{"id":100,"date":"2009-08-05T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=100"},"modified":"2024-03-22T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:35:56","slug":"video-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/05\/video-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Video-Plague\"<\/p>\n

This was an early digital work done on a Commodore 64<\/em> using an Animation Station<\/em> which was a Wacom-like digitizing tablet. It was printed on a Panasonic dot matrix printer.<\/p>\n

I was trying to find the drawing I sent in to Uncle Floyd<\/a><\/strong>, but I found this one instead. This is Bubo<\/em> who was the mascot of Plague Productions<\/a><\/strong> which was my brother’s<\/a> and my film production company. We worked in Super-8 film and were hoping to move in to video thus the reference to Video Plague<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was an early digital work done on a Commodore 64 using an Animation Station which was a Wacom-like digitizing tablet. It was printed on a Panasonic dot matrix printer. I was trying to find the drawing I sent in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[33,341,27,344,5,34,35,36],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","tag-1980s","tag-commodore-64","tag-digital-illustration","tag-dot-matrix","tag-joe-williams","tag-rat","tag-rodent","tag-vermin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Video-Plague.jpg?fit=1826%2C1250&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37611,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/05\/22\/the-future-circa-1986\/","url_meta":{"origin":100,"position":0},"title":"The FUTURE circa 1986","author":"Joe","date":"May 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Bubo the Rat is one of my earliest digital illustrations. 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