My friend Jay has a great blog where he
posts scripting and other goodies that are very helpful!
He has gotten me out of a bind with his scripts many times.
He has gotten me out of a bind with his scripts many times.
Showing posts with label Blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogs. Show all posts
Stix and Jones Plug
When I am not animating, I stay pretty busy...
I have a new ETSY store for my paintings and other pretties I make.
If you are trying to decide what to get that special person for christmas?
Check out my new store!
STIX AND JONES ETSY
stix and jones blog too!
I have a new ETSY store for my paintings and other pretties I make.
If you are trying to decide what to get that special person for christmas?
Check out my new store!
STIX AND JONES ETSY
stix and jones blog too!
John K - Power of Inbetweens and Accents
One of the biggest problems I see in newbie animator's work is never savoring the moment. It's all moving all of the time, never resting on any particular idea. You have to stay in the moment of the scene and never reveal what is coming next. The character doesn't know, so your audience should not know either. Give the viewer a moment to relish in that idea and the accents you bring to the poses.Babies in Color
Micheal Sporn posted on his blog a reconstructed board for the sequence eliminated from Fantasia. Baby Ballet was to be set to Chopin’s Berceuse. Sylvia Moberly-Holland was the principal designer of this piece and Mary Blair worked with her in many of the pastel images on the board. 
ASIFA Animation Archives
If you do not know about this blog/website - you should. The ASIFA Animation Archives has one of the largest online archives of hand draw animation I have seen. They just posted a bunch of amazing scans of drawings from MGM productions. I love Tom and jerry, but this is just a tiny peek into what they have there.Improving Your Staging
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels is one of my favorite blogs out there.Mark Kennedy posts about improving your picture there.
Check out the post!
Good stuff!
XRay Blogs Across South East Asia
My buddy Xray has been blogging
about his travels through South East Asia.
If you wanted a true hands on look at the
experience and what is going on overseas...here it is!
Check out
XRay Blogs Across Asia
about his travels through South East Asia.
If you wanted a true hands on look at the
experience and what is going on overseas...here it is!
Check out
XRay Blogs Across Asia
The Legged Legs - Imagination At Work
Greg Gunn contacted me looking for a few great 2D animators. I checked out his site and this lil studio has some great work! It's rare to find such unique creativity in commercials and I love how they have sketches, artwork and their entire process there for you to see for each project. I have worked on MANY commercial spots and rarely is there this much creativity and research put into a spot. Their tear sheets/style frames/storyboards alone, are visually stunning. Kudos to The Legged Legs!
GE called upon BBDO and Three Legged Legs to create an animated fable for their Imagination Theater campaign. Our answer: Samurai. It's a tale of a pint-sized samurai faced with a seemingly impossible challenge as proposed by a behemoth Emperor and his wicked minions. Can you spot all the ninjas?
Client
GE
Agency
BBDO New York
Agency Creative Director
Don Schneider, Greg Hahn
Agency Producer
Peter Feldman
Agency Copywriter
Greg Hahn
Director
Three Legged Legs
Production Company
Green Dot Films
Post Production
Three Legged Legs
Post Producer
Lisa Houck
Creative Director
Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt, Reza Rasoli
Animation
Three Legged Legs
Design
Chuck BB
CG Artists
Jeremy Collins, Christina Lee
Music
Nick Faber
New Neighbor
Alan Cook has just moved in next door to me in Venice Beach and he sent me a link to his blog. He is a student at Sheridan who is taking the summer off to kicking it in Venice.I placed a some of his work here to maybe bring a little balance after the posting about Industry Day at Sheridan. I really like his angular line quality and different styles to his work. I didn't personally attend Sheridan's Industry Day, but since Nick's post created such a hub bub...I thought it might be good to showcase a student whose work looks good to me. Just always trying to put a positive spin on things. Although there isn't much actual animation there to judge, I love his mouse designs too for his short film that he and his fellow students are developing.
Sheridan Animation's Hugely Disappointing
Thoughts on Sheridan Animation's Hugely Disappointing Industry Day
By Nick
As an animation supervisor, I was asked to be one of the representatives of my studio at Sheridan College's Animation Program 'Industry Day'. It was to be a landmark event, since it was also to include final-project screenings of some 68 graduates of Sheridan's new "Bachelors of Animation Arts" degree program. A four-year animation program that - surprise - comes with a bachelor's degree; a rarity in Canada.
Prior to the Bachelor's screening, we sat through roughly 40 other student shorts from graduates of various one-year computer animation, and character animation programs from Sheridan. The results of the one-year programs were mixed, more on that later. However, I expected the outcomes of the four-year program to quantifiably exceed the output of the one-year classes. After all, these students had invested four years of their life and countless thousands of dollars in order to get that elusive BAA. Besides, four years in an average production environment is enough to get most any animator with a hint of talent ready to start entering the big-leagues of the industry. So at the very least, four years of intensive education would be expected to produce passable entry-level talent. Right?
Wrong.
Very, very wrong.
I sat in a daze as the program's administrators ran short after short in an agonizing, head-splitting, intermission-less three hours, as nearly 70 student films unspooled one after another. What I saw upset me, then confused me. I had been sent to keep an eye out for potential talent for the tv series I was working on. I was looking for animation basics. Acting basics. Any basics. And I kept looking in vain for them as short after short played out. Rather than the basics, what we got were orgies of runaway production design, the odd cubist abstraction, a whole lot of half-finished shorts filled with unintelligibly scrawled pencil tests, the occasional bit of incomprehensible 'something or other', and a lot of stuff that was just plain sloppy.
Four years. Tens of thousands of dollars per student. Sixty-eight students and shorts, and three hours of footage.
Full Article...
