Drinking and Drawing

Lets face it. Most animators are nerdy, awkward and anti-social. People can spend months and months working on a film that might only be seen by a handful of people. Drinking and Drawing is a chance for those geeky, black-rimmed-glasses-wearing, artists to come together and unite under the one thing they all have in common—-Drawing.

NYC is a perfect place to have Drinking and Drawing.
Here are some of the reasons why:

1. There are tons of bars.

2. Bill Plympton.

3. Some of the best young animation students.

4. Lots of single women, Lots of Starving Artists.

5. ASIFA-EAST.

6. It’s not Boston.

Drinking & Drawing from carrie miller on Vimeo.

Check out Pimpy the gorilla, our mascot for the first Drinking and Drawing in New York City, in this awesome promo. You can watch it in tomorrow’s Meth Minute episode, or on next week’s Channel Frederator! - Carrie

DRINKING AND DRAWING
January 23rd 8PM
M1-5 Bar 52 Walker St. @ Church
Manhattan, NYC

This is where you wanna be:
DRINKING AND DRAWING
January 23rd 8PM
M1-5 Bar 52 Walker St. @ Church
Manhattan, NYC

One more week to go people! If you want to sign up drop us a line and pre-register @ : savemeaplace@frederator.com
Time is running out, and slots are filling fast.
You’ll kick yourself later for missing out…
find out more at http://drinkinganddrawing.org/!!!
-Jeaux Janovsky, drunken monkey

This, my friends, is a sausage person. The basic building block to any figure drawing. And guess what?

This sausage person was drawn by a 12 year old!

Back in the spring, Dan and Fred decided to do a sober version of Drinking and Drawing with a 5th grade class. The idea was for them to get a basic understanding of how animation works. They each drew 8 cards of a dance movement.
But that’s not my point. My point is that ANYONE can do this. A lot of people are hesitant to attend or sign up for Drinking and Drawing because they think they can’t draw. To that I say “PSHAW!” We welcome illustrators, animators, filmmakers, cartoon fans and ANYONE to draw. Trust me folks, this is no “Fantasia”. It’s just good fun! - Carrie

DRINKING AND DRAWING
January 23rd 8PM
M1-5 Bar 52 Walker St. @ Church
Manhattan, NYC

When you come to the Drinking and Drawing party next week, you will be entering a jungle. This time the animated film that everyone is welcome to jam on will have a gorilla theme running through it. There will also be a live gorilla on stage. Clearly we are kicking the insanity up a notch from our last Drinking and Drawing party in Portland.

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After Dan Meth made his first Drinking & Drawing cartoon, we decided to launch an animator collective jam session event, and what better place than the Platform Animation Festival?

So, last June, we gathered a few hundred intrepid souls to make a film. The starting line-up? Bill Plympton, Patrick Smith, Dan Meth, David Levy, Lee Rubenstein, and Jerry Beck! Wow!!!!!! Check out some of the other action. And check out the cartoon everyone made.

And remember, D+D comes to NY for it’s first monthly event on January 23, 2008. It’s free and anyone can come.

–Fred

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Drinking and Drawing is a super-fun animated jam where animators and animation fans get together to draw and mingle. Those who join in the drawing fun participate in the creation of a film in just one night! Here’s how it happens:

Groups of animators are called up to the drawing area, 10 at a time. Each animator receives 8 blank note cards, as well as the last card from the animator that drew before them. They have exactly 10 minutes (that’s 75 seconds a card) to continue the animation on each card. At the end of that 10 minutes, all of the animators are kicked out of their seats (really, no lollygaging) and a new batch is called to the table.

It ends up being a high-paced musical chairs way of doing an animation, and it’s loads of fun! Plus, by the end of the night, we have a short film (about [Read more…]

Dan told me about ‘Drinking and Drawing’ when he came in the studio the morning after.

He went out to the bar of one of our colleagues on the Lower East Side of New York with a light box, a pile of white index cards, and an intern (Lee Rubenstein, now the production designer at Next New Networks). Dan and Lee ordered some beer and Dan was determined to finish drawing an animated film by hand in one sitting.

At first I thought he was crazy. But just for a minute or two.

As he showed me the drawn index cards and Lee played a little video he’d shot during the course of the night it all seemed cooler and cooler. Dan always has great ideas and this one was just crazy and great enough to work. One by one the drawings kept getting funnier and schizier and I knew with Dan’s skills it [Read more…]

That’s right, ‘Drinking and Drawing’ comes to New York City. Everyone’s invited. The first 100 artists who register become part of the night’s cartoon. Tune in to this space for updates.

DRINKING AND DRAWING
January 23rd 8PM
M1-5 Bar 52 Walker St. @ Church
Manhattan, NYC

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DRINKING AND DRAWING
January 23rd 8PM
M1-5 Bar 52 Walker St. @ Church
Manhattan, NYC

As we’re getting ready to fulfill our promise to make D&D a regular event, I though it might be interesting to take a trip through the history from Dan Meth’s first experiment through out decision to expand. –Fred

1. An Experiment

2. A Clip From “Drinking and Drawing”

3. Cartoon Brew and real brew

4. Looking for Drunken Animators!

5. Drinking And Drawing In Portland

6. Portland Newspaper writes up Drinking and Drawing

7. Drinking & Drawing Free Pass

8. Best Week Ever? The Drinking and Drawing Party.

9. 100 Animators in 1 Minute!