Animation related information and production blog for the Animation Departments film "Postponed" - A mischievous grandson reveals his true nature under the cover of night.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Boy ideas and story point
So I met this kid this weekend named Max. He was a really cool kid, about the right age of our hero. The interesting thing is Max likes wearing his clothes huge. I am talking grown man large size and he is 7. So I thought what I'd our hero has big clothes. I played around with some designs and then I had a thought, what If he wears big clothes because underneath his clothes is a home made samurai armor. It goes along with the ninja theme. Anyway. Your thoughts 
Progression of an Animated Shot
Animator Jamaal Bradley put this progress video together of a shot from Rapunzel for a class he taught.
Progression of an Animated Shot: Gothel & Rapunzel Disney's Tangled from Jamaal Bradley on Vimeo.
Nice student Reel
So..this morning I had an email from a former student of mine at a different school who wanted some feed-back on his 2d Reel.He is going into his senior year and wanted some pre-semester advice.Amongst other things I insisted he spend some time comparing his own work with that of other students out there and try and determine where he needs to improve and how much work he really has ahead of him to get where he needs to be in terms beating or at least matching the competition.
I found this student demo reel on you-tube which I forwarded on to him and thought it was worth sharing.
This person really can draw and has some good line control and a nice sense of Animation Timing.I find this stuff encouraging as well as being a useful barometer of where we are all are vs where we should be striving to be.Enjoy!
I found this student demo reel on you-tube which I forwarded on to him and thought it was worth sharing.
This person really can draw and has some good line control and a nice sense of Animation Timing.I find this stuff encouraging as well as being a useful barometer of where we are all are vs where we should be striving to be.Enjoy!
Sunday, June 24, 2012
inspiration overload
i went to see brave with my family and just ughhh. it's so pretty. and i loved the short they played with it "la luna" i saw the teaser a couple months ago and it looked really good, and it is really good, i liked the style too.
two things i'd like to comment on though:
1. from the preview commercials they were playing for brave, i could totally guess where the story was going, which wasn't fun, i wish they would have left it more ambiguous.
2. at the end i noticed that the credited director was Brenda Chapman, and remember thinking that she must be the first woman to direct a Pixar film. when i got home and was looking at things about the movie i found out that she was fired from the project during production, which i found discouraging. because she came up with the idea, and she's a woman with great talent (directing Prince of Egypt is a big deal).
bleh.. just thought i would share my thoughts... now for some sleep, maybe.
two things i'd like to comment on though:
1. from the preview commercials they were playing for brave, i could totally guess where the story was going, which wasn't fun, i wish they would have left it more ambiguous.
2. at the end i noticed that the credited director was Brenda Chapman, and remember thinking that she must be the first woman to direct a Pixar film. when i got home and was looking at things about the movie i found out that she was fired from the project during production, which i found discouraging. because she came up with the idea, and she's a woman with great talent (directing Prince of Egypt is a big deal).
bleh.. just thought i would share my thoughts... now for some sleep, maybe.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
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Monday, June 4, 2012
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