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“Creature box” blog

Posted on November 5, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Character design, Modeling, Portfolio, Video Games

I just found that great blog from some Insomniac concept artist. Too bad most of their sketchbooks are sold out.
I would love to model some of their characters one day.

[edit] well I just started 😉 Proportion are off, it is a very rough pass.

“Despicable” new trailer

Posted on November 5, 2009  | 3 Comments
Filed under Animation, Character design

I am frustrated by the lack of cartoony games those days but in contrast it is such a treat to see so many cartoony movies coming out.

Here is the new “Despicable me” trailer.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/despicableme/

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Mark Kennedy on Character design

Posted on October 31, 2009  | Leave a Comment
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Mark Kennedy from the “Temple of the Seven Golden Camels” wrote a nice post about Character design some time ago. This will inaugurate the creation of a new Character Design category on my blog. Character design is something I would like to focus on one day but this is not my priority right now. In the meantime I will collect articles that could prove useful.

Confessions of a Lazy Character Designer

His post made me realise that there are potentially two approaches to character design:
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AKA Marc Craste Pictoplasma talk

Posted on October 27, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Character design

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6064515[/vimeo]

Thanks Keith for the heads up, with Philip Hunt, Marc Craste is also one of my favourite directors. I guess that video was shot during Berlin’s Pictoplasma exhibition earlier this year.

Modern Martin has a blog!

Posted on October 6, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Character design, Friends

hehe, Modern Martin now has a blog so you can see some of the preparation work that went into the making of that great short film

“Modern Martin” is very Modern!

Bobby Chiu Video interview

Posted on September 6, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Character design, Drawings

CG talk just released a short video interview with Bobby Chiu during ComicCon2009. Check it out.

“Walt Stanchfield”, Don Hahn Webinar

Posted on July 22, 2009  | 3 Comments
Filed under Animation, Animation Mentor, Character design

Animation Mentor just posted a great conversation between Disney producer Don Hahn and Bobby Beck about the life of Disney’s life drawing teacher Walt Stanchfield. Walt Stanchfield was a keen tennis player but more than anything an immense inspiration for everyone at Disney. His family also released his famous notes if you didn’t get the previous pdfs

http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240810961

Check it out

“Monstre à Paris” short clip

Posted on July 5, 2009  | 4 Comments
Filed under Animation, Character design

Curious about “Monstre à Paris”? Max Vallon, one of the animators just posted a short video clip from the teaser that was shown in Annecy last year. The animation is 3d and the backgrounds are matte painted/camera mapped. For having seen the whole sequence, I can tell you that the rest is even better.

[update] most links are dead but I just found a video on youtube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7WJpYi12E[/youtube]

Read more:
Un monstre a Paris

Gaston Lagaffe by Franquin

Posted on May 23, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Character design

Listening to the Ken Duncan’s interview on the Animation Podcast I remembered those great comic strips from Begian author Franquin. I still can’t believe Gaston Lagaffe is more than 50 years old! No wonder Gaston’s car was a 1925 Fiat 509.  […] Read more

Harald Siepermann interview

Posted on May 23, 2009  | 1 Comment
Filed under Character design

Here is a very interesting interview of german character designer Harald Siepermann. Harald was animator then character designer on Roger Rabbit, Mulan, Tarzan, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Space Chimps and plenty of other great features. […] Read more

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