Working on Rant Animation

Here are some screen shots of Chris from the character animation that I am doing for the Alpha-Rant shorts that will be included on the CDs. It's looking pretty slick so far and the animation tests are going well. I'm hoping to have a demo preview up early next week.

Chris tells it like it is

Alpha Rant CD preview

I've been working on the jacket and CD designs for the Alpha Rant CD's that we are going to be putting out soon. There are over 150 hours of rants so far so the files will be in mp3 format(no way am I making 113 audio CD's per package O_o ), and I'll probably include a menu system on the CD - html or flash, I'm looking into it.

Below is a first look preview of what the package will look like. Each season will have 2-3 CD's included.

the first three seasons

Cat Grapes

My cat Boris likes to lick the condensation off of things, Cans, water bottles, windows etc. but I'm getting ahead of myself ... I had a bunch of grapes that didn't have a lot of flavor, they were getting kind of old, so I thought I better eat them anyway, especally since I got tricked into buying them because they were in special packaging..I washed them off and put them in a bowl and was about to eat them when I remembered a health food cooking show I used to watch on occasion back in the 80's. IT was an asian woman who would always do things like freeze bannas and grapes or fry them up wioth eggplants or something. So I said, huh.. you know a light freezing for 20 minutes or so might make these worth eating. So I put them in the freezer, and promptly forgot about them. So tonight They are hard as rocks. I wasn't so keen on eating them anyway, because according to Alton Brown freeing things like fruit creates large crysatals that can puncture cell walls, basically turning the fruit into mush ( this can be avoided by flash freezing, but that's another show ) after a few minutes they started thawing a bit and I started eating them.. Freezing hadn't improved much of anything. Boris on the other had, went NUTS over them. And that is a really long explanation for the two pictures below.

Frozen grapes are a great Lowfat Cat treat!

Condensation delight!