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Taekwondo 0

Miscellaneous

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Taekwondo

I haven’t been following much the olympic games those days but the few footage of TKD I found on the net were pretty boring especially since most official website only show the last round of each match so the opponent are usually really tired from the previous rounds.

I am currently practicing Thai Boxing but I still love Taekwondo very much and just to show that TKD can really be brutal sometimes, here is a video of the fastest KO I just found on Youtube. To me, since hands and fist are hardly ever used, TKD is more an acrobatic sport than a martial art, but sometimes the ending of a match can be really quick and lethal.

You can find a guide to TKD, here, on the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/taekwondo/7301041.stm

Great Photoshop links 0

Miscellaneous

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Great Photoshop links

Here are 2 great tutorial blogs and other graphic design links I just found.

Psdtuts.com
Abduzeedo.com/

some textures Designreviver.com

some fonts

I also used to visit the following websites back in the days I was into graphic design. I haven’t checked them for a while, I am not sure if they are still being updated.
Kaliber10000
designiskinky.com
surfstation.lu

If you know some interesting photoshop or graphic design related websites, please add them in the comments

What is AAU? 6

Animation

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What is AAU?

Norman rig

Norman rig

We normally refer to AAU when we talk about the Pixar Character animation class from AAU. You probably know them through the rig above, Norman or “the virgin voyage” or “Creampuff”. The Pixar class doesn’t exist anymore as most Pixar animator/teacher are now teaching in other school or working on personal projects.

Check the following links to see how good the work was .

http://splinedoctors.com/stuff/student_work/
http://www.jeandenis.net/Animation.htm
http://erikleeanimation.com/animation.html
http://www.atsushikojima.com/
http://www.imjuliechoi.com/3dani_frame.html
Mark Harris
http://www.sangwoolee.com/ani.htm
actually all the links from Leif website
http://www.leifjeffers.com/animation.htm
Jean Denis teaching website Spungella and his previous Academy animation blog
Guilherme Jacinto
Aaron Koressel

Uta Hagen, acting class 3

Acting

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Uta Hagen, acting class

Last year my ex girlfriend introduced me to the work of Uta Hagen.

I won’t go into much length about who she is tonight and will only recommend the purchase of her DVD “Acting class” and her book “Respect for acting”, both available at Amazon

Watching her videos, the lecture with Doug Sweetland we had at Animation Mentor finally made sense, especially the concept of Endowment.

Here is an extract:

and are some exercises I just found:
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~thea301/Rigdon/Uta_Hagen.htm

Beautiful, look what I found too!
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/05/08/respect_for_act.php

Paul Ekman 1

Acting / Animation

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Paul Ekman

Ed Hooks and Andrew Gordon kept referring to Paul Ekman and his concept of micro expressions, here are few video as an introduction:

and something a bit more entertaining, “Why we lie”:

Lines and colours 1

Miscellaneous

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Lines and colours

For the past few years, I have noticed a shift in my interests. In the past, I used to spend a lot of time reading technical books or browsing websites dealing with the technics behind digital art but for the past few years I have shifted my interest from CG to the real stuff.

“Lines and colors” is one of those websites I discovered lately. As the author puts it: “lines and colors is a blog about drawing, sketching, painting, comics, (…) and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.”

What I like about this blog is that you can easily select your favourite mediums in the category section on the right and browse hundreds of post about pastel, ink, watercolours…

Happy reading!