The final version of the Ain’t Misbehavin’ poster for the Orlando Shakespeare Theater has the two gentlemen smiling instead of singing. Ain’t Misbehavin’ will run at the Shakes from April 10 to 28, 2024. Tickets run from $32.86 to $48.76.
I have a full run of poster designs done for next season and I know there will be some evolution to each design. I try not to fall in love with one particular design since I just know what I like and that isn’t always the image that will sell the most tickets.
With my online Elite Animation students I am always pushing them to loosen up the drawings they do to get more gesture and flow in each pose. My goal is to focus on the action or the verb of any scene. I am not drawing or painting nouns. I want to feel like things are happening and a story is about to unfold.
That is hard to relate to students and even harder to put into practice every day.
On an unrelated note, It is day 1 in the new studio and OUC cut the power before I sat down to start writing.
Several days ago, had set up service online and then spoke to 2 robots who never understood a thing I said. I shouted my responses robotically into the phone but that digital bastard don’t listen. I spoke to 2 separate robots but I assume they are of the same digital hive mind. I finally realized I have to confuse the robots right off the bat and then they are forced to put on a human to answer the call. The human took all my information and did a credit check. She said everything checked out so I was set to go.
Fast forward to this morning and the power cuts off as I am making breakfast. My landlady was shutting off her service but I figured that OUC would be smart enough to roll my service on. After dodging a robot and talking to a human for over an hour she admitted she had all my information but the computer insisted that the service could not be turned on. I was put on hold, having to listen to horrendous call waiting music. Several service managers finally managed to bypass the computer system. Day one with OUC and I am not happy. I was better off with Duke Energy. What can I do? I have to charge my phone and summer in Florida without AC would be hell on earth.