Comments for The Curious Animator http://tomjech.com/blog Learning about the world and animation, written by Tomas Jech Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:46:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 Comment on Blizzard Creative Writing contest by Curtis http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/04/13/blizzard-creative-writing-contest/#comment-6044 Curtis Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:49:06 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/04/13/blizzard-creative-writing-contest/#comment-6044 Hey Tom, great story! I just started playing the SC campaign again yesterday, so this story was a fortuitous find indeed. Your story is very good, and that's from someone with some heavy background in SC lore. Good luck in winning the Blizzard writing contest! Hey Tom, great story! I just started playing the SC campaign again yesterday, so this story was a fortuitous find indeed. Your story is very good, and that’s from someone with some heavy background in SC lore. Good luck in winning the Blizzard writing contest!

]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #3 by tomjech http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4849 tomjech Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:59:44 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4849 Hey Shib, that poem does have a similar feel. Thanks! Hey Shib, that poem does have a similar feel. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #3 by Shib http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4837 Shib Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:24:54 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4837 U r inspiring me..im thiking of opening a blog with my writings.That will be a healthy excercise for mind.hmm..Lets see.. U r inspiring me..im thiking of opening a blog with my writings.That will be a healthy excercise for mind.hmm..Lets see..

]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #3 by Shib http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4835 Shib Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:20:53 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4835 Have u read The Listeners,a poem by Walter de la Mare? First part of this story was reminding me of that poem..nice work! Have u read The Listeners,a poem by Walter de la Mare? First part of this story was reminding me of that poem..nice work!

]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #3 by J. Martin http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4800 J. Martin Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:16:52 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4800 Yeah :-))) I just love good writing. Yeah :-)))

I just love good writing.

]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #3 by tomjech http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4795 tomjech Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:01:51 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4795 Thank you, Jay! Really good call. Totally works better that way. I've put up a revision. I'll keep the old ending here for reference: ** “POTATOPOTATOPOTATOPOTATOPOTATOPOTATO!!!” Ned relentlessly continued to scream the word faster and faster like an engine, until the world itself was lost within it’s own repitition. Kyle stumbled and redoubled his efforts, startled from Ned’s outburst. He could hear the men on the bridge now, calling and waving to them. They had made it. ** Thank you, Jay! Really good call. Totally works better that way. I’ve put up a revision. I’ll keep the old ending here for reference:
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“POTATOPOTATOPOTATOPOTATOPOTATOPOTATO!!!” Ned relentlessly continued to scream the word faster and faster like an engine, until the world itself was lost within it’s own repitition. Kyle stumbled and redoubled his efforts, startled from Ned’s outburst. He could hear the men on the bridge now, calling and waving to them. They had made it.
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]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #3 by J. Martin http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4741 J. Martin Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:42:58 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/23/story-a-week-3/#comment-4741 I like the terseness of your story-a-week pieces, and especially how you manage to resist the urge to explain. Here, with the exception of the very last sentence—if you, e.g., strengthened in the next-to-last sentence the implied cause just a little bit as to why the calling and waving comes through (the air around them getting back to normal), I don’t think you’d need that last sentence at all. Also, you’d be able to dispense with the “now” in that next-to-last sentence, which breaks the flow a wee bit. Anyways. Keep it coming! :-) I like the terseness of your story-a-week pieces, and especially how you manage to resist the urge to explain. Here, with the exception of the very last sentence—if you, e.g., strengthened in the next-to-last sentence the implied cause just a little bit as to why the calling and waving comes through (the air around them getting back to normal), I don’t think you’d need that last sentence at all. Also, you’d be able to dispense with the “now” in that next-to-last sentence, which breaks the flow a wee bit.

Anyways. Keep it coming! :-)

]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #1 by Shib http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/09/story-a-week-1/#comment-3932 Shib Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:32:52 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/09/story-a-week-1/#comment-3932 nice story!"to be a snowman"- is it a metaphor?..but a wonderful dream indeed.. Story telling on each Sunday?? Thats marvelous! nice story!”to be a snowman”- is it a metaphor?..but a wonderful dream indeed..
Story telling on each Sunday?? Thats marvelous!

]]> Comment on Story-a-Week #1 by tomjech http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/09/story-a-week-1/#comment-3774 tomjech Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:54:24 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2009/02/09/story-a-week-1/#comment-3774 Thanks Brandon! I'm shooting for a story every Sunday. Thanks Brandon! I’m shooting for a story every Sunday.

]]> Comment on Pixar Internship Work by Brian http://tomjech.com/blog/2008/09/23/pixar-internship-work/#comment-3748 Brian Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:23:23 +0000 http://tomjech.com/blog/2008/09/23/pixar-internship-work/#comment-3748 I think it is awsome that you got into the internship program at pixar, I am pursuing the same career as you, and, hopefully sometime in the future, I will be accepted at the Pixar internship program. The clips are amazing, and I have to ask, Was it hard to finish these shots? And what was it like at Pixar? I think it is awsome that you got into the internship program at pixar, I am pursuing the same career as you, and, hopefully sometime in the future, I will be accepted at the Pixar internship program.
The clips are amazing, and I have to ask, Was it hard to finish these shots? And what was it like at Pixar?

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