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abAutorig part I Pyro tutorial

Posted on September 5, 2010  | 16 Comments
Filed under Animation, Education

If some of you are still struggling to use Supercrumbly’s awesome abAutorig auto-rigging script, or have no clue on how to rig/skin, here is something for you!

The video is real time and has now, me, commenting on the different steps involved. If you double click on the video this will sent you to Vimeo where you can save the Quicktime file in HD!

Let me know what you think!

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14722424[/vimeo]






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abAutorig Part II and III, Pyro tutorial

Animation Mentor 2010 showcase

Posted on September 1, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Animation Mentor, Friends

Well it’s out! Some really really nice work from my fellow graduates and ex coworkers.

http://www.animationmentor.com/showcase2010/

Some of them have already landed top animation jobs and others will very soon.

And while we are at it, let me introduce you Bishop 2.0, the latest version of my favourite Animation Mentor rig. I haven’t had a chance to test it yet but this looks very promising and I have to mention that my friend the awesome Keith Ribbons helped out with the facial rigging.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WT7_F5wsQk[/youtube]

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Kaeloo

Posted on August 30, 2010  | 5 Comments
Filed under Animation

Few years ago, Supinfocom alumni and “Making of” french co-director, Rémy Chapotot, released the trailer for a crazy cartoony TV series produced by Cube Creative, Kaelou.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/12422185[/vimeo]

It took a bit of time but the 52×7 TV series finally got produced between french Blue Spirit and Belgium Sinematik and the series finally aired on french cable TV this summer. I tried to get on board last year but they were already fully staffed and my experience with Character Studio was way too limited.  (it is rendered in Vray by the way)

Here are few short videos that are getting me really excited and upset I didn’t work on it 😉

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/11648356[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/14002633[/vimeo]

a bit more reading and behind the scenes here:

http://www.qualia-international.com/works/animation/kaelou/index.html

Looking at the links he is featuring on his blog I understand immediately why his work looks so appealing to me, I have the same influences!

http://remichapotot.blogspot.com/

And here the Vimeo version of his graduate shortfilm
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12994244[/vimeo]

abAutorig Part II and III, Pyro tutorial

Posted on August 29, 2010  | 6 Comments
Filed under Education

[I am adding part 1 in here to centralize the 3 parts]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14722424[/vimeo]

This is Part II, IIIa and IIIb.

Tutorial Part II
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14514357[/vimeo]
Part IIIa
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14524954[/vimeo]

Part IIIb
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14896996[/vimeo]

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abAutorig overview, how to create a rig in 5 minutes
Autorig tutorial preparation work III

Composition 101

Posted on August 26, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Education

In the next few days I will be adding some content to that post but in the meantime, check out those two great illustrations on how to direct your audience and compose your “pictures” for a better readability.

Disney/Pixar - Cars

Disney/Pixar - Cars

Disney/Pixar - Incredibles

Disney/Pixar - Incredibles

iAnimate, Jason Ryan interview

Posted on August 24, 2010  | 4 Comments
Filed under Animation

A school were all the teachers are full time animators working at Dreamworks. Live instructor critique. Sounds pretty exciting doesn’t it?

Speaking of Animation just posted an interview with iAnimate creator Jason Ryan.

http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2010/08/podcast-jason-ryan/

If I were to study animation nowadays, I wouldn’t know where to go! It will take a long time before iAnimate’s community reaches Animation Mentor’s size but the facts that all the mentors come from one of the top feature animation studio and are all still employed is definitely a big plus. Also, people with experience can already start in the advance classes without having to start from the very basics.

Rig wise, I am not keen on the Boris rig at all but I have heard that a top rigger would provide iAnimate with a much more interesting one and it is also possible to use a rig like Norman.

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great Disney links

Posted on August 22, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Character design

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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How much do they earn?

Posted on August 21, 2010  | 3 Comments
Filed under Business of animation

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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Edinburgh Fringe festival

Posted on August 19, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Drawings, Portfolio

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.

MunQi

Posted on August 18, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation

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]

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