Live Answer Time! - Saturdays Noon CDT

[robcat2075]

On Saturdays from 12 Noon to 1PM Central Time I will be available on Google Meet and attempt to answer/solve/demonstrate any A:M question you may have.

1PM-2PM Eastern time
12 Noon to 1PM Central Daylight Saving Time
11AM-12 Noon Mountain time
10AM-11AM Pacific time

1700 Saturday Greenwich Mean Time (while US is on Daylight Saving Time)

You will need your Google account and a microphone. You don't need a camera, I don't have one either but we can show each other what we are doing with screen sharing.

To access the Google Meet, click on this link:

https://meet.google.com/fzm-rhzy-dcr

• You will need to be signed into your Google account.
• Your browser may ask for permission to use your mic.
• If you have trouble, send me a PM.

If possible, please add an avatar image to your Google account so you may appear as something other than a generic icon.

 

Catch up with past Live Answer Times at Live Answer Time... less-live archived editions!

[robcat2075]

Get live answers to your A:M questions at Live Answer Time at Noon CDT, Saturday July 19 2025!

 

 

Animation pioneer Max Fleischer was born on this day in 1883

 

Early comic strip drawn by Max Fleischer in 1903

 

Max Fleischer's invention, the Rotoscope.

 

Max is featured prominently in this "out of the Inkwell" cartoon.

 

[Shelton]

I love that video.  Great find

 

[robcat2075]

At the end of LIve Answer Time today we watched another Fleischer classic, "Koko's Earth Control"

To get the full effect,  cue up this video to 0:00 in one tab of your browser and mute the sound
 

then cue up this Philip Glass piece "Lightning"  in another browser tab (make sure the sound is not muted)...

 

Start "Lightning", then quickly switch to your Koko tab and start "Koko's Earth Control"

I first saw this silent cartoon at a show of old animation in the 90s and that was the music they played for it.

 

[robcat2075]

While we were talking about Transfer_AW at Live Answer Time Andy AKA @KingVidiot asked how I made the lo-res-mesh.

I recall now that I was mostly deleting splines from the original to leave spline rings that I wanted and did some adjusting of CPs after that.

[robcat2075]

On 7/18/2025 at 7:51 PM, Shelton said:

I love that video.  Great find

 

I think that's the most Max I've seen in one of these. 

Climbing the burglar bars in a suit was a surprise.  😄 Above and beyond the call of duty.