Cool clip of how the stop-motion puppet is being made. Just like pencil tests, there's just a certain awesome look and quality to stop-motion. So good.
Watch it at the iTunes Movie Trailer site, look for the Making Norman clip.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Making Norman - ParaNorman behind-the-scenes
Cool clip of how the stop-motion puppet is being made. Just like pencil tests, there's just a certain awesome look and quality to stop-motion. So good.
Watch it at the iTunes Movie Trailer site, look for the Making Norman clip.
iAnimate.net Member Showcase - Summer 2012
Woohoo! Go Alon!!
iAnimate.net Member Showcase - Summer 2012 from iAnimate on Vimeo.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Getting a Visual Effects job - by Scott Squires
earthsworld - Reference site
Very cool site for reference, earthsworld.com. Some of the faces are just fantastic!
Found this via @JamaalBradley
Blue Sky's 'Epic' Trailer
3 Point Landing!!!! And more bow and arrow action!
But seriously, this looks very cool! Nice tone to the trailer as well. Count me in!
Friday, June 22, 2012
Brave New Hair By Mike Seymour
Head over to fxguide for a very cool breakdown of the hair and cloth sim for Brave, using turntables of Merida walking.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Life after Graduation - by Elliot Cowan
Fantastic advice:
14) Don't be a fucking idiot. Nobody wants to hire a fucking idiot. In our industry, the successful people are generally those who people want to work with (because they're not fucking idiots). Be interested. Be eager. Be humble.
There's a lot more, so head over to "Life after Graduation".
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Monsters University Teaser
Oh yeah! Teaser trailers for Pixar's Mnsters University! The original is one of my favorite Pixar movies, so I can't wait for this one!! Head over to BigScreenAnimation for three more teasers.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Brave clip - For a Spell
Very cool! Nice atmospheric music, awesome animation and I love the face plate for the crow. :)
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"). Or there's also just an non-typical way of delivering a line. Like Joaquin Phoenix in the new "The Master" teaser trailer. Go to the 36s mark. Might just be me, but I love how he says "What do you do?". The head move, the squint, just love it. I'm so curious about the whole movie.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Facial pose 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?!
At least this Anakin one has an expression, but then the eye line doesn't match. Why is he looking above the Tusken Raider? No connection there.
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?!
At least this Anakin one has an expression, but then the eye line doesn't match. Why is he looking above the Tusken Raider? No connection there.
What a bummer!
Now that's a lot better:
Looking at the Dianoga would have been cool though, but at least his pain is clearly visible in his facial expression.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
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.
But give me every option available and no deadline and it's going to take me ages until I decide on something. Deadlines and restrictions are one of my favorite things at work. I love finding the most creative solution within a set of restrictions. It's like a puzzle! ("It's like a big old mammogram!").
Enter the 11secondclub.
One of the things I've wanted to do for a while but never had the time for, was submitting entries for the 11secondclub. It's perfect for what I need. A DEADLINE! Each month!
So from now on I will do just that, enter a clip each month using every spare minute that I have. And it doesn't matter how much time I spent on it, how crappy it is, it's all about practice, practice, practice.
So here we go! This is my entry for the month of May. For this month, I had a day where the stars aligned and I was granted 10 hours of free time (sort of). I dove right into it and submitted the work about 2 minutes before the end of the deadline! HAHAHA! Better start practicing and improving my timing for that as well!
The clip was fun to do, especially the ending, where I totally went overboard. I just wanted to practice and have fun. There's a good mix of reference and imagination, pose to pose and straight-ahead animation in there. I loved it! And the Malcolm rig from AnimSchool is fantastic! So many controls, but never confusing! Btw. the stairs were built using this kick ass tool: Davveys Stair Generator 1.1.2 (maya script)
The clip here is zoomed in and rendered, which was not what I submitted but I prefer this one. Can't wait to start the next clip!
Here are also the usual suspects of formats: Vimeo and Quicktime
But give me every option available and no deadline and it's going to take me ages until I decide on something. Deadlines and restrictions are one of my favorite things at work. I love finding the most creative solution within a set of restrictions. It's like a puzzle! ("It's like a big old mammogram!").
Enter the 11secondclub.
One of the things I've wanted to do for a while but never had the time for, was submitting entries for the 11secondclub. It's perfect for what I need. A DEADLINE! Each month!
So from now on I will do just that, enter a clip each month using every spare minute that I have. And it doesn't matter how much time I spent on it, how crappy it is, it's all about practice, practice, practice.
So here we go! This is my entry for the month of May. For this month, I had a day where the stars aligned and I was granted 10 hours of free time (sort of). I dove right into it and submitted the work about 2 minutes before the end of the deadline! HAHAHA! Better start practicing and improving my timing for that as well!
The clip was fun to do, especially the ending, where I totally went overboard. I just wanted to practice and have fun. There's a good mix of reference and imagination, pose to pose and straight-ahead animation in there. I loved it! And the Malcolm rig from AnimSchool is fantastic! So many controls, but never confusing! Btw. the stairs were built using this kick ass tool: Davveys Stair Generator 1.1.2 (maya script)
The clip here is zoomed in and rendered, which was not what I submitted but I prefer this one. Can't wait to start the next clip!
Here are also the usual suspects of formats: Vimeo and Quicktime
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