Posted on March 9, 2008 |
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A colleague from work (animator extraordinaire Jon 😉 ) showed me this webiste a while ago but I had lost the url until today. Brazilian animator Virgilio Vasconcelos has a great blog and one of the posts he wrote was an image composition walkthrough using the Hortons Hears a Who trailer.
There is nothing really new here but it is always good to see how much work goes into crafting those movies. Which reminds me that I wanted to do the same with a scene from Elia Kazan (1951) “A streetcar named Desire”.
Ed Hook did an acting walkthrough of the Steeeeeelllaaaaa scene during his workshop last month showing the change of status, psychological gesture, imaginary centers using Marlon Brando and Kim Hunger but I also noticed how beautifully Elia Kazan played with the shadows. Without the sound or even the acting, just by paying attention to the shadows or the graphic pattern, you would quickly understand the story.
Posted on March 8, 2008 |
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I didn’t know the work of Dr Seuss before the movie but I am starting to like it very much. Some of the shots are really really funny! If the videos weren’t streamed I would watch some of the shots or sequences in loop. The one with Horton and the feather has a great cartoon timing. The one with the mayor at the dentist with his flappy arm…… there are soooo many great shots that I wonder how they managed to cram so much fun in same movie.
Here is a selection of Blue Sky new feature’s behind the scenes.
Horton comes to life:
the tech talk is very interesting too.
http://www6.comcast.net/entertainment/horton/wacAEW2WR4U
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Posted on March 8, 2008 |
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a lot of people at work have toys on their desks here is a pictures of mine! Carla has probably the best ones but I don’t have a picture yet. Mine are all sorts of toys collected over the years. They all keep me inspired for different reasons.
The Pixar pot is a freebie from the Annecy festival last year, there is an african sculpture at the back which comes …. from Africa 😉 The muppet show and Aardman characters are coming from Forbidden Planet in London, Shadow is a designer toy from Nathan Jurevinius’s “Scary girl”, it comes from Playground in Soho, the Zombie robot is from a comics shop in Annecy, the Smurfs are a new addition I just bought in a comic shop in Bayonne. I just got Wario from a collegue at work who has an online shop (I can’t remember the url…) and there are few more toys which I bought from Forbidden Planet just for the proportions, or because the anatomy is well defined or the way they have sculputed the hair or the creases on the clothing.
Posted on March 6, 2008 |
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After few weeks working like a mad man. Class6 is finally coming to an end. Unfortunately I won’t be able to finish my short on time and will have to redo class 6 but it was a blast again and for this class I was privileged to have animator extraordinaire Jason Schleifer as a mentor..
For those who don’t know, Jason is an animation superstar who started his animation career at Weta and after few years at Dreamworks working on everything that was thrown at him 😉 he is currently a supervising animator on the sequel of my favourite Dreamworks show: “Madagascar 2” (Prince of Egypt and Eldorado are my second favourite).
He was really inspiring and having him for mentor for my short was a god send. He really helped me out in defining my character’s personality and without him I am not sure if my short would have been as strong. Obviously I am paying the consequences as well and some of the shots that were meant to last 4 seconds ended up well over 20 seconds 😉 anyway this will make my short even better and I don’t regret it at all! Instead of a 30seconds short I will end up around 2 minutes which is … perfect for festivals 😉
caricature by the great Mark Behm
Posted on March 4, 2008 |
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Did you listen to the Animation Podcast number 24! the first James Baxter interview was great but that one! Oh my god! Probably the most informative animation interview I ever listened to. You will probably want to listen to it in loop for at least 3 or 4 times. A lot of really really interesting informations on planning and acting for animation. It also made a lot of sense to me after my 6 month working as an animator but mostly after the great Ed Hooks masterclass.
It s here!
Ah I forgot to mention that I fixed the link to my 2d planning from few weeks back and also that I found a great flat in Annecy for the festival in june. I am signing the contract tomorrow.
Posted on March 4, 2008 |
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Not related to animation today.
After my experience with Animation Mentor this is something I have been thinking about for a while and is being relayed here by financial reporter James Altucher on an interesting interview with Farnoosh Torabi for TheStreet.com
Posted on March 3, 2008 |
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Here are a collection of old drawings and paintings dating from when I lived in Africa… 10 years ago. One of the digital painting is from yesterday night. I was playing with my Clean up brush in TV Paint and I love it. It gives such a clean and sharp line with a beautifull transition from thick to thin. Even better than Sketchbook pro.
