Comments on: Show 027 - Ken Duncan, Part Two

By: Uros Setina

Uros Setina — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:14:24 +0000

Thomas, to xerox means simply to photocopy a peace of paper. Xerox is American company which started producing photocopy machines. AFAIK they were the only ones for some time, so the expression “to xerox something” stuck in the common language. I believe this expression is not used outside of English speaking countries.

By: Floyd Norman

Floyd Norman — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:21:57 +0000

I was able to listen to the interview on my iphone while flying to Pittsburgh last week. Great stuff as always, Clay. Sure makes the time fly past. More! More!

By: PEter

PEter — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:31:12 +0000

thanks for another great show. no problem with longer shows here. I listen to the Hollywood Saloon regularly and they’ve talked about how initially the podcasting community were adament about not crossing the half hour barrier and they’ve certainly proved that wrong with epic shows reaching up to 4 hours in length. Smodcast is another podcast that often goes beyond the hour mark, ditto with filmspotting. As long as there’s the material to fill a show I’m all for it. Thanks again, I really appreciate these (I’ve listened to the whole library nearly a dozen times).

By: Paul N

Paul N — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:33:58 +0000

How could more info be a problem? Yep, chalk up another thumbs-up for the longer format.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:47:24 +0000

Mark Mayerson, thank you. Dale Baer also talked about it in his interview and it all makes total sence to me now. Thanks.

By: Kyle Maloney

Kyle Maloney — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:43:42 +0000

Whoops, I left my comment on length on part 1 instead of 2. you can read that one for what I had to say. In short, I prefer them longer.

By: Mark Mayerson

Mark Mayerson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:03:35 +0000

Thomas, 35 millimeter film passes through a projector at 90 feet a minute, so 90 feet equals 60 seconds. In this interview, Ken mentions that he was animating 15 feet/week at the end of Tarzan, which means that he was animating 10 seconds a week. Just multiply the number of feet by 2/3 to figure out the number of seconds.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:30:11 +0000

Hey Clay,

It was awesome hearing myself on your podcast (Duncan, part ONE). Currently I do not have a web page, but I will post it once I do.

Regarding the length of shows, I personally like the longer ones. It’s much better to have a couple of shows in my library than several per interview.

Two questions:
1. You talk about how someone animates a certain amount of “feet” of animation. What does that mean?
2. (I don’t know how to spell this) What does zerox/xerox/zerocs mean?

Thank you Clay.

Kindest regards,
Thomas.

By: Dan Keller

Dan Keller — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:24:46 +0000

Hey there Clay!

I too am enjoying the new format. It’s great to hear how Ken Duncan mentioned the part in Toy Story, where Buzz realizes he’s not a flying toy. That scene is probably one of my favorites!!! Keep up the fantastic work Clay, and I look forward to the next one!

By: Hugo Orellana

Hugo Orellana — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:40:10 +0000

Hey clay, glad to see you are doing more episodes i sorta lost interest after there was sort of a drought on episodes back around December i think. glad i checked back to see if there were more episodes, these new episodes are so good keep up the great job and best wishes.