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This is by far my favorite story of all those I have written.

After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story and I leave it to you as to how well I succeeded. I also undertook another task, but I won’t tell you what that was lest l spoil the story for you.

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything — and I’m satisfied that it should.

–Isaac Asimov

I’ve always enjoyed Asimov’s short stories and this is by far the best. You can read the full text here.

While maps have become a common site on the net, who knew they could be used to tell stories too?

http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/

This is a short animation I created a few years ago, about pencil and a sharpener. Its called The Pencil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-CGTczACYw

Spent around 6 months on a P3 system running 3d max 4 or 5 I can’t remember.

(Update: Audio is disabled by youtube due to copyright issues, well done Youtube!)

For those who have not seen the movie Kungfu Panda, it’s a 3D animated feature about a panda dreaming of kungfu greatness and eventually realizing his potential after going through various humiliation and training. While the film was undoubtedly high in standard, as expected from the producer of Shrek, I was surprised by its well executed opening sequence, which was done in traditional 2D animation.

Barely two and a half minutes long, the audience is treated to a fast paced action sequence with superb timing, color, character, staging, sound effects and narration, and did I mention timing? I feel that although the rest of the elements worked great together, it was the timing and pacing which managed to pack so much back to back action and effects into the 2 minutes yet allowing enough time for the audience to take it all in. Every motion had a purpose and was well planned to carry on the story and pace.

You can download the piece in quicktime format at Art of the Title, and enjoy it frame by frame.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/10/03/kung-fu-panda/