France Cul. histoire du cinema d’animation

Posted on December 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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France culture is running a 20 25 minutes episodes series about the history of animation.

It is unfortunately only in french. Click here to find the previous episodes

Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather on TV

Posted on December 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather will be broadcasted the 17th and 18th of December on Skyone. You can read more on skyone’s website . Don’t forget to check the very cool videos and there ‘s even a “making of” video by the MPC people. Thanks Rich for the tip

Animation principles

Posted on December 5, 2006 | 1 Comment
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Everybody knows the 12 principles of animation established by Frank and Ollie in the Illusion of Life but over the years many people have felt the need to add more principles.

Just to clear my mind I have decided to make a compilation of them based on Based on Leo Brody’s Walt Stanchfield compilation http://punchandbrodie.com/leo/stanchfield/
Chapter 7 Principles of animation page 155

1. pose and mood
2. shape and form
3. anatomy
4. model or character
5. weight
6. line and silhouette
7. action and reaction
8. perspective
9. direction
10. tension to extreme
11. planes
12. solidity
13. arcs
14. squash and stretch
15. beat and rhythm
16. depth and volume
17. overlap and follow thru
18. timing
19. working from extreme
20. positive & negative shapes
21. straights and curves
22. primary and secondary action
23. staging and composition
24. anticipation
25. caricature
26. details
27. texture
28. simplification

Things are still not very clear in my mind and as I go along I will refine that list with explanations and add ons. So far I am already thinking of adding
– Clarity
– Entertainment
– Sincerity

but also to take Adam’s variation in consideration:

4. model and character
11. planes of view

Colour harmony (uncomplete)

Posted on December 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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John K. and Keith Lango mentioned the importance of colours when designing a show. I didn’t really understand what they were talking about but since I want to redesign this blog, there is no better time to do a bit of study.

First if you feel lazy and want to find a quick color scheme for your website, run to
http://www.colourlovers.com/ , http://colormatch.dk/ (Internet Explorer only) “4096 Color wheel” or try the new free Adobe colour application Kuler (requires Flash9):

Let’s start with the basics. The colour wheel is a simplified approach to the light spectrum.

Theory:

Tiger Color

Tools

Verlee’s blog

Acting and Animation article

Posted on November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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an interesting article I found today:

http://www.chloeveltman.com/features/arts/actingandanimation.html

It features Glen Keane, and other masters of animation

Clearification

Posted on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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I haven’t been on Surfstation and other graphic design website for a while and I probably missed a lot but anyway, a very unusual website for you. Clearification.com I don’t really know what this is but there is this one guy sitting on a trunk and just saying stuff. “You should never tattoo a fish even if it was possible because that s not cool”, that kind of stuff and a bit of Windows Vista advert too

Tips for Safer Online Shopping

Posted on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127922-page,2-c,shopping/article.html

Ebay part2

Posted on November 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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remember the battery I bought on Ebay from China for my laptop? well it arrived less than a week later and after conditioning it for a bit I came to the conclusion that it is giving a new life to my computer! On the first test I did I managed to get 4h worth of battery!!! Unbelievable.

Now don’t rush into conclusions and think that Ebay is the safest place to be, I just came across an Ebay scam where someone forked out $36.000 for an email address thinking they were buying a playstation3!!! Crazy stuff