so heres another small ingrediant for Geralds imagination sequence - a 2d animation I did last night for the sequence.... Gerald thinks of a poodle praceing as the ideal dog for the Rich Couple.... The poodle appears....then goes into a prance...
as the dog hits his Show Dog Pointer pose....Gerald jumps from his bubble to the Rich couples bubble.
His face then pops onto the poodle skinny body.....for a small gag...and hopefully some clarification of his upcomeing behavior.
This animation went super fast since I thumbnailed this animation already when I was planning out my shot...
I also found this pic of my naked set floor which has thousands of holes in it...I just think its cool.
The dirty square is where Geralds cage was located. The long stip is the hallway set. and the third spot was just a test area.
Last thing to Share is .....a Piece of art work a good friend of mine Craig Harris did{http://piratoslocos.com/WordPress/ }. Its a Rough sketch for the DVD poster cover. I really like the whole design and Layout.....so I think I will use it as a nice direction to head for.
jriggity
It was the best vacation I ever had....I completely forgot about the film and for the most part all things animation. It was a completely Magical place called Tomales California. 
Some friends of ours let us use their farm Vacation house for a week of complete adventure and relaxation.
The House was on a HUGE Ranch located on the Coast of Bodega Bay. The Land was incredible......We arrived in the late night and had no idea of our surroundings till the following day. We woke up to a Massive spread of Hilly farmland with all kinds of livestock and crazy rock formations all over the place......Adventure time!!
Its so crazy to see all the livestock mixed into such amazeing geography......the cows and sheep dont look the same.....they seem more like wild animals grazeing the plains of Magictopia. The hills almost always have a mist about them too so it just adds to the atmosphere.
So heres some pics of the BLUE hOuse! The house had 3 bedrooms and was completley stacked with anything wed ever need....This used to be a Turkeyfarm so the land had 3 barn type houses .....and the about 16 huge Turkey buildings. A bunch of Horse Holdings and more to explore. Ohh yeah.......theres an awesome Sunset HOTTUB to relax in after a day of exploreing or cold water fishing! Ha! ....LUCKY DUCKS !!!!!
Hilly surroundings.....We walked the land just about every day ....finding new cool animals and terrain.We also Biked the hills on our friends Mountain bikes.This was super fun and monster Thigh Burner!!
as you walked the land toward the ocean you left the hills and into the Dunes....look at the atmosphere....and SPACE!!!.....So much room to breathe!!
On the Coast.... they got those Goonies rocks all over the beaches
so ....besides walking, bikeing, cayaking and Fishing we discovered all kinds of abandoned barns and wildlife......Deers , llamas , horses - cows - hawks - rabbits -seals -
another Unexpected and Amazeingly COOL Part of my vacation was to Meet and Take a lessoon in MAGIC from a professional Magician. 
WOW......out of nowhere We ran across a real Live MAGIC Shop!!!!!!My uncle used to take me to one when I was a little kid.....it made a huge imprint on my kid brain.So to find one 20 some years later was Smiles for Miles.
I asked shel for Magic lessons a year ago at my last birthday.We couldnt really set it up.....so we took the opporotunity for a lesson from a Master. ..........{The Baffling Balzarek!!!!!!!!!}
I met him for an 11 oclock appointment the next day..... He pulled out the table and asked me what I would like to work on.....I told him what I wanted to work on{Sleight of hand Coin Tricks are my favorite} and he put me through the paces.{NOTICE THE HUGE DORKY HAPPY SMILE!}
He gave me great feed back on performance - on my dexterity - on stageing ....it was awesome!!! so incredibly cool I couldnt stop smileing!!! He taught me a few new tricks and had me takeing notes on alot of his excellent advice. This was really a dream come true.....................................{ANOTHERONE!!}........somthing I didnt know if I would ever get to do and it fell right out of the sky at the perfect time. 
My film is now BETTER. Shel hasnt approved the shots yet but I feel pretty good about them.I looked at them in a quick test sequence and it worked WELL . We will watch them in the final edit sometime tomorrow. The biggest improvement was the showing of the two connecting. I cant wait to share this thing with you guys.
Speaking of music.....I went to see Wall E this weekend with my composer for the second time and loved it again. I am so blown away by how touching it is.....I hope to someday be able to effect an audiance like this film moves me. It has such awesome suttle moments of Walle looking and wanting to connect with the Girl bot. So Magical. I kept noticeing my face stretched with a HUGE smile.....WOW ....so amazeing what animation can do