The evening began with a two hour Q&A about him and his work.
Bill is drawing the character for his next feature film called Cheatin. It is still a WIP but it looks really cool. There's lots of typical Plympton style crazy perspective drawings and cross shading. I can't wait to see it.
In this photo Bill is drawing a caricature of my super talented friend and colleague Mike Blackman.
Here is the caricature Bill did for me. I really like it, but when I show it to people they don't think it looks like me!
I decided to buy Idiots & Angels because I knew it was a great film and I didn't want to go away empty handed. I even got it signed which is pretty cool.
Mike, Bill and I pose for a photo! Bill's expression is somewhere between normal and smile for the photograph
Towards the end of the evening, Bill gave a longer talk about his work and we got to watch a lot of them on the projector. My favourite was The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger and another short (very short at about 30 seconds) about a woman who waits on a cliff overlooking the sea for her lover to sail back to her, which leads to a sort of blinding agony.
When he spoke about Guard Dog Global Jam, he asked if Mike could go up on stage to talk about his own experience with this unique animation experience.
It was a good night and really good to finally meet Bill Plympton.
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