Showreel
About me
Contact
Rss feed

Chinese Animation Mentor

Posted on November 17, 2009  | 4 Comments
Filed under Animation, Animation Mentor, Education

Chineese AM

Chineese AM

AM expensive? Try the Chinese branch!

http://edu.hxsd.com/videos-10-220.html

The 8 minutes Chinese flavoured AM showreel should convince you how good the teaching is!

More seriously, except the serious copyright infringements, having worked with several Chinese outsourcing companies, I have come to realize that when it comes to learning animation, copying the masters can pay off. Cutural differences aside, some chineese animators are actually really good.

Marsera.com

What about an even more beautiful Outro!

Posted on November 9, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Video Games

Beatles Rockband

Beatles Rockband

Thanks Ross

Related post:
Passion pictures The-beatles-rockband-intro

“Creature box” blog

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

creaturebox

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.

Fongoid

Fongoid

“Despicable” new trailer

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

Despicable me

Despicable me

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/

[…] Read more

“Modern martin” behind the scenes

Posted on November 1, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation

Modern Martin

Modern Martin

Matt Morris just posted some more behind the scenes from “Modern Martin” short film. This time he is talking about the the technical approach of their artistic choices. It is not easy to translate 2d characters in CG and it is fascinating to hear how he went about doing that.

http://matinai.blogspot.com/2009/10/pre-production-work-part-2.html

Related post:
http://www.olivier-ladeuix.com/blog/2009/09/11/modern-martin-by-naomi-zahl-and-matt-morris/

Animation design

Posted on November 1, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Animation

Cloudy draw over

Cloudy draw over

A lot of people jumping onto cg animation with a technical or a realistic approach don’t realise that animation is a craft that requires a true artistic sense.

Animation is not just about copying reality but enhancing it. People tend to forget that when creating animation, there are in full control of every single elements and they are not bound to the limitation live action presents.

There is so much you can polish on a bad movie but only the companies who pay attention to every single part of the CG animation process can create outstanding “work of art”.

[…] Read more

Pixar going “Up”… or down?

Posted on November 1, 2009  | 4 Comments
Filed under Business of animation

Up or down?

Up or down?

I was writing a Twitter Tweet and while comparing the boxoffice takings from Pixar’s “Up” to Blue Sky’s “Ice age 3 (Dawn of the Dinosaurs)”, I realised that the numbers are actually much worse than what jumps to the eyes.

[…] Read more

Mark Kennedy on Character design

Posted on October 31, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Character design

Disney Aracuan

Disney Aracuan

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:
[…] Read more

Passion Pictures “The Beatles” Rockband intro

Posted on October 31, 2009  | 1 Comment
Filed under Animation

Passion Pictures "The Beatles"

Passion Pictures "The Beatles"

Passion Pictures Pete Candeland directed the “Beatles” Rockband game intro. The first part is in 2d giving us a summary of the Beatles career with stylised band members and the second part is all in CG done in the London studio.

http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/videos/cinematic

Check out the credits for more infos, you will recognize few names from Gobelins “Burning Safari” and a well known XSI modeler.

http://www.passion-pictures.com/flash.html

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.

← Previous Page — Next Page →