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Method acting

Posted on July 23, 2008  | Leave a Comment
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Sanford Meisner, Theatre best kept secret

Posted on July 23, 2008  | Leave a Comment
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Here is a link to a 7 part documentary on Sanford Meisner. Don’t be put off by his voice problem, the teaching is great.

Uta Hagen, acting class

Posted on July 23, 2008  | 3 Comments
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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

Posted on July 23, 2008  | 1 Comment
Filed under Acting, Animation

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

Posted on July 23, 2008  | 1 Comment
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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!

“The human animal”

Posted on July 22, 2008  | 2 Comments
Filed under Acting, Animation

Desmond Morris is regularly referred by top character animator for his zoology studies applied to the human: “Manwatching” as he called his 1977 book.

He wrote few book but as a start you could already check his first video from a series of 6 called “the language of the body”. Consider yourself lucky I think they are all available on Google video.

The first one is probably the most interesting as he quickly goes through a classification of gestures.

If you want to know more about the man. Check that fascinating 58 minutes video about his life.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.6

Posted on July 22, 2008  | Leave a Comment
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After few days of struggle with Media Temple, I finally managed to update my blog to WordPress 2.6.

For the past few month my blog suffered from invisible HTML injections advertising Viagra and other stuff and I couldn't upload any pictures anymore.

The update went fairly smoothly. My category names were gone but luckily they were still existent with an invisible name in the database. I had an old page still open and I could give update the names.

I am not too excited about the way the pictures are handled and I haven't been able to upload any so far.

Anyway everything seems to be find and I should be able to embed videos now. 

 

something I am working on

Posted on July 3, 2008  | 2 Comments
Filed under Animation

here is something I am working on. A secret project due in 30 days 😉

I graduated!

Posted on June 18, 2008  | 1 Comment
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after 2 years and a half I finally graduted from the online Animation Mentor training. AM wasn't an easy experience but it was really worth it. I met a bunch of incredible people and a lot of talented animators. I also got a job out of it, in one of the best video game companies.

I thought redoing class6 would be easy since a lot of shots had been approved by my previous mentor Jason but Kevin pushed me in a different direction and I had to reblock a huge section of it. My short is still not finished but I still like my short very much and will keep working on it until I am pleased with the result.
I think I should be able to post a bit more often on my blog in the futur but there is already a new deadline with Siggraph so let's see what happen. Keep an eye on that space, I have a lot of things to say about the Annecy animation festival. I got to meet Bolhem Bouchiba, a very very nice animator from Pixar. I got to test TV Paint 9 and talk to the developers this year again. I saw Doug Sweetland "Presto", I participated to a presentation of "Monstre a Paris" (A Monster in Paris)… I got to do some pedalo on the Annecy Lac 😉 a lot of great things!
In the meantime, here is a pic of most of my classmates for this term under the mentoring of Kevin Koch

Explorer.exe crashing browsing video files

Posted on May 17, 2008  | Comments Off on Explorer.exe crashing browsing video files
Filed under IT, Life hack

Quick post.
If like me your Explorer crashes when opening a folder with video files, it s probably because you installed some dodgey software which is taking over the default explorer thumbnail generator.

To restore it, open the registry editor (type regedit in the command line)

find the following key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler

and delete whatever value you have for the “Default” key. Press Ok restart and off you go!

avicrash.jpg

Thanks google and Annoyances.org website.

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