New Web Comic!

I've just started a new blog at www.mindyindy.com! It's specifically for the new web comic I've started called AER HEAD. I'll post there weekly with new pages, my process, and fun activities. I promise to actually post consistently there (unlike at this blogspot... last post in january omg...) Enjoy! Oh you can also get a free AER HEAD wallpaper if you subscribe to my posts in the green box to the right. Thanks!

Demo Reel

This is a demo reel of three animations I created in After Effects (Sammy, Cute but Deadly) and Flash (The Wizard's Apprentice) and cut to the music of Starling Electric. Well, it started out as a demo reel of my best work but kind of turned into a music video at the end! I really loved working on this and want to create more music videos in the future.

Music credits:

Starling Electric
"Prince of the Puff of Smoke"
Clouded Staircase
Bar/None Records

Go to this YouTube link to see my Demo Reel!

Go to Starling Electric's site!

Mindy's Art Show!

I printed the tally hall comic out on a big poster for the A&D alumni show! I'm super excited cuz it's been a couple years since I was in a show. Please come!!! Tell everyone - your friends, family, tally hall fans :P

When: Friday July 17, 6 to 7pm
Where: WORK gallery 306 State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Oh and I have some mini comics to give out - first come, first served! INCENTIVE!!

Hope to see you there! There's lots of other cool art too! WARNING: It's during Art Fair, so parking will be ridiculous. I'll be there until 7, but the gallery is open until 9.

Link to the alumni show site: http://www.art-design.umich.edu/alumnishow2009.php

Art Fair maps, travel: http://www.artfair.org/mobile/main.jsp?id=57

The show runs until August 7th, if you can't make the opening.

Tally Hall Part 1

This is the first part of the Tally Hall comic.  If the text is too small, please view the comic at the band's site:  tallyhall.com

The Tally Hall Comic Premiere!

This is incredibly urgent breaking news!  Please check out my latest comic project on tallyhall.com.  I've been working on this for awhile, and this is the first part of two (in progress!)  And please give Tally Hall's awesome music a listen too.  They do some pretty wacky videos too. 

Enjoy!

mindy

Yellow Submarine Mural

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine animation is one of my FAVORITE animations of all time!  I painted a mural of it in the bathroom of my co-op, with some help of my friend/housemate Laura Nichols, in fall 2007. This section of the mural was influenced by the "sea of science" part, when the sub diffuses into pieces like a checkerboard.

Laura drew most of this corner part and painted some.  I painted the rest and added stuff.

Go watch the animation NOW if you've never seen it!  My favorite part of the movie is when they meet the Nowhere Man - he's SO cute!!  (It's clip 6).  When they sing "Nowhere Man" I especially love the timing of movement, and how the images compliment the song and are downright SPIFFY - check out the perspective when they spin on the record.  And I wish a trail of plants grew wherever I walked!  

animatedly yours

mindy

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine © 1968 Subafilms Ltd.

Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza was an experience like no other.  (For those who don't know, it's a 3 day outdoor concert in Grant Park, Chicago).  I could go on forever about all the cool bands I saw/heard:  Radiohead, Rage, Kanye, The GO! Team, Gnarls Barkley, Jamie Lidell, Foals, The Octopus Project, Tally Hall, and many more.  

I drew this while taking a break from the heat with an ice cold coke (Ah!  So refreshing!  Especially after being so hot, sticky, and dirty all day.  But it was worth it).  Just people watching.  I've never seen so many hundreds of people in one place in my life.  The band line-up was so eclectic it drew all kinds of people.  That big flag-thing was a meeting place, because it was nearly impossible to find my buddy if we separated.

This was just before Jamie Lidell came on.  My friend Travis and I were dancing our booties off!  Jamie and his band dressed in these crazy outfits and were jumping all over the stage.  My favorite was the karate saxophone player - he played 2 saxophones at once!  This is the best part about seeing music LIVE:  The performance!  The action!!  The experience!!  You don't get no booty-shaking-karate-saxophonist from just listening to a CD, let me tell you.  

rock on

mindy