Remember sketchbooks? Being attached to the computer or iPhone basically 24/7, I often forget this simple joy. Sketching onto paper has such a distinct sound. The feeling of the pencil or pen touching the paper just isn’t something you can get on the computer. It’s just you and the paper, distractions are gone. You’re free to let your mind wonder and drift. This is something you don’t really get when you’re sitting at the computer with Photoshop and a wacom. When I sit down at the computer to draw I’m expecting or planning to make something worthwhile. With your sketchbook it doesn’t matter if it looks good or not. The goal is to get out as many ideas as possible in a free, low stressed environment. Often times you’ll find that most sketches or ideas are bad, that’s fine. The point of the sketchbook is to clear your mind and get some of these ideas out of your system. And then hopefully those evolve into better ones and it gets you thinking of even newer ideas. If you feel the need to disconnect and get away from your computer but you still have that itch to create, maybe you should go grab yourself a sketchbook.

It’s been one year since Daily Planet Productions ltd. released the music video, Money Money Money - “Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (Fuck Comic Sans Fuck Papyrus, Too).” The video still gets a dozen or so plays on vimeo every day and has reached 217,231 plays and received 3,209 likes and a total of 468 comments. It was great to be part of such a huge viral success. So why not set up that twelve hour render with out hesitation… and give the video another watch.

Lyrics Written By: Money Money Money & Jon Adler

Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen
Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen
Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen
Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen
Easy ease, ease out then I ease back in

1 2 1 2 this ain’t no scratch track
PC not me I’m on point with the Mac
Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen
I Easy ease, ease out then I ease back in
I control-alt delete kernel panic your brain
Your rotoscoping my style
I’m bézie-ing the game
My lens flare so bright I need shade
Smoke puff 02 I’m beach ballin for days

Yo apple-z these center cut kids bro
Your NTSC boy I’m hi-def in this bitch, you can’t touch this

I… be… like…
Fuck Comic Sans Fuck Papyrus, Too
I’m a lay it out straight with Helvetica Neue
Precomp prerender this shit is for the weak
I’m a 700 layer boy comp-ing freak
I’m a smooth operator when I’m using my Real Flow
Let there be light and apply my Star Glow
Light up the stage with global illumination
Set a 12 hour render without hesitation

And your shits crashin on Particle Illusion

Whack like a mutha fucker
1 2 1 2

Peep my chroma key, only way to find out
Slap’m with the Trapcode error footage not found
When I put it down y’all get minimized
In z-space like the Star Trek enterprise
Y’all can’t criticize I’ve seen you reel pal
- Shit is whack
Ripping off moves from Creative Cow
I’m the cream of the crop
The third button on your mouse
Daily Planet
Motion Graphics
Alpha Channel
Drop it now

Z-space is in the mother fucking house
Trapcode is in the mother fucking house
FCP is in the mother fucking house
Money Money Money is in the mother fuckin house