Sunday, December 21, 2014
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Sunday, December 14, 2014
AnimSchool Animation Student Showcase 2014
HAHAHAH!! The flapping one by Jon Paul Brower made me laugh out loud!
Free rig and animation lessons - CG Spectrum
Head over here for a free rig and animation lessons by CG Spectrum! Sign up and get started!
From the site:
From the site:
The first six weeks of course video lessons from our 12 week Introduction to Animation course. You will learn the basic animation principles that will help establish a solid foundation for you to build upon while learning intermediate functions of Autodesk Maya software. These video lessons are mobile device friendly so you can watch them on your tablet or mobile phone.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Pixar's Inside Out - Trailer 2
Hahaha, that was great! Cracked me up! And as a parent, it's going to be fun to watch this (but what's up with the father's beard texture? Trailer shot I guess).
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Jais Bredsted, Animationmentor, Class 1, Progress Reel
Oooold clip by now, but the presentation is still fun to watch:
Jais Bredsted, Animationmentor, Class 1, Progress Reel from jais bredsted on Vimeo.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Monday, December 1, 2014
42nd Annie Award Nominations
Congrats to all the nominees and thankfully there are no silly boycotts! Head over to Cartoon Brew for the full list:
Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature Production
Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature Production
- Fabio Lignini – How to Train Your Dragon 2 - DreamWorks Animation
- Steven “Shaggy” Hornby – How to Train Your Dragon 2 - DreamWorks Animation
- Thomas Grummt – How to Train Your Dragon 2 - DreamWorks Animation
- Ravi Kamble – Penguins of Madagascar – DreamWorks Animation
- Travis Knight – The Boxtrolls – Focus Features/Laika
- Malcolm Lamont – The Boxtrolls - Focus Features/Laika
- Jason Stalman – The Boxtrolls – Focus Features/Laika
- Daniel Barrett, Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Alessandro Bonora, Dejan Momcilovic – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Weta Digital
- Kevin Spruce, Dale Newton, Sidney Kombo, Chris Mullins, Brad Silby – Guardians of the Galaxy – Framestore
- Eric Reynolds, David Clayton, Andreja Vuckovic, Guillaume Francois, Gios Johnston – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Weta Digital
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Mortadelo y Filemón contra Jimmy el Cachondo - Final Trailer
I know them as "Clever & Smart" and seeing those renders reminds me of this:
I'd still be curious to see it though. The comics were awesome.
I'd still be curious to see it though. The comics were awesome.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Flow - wireless controller
Not exactly animation related but you guys are all artists, so this could be handy!
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Alexis Wanneroy - Animation Reels
Alexis Wanneroy - Animation Reel 2014 from alexis wanneroy on Vimeo.
Alexis Wanneroy - Animation Reel Breakdown 2014 from alexis wanneroy on Vimeo.
Alexis Wanneroy - Rise of the guardians character development reel from alexis wanneroy on Vimeo.
Alexis Wanneroy's Workshop - Ianimate Students animation reel from alexis wanneroy on Vimeo.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Firefly
The short was created "in support of Sir Ray Avery's global fundraising launch to create the
Life Pod - an incredible incubator that will save the lives of millions
of babies around the world."
Find out more about it at https://mondialelifepod.com/
Find out more about it at https://mondialelifepod.com/
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker - Trailer
This looks really neat but once again the music just kills it for me (the 2nd half) in this trailer. The mood was so good at the beginning!
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
Disney’s Feast – Special Look
The animation is super cute! Love it! But it has that cel shaded feel I'm just not into. Still, really well done.
Disney's Feast - Special Look by CGMeetup
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Friday, September 19, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Aniref - reference app
- See an interesting walk? Personality trait? Record it and add it to your library for future reference!
- Analyze footage frame by frame, at multiple frame rates
- Track arcs, spacing and timing by positioning trackers
- View your tracking in 4 different display modes
- Export and Email your tracked footage as .mov and import it into your 3D / 2D software for ease of workflow
- Playback in slow motion or at 24 FPS
- Bookmark your key poses with the StarPose tool and toggle from key to key.
- Know exactly what frame you are on with the embedded frame count - Save your reference to the AniRef library, separate from your regular videos for easy finding and privacy
AniRef : Spontaneous Reference #1 from Paolo Cogliati on Vimeo.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Composition reference - Ukranian Parliament fight
This joke picture is just too awesome:
"Someone took a candid photo of a fight in Ukranian Parliament that is as well-composed as the best renaissance art"
(source)
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Every Frame A Painting
Check out the playlist of Every Frame A Painting, if you're into analyzing filmmaking techniques. Below are two examples.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Coil
COIL from GOBELINS pro on Vimeo.
