How "mad" got there isn't that interesting unfortunately, I was just trying to come up with a catchy name when I registered a business name for freelancing.
I can't speak for Chuck but we were chatting about it on skype last night and the consensus as I understood it was that "bugphuck crazy wierdness" and merit are not mutually exclusive.
There's a lot of work there and you've actually DONE it which is great as far as I'm concerned. Sure it's at the pointy end of wierd art student-type work, but there's a whole lot of different stuff going on and the path from passing interest to mastery has steps in between. If this is one of those steps, that's exciting to me.
There tends to be an expectation of clarity of story and message. But there is a lot of stuff outside of that.
I'm a huge fan of Bruce Bickford and everything he has done, and he's a weirdo with little or no coherent narrative. He's not commercially successfully or celebrated in animation schools but I think he was pretty amazing. The key thing was that he sat there and did it, very prolific, and developed a (wierd) style producing a lot of stop motion and freeform 2d (hand drawn because he was old school and bodacious.) (I like parenthesis.)
People stress story and I think it's important too, but we need to acknowledge that point - they say merit is based on how clear your work is, how well it communicates clearly to people. I find it really hard and while I love the making part, when I finish something I hate myself and the work.
I like your work and I like how it's wierd, too long, and your posts explaining it read like an alien instruction manual.
If you kept it a bit shorter, more concise with a story structure that would be neat, but that's just my opinion what would I know. You're not doing it for me, it's how you express yourself so keep doing it and bravo
