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

sorry I didn’t manage to get everyone this morning…but you can send me some screenshots from your webcam and I will add you

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….

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.