Posted on August 22, 2010 |
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I was busy collecting some references for my shortfilm today and found some really good Disney links.
Animation Background. As the name implies, you will find a large collection of old classic Disney shorts/features and also more recent backgrounds. It is so cool to finally be able to take a close look at those beautiful watercolours.
http://animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com
The Art of Disney Animation
http://artofdisney.canalblog.com
That one is mainly in french but you will find a lot of artwork from the house of the mouse, among them a larger collection of colour scripts from Toy Story 3 than was had been available in the past.
and 2 more links that have been around for a while but a lot of people don’t know about.
The Pixar blog
http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/
Upcoming Pixar
http://pixarplanet.com/blog/
oops I was about to forget a great resources if you intend to do some research on old Disney short films
The encyclopedia of Disney Animation shorts. A great website if you want to track a Disney director or artist.
http://www.disneyshorts.org/sitemap.html
By the way, does anyone know who was the main character designer on Jungle Book, Sword in the stone, 101 dalmatians, Robin Hood and other features sharing the same angular look? With my colleague Karim we are not able to agree on this. I am aware Milt Kahl reluctantly became character designer but I am pretty sure he was only drawing in that very characteristicstyle. For some reason Ken Anderson keeps coming back to me but I can’t find any information about it. Any idea?
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Posted on August 21, 2010 |
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Ever wondered how much other people in the industry earn?
VFX Soldier collected wage information at various VFX, animation and games companies in the USA and organised the data in a very informative spreadsheet.
VFX soldier wages spreadsheet
Bobby Beck posted an interesting article on his blog regarding a new trend in the industry, despite the growing success of animated features.
http://bobbyboom.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html
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Posted on August 19, 2010 |
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For my coworker and environment artist extraordinaire John’s birthday, we went to the Edinburgh Fringe festival this week end. The town is soo pretty that I will have to come back and do more architectural drawing.
Posted on August 18, 2010 |
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My friend and now Pixar animator Jude Brownbill was one of the two animators who animated that really wacky and fun pilot for London based animation studio BlueZoo.
Looking at the recent success of “Despicable Me”, investors should get really excited by that trailer!
Check it out!
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14088312[/vimeo]
Posted on August 18, 2010 |
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It is now out! …. I just have to warn you that it is a bit shorter than the previous one 🙁
Posted on August 16, 2010 |
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If you lost track of what is happening on the Chiustream, here is something you shouldn’t miss!
“Sketchtravel” co-creator, Totoro forest project co-initiator, Toy Story visual development artist Daisuke Tsutsumi (Dice) was very recently interviewed by Bobby Chiu on the Chiustream.
Dice is an incredible artist and I was amazed to hear that he also spend a lot of his free time painting and drawing from life. This makes a lot of sense as there is no other way to keep improving.
With Sharon Calahan, Bill Cone and the other “Early bird painters” they usually wake up around 5am to meet around 7 and go painting in the country side for a couple of hours before going to work.
Just as a reminder, Bobby Chiu also spend 2 to 4 hours every morning on very specific exercises in order to develop his skills.
As a bit of trivia, we learn that Dice is married to Ohayo Miyazaki’s niece which he met when they were 6 years old.
You might need to register to watch the video but you will also have access to Peter deSeve, Aaron Hartline and other top artist’s interviews.
By the way, I just came back from the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Scotland and did a bunch of sketches which I will post very soon. I still haven’t had time to learn watercolour so don’t expect anything too fancy yet.
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