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I leaned things the hard way from MySpace and YouTube. If you don’t jump on a new Web 2.0 craze fast enough, you’re going to lose the user name that’s rightfully yours! So today I got my act together and reserved http://twitter.com/Base14 for everyone right here at Base14! Take THAT, http://www.myspace.com/base14. Someday I will track you down in your comfy Providence, Rhode Island home and make you hand that domain name over to me! As much as I hate MySpace, I can’t bear to think Base14 isn’t properly represented.

Anyway, if you just love everything we do here at Base14 and just need more, more, more, then jump right onto the Base14 twitter and get all the exciting minute-by-minute updates as they come rolling in! And if you’re more old-fashioned, remember that the Base14 RSS feed is a great way to get new posts delivered right to your digital doorstep.

With the Fall quarter done here at SCAD, it’s time to launch into high gear on the long-term project at Base14. For now it is still classified, but what I can tell you is that it’s another animated short film expected for a Spring 2009 release.

Today, however, I’d like to share with everyone another stepping stone on my personal path toward animation enlightenment. I present to you a paper I penned for my contemporary art class, entitled: The Potential of 2D Animation as a Digitally Produced Art Form. The paper explores the maturation of animation as a traditional art form, and how it has progressed into a digital world. As you can guess from my main argument in the paper, my next film is a digital 2D piece. I learned a great deal about animation history and current trends from this paper. I’m actually really glad I wrote it.

You can read the entire paper via the link on the right.

And you know, while I’m thinking about it, I’d like to step onto my soap box for a moment and suggest that the APA and MPA bring their style guidelines into the 21st century. The indentation, rugged double spacing and non-existent italicization all stem from the days when masters students plunked out their thesis papers on typewriters. Get with the times, guys. Rewrite those guidelines to take full advantage of modern word processors. Same goes for script writing standards, too. Just think how much the readability would improve if we could format scripts in a modern way.

*Steps down from soap box*