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stuff we talked about the Q&A today

“Simplified Drawing forPlanning Animation” is the book specific to Thumbnailing for animation.

Vilpu great life drawing and sketching courses, the guy is regularly holding Life drawing classes at Dreamworks, Disney etc.. Stephen Silver was mentionning him in his interview for all the articles and that one in particular http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&article_no=375 (7 pages)

I was also suggesting the reading of Hillman Curtis (not related to Cassidy) to Maciek regarding how to get inspiration MTIV Process Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer

And finally exhaustive and maybe exhausting notes on AnimationMeat.com Walt Stanchfield notes

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ok I have had my teacher assigned for this term, it is gonna be Cassidy Curtis. I couldn’t find any information about him on AM website but found loads of stuff on google well at least someone with the same name. So Curtis could be Senior animator at PDI/dreamworks and would have therefore worked on the excellent Madagascar! nice. I am now a bit puzzled, the classes are supposed to start today but i have no idea when/where/how….

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this is it, I am officially enrolled at Animation Mentor. The last 2 weeks have been a bit stressful. I only received my animation mentor enrolment package mid December and it took me some time to gather all my diplomas. Anyway, this morning I finally received my student number and got familiar with Animation Mentor interface. I am still to be assigned a mentor which I expect to be before saturday since the session starts this sunday.

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Osagie Xmas card animation

I just came back from Xmas break. Eventually we finished the Xmas card animation few days before Xmas. The pacing of the animation is too slow, plenty of things can be improved. The animation was done in a bit less than 5 days from concept to finish so with a bit more time it could be way better. A friend sent me a link to JibJab and I realised than even in cut out animation it is possible to do some brilliant work. Anyway we will do better next time. Here is a link to a small Quicktime version and an other one to a full screen avi Xvid version. Click here if you haven’t got Xvid codec yet

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Shadow

Here is a character I have started to work on a while ago and haven’t found the time to finish. Rendering is simple Max light tracer but i have tried to be a bit too clever and it ended up too dark. Post processed in Photoshop. I didn’t have his hands in the original toy and i am a bit stuck here….