ASSORTED BITS OF OTTAWA 2014

I think I've made it 

abundantly clear that the

2014 OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL 

ANIMATION FESTIVAL

was 

Das Boomba.

So allow me to share some more

pics

tidbits

ephemera

and 

doodles

from my trip.

Here's a sketch 

Gary Schwartz 

did while I was being

interviewed for the 

Animation Pimpcast

The schedule for those of us on

 the feature jury wasn't too bad:

But it was busy enough that I didn't get to

see too many other screenings.

I 

DID 

make it to

PEN & INK:

CREATING CHARACTERS WITH NICKELODEON

Specifically, it was about Nick's upcoming new show

PIG GOAT BANANA CRICKET!

Creators Dave Cooper,

Johnny Ryan

and Executive Producer David Sacks

told us all sorts of fun stuff about what goes into the making of

this weirdo show.

They even did a live-drawing of a new character

where the audience was encouraged to 

suggest what body parts it was made up of:

And the name I suggested,

BACON-n-KEGS

(because of it's beer keg body and

umbrella with a piece of bacon on the end)

was picked,

which was kind of cool.

While we're on the topic of

live-drawing,

exquisite corpse

kind of stuff, 

we were out late one night and

Maya Erdelyi-Perez

introduced us to an interesting game.

We were each given five pieces of paper.

On the first piece of paper we were instructed to

"write anything in the world"

For example:

Then everyone passed their 

stack of paper to the left.

On page two we were instructed 

to DRAW what was written on page one.

The stack was passed again

and we were told to 

describe what was 

drawn on page two:

And on page four

the next person had to draw what 

was written on page three

And then one more time...

Essentially it's a surreal form of 

whisper down the lane.

I'd show you some of the other drawings,

but I'd get arrested.

Here's another caricature someone did of me.

At least I think it's me.

It might be Jay Leno.

And then there's the

forever awesome

ANIMATOR'S PICNIC.

As if eating and drinking 

in a park

on a beautiful fall day

isn't enough,

there's pumpkin carving:

{sigh}

The Ottawa International 

Animation Festival...

It's enough to make 

David O'Reilly hug

festival director

Chris Robinson: