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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Great stuff again Aaron. Love how you go through these pages, your influences and how it informed your style.

„When I moved back to the Bay Area from Boston, I lost all my art books in the mail.“ same happened to me... lost all my 80s SF/F Books when I moved countries. I didn’t replace them though, many are out of print.

I get it about the bag, I found a Tom Bihn bag and never looked back. Lifelong guarantee.

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Aaron Zonka's avatar

Just email me azurartist@gmail.com

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Aaron Zonka's avatar

Thanks again man!

There is just something magical

About the right bag. Keeps all the tools/ almost like an escape hatch for ideas.

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miter's avatar

Enjoyed the drawings and accompanying text, great work! I'm curious- have you done any animations?

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Aaron Zonka's avatar

Hey Miter, I have dabbled in frame by frame animation mostly in Procreate. Done a few animated Gig posters and some animated stickers/emojis for a start ups discord server. Slowly animating a short skit I wrote but it’s a slow process.

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miter's avatar

I imagine the animation process is very time consuming, especially if you are drawing parts of each frame, I have very little/zero real experience with it. But, I was asking in part because I'm working on an idea of putting together an "episode" of Substack "music television" that is partly inspired by old MTV, like, 120 minutes, liquid television, etc. The idea is a work in progress, but curious if you would have any animations that and would be willing to contribute. Asking @d.w. too but I guess I can't tag in here. Happy to try and explain further. Basically looking for clips, maybe 1 min max that are...weird.

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Aaron Zonka's avatar

I got a little something for you where should I send it?

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miter's avatar

Awesome! Probably easiest to email rjstubbs at gmail. Just starting to piece things together and can provide more info via email.

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Aaron Zonka's avatar

Never mind, the address didn’t work apparently.

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miter's avatar

Oh sorry, did you use this one? rjstubbs@gmail.com

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Aaron Zonka's avatar

Just sent it

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Neill Kramer's avatar

Amazing illustrations Aaron. I still think about your mom, especially when reviewing old Menlo Park photos.

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Aaron Zonka's avatar

Thanks Neill! Yeah lining in Meno Park feels like so long ago now but still pretty fresh in the old mind cavern.

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