Spungella: The Making of Hotel Transylvania

Pages

Home
On-Site Animation Workshop
Online Animation Workshop
Animation Resources and Links
Post Archives
Best-of Spungella
Contact Me
jeandenis.net

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Making of Hotel Transylvania

Head over here to watch the clip!

Email This BlogThis!Share to Twitter Share to Facebook

Labels: behind-the-scenes, Fall 12, Sony

No comments:

Newer Post Older Post Home

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Sign up for Animation Workshops!

Get all the information here for the San Francisco On-site one and here for the online one, which is now all-year sign-up ready!

Online Workshops: all-year sign-ups and adding video reviews!

I've been doing this for a little bit now but haven't officially announced it via a post yet. After doing the online workshops for a while I figured that it was a lot easier on animators who wanted to sign up if the schedule wasn't blocked out in the usual Spring, Summer and Fall fashion (which I carried over from the on-site workshops).

Click here for the rest of the post...

Workshop Animation Feedback

Greg Facsko - Shrink - Video Critique - Watch the video review here.
3 weeks ago

Latest update:

Ben - Find out more about it here.
3 weeks ago

Popular Posts

New 100 Frame Animation Contest

Update (5/20/13) The winner will be announced at the end of this week! Today 5/16/13 is the deadline! Cut off at midnight! The topic i...
Muffin Jack & Jeremy - Acting test

Muffin Jack & Jeremy - Acting test from Salesman Pete on Vimeo . and more: Muffin Jack & Jeremy - Animation tests from ...
Final Monsters University Trailer
Animation Links, Tools, Tutorials and Resources

Here you will find an ever increasing collection of links regarding all things animation. Spungella Animation Workshops On-site Worksho...
Online Animation Workshop - Spots are open!

A big chunk of animators finished their Spungella Online Workshop sessions during the last month, which means that a lot of spots are open...
Native Puppets - 2013 May Batch Promo Reel
Reverso
DOGONAUTS - Enemy Line

Is that a John Williams score in the video? The clip is used to raise money, shouldn't they use music they own? I could be wrong about b...
Nate Lane - Layout Reel - April 2013

Nate Lane - Layout Reel - April 2013 from Nate Lane on Vimeo .
KAIROS Trailer

Holy moly I LOVE IT! KAIROS Trailer from Studio La Cachette on Vimeo .

Labels

About Me

Jean-Denis Haas: Senior Lead Animator @ ILM - Disclaimer: the opinions on this site are mine and not the ones of my employer.

View my complete profile

Animation School

My latest Clip

_______________________________________________________

DVD Review: Adventures in Plymptoons!

First off, a big thank you goes to Cassie Brewer for sending me a review copy of "Adventures of Plymptoons"! Every animator knows Bill Plympton, even if it's just a peripheral knowledge of his work. But I have to admit that I wasn't that familiar with his life and his journey to becoming one of the most famous independent animators. So watching this DVD was something I was looking forward to. For a quick overview, here are the official details: Click here for the rest of the post...

Head turns - The Master - 2nd teaser trailer

Sounds silly, but I'm a huge fan of head turns. Head twists, tilts, etc. A line of dialogue can have a totally different meaning with a slight adjustment of the head (like the head moving up in "True Blood").

Click here for the rest of the post...

Facial poses can ruin everything

A lot of times maquettes have a cool body pose, but then the face just ruins it all. Enter these two from Star Wars. The Grievous/Shaak Ti could have been really cool, but look at Shaak Ti's facial expression! Same with Asajj. It's so emotionless, what is going on?! Click here for the rest of the post...

Practice, practice, practice!

Isn't there a saying that you need to get a thousand crappy drawings out of your system before you get a good one? Well, the same is true about computer animation. You have to practice and not be burdened with the pressure that every shot or sequence you start will end up on your demo reel (more about this in a later post). And my plan is to do just that. Click here for the rest of the post...

Cloverball - and the importance of having fun

After a brief start in 2008 where I blocked out the first 5 shots I have now finally finished this little sequence last week and I had a blast working on it! But there's a little story behind it.

...

In my first character animation class, taught by the awesome Lisa Mullins, I learned what "animation jerk off" was. It was this clip:

Click here for the rest of the post...

_______________________________________________________

Flipbook - iPad animation app

I have a few different apps and they all have their strengths and weaknesses and so far I'm partial to Animation Creator because of its real time scrubbing and audio support and clean interface. The layer function is good too.

Click here for the rest of the post... _______________________________________________________

Reactions - Reference

There's a fun clip of Emma Stone on Ellen involving spiders. There's great reference for facial contrast and slow build up of a big reaction. :) Click here for the rest of the post... _______________________________________________________

Contrast in Performance - Mark Andrews Story Lecture

I was watching the "Mark Andrews Lecture part II" clip and the 9min 40s mark cracked me up. Great example of putting contrast into your performance! Click here for the rest of the post...

_______________________________________________________

Body Language and Acting

I was watching this abc7news segment and two things cracked me up.

Click here for the rest of the post... _______________________________________________________

Loading...

My 2011 Personal Animation Reel

Get to know me

Simple template. Powered by Blogger.