Head over to the 11secondclub blog and read through the interview with Jamie Giger! Great insight into his reel, which got him a job at Blue Sky Studios. Thanks Romit for the tip!
Friday, July 29, 2011
11secondclub Interview: Jamie Giger, Blue Sky Studios Animator
Head over to the 11secondclub blog and read through the interview with Jamie Giger! Great insight into his reel, which got him a job at Blue Sky Studios. Thanks Romit for the tip!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Fall 2011 Spungella Workshops sign-ups
The Summer Workshops are coming to an end and Fall is just around the corner! If you're interested, sign up for the On-site or Online Workshops!
To learn more about it, read the FAQs:
- On-Site Workshop FAQ
- Online Workshop FAQ
If you have questions that are not covered in the FAQs, just shoot me an email!
The On-site Workshop starts Monday, September 5th. Both Monday and Thursday are available. You can choose between the two days. How many spots are left can be seen here.
The Online Workshop starts Monday, August 29th. You can see how many spots are left here.
On-site Workshops are $800 for 16 weeks, one session a week plus email feedback.
Online Workshops are $500 for 16 weeks, with unlimited email feedback.
That's about it! See you soon!
Cheers
JD
Thursday, July 21, 2011
100 Frame Animation Contest - Summer 2011
Contest is CLOSED. Thanks for all the entries!
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Topic is: MAGIC
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Topic is: MAGIC
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Start: Monday, August 1st, 9:00 am
End: Monday, August 8th, 9:00 am
San Francisco, USA, Timezone!
100 frames, no more, no less. Adding sound is okay. Any rig is fine. Any style is fine. 1st place winner gets any $50 gift from Amazon.com (Amazon must be able to ship to your address).
Email me your quicktime movie or a link to youtube/vimeo/etc. once you're done.
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ALRIGHT! Anybody up for another 100 frame animation contest? A few workshop people have asked about it, so I wanted to ask everybody on the intertubes about it as well. It would be cool to get at least 10 people who are committed to doing it.
We could start in a week, so leave a comment and mention a theme you'd like to use. Use the contest tag for prior examples and inspiration.
As a reminder:
- the shot has to be 100 frames long (not shorter, not longer)
- you can use sound if you want to
- you have one week to finish it
- winner gets a $50 Amazon prize (make sure that Amazon ships to where you live - otherwise I can't send you want you want!)
Who's in?
Kaeloo
More about it at drorlazar. Thanks Le Roy for the tip!Kaeloo - Prince charming - Si on jouait au Prince charmant... from Cube Creative on Vimeo.
Darkstalkers and the Twelve Principles of Animation
There's a really cool post by Richmond Chaisiri outlining the animation principles using the Darkstalkers game. What's cool about it is that he uses animated gifs from different fight elements to illustrate his points. I found this via Eric Williams' Pushing Buttons... blog, specifically the Tidbits posts, which has a ton of awesome links, like the Street Fighter Third Strike Sprite Animation Library!!
Never give up
I found this thread at conceptart.org via the 11secondclub and it's so inspiring!
I recommend you check out the whole thread, but basically it shows you how this artist's skill set evolved over time from:
to work like this:
There's a lot more to see and it's really inspiring to see his journey as he keeps practicing, learning and improving.
I recommend you check out the whole thread, but basically it shows you how this artist's skill set evolved over time from:
to work like this:
There's a lot more to see and it's really inspiring to see his journey as he keeps practicing, learning and improving.
Toilet Please - 11secondclub May Winner - Workflow and Interivew
The Animator Prepares: Unique Workflow to Make It Magical
Super cool breakdown for Peter Nagy's 11secondclub entry. Head over to youanimator.com for an interview with Peter about this shot.
How to Cheat in Maya 2012: Tools and Techniques for Character Animation
How to cheat in Maya 2010 was a great book and totally tailored towards animators. Now there is going to be a 2012 book, with the addition of Kenny Roy, which can only be awesome! If you head over to howtocheatinmaya.com you can watch tutorial clips and download maya files regarding animation principles down to facial animation, polishing, etc. It's absolutely great and I highly recommend checking it out!
Thanks Franck for the tip!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Posts translated into Italian
Eleonora Tiberi has a great site in Italian called animatorspot.com and on it you will find posts from Spungella or Academyanimation translated into Italian!
The first one is "The Keys to Getting a Job by Pamela K. Thompson" and more are to follow. I will update posts and notify readers here.
Thanks Eleonora for doing that!
So head over there for the translated post!
The first one is "The Keys to Getting a Job by Pamela K. Thompson" and more are to follow. I will update posts and notify readers here.
Thanks Eleonora for doing that!
So head over there for the translated post!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Animation Insiders Book
Meant to post this a while ago... Head over to squeezestudio.com, you can download the Animation Insiders book for free. Well worth a read!
Animation Time
This is pretty cool. A little inside look into the workings of Film Roman. Head over to Cartoon Brew for more information about it.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Toy Story 3 Animation Test
Awesome! Great test! The final version is one of my favorite shots in the movie! It cracks me up every time. Head over to Carlos Baena's site for the clip!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Les chiens isolés
"Isolated Dogs" (Les chiens isolés) is very cool, I love the tone and atmosphere and hey, you could have made it live-action, but why not animated?
New Adventures of Tintin Trailer
Still some creepy moments, but it's starting to look very entertaining. Love the "Excellent!" moment around 1:43. :)
- found it @ firstshowing
- found it @ firstshowing
Friday, July 8, 2011
Follow the Sun!
Very innocent at the beginning and then turns into awesomeness closer to the 2min mark. Found via @halhickel
MK12 | Follow the Sun | 2011 from MK12 on Vimeo.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Untangling the Look of Tangled
Why is something like that not on the Blu-ray?? Awesome though to have it online at least.
Untangling the Look of Tangled from Creative Talent Network on Vimeo.
Friday, July 1, 2011
A week in Crunch Part 1 by Brendan Body
If you want to get a glimpse of what crunch time is like, speed over to Brendan Body's blog and read the first part of "A week in crunch".
It's super detailed with sketches and blocking playblasts and I highly recommend that you check it out. It's one of those posts that I will never write, since I'm not allowed to post about any of our material, let alone non-rendered material, unless it's out there in a trailer. But as I was reading the post I couldn't stop nodding and agreeing. It's a really cool insight into the process that goes beyond the setting-keys part, because it talks about the complexities of getting a shot assigned within a company and what that really means.
Head over there!
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