{"id":641,"date":"2016-03-08T05:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T05:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=641"},"modified":"2016-07-16T06:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T06:35:49","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-toronto-workshoplecture-plus-goopy-spasms-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: Trembles Toronto Workshop\/Lecture (2016) & \u201cGoopy Spasms\u201d (2004)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMore twisted & weird than me!\u201d \u2013Robert Crumb<\/em>! \u201cThe lines are delicate & the material is not! Quite effective & elicits an oddly ethereal quality to basic yearnings & quirks!\u201d \u2013George Kuchar<\/em> (on my 1992 comic that became Goopy Spasms<\/em>)! Torontonians! Come see a rare PAY WHAT YOU CAN screening of my 2004 animated short Goopy Spasms<\/em> which will be topping off a Slideshow\/Lecture I\u2019m doing after my Animation Workshop at TAIS<\/a><\/span>\u00a0this Saturday (the Toronto Animated Image Society hosted at PIX FILM Gallery, 1411 Dufferin Street, Unit B, 7 pm)! I\u2019ll also be playing God\u2019s C*cksuckers<\/em> (2005, based on a comic from 1988) & Decensortized<\/em> (2006, based on storyboards from 1989)! The Slideshow\/Lecture will be more or less the same one I premiered at the Drawn & Quarterly<\/a><\/em> bookstore Halloween 2009 about my history drawing post-punk comics, Motion Picture Purgatory<\/em>, & how I got started because of my Canadian Golden Age cartoonist father Jack<\/em>, creator of WW2’s\u00a0\u201cCrash Carson<\/em>\u201d from\u00a0Wow Comics<\/em>! The Motion Picture Purgatory<\/em> pictured here, a scan from the actual print weekly\u00a0it was originally published in, was my shameless promo for the world premiere of Goopy Spasms<\/em> the movie, which was, bear with me now; an animated version of a live slideshow I used to travel with based on an autobiographical comic about my miserable sexual history! DO. NOT. MISS.<\/p>\n

The Animation Workshop preceding this will take place from 10 am to 4 pm the same day, Saturday, March 12 at the same address! I\u2019ll be discussing step-by-step the creative process behind the making of my animated 2D cartoons, especially my most recent ones Blabco<\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0& my brand new webisode pilot for Building 108<\/a><\/em><\/span> (with a never-before-seen animatic) & then inviting participants to collaborate on a short walk cycle with me! Still a few seats left so book now! Only $80 for non-members & $60 for supporting & studio members! Here\u2019s the official description from TAIS:<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of this animation jam workshop, participants will have collaboratively completed a short animation together! To take this course, participants should have some basic 2D animation knowledge of character movement (learned previously or after taking Drawn Animation 101 or 102). After a quick overview of the step-by-step process he follows from start to finish when making his films, Rick will lead the workshop participants in a collaborative drawing of an animated Exquisite Corpse* together. Each participant will draw & animate an upper body that will be combined with a lower body Rick has created. The crazier the character, the better! The goal of this workshop is to demonstrate the entire process of producing a simple 2D animation in a very hands-on way. All participants will be credited for the short film, & will receive a copy after the workshop is complete.<\/p>\n

*The Exquisite Corpse (or Cadavre Exquis) is a Surrealist collaborative art game originally involving multiple participants drawing an image on a sheet of paper, where the image connects to another drawn image that is concealed from view. The results, when revealed, are often bizarre, humorous, & fantastic!\u201d<\/p>\n

I should mention that the PWYC 7 pm Slideshow\/Lecture is ADULTS ONLY while the\u00a010 am to 4 pm Workshop is ALL AGES. I’ll have books for sale too!<\/p>\n

Booking information for the Workshop\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2004 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cOverinteractive Imagination!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).<\/p>\n

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Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n

Pictured below: The original promo PDF from 2004.<\/p>\n

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