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[Jeremy] And Chris of course made 'Karatchi Scramble' which was [Casady] the last piece you saw.
[Jeremy] So can you talk a little bit about how you made that piece?
and what kind of ... I guess, my big question is, are the characters just text, or just abstractions?
[Casady] Uh, they weren't designed - I wasn't thinking of text.
I was thinking of scribbling [Jeremy] Interesting. [Casady] Yeah. And as I scribbled,
and I intended to be very sloppy and hasty in my scribbling.
That was almost the only intention I had, was just to be very quick with it.
And to make as many drawings as I could.
I sat down not knowing what to animate, but I knew I wanted to animate something.
And I knew i wanted to generate about 1000 frames or something like that.
I don't know if I got that many. And I thought, rather than thinking really hard about what's going to be on these frames,
I'm just going to make the frames. The point being, to just get quickly to the next frame.
And I'm drawing on a computer, I'm drawing on a Wacum tablet, and I can advance a frame with a left hand and draw with my right hand.
So I had this very quick, right-left-right-left kind of thing, and I just started scribbling.
And as I went, it kept looking more and more like calligraphy.
And part of that is because of the pen that I chose is a blade - a chisel point,
because you can choose different pen tips on the computer, and so the one I picked was a wedge.
A flat ... anyway whenever you draw with anything like that, it tends to look like calligraphy.
when you use that kind of pen tip. If you've ever played with chisel point pen,
you can make a squiggle and it looks like calligraphy, it looks like letters.
So the squiggles started coming out that way, and I just stayed with it.
And again I wasn't thinking of doing anything specific, I was just generating frames.
But as I did that, I got bored.
And sort of bored myself. And so to make it interesting, I started making deviations and coming up with those patterns,
and whatever I ended up with, that's what I ended up with.
There was just like one sitting, maybe sitting down for two hours drawing straight. Like that.
And that's what came out. And then I echoed it, and did that cascading effect on it.
[Jeremy] Any other questions about that piece? [Student] What software are you working in? [Casady] Flash.
A very simple tool. [Audri] And usually you start to work without a soundtrack--with a soundtrack, right?
[Casady] Yeah, yeah. This is just a piece of music that I found that happened to be the right length.
and i just stuck it on there and it worked. Yeah. I didn't know where audio was going on it.
[Jeremy] Any other questions about that piece? Thank you very much.