By Nick
As an animation supervisor, I was asked to be one of the representatives of my studio at Sheridan College's Animation Program 'Industry Day'. It was to be a landmark event, since it was also to include final-project screenings of some 68 graduates of Sheridan's new "Bachelors of Animation Arts" degree program. A four-year animation program that - surprise - comes with a bachelor's degree; a rarity in Canada.
Prior to the Bachelor's screening, we sat through roughly 40 other student shorts from graduates of various one-year computer animation, and character animation programs from Sheridan. The results of the one-year programs were mixed, more on that later. However, I expected the outcomes of the four-year program to quantifiably exceed the output of the one-year classes. After all, these students had invested four years of their life and countless thousands of dollars in order to get that elusive BAA. Besides, four years in an average production environment is enough to get most any animator with a hint of talent ready to start entering the big-leagues of the industry. So at the very least, four years of intensive education would be expected to produce passable entry-level talent. Right?
Wrong.
Very, very wrong.
I sat in a daze as the program's administrators ran short after short in an agonizing, head-splitting, intermission-less three hours, as nearly 70 student films unspooled one after another. What I saw upset me, then confused me. I had been sent to keep an eye out for potential talent for the tv series I was working on. I was looking for animation basics. Acting basics. Any basics. And I kept looking in vain for them as short after short played out. Rather than the basics, what we got were orgies of runaway production design, the odd cubist abstraction, a whole lot of half-finished shorts filled with unintelligibly scrawled pencil tests, the occasional bit of incomprehensible 'something or other', and a lot of stuff that was just plain sloppy.
Four years. Tens of thousands of dollars per student. Sixty-eight students and shorts, and three hours of footage.
Full Article...
Holy Cow Is All I Can Say!
This posting is from Ben Mattes Blog (Producer at Ubisoft Montreal). I had to post it here for posterity because this has got to be the most ingenious ploy to recruit that I have heard in years. Enjoy! ~Angie
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Update: This post is in no way meant to imply that Red5 contacted me with the recruitment campaign described below. I read about this, thought it was amazing, and am blogging about it -- nothing more.
So imagine you are sitting at your desk one day and a FedEx parcel arrives for you. Depending on what you do, just this fact might already have you excited, but regardless of your position, if you aren't expecting any deliveries the scene from The Matrix when Neo recieves the cell phone from Morpheus has to spring to mind. "What life-altering adventure awaits me when I open this up?"
So you open the box and find inside a series of 'Russian Doll' type nested boxes, each more beautiful then the last. Written on each box a section of what appears to be a riddle.
Of course, as you open each subsequent box the attention to detail in this package is sure to start to attract attention. Some of your coworkers would certainly be drawn to the affair and hover around to know more. So finally you reach the fifth and last box, open it up, and find an iPod shuffle. But not just any iPod - this one is custom engraved with your name! There is also a small note informing you that a message is waiting for you on the iPod. Red Pill or Blue Pill? So, turning the iPod on reveals a single track -- a personalized message that starts out: "(insert your name here), this is Mark Kern, President of Red 5 Studios and former team lead for World of Warcraft.."
Mark Kern is talking to you personally telling you why he thinks you would be the perfect fit for his new company, Red 5, and asking you to get in touch to discuss a potential job offer. And he is doing so in a way that has made you feel like the most valuable developer on the planet, worthy of significant investment in terms of time and energy to do nothing more then get your attention. Finally he has done it in such a way that makes no attempt at hiding his interest to your colleagues and bosses at your current place of employment.
So, what would you do? Would you contact him back to discuss further, even if you were extremely happy at your current job?
If you answered yes, you aren't alone. A recruitment campaign like this is undeniably flattering and powerful and is likely to have a near 100% response rate (at least in as far as getting in touch, if not necessarily accepting the position). The people at Red 5 who developed this campaign took everything they knew about developers in the game industry (likely to get and appreciate matrix reference. Check. Likely to be impressed by WoW credentials. Check. Likely to be intrigued by the enigma of the whole package and try to unravel the meaning of the riddle thus getting more absorbed in the total package. Check) and wrapped it all into a package that would be impossible to ignore. I am floored by the ingenuity and creativity of it all.
Read here for an account of one recipient who, interestingly, seems not to have taken the bait.
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So imagine you are sitting at your desk one day and a FedEx parcel arrives for you. Depending on what you do, just this fact might already have you excited, but regardless of your position, if you aren't expecting any deliveries the scene from The Matrix when Neo recieves the cell phone from Morpheus has to spring to mind. "What life-altering adventure awaits me when I open this up?"
So you open the box and find inside a series of 'Russian Doll' type nested boxes, each more beautiful then the last. Written on each box a section of what appears to be a riddle.
Of course, as you open each subsequent box the attention to detail in this package is sure to start to attract attention. Some of your coworkers would certainly be drawn to the affair and hover around to know more. So finally you reach the fifth and last box, open it up, and find an iPod shuffle. But not just any iPod - this one is custom engraved with your name! There is also a small note informing you that a message is waiting for you on the iPod. Red Pill or Blue Pill? So, turning the iPod on reveals a single track -- a personalized message that starts out: "(insert your name here)
If you answered yes, you aren't alone. A recruitment campaign like this is undeniably flattering and powerful and is likely to have a near 100% response rate (at least in as far as getting in touch, if not necessarily accepting the position). The people at Red 5 who developed this campaign took everything they knew about developers in the game industry (likely to get and appreciate matrix reference. Check. Likely to be impressed by WoW credentials. Check. Likely to be intrigued by the enigma of the whole package and try to unravel the meaning of the riddle thus getting more absorbed in the total package. Check) and wrapped it all into a package that would be impossible to ignore. I am floored by the ingenuity and creativity of it all.
Read here for an account of one recipient who, interestingly, seems not to have taken the bait.
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