A Sunset

Brenda E. Spender

I have a couple of books illustrated by Brenda E. Spender, the following images are from "Important People" from 1930.

Her work has a special charm. She observes situations beautifully and her draughtsmanship is tops . Very inspiring!

The sketches look old fashioned , but in the best sense of the word. There is an honesty here, which of course is timeless. She would have made a great animator, her poses are full of character, like good animation key drawings.

I really don't know anything about her life, other than that she most likely was English, because this first edition was published in London.

Maybe some one knows about Brenda E. Spender and can educate us.

I remember Frank and Ollie using her work in one of their lectures as an example

of what to strive for when creating strong animation poses.

Louis C.K.

India Vs Pakistan World Cup Matches Summary From Year 1992 To 2011

INDIA faced it's arch rival PAKISTAN on Wednesday 30th March 2011.It was a tough match for both sides as they were having internal pressure as well as political pressure to win the match. INDIAN P.M Dr. MANMOHAN SINGH had invited PAK P.M SYED YOUSAF RAZA GILANI and President ASIF ALI ZARDARI to come and see the high voltage match between INDIA and PAKISTAN on 30th March 2011 at Mohali (Punjab).Indian fans as well as Pak fans came to Mohali to cheer there teams . Indian government had issued visas for Pak fans to come to India and cheer there teams .

         Since if we look to the past history of the WORLD CUP matches b/w INDIA and PAKISTAN ,INDIA has dominated PAKISTAN and has won all its matches against PAK and has a score of 4-0.India has defeated Pakistan in all matches played from the year 1992 when they faced each other for the first time in the WORLD CUP.The same thing happened on 30th March 2011, India won against Pakistan.Now here I am giving a brief summary of all the WC matches played b/w India and Pak from the year 1992 to 2011.

INDIA VS PAKISTAN ,1992 WORLD CUP

This was the first time two arch rivals were facing each others in the WC.India-Pak matches always have been a battle ground for both countries and during that time also that match was full of emotions played at s Sydney cricket ground.India decided to bat first after winning the toss and scored 216/7(49 overs),Pakistan were all out for 173 in 48.1 overs.Sachin was declared the man of the match.

India vs Pak 1992 WC highlights 

INDIA VS PAKISTAN WC 1996

Wills WORLD CUP b/w INDIA and Pakistan was played at M.Chinnaswamy stadium,Bangalore ,India won the toss and scored 287 in 50 overs with the help of N.S.Sidhu scoring 93 runs, Pakistan were all out for 248 in 49 overs. N.S.Sidhu was declared the man of the match .

India vs Pak 1996 WC highlights 

INDIA VS PAKISTAN ICC WORLD CUP 1999

India won the toss and decide to bat first and scored 227 in 50 overs for 6 wickets  with the help of skipper Mohd. Azharuddin and Rahul dravid scoring half centuries. Pakistan were all out for 180 in 45.3 overs.Venkatesh prasad was declared the man of the match for his superb performance by taking 5 wickets in 9.3 overs giving 27 runs.

India vs Pak 1999 WC highlights 

INDIA VS PAKISTAN ICC WORLD CUP 2003

Match between India and Pakistan took place at Centurion park , South Africa .Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first .Pakistan scored 273 runs in 50 overs, India with the help of Sachin Tendulkar 98 runs and Yuvraj's 50 were able to won the match by 6 wickets.SACHIN was declared the man of the match .

India vs Pak 2003 WC highlights 

Now since during 2007 WC both teams were not able to face each other as they were not able to qualify in there  group matches.

             
INDIA VS PAKISTAN ICC WORLD CUP 2011
On 30th March 2011, India defeated Pakistan by 29 runs and qualified for the final . India scored 260 runs in 50 overs, whereas Pakistan was able to score 231 in 49.5 overs. SACHIN was declared the man of the match .

                                          INDIA VS PAK WC 2011 Highlights

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan arrested on delhi airport- News that rocked year 2011

Pakistan singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was arrested in the year 2011, the day after he was detained carrying huge sum of money at international airport New Delhi .Rahat was taken to the DRI (Directorate of Revenue Intelligence )office at the CGO Complex after he was detained at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport .The singer, along with his troupe of about 20, was scheduled to fly to Lahore on a 4pm flight. The directorate of revenue intelligence received a tip-off that he would be carrying a huge amount of forex. 

    At the airport, DRI officials recovered $50,000 from Khan’s check-in baggage, another $50,000 from his aide’s check-in baggage and $24,000 from an aide’s hand baggage. 
    The troupe was also carrying two demand drafts of $10,000 and $8,646. Indian laws allow up to $5,000 in cash, or $10,000 in traveller’s cheques, to be taken abroad .After Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was detained at IGI airport  for attempting to leave the country with over $124,000, DRI officials said that it was a violation of the Customs Act. Later he was allowed to leave the country.

Earthquake that hit New Zealand in the year 2011

EARTHQUAKE HITS NEW ZEALAND'S CHRISTCHURCH-2011

This is one of my earlier post of the year 2011 which I could not publish that time.A massive earthquake hits NZ city CHRISTCHURCH on Tuesday Feb 22 at 12:51 p.m , collapsing buildings,burying vehicles under debris .Christchurch city has been hit by an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude shaking buildings, making people run out of there houses to run for there life.According to the sources at least 65 people have been killed ,fires are breaking out ,buildings have fallen down ,buses are trapped under the debris. Christchurch mayor has declared emergency and has told people to move out of the city center.Power and telephone lines have been damaged and water pipes have burst  filling the streets with water.The epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km southwest of Christchurch.

New Zealand is between  the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates that records on average more than 14,000 earthquakes a year ,out of which more than 20 are above 5.0 in magnitude.

Staging Pongo and Perdita

Just returned from A New Year's weekend at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

The parks were packed, but it was still a lot of fun to spend time there.

It sure brought back memories from when I worked at Disney's Florida Animation Studio on "Lilo & Stitch".

Time for another post:

These are staging ideas for a scene animated by Frank Thomas for "101 Dalmatians". Here Pongo is trying to give Perdita some hope that the Twilight Bark

might help find their stolen puppies. It's interesting to see that Frank is analyzing

the direction of movement and feeling through arrows, he even comes up with an abstract doodle on the last sheet, that seems to say: connect these two characters !

That last drawing shows a physical connection as well as a strong emotional touch.
Just compare it to the middle one, what an improvement!
First Frank thinks of the placement of the characters, then he adds real emotion.

As I said before, great staging is not easy. The audience often has only seconds to register what the animator is trying to say. But when the staging communicates like here, the scene becomes a warmhearted story telling statement.