Aaron Simpson just posted a huge John K. interview over at Cold Hard Flash. It’s well worth a read and a re-read. It’s loaded with annotations in the form of links and embedded videos. It’s a great history of internet (Flash) animation as well.

Amy and I were fortunate enough to make it to the Sonoma Valley Film Festival this year. This year’s events centered around a tribute to John Lasseter. Among the events we caught were: the debut of The Pixar Story, a documentary by Lelsie Iwerks, grandaughter of the famous Ub Iwerks; a presentation of Pixar shorts by Andrew Jimenez, who is responsible for the amazing pre-vis/animatic work available on the Incredibles DVD; and a wonderful storyboarding panel that included Mark Andrews, Jim Capobianco, Jason Katz and Ronnie Del Carmen. Ronnie Del Carmen has a post on his blog with some pictures from the event. Amy made it into three of the pictures and I’m hiding back there in one of them as well.

This was another in a series of events where we feel extremely lucky to be in Northern California. I know we’ll be talking about what we learned from the experience for some time to come.

I’ve had a lot of people ask me lately about what I consider myself, a designer or a developer. Well, I’m both. It seems to take me by surprise every time I’m asked. Probably because I never planned on being a developer. But now that I do Flash development, I can’t imagine not doing both. The other night I found this great article by Nick Velloff that describes what I do pretty well.