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FAQ~
Q: What is Safe Mode, and how long will it last?

Q: What is your inspiration?
A: Music informed a lot of the decisions. Sometimes the story is formed around the music, sometimes the other way around. Music wise I like Boards of Canada, Lorn, Akira Yamaoka. Animation wise I am influenced by David Firth, and movies such as Ghost in a Shell. But I also enjoy the dryness and humour of shows like King of the Hill. Check out my channel page to see a list of other animators I find interesting.

Q: What does UMAMI mean?
A: Umami (/uˈmɑːmi/), or savory taste, is one of the five basic tastes (together with sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness). It has been described as savory, and characteristic of broths and cooked meats.

Q: What do I animate with, and do you use a tablet or mouse?
A: Photoshop with Animator's Toolbar Pro plugin, Premiere, After Effects, Cinema 4D Lite. I use a Wacom Intuos3 PTK-640 that was previously owned. You can get cheap ones on ebay.

Q: Do you make the music?

Q: What do you make the music with?
A: Logic Studio X, ASM Hydrasynth, Akai4000D tape machine. A lot of my earlier music was just made with Logic and a cheap midi keyboard.

Q: What sort of music do I listen to?

Q: What kind of artists do I like?
A: My favorites are Francis Bacon, Kandinsky and William Blake. Probably indirectly as inspiration, artists like Dali, Zdzisław Beksiński, René Magritte, Edward Hopper.

Q: Movie directors?
A: Michael Mann is my favorite movie director because of his use of music and iconic "mise en scene", or in other words stylistic choices in terms of blocking, lighting, camera movement. After that it would be David Lynch because of his ability to make strikingly unfamiliar situations feel familiar, it's kind of hard to describe - and also his music choices.

Q: Video games?
A: I played a lot of video games over the years but the one's that I used to play repeatedly include Full Throttle (1995), Shenmue I & II, Half Life 2, GTA: San Andreas. I recently got into Hunt: Showdown by Crytek.

Q: How can I support?

[uncannydeduction]

UMAMI, It've been thinking that you should do a computer game. Your graphics and music both are good.

[MrVisionDPB]

Your Production reminds me of -Boards of Canada- Everything you do is a Balloon.

You two should get together.

I myself left the DAW world, though I would love to Collaborate with such minds.

Well appreciated.