaics, but how do you spot one?
- :: smo :: said...
john i think you might wanna add that last comment of yours to the post it's important!
"You should be very conservative while learning. You can't change proportions all through a scene if you want the action to be smooth.
I change the characters sometimes from scene to scene for certain emotional effects. But I don't recommend that to beginners."
i think too people should be able to draw the characters on model before loosening up. when i started out i was too free with drawing stuff "my way" when i got a scene and i think i did it as a sort of excuse for not being able to properly emulate the actual style of the design. it's tough! that's why i like the preston blair exercises you recommend the whole scan and line up in the computer until proportions match kinda thing. being on model is challenging but i think it should be something we should hit before experimenting...instead of the other way around.
- Bryce Johansen said...
I use to know a kid like this...He used copy everything I drew...
I noticed that Bobby Bigloaf doesn't have a wide-range of expressions...most of the time he's just relaxed, blankly staring in his fat-boy little world.
I guess the best way for a character to have a good personality is not to shove every god-given expression known to man in the character and keep them to a range of personality-based expressions... is that correct?
- Eddie Fitzgerald said...
This is music to my ears. Congratulations for saying things that desperately needed saying.
- dancing platypuss said...
ottally agree w u man...the "on model" hell is one of the responsible of crappy animation
- Colter said...
I agree with :: smo ::.
- David Germain said...
Ha! I resemble Mr. Bigloaf in too many ways. Except I would like to write & direct animated cartoons and I haven't given up on drawing. Other than that, our lives are too parallel.
Are you going to bring this character to animation, John? I'd love to see it.
Great post & fantastic drawings! I think your approach is sound - Logical & fun!
What was Ed Benedict's take on the subject? What did he disagree on?
Done some more studies of TC:
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- Shawn Dickinson said...
What's horror core?
- drawingtherightway said...
Hey John maybe you could try an experiment. Post a text description like you did in this post of a character you've designed but have never shown off before. Then have people send you links to their drawings of the character based off of the text description. Then you could see who comes closest to the design you have! I bet even though everyone used the same description, you would see wildly different interpretations of the same character.
- ThomasHjorthaab said...
Hey John! Do you have the Chuck Jones book - Chuck Amuck?
If so, could you please scan a few pages to show it, cause I'm thinking about buying it from amazon, but it's from a private seller, so I can't take a look inside it...
Thanks, cheers!
- Thomas
- Oliver_A said...
Then have people send you links to their drawings of the character based off of the text description. Then you could see who comes closest to the design you have!
This has several problems, because if someone actually comes close to John's characters, he could claim that John actually stole the design from him. That's the same reason why a lot of film and TV producers won't read fan-written scripts sent to them.
- drawingtherightway said...
"This has several problems, because if someone actually comes close to John's characters, he could claim that John actually stole the design from him. That's the same reason why a lot of film and TV producers won't read fan-written scripts sent to them."
Your right I didn't even think of that! I suppose it wouldn't matter if it was a character designed specifically for the experiment with no intention of actually using in anything.
- JohnK said...
Well I would never actually write a character design. I draw them.
There are visual adjectives too - shapes that don't have words to describe them.
- Bryce Johansen said...
JohnK said...
Well I would never actually write a character design. I draw them.
There are visual adjectives too - shapes that don't have words to describe them.
-That makes a lot more sense then approach I've seen...
Written character profiles never work but they keep trying to educate people in schools/colleges into them.
It's painful to even try making a character out of words because you end up throwing away that mutual understanding of that character in your head and forced into categorising him/her into words that only partly discribe the character.
- HemlockMan said...
That ain't a bad Ben Grimm! You should pitch a story for him!
- lee artist said...
i think its ok if the character expressions go into the unreal realms if it is needed because cartoons are unreal so why not as long as it doesnt look silly i think its good. some of the mad hatter drawings werent exactly symetrical hence the unreal feel which is fine because its a wonderland cartoon where nothing is real


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The Kings broke out a new starting lineup against the Nets, "featuring" Aaron Brooks at point guard instead of Isaiah Thomas, and John Salmons at small forward instead of James Johnson. I took the bait and grabbed Brooks "just in case," but have already moved on in most leagues after he posted four points and zero assists in a pathetic 18 minutes. Of course, Thomas was even worse with one point on 0-of-3 shooting in 14 minutes, while Jimmer Fredette had three points in 10 minutes. The Kings' backcourt is an absolute mess and at this point, I'm going to try to avoid them all until Keith Smart figures it out or loses his job. And for the record, he says he's sticking with the new lineup. Whatever.
Roy Hibbert was atrocious for the Pacers again on Sunday and I don't recall my former hometown team looking worse than they have lately. Roy hit just 3-of-10 shots for six points, eight rebounds and two blocks, as well as committed six turnovers. He'll get it worked out. He has to. But as for when it will happen, I have no idea. Two words – Buy (very) Low.
