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Gaston the TV series

Posted on January 13, 2010  | Leave a Comment
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Gaston

Gaston

Gaston, my all time favourite comic by Franquin is finally airing on french TV. I wasn’t too excited when I heard they would be using After Effect rigs to give life to the useless intern but Normaal did a really nice job I must admit.

http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/anime/serie/

I would also like to mention an other one of my favourite comics, Leonard. That one has been given the 3d treatment by Ellipsanime and is looking very cool!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVG-9P7co7M[/youtube]

via Castuka and Henk

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Gaston Lagaffe by Franquin

Xbox gaming room

Posted on January 10, 2010  | Leave a Comment
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Xbox Game Room

Xbox Game Room

I am about to buy a new game console and didn’t know what to choose between the Xbox 360 and the PS3 since my Bluray movie library is increasing dramatically but this is something exciting coming on the Xbox 360!

This looks like a clever move from Microsoft. This looks like the Itune version of Arcade games and this is a great opportunity for the old Arcade developers to bring their old IPs out of the dust and fight against or conquer the illegal emulator scene. Pac Man at the click of a button on your Xbox 360 or what about “Ghost and Goblins” with portable achievements!!!!

http://kotaku.com/5443015/hands+on-with-xbox-360s-arcade+crazy-game-room

http://kotaku.com/5443104/more-hands+on-details-from-xbox-360s-game-room

I have the feeling “The King of Kong” will have a sequel in no time 😉

Angouleme International Comics festival 2010

Posted on January 10, 2010  | 2 Comments
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Angouleme festival

Angouleme festival

Well, well, well…. It looks like I might be able to make it to the Angouleme International Comics Festival this year. It is running from the 28th to the 31st of January in the gorgeous town of Angouleme.

http://www.bdangouleme.com/

Just for a reminder, as well as some NLP and Reframing tips, here is what Bobby Chiu had to say about the festival after visiting it last year:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3l7OTcEjI[/youtube]

Bill Presing also posted some pictures on his blog last year:

http://billpresing.blogspot.com/2008/02/destination-france-final-chapter.html

Is anyone else interested in going? I have no clue what kind of accommodation I will organize but I am sure it will be fine.

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Drawing reverse engineering

Posted on January 8, 2010  | 2 Comments
Filed under Animation

Rad "How to"
I just found that great website via Spungella.

RAD SECHRIST is a story board artist at Dreamworks who uses his blog to share some excellent tips on how to reverse engineer life models or finished drawings. I haven’t checked the entire website yet but that sounds amazing!!!

http://radhowto.blogspot.com/

Isn’t that Rad?!

Thanks a lot Rad!

“Alma” finally online

Posted on December 20, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Animation

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/4749536[/vimeo]

Story is not ground breaking but the shortfilm is a very enjoyable experience.

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Alma teaser

FX and Mat

Posted on December 20, 2009  | Leave a Comment
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fxandmat

fxandmat


I have spoken about those guys some time ago and browsing the net I realised they have a blog. I am not entirely sure who those guys are but they seem to be linked to the great british production company Nexus. Nexus is also a studio I have been admiring since the days of Satoshi Tomioka and his surreal short films like Justice Runners.

After the great Royal Bank of Canada advert, FX and Mat have created a very nice shortfilm for the next olympic games of 2010 and sharing with us some behind the scenes. Nice! {james I saw you ;-)}

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6718629[/vimeo]

Yep it is possible to animate in Max and rendering has never been an issue:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6718548[/vimeo]

http://fxandmat.blogspot.com/

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1276483[/vimeo]

“There is no such thing as a Gruffalo”

Posted on December 20, 2009  | 1 Comment
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Gruffalo

Gruffalo


Some of the best European Animation Mentor graduates worked on that great looking Christmas short film done for the BBC by Studio Soi in Germany. The Gruffalo is a very charming child story books created by Julia Donaldson.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq1ddK-Rlng[/youtube]
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“The Passenger”

Posted on December 16, 2009  | Leave a Comment
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The Passenger

The Passenger

During an animation lunch, one of my co-workers told me about a crazy Australian video game developer who spent 8 years making a 7 minutes shortfilm from animatic to rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, music scoring and music FX!!!

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Weight shift

Posted on December 15, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Animation, Animation Mentor, Education

The principles of animation have been laid down by Disney Animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in the “Illusion of life ” in 1981.

Some more concepts have been added over the years and one of the most important addition, or clarification, is the concept of “weight shift”.

When standing straight, our weight is equally distributed over both legs, so to be able to lift up one leg, we need to transfer that weight in the opposite direction of the leg being lifted up.

If a character were to lift up his left leg and did so without shifting his weight from the centre to the right, he would immediately fall to the left as 50% of his weight wouldn’t be supported by his left leg anymore.

Animation is about stylised motion but no matter what style of animation you are going for,
weight shift is a concept you should always keep in mind when animating a character lifting up one of his legs. Successful weight shift is what separate the boys from the men!

Here are several examples for you, a good one I just made in Maya using the great Animation Mentor rig Ballie and a very average one that is still on my showreel 🙂 {examples coming soon}

{my reel, bottles lifting up his leg}

Ballie Step to side

Kyle Balda has a great weight shift demonstration on the trailer for his Masterclass .

kyle

http://www.kylebalda.com/

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28 principles of animation

Pencil test depot

Posted on December 14, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Animation

Doppler

Doppler


Because of copyright reason, I wasn’t too sure this website would stay up for too long but it has already been 3 month and I must admit that there is a lot of amazing work on display so make sure you check the “Pencil Test Depot”.

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