Making Of Coil - Annecy 2014 - Charles Badiller from CharlesBad on Vimeo.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Phantom Limb
Whish the music didn't stop so abruptly and would instead continue to flow into the credits.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Big Hero 6 - Teaser
Is that a little Wall-E sound I hear around 41 second mark? (after the butt part?)
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
Toy Story of Terror
This is from the Digital Bits and sounds really cool! Great to have all the shorts included! So getting this.
Disney and Pixar have also set Toy Story of Terror! for Blu-ray and DVD release on 8/19. It will include the Toy Story of Terror! film featuring much of the original voice cast, 3 Toy Story Toons shorts (Hawaiian Vacation, Small Fry, and Partysaurus Rex), audio commentaries on the film and all three shorts, 3 deleted scenes from the film (Pencil Topper Trilogy, Travel Brochures, and Road Trip Roulette), the Team of Specialists featurette, 3 Vintage Toy Commercials with director introductions (Old Timer, Combat Carl, and Transitron), and the D23 teaser.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Dissecting Roger Deakins' work on Prisoners
There's a really great analysis of Roger Deakins' cinematography of the movie Prisoners.
I'd add this to the collection of shots:
Story spoiler but the fact that only his ear is lit is so good! Watch the movie and check out that shot.
More examples of his work (Jarhead has a ton of "invisible" VFX work by ILM, nicely done):
The Cinematography of | ROGER DEAKINS from Borealisk on Vimeo.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Jorge E. Ruiz Cano Reel Spring '14
He's improved so much! Nice work! "Tough road!" :)
Jorge E. Ruiz Cano Reel spring '14 from Jorge Ruiz on Vimeo.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation by David Rosen GDC14
Head over to the gdcvault and check out the lecture An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation. Very interesting to see the different stages.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
First 5 minutes of How To Train Your Dragon 2
Head over here for spoilers. I'm staying away from it. :)
Are you guys liking it? So tempted to watch it.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
Shot Progression Grand Pabby
ShotProgressionGrandPabby from Daniel Peixe on Vimeo.
Would be neat to have a little foot anim in there as well, little spreading of those during weight shifts.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Video References - Puss in Boots & ROTG
It's cool to see people's process but I do have to say that Dreamworks movies can feel a bit reference-y. Same with iAnimate shots. Not all of course. It's just not my cup of tea.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
AnimGesture
I remember Jimmy from work, good guy, give this a try!
Animgesture.com has all the information you need, including this video:
Animgesture.com has all the information you need, including this video:
Keyframe - Playblast/Reference Viewer
Head over to Zurbrigg.com for more information and videos. I'm going to try this out tonight! Might be a solution to my Quicktime+Screen Sketch Tool problem.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Crawl
As you know I love animation and for those who know me a bit better they also know that I love pixel art (I guess now you do too!).
When those two worlds collide in an awesome way like with the game "Crawl" by Barney Cumming and David LLoyd, I can only giggle in delight.
I highly recommend you check out the TIGForum thread about the development of the game. The attention to detail is really nice despite the limitations of the style, all the way down to smear frames. The FX animation is a lot of fun to watch as well.
Even menu animations show how much fun the developers are having with this project.
There's also a neat tutorial on how the developer approaches the animation process, which is layered and simplified in order to speed up his workflow:
As well as quick post regarding his key poses and inbetweens:
And here's the trailer for the game:
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Alexis Wanneroy - Animation Reel Breakdown 2014
Alexis Wanneroy - Animation Reel Breakdown 2014 from alexis wanneroy on Vimeo.
More work can be seen at CGmeetup.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Getting a job in Games.
Head over to gamesanimator.com for a great list of things to keep in mind when applying for a job.
Step 5 is super important! It's really not just about being able to animate well:
Step 5 is super important! It's really not just about being able to animate well:
Step 5.Getting in is just the beginning, staying in is harder.What many schools won’t tell you is that getting in is just the first step in your career, the key to having a career is staying in and getting progressively stronger as a developer as you gain experience. Here are some quick tips that I’ve learnt along the way to keep you in the game:- Be great at character animation under pressure. This one comes with experience, but don’t be afraid to jump in at the deep end and prove yourself.- Be prepared for iteration. Don’t get precious about your work.- Test your stuff in-game as quickly and as much as possible.- Be prepared to wear different hats and dip into other disciplines.- Be proactive, a team player and a problem solver. Game development is a team sport.- Take ownership of your work/job. Try to pick projects/studios that interest you and that you will be invested in.- Don’t be a jerk.- Keep improving your craft beyond just animating at work. Keep up to date with the industry, tools and techniques, even if you’re not in a cutting edge studio.
Milt Kahl drawings
Always a good reminder to check out Andres Deja's "Deja View" blog. This time around he posted awesome Milt Kahl drawings!
Lost footage from 'Lord of the Rings' animated film
More info here and two clips. Cool to see, haven't watched the movie in a long time though. Curious what I think of it now.