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Jose Calderon wrapped up a fantastic week for the Raptors without Kyle Lowry, averaging 13 points, 13 assists, 2.5 3-pointers over his last five games. Make sure he's in your lineup, as it doesn't sound likely that Lowry will play this week. Linas Kleiza has hit double figures in four straight games, making him a sneaky pick-and-play with Landry Fields and Alan Anderson out indefinitely.
Sixers Evan Turner and Spencer Hawes, and Cavaliers Alonzo Gee and Tristan Thompson (two straight double-doubles) all had big lines on Sunday and are worth a look on your waiver wire this morning. Dorell Wright disappeared again and played just 12 minutes, and I'm moving on for now.
Sixers Evan Turner and Spencer Hawes, and Cavaliers Alonzo Gee and Tristan Thompson (two straight double-doubles) all had big lines on Sunday and are worth a look on your waiver wire this morning. Dorell Wright disappeared again and played just 12 minutes, and I'm moving on for now.
Klay Thompson was awful again on Sunday, hitting just 2-of-8 shots for four points. I joked on Twitter that I am anxiously awaiting for fed up owners to start dropping him so I can scoop him up, but I don't think you want to be the guy that drops him (yet).
Jared Sullinger played 27 minutes for 16 points and five rebounds Sunday for the Celtics, while Brandon Bass was quiet in 17 minutes. I think the changing of the guard is officially underway and I dropped Bass across the board after his five-game week ended.
If there's a more fun starting five in fantasy than the Trail Blazers, let me know. All five guys are laying it down every night, and all five of them (Wesley Matthews, Damian Lillard, J.J. Hickson, LaMarcus Aldridge and Nicolas Batum) are usually posting dynamic stats.
Joakim Noah nearly joined Durant and Kobe with a triple-double, but finished up with 16 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists in 41 minutes of a loss to Portland. And as you probably already guessed, Carlos Boozer was invisible, which happens when Noah is hot. Boozer got his on Saturday though, with 22 points and 12 rebounds, when Noah had four points and seven boards in that one.
Houston's Chandler Parsons stayed hot and had 24 points and four 3-pointers, and is must-own/start in all leagues right now.
Dwight Howard went off again and I think it's time to sell Pau Gasol, as there simply aren't going to be many rebounds left for him after Dwight gets done with the glass every night.
Kevin Love practiced on Sunday (5-on-0) and while no one is saying it, my guess is he'll play before December gets here. Nikola Pekovic (ankle) went through an actual practice and I'm guessing he plays on Wednesday.
Saturday Headlines
Dwyane Wade was out for the Heat, missing his second straight game with a foot injury. With two games this week, it's probably best to just bench him in weekly leagues, unless we get a good report Monday afternoon. They don't play until Wednesday, so I doubt we know much on his status today.
Andrew Bynum confirmed that he did the latest damage to his knee while bowling, and while I'm sure there's a great joke about gutters here, it's not funny. Just like his hair. If I owned him, I'm pretty sure I'd either trade him for a six-pack of Natty Light, or just move on. He may not play until January. Cut him at your own risk.
Kyrie Irving somehow had 26 points, zero rebounds and zero assists in a loss to Dallas, which probably says more about the dudes he's passing it to than himself.
Jordan Crawford replaced Bradley Beal in the Wizards' starting lineup and had 20 points and eight assists. As was documented in Waiver Wired, he is worth a pick up in all leagues right now. I didn't mention Trevor Ariza in WW, but he had 16 points and nine boards, and is playing better again, while Kevin Seraphin is simply too unreliable at this point.
Derrick Favors and Randy Foye started for the Jazz, sending Gordon Hayward and Marvin Williams to the bench, but it's hard to say how long it will last. Favors and Hayward should still be owned in all leagues.
Byron Mullens had 18 points, nine boards and two 3-pointers for the Bobcats and I'm ready to run him out into weekly lineups with four games. Kemba Walker's another must-start for Charlotte, while Ramon Sessions also looks like a safe play. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was good MKG on Saturday, but has been up and down.
In Milwaukee, Samuel Dalembert is hot, while Ersan Ilyasova and Larry Sanders are still ice cold. Mike Dunleavy played well on Saturday, but is still too inconsistent for my blood.
DeJuan Blair started and finally produced, going off for 19 points, eight boards, two steals and a block in a Spurs win against Denver, but I need to see him do that a few more times before taking the bait.
The Suns are talking about lineup changes, with Jared Dudley, Michael Beasley and Luis Scola being the possible losers. Just keep an eye on the situation (and on Markieff Morris and Shannon Brown).
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I believe that character designs were much better back when the job wasn't considered very important. At least not important enough to have a separate department for it. It wasn't even until the late 50s that character designers began to get credits on title cards.
Tex Avery is not beloved because of his own personal drawing style - unlike say, Chuck Jones. Avery used a variety of animators to draw his model sheets and design his characters. He wasn't all that concerned with having a consistent visual style. He liked to experiment and just wanted the characters to be appealing and animateable. Avery is admired because of his direction and personality - which used to be considered the most important job in animation.
The guys who drew character designs were animators - artists who knew from personal experience what the needs of a good animation design were.
