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Welcome to the May 2026 FUN ART NEWS. If you missed the premiere of \"The Glutton\" last month, get into it here:

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I like to do things that are more than one thing at the same time. So when I discovered a secret sauce structure that made me do the work, and then share the work, all while making parts of something ultimately bigger, I...

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EDIT: I'm rewriting this blog post. Every month I sit down and feel like I have to acknowledge the horrors of the world all around us to absolve the subsequent sin of writing about FUN creative expression and personal si...

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I can't even comprehend what it must like to be you, waiting every day of the new month, desperate for the FUN ART NEWS to drop unexpectedly. When it does, the feeling must be unbelievable. I'm jealous that I can only im...

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FUN ART NEWS #001: January 2026 video above, if you haven't eyeballed it yet. If you made it through the first 20 seconds, congratulations, you passed the first test.

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A lot of stuff is being built right now. I’m still climbing out of the rubble of what could have been a career until retirement, teaching and leading the animation program at UArts. It’s fine. Whatever. Who cares. Old ne...

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Hello, fellow boiling-frog! I'll begin by acknowledging the horrors heating up all around us. When I feel helpless I remember some basic advice, \"think globally, act locally.\" Or another way, choose one thing within reac...

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\"A Study of the Head\" premiered in Pittsburgh at the Strong Mind Festival, which was a super time. The short was also screened in festivals in Ohio and New York, and I've now shared the short online, check it out! (YouTu...

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My new short film \"A Study of the Head\" will premiere this Sunday October 20th right outside of Pittsburgh at the Strong Mind Showcase, a festival from the Strong Mind Project! The teaser for the selected films in the sh...

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Time for a little interlude between posts about me studying my own head. Feast your eyes on this new cartoon design created especially for apparel decoration purposes: The \"Original\" Seasprayers is a tribute to an old ra...

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The last two weeks were productive while I continued to study my head or the concept of my head in traditional and digital media. My sketchbook drawings continued.

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The study of my head through digital media continues. Over the past week or so I have gaussian splatted my head and the sculpted model of my head, creating two models that I incorporated into my Spline interactive games....

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Continuing the study of the head with the addition of a body! The head needed a body so it could run around in an interactive game built in Spline.design, so the modelling was completed in Womp.

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A Study of the Head continues with a more complete 3D model refined with more details in Womp. As I was creating a 3D head for this project, and I needed a game idea for a project in Spline.design, I decided to use the h...

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This week I began the study of my head in 3D digital media which follows on my weeks of 2D and 3D analog media explorations. Again following my intuition, I occasionally referenced myself in the mirror, photo, or thought...

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Week two and three of A Study of the Head were planned to utilize 2D analog and digital drawing and 3D analog media in the process of examining my own head.

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Context: This is some writing based on my first week working on my project, A Study of the Head, in which I use the subject of my own head to experiment across 2D and 3D traditional and digital media in an expression of ...

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I started another project this week. This one is A Study of the Head. More will be contextualized at the end in a few months, but until then expect me to share a load of weird drawings of my own head from my imagination ...

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The weird glitch where some unknown geometry pops up from below for a few frames is inspiring a glitchy style of editing which I might incorporate into the finished shot and just cut in a few other single rendered frames...

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I rebuilt the tube through which the camera flies more intentionally this time from a cylinder with a solidify modifier to double its thickness which produced a second ring of Gluttons when I added instances of them to t...

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Putting together the knowledge from a few different tutorials to execute something of a specific vision that keeps evolving as I learn more. The idea is to create a tunnel of upset gluttons as the camera flies through. C...

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Totally blindsided.

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Working on trying to rotate the instances of the glutton on this distended cylinder so that a camera fly through looks cool after some volume of mist is added. Just trying to get the basics functioning, and I should prob...

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Ultimately I want a 3D model of the Glutton character so that I can instance him in geometry nodes and see what kind of insane climactic scene I can develop during the surprise multimedia shift in the short film. I've be...

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This small tutorial from Ducky 3D is proving to be one of the most valuable yet. Because the author aims to make something specific looking in a short amount of time he uses many techniques that might usually be avoided ...

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I've always been somewhat of a computer-y guy. Here is one of my digital cool dude drawings from 1985. Also: more sketches have been added to the latest sketchbook!

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Following along with CrossMind Studio's tutorial here I brought in my model of a cool dude head that I modelled in Womp.com's online 3D interface and wrapped a few instances of it created with geometry nodes into a conve...

","url":"https://chrismcd.com/news/f/the-glutton-production-blog-09","title":"The Glutton Production Blog #09","summary":"Following along with CrossMind Studio's tutorial here I brought in my model of a cool dude head that I modelled in Womp.com's online 3D interface and wrapped a few instances of it created with geometry nodes into a conve...","date_modified":"2024-04-21T23:57:57Z"},{"id":"https://chrismcd.com/news/f/the-glutton-production-blog-08","html_content":"

For the spring quarter I will be using this production blog to document weekly developments on my independent study of geometry nodes in Blender. After being introduced to MASH networks in Maya (above), I was curious abo...

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I'm drawing in two different sketchbooks now, since I've added a pocket sized one, which is slowing down completion on the big one. Anyway, see more drawings here.

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Added another dump of recent sketchbook work!

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Final project presentation, documentation, and reflection.

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I'm proceeding on this project with the understanding that the very last possible day of the summer quarter is September 9th, so I will continue to try to add updates through then. Ultimately finishing the film project d...

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After experimenting with modeling the character in Maya in a basic enough form to play with blend shapes, I changed gears and cranked out this Veggie Tales looking guy who is also The Glutton in ZBrush, which of course h...

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I am using the next several posts to catch up on documenting the progress from this past month for this new media project which is conceptualized as a short film container in which experimentation can occur.

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Progress has been fitful between other obligations and the difficulty of prioritizing which fire to put out first. Posting a blog update has fallen through the cracks, but there have been developments on this film, and t...

","url":"https://chrismcd.com/news/f/the-glutton-production-blog-03","title":"\"The Glutton\" Production Blog #03","summary":"Progress has been fitful between other obligations and the difficulty of prioritizing which fire to put out first. Posting a blog update has fallen through the cracks, but there have been developments on this film, and t...","date_modified":"2023-08-24T14:09:50Z"},{"id":"https://chrismcd.com/news/f/the-glutton-production-blog-02","html_content":"

Thinking about some kind of punchy opening line like, \"There's two kinds of people, those who make their big ideas happen and those who leave one idea after another unfinished...\" blah blah, etc. The reality is that most...

","url":"https://chrismcd.com/news/f/the-glutton-production-blog-02","title":"\"The Glutton\" Production Blog #02","summary":"Thinking about some kind of punchy opening line like, \"There's two kinds of people, those who make their big ideas happen and those who leave one idea after another unfinished...\" blah blah, etc. The reality is that most...","date_modified":"2023-07-30T21:31:19Z"},{"id":"https://chrismcd.com/news/f/the-glutton-production-blog-01","html_content":"

I have a short animated film idea called \"The Glutton'' about a creature that looks something like the drawings here, who eats other smaller creatures until he is about to eat another that looks just like a smaller versi...

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It was an honor to win 2nd Place with Aldous' Harding's \"Tick Tock\" music video at the ASIFA East Animation Awards 2023 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

","url":"https://chrismcd.com/news/f/example-blog-post","title":"Tick Tock wins 2nd Place Music Video at ASIFA East 2023","summary":"It was an honor to win 2nd Place with Aldous' Harding's \"Tick Tock\" music video at the ASIFA East Animation Awards 2023 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.","date_modified":"2023-07-07T22:05:59Z"}]}