Online Cartoon panel at Ottawa Animation Festival
In all my recent posts about Ottawa, I completely forgot to mention the panel I sat on. On Thursday the 18th, AWN.com’s Dan Sarto skillfully moderated a panel called “LAUNCHING INTO ONLINE SPACE: INS AND OUTS OF WEB SERIES” in the opulent ballroom of the Chateau Laurier (above).
I shared the panel with Mark Bishop, Jason Chaney, and legendary director J.J. Sedelmaier. J.J. is perhaps best known for his years of hilarious Saturday Night Live cartoons and he brought a really articulate and honest point-of-view about how the Internet is changing the way he does business.
J.J. has been creating animation for TV for decades and is now adapting to the Internet. I, on the other hand, have only made cartoons for the Internet and I’m just now heading towards TV. Our reverse experiences are different, but we both agreed that the Internet is an extremely positive and powerful outlet for cartoons and any type of creative expression.
Later in the week, J.J. told me that I was a dead-ringer for Buster Keaton. “If the animation thing doesn’t pan out, you could get work as a lookalike. You won’t have to talk or smile or anything,” he quipped.
Here’s me doing my best stone-faced Buster impersonation. What do you think?:
Hmm… let’s see what Buster Keaton would like with my hair:
Oh my god.
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