1) Functional:A lot of early designs were merely functional and didn't show a lot of individual style. But they are still appealing just because they are so well drawn.
Simple is extremely important for animation. That's why the best classic cartoon designers spent more thought on the overall shapes, than on a lot of details.
Too many details make animators sweat. It takes too long to move something if you are spending all your time on extraneous insignificant details.
Too complex proportions:
It's also very hard to keep detailed complex designs from warping and changing shape when you animate them.
Realistic or even semi-realistic humans are a great example of what can't be animated well, so logically the best animators avoided these sorts of designs. The crappy result in motion is not worth the incredible effort of just barely moving the stuff around.
Hierarchical Construction
This gives the few details you have some order and structure. Smaller parts have to obey the positions in space of the larger parts. This makes the animation more convincing and also makes it easier to control more complex motion.
The thinking behind simple well structured designs and animation is far more complex than the thinking behind "realistic" or unstructured designs.
Detail does not equal complex thought. Quite the opposite.
Line Of Action
Even fat characters can have a line of action when drawn with knowledge.
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2) Aesthetic: Appealing
but not always: Tex had at least one designer whose work was kind of crude for the time.
Good design has balance-a hard term to define. You need a good balance of empty space VS filled space - clear areas to help draw attention to the details.
3) Descriptive of the Character:
The design should evoke some visual description of the personality of the character.
I'm not sure who drew these quick sketches, but they have Tex' personality and expressions inherent in them.
Even the UPA designers were mostly Disney or classic-studio trained animators and layout artists-so while they were trying to rebel against the funny-animal cutesy style of Disney, they still retained all the great drawing principles of the 1930s and 40s cartoons.
Most designs cause problems rather than help the animators do their jobs. I think it's because the job (in theory) has attained more abstract importance than it had in Tex's time and because the designers don't have to animate - or even layout their own designs. (Some do, but not all animators are automatically good designers either especially in today's completely illogical atmosphere).
I know, everything is subjective so nothing matters anymore.
But I'll take Tex.
Have lots of experience drawing storyboards, layouts and animation. Understand personality. Know your principles. Have a rare gift from God that can't be taught. - An eye for design.
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The job was pretty much done by sunrise, but then rust never sleeps.
The rusted steel sculptures are meant to look busy, as if the cyclists are hustling toward a finish line somewhere off in the distance.
Boulder-based sculptor Joshua Wiener said he was focused on them being a blur. I wanted there to be motion. As you move around the piece, it becomes kinetic, but on a smaller scale, it looks like a blurred photograph. Theyre flying.
The city of Durango was required by contract with the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, a race across Colorado, to publicly recognize cycling. Wiener won a competition to create artwork for the roundabout, funded by a $25,000 donation from Bank of Colorado.
Wiener was paid $20,000 to cover his time, the materials and all his expenses while the remaining $5,000 covered the costs of building a base for the sculptures at the roundabout, said Sherri Dugdale, a city public information officer.
Wiener said he started work before he was even paid something he usually doesnt do because he wanted to make sure the project was completed in time for the race, which will begin Aug. 20 in Durango.
The project required 24,000 welds because it is a layered composition of 4- to 9-inch steel bars.
Each little piece is welded in six spots, Wiener said. It was a lot of time under the hood.
The official dedication at 3 p.m. Aug. 17 will be something of a homecoming for Wiener, who lived in Durango for 10 years beginning in 1993. He rented a house off Florida Road with a bunch of guys who lived on their bikes, said his brother, Adam Wiener, who currently lives in Durango.
Joshua Wiener often took Florida Road to jobs downtown, where he met his wife, Gia, who worked at Ken & Sues. She now writes the proposals for his public art projects.
His brother Adam Wiener estimated that Joshua is working four to five public-art projects for cities across the country. So he is stoked to see his brother do a major project for Durango.
The Wiener family has always been immersed in art. Their mother, Madeline Wiener of Denver, is a stone sculptor who runs the Marble Institute of Colorado, a sculpting symposium in Marble, near Aspen.
Because he participated in the summer symposium, Joshua Wiener brought his cycling sculptures with him from his Denver studio. On his trip, he passed many cities that are also stops in the Pro Cycling Challenge.
Because the sculptures attracted so much attention on the road, he had his kids hold up signs explaining they were made for the Pro Cycling Challenge. He has a 7-year-old son, Anders, and 6-year-old daughter, Savannah.
The final leg of the trip was hairy for sure as he had to drive Red Mountain Pass near Ouray. Wiener then arrived in Durango on Monday night, parking the sculpture trailer outside his brothers house on 32nd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
On Tuesday morning, the brothers brought their coffee from home because nothing was open before the 5 a.m. installation.
Going forward, Wiener said his project would not require much maintenance by the city. Because it is not painted, for example, it wont require new coats of paint.
Wiener believes in no-fuss projects with long-lasting beauty.
My background is in stone (sculpture), Wiener said. Ive always had the approach that (art) should look as good generations down the road. I really love Durango. I would like to think when my kids move here to go to school, they would enjoy it the same way as when it was first installed.


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