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Dublin Sketchers

There is a SketchCrawl in Dublin on May 15th, here you are all the information

http://www.dublinsketchers.blogspot.com/

Enjoy it!

Watch this, its awesome!!!

You have more shorts here
http://www.gkids.tv/watchOnline.cfm?channelCRT=7&videoCRT=153&ID=7

btw this one is hillarious!!!

Warming up gesture drawing

Very useful video

When Lynch met Lucas

In your honor Mr Malloy

The Story Board Book

http://www.thestoryboardbook.com/

amazing 3D video

you should watch both, the video and making off

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Exeter Shot -- Making Of from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Rebecca Sugar

http://berkolounger.livejournal.com/
Her blog

http://www.sugarboukas.com/
Her web page

Just something I stumbled onto while surfing the interweb, I like her style alot, I dont know what it is or where it comes from, but its cool.
Her short comic strip Don't Cry For Me Im Already Dead is funny, check it out http://www.sugarboukas.com/shorts

Also worth a look http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/singles.html

Very cool short animation by her, the style of expressions and acting in the character reminds me of John K's stuff, creator of Ren and Stimpy. Also a nice touch is some of the backgrounds are painted, and looks like the animation was done in flash, im not sure though.

So she has a load of comics, a short animation, lots of cool paintings, probably a brilliant portfolio. And she's only 21 ... *puts gun in mouth, BANG!*

Get Ready For 3D Movie Porn

(from Empireonline.com)

"Tinto Brass, the man who made, and then loathed, 1979's Caligula (the hardcore sex scenes were edited in against his will), is planning what he's describing as the world's first-ever 3D pornographic production.


According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brass announced in Rome that he thinks the time is right, in this post-Avatar world, to make an erotic film that fully utilizes the 3D format.

And his idea? "To revisit an abandoned project about a Roman emperor that was ruined by Americans, and go from there." Looks like he wants to create a more definitive Caligula, and this time we'll all experience it in our laps.

He's kicking off work on the script right now with the aim to shoot in May or June."

Dave...you were right! SWEEEET

Independant Chinese animated short

Heres that War short I was talking about Pifa
It seems kinda bad at the start but he was just saving all the work for the rest, youl see
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/see-through-by-jokelate.html


and cartoon brew if your interested, probably the best source for animation news on the web
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

Granny O'Grimm

http://www.grannyogrimm.com/#/home

Have a look to the website, it's worth it!

IDEAS

Tips for Better Ideas from Andrew 'Big Show' Blodgett on Vimeo.

Expressions

Another great post by John K, remember I posted a link before about character designs? This is the same guy, now talking about expressions, really useful stuff
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/acting-tools-1-expressions-basic.html

I love when emotions are done really subtly, the untrained eye would miss that he is shocked in this scene

Animate yourself

The Thief and The Cobbler

You should all watch this animation, especially if your a fan of Richard Williams, lead animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and also he wrote that book, you know the one I mean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgQy2I9NCS8&feature=channel

You can watch the whole movie in parts on youtube

One thing you should know before watching it is that this film was financed by him, money from his pocket, and it never actually got finished :P

Eventually he decided in 1990 or something, after 20 years of making it, that he would get financial backing, but he failed to finish on time so the distribution company got rid of him and finished it in their own way, thats not right ... :S

But in 2006 a fan cut a version of the film in the way more or less that Williams had invisioned it, so sometimes theres just pencil tests, or even storyboards, but its still awesome! The fan version is called The Theif and the cobbler recobbled

more Spanish 3D Animation

TACHAAAN! from Rafikisland on Vimeo.

hey, i didnt want to do another post for this, but has anyone got the notes on how to make the banana in 3ds? its the last thing i have to make, then im done :D

hey can anyone help me with the installation of 3dsmax? im tryin to do it now, but i cant figure it out...

My 12 chosen

Here u are my Life Drawing Assignment

http://pifanida.blogspot.com/2010/01/12-chosen.html

Great 2d software and cool animator!

Turns out I don't have work tonight! Yippiee!

Anyway here some cool links:


Jason Ryan Animation (lead animator for Shrek, and worked on Chicken Little before that). Watch the intro on his website, it's pretty cool. Simple but cool!
http://www.jasonryananimation.com/


And this is the software he uses for his pre-vis,
the animation worked on 2d before doing his 3d animation.
http://www.digicelinc.com/index.htm

Parkour motion real

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

Short of a Spanish Pixar Animator

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Life drawing dates

Im a little confused about some classes, I cant remember when they happened
This is what I think it went like

Week one 210909



we did shape to shape

week two 280909



We did more shape to shape and talked about little cars drving on Martin n stuff like that

week three 051009
week four 121009
week five 191009
Dont have a fuckin clue what we did those weeks

week six 091109


we started off doing hands then it was drawing jessica from far away, in the gym

week seven 161109

jessicas legs
week eight 231109

feet and then head studies
week nine 301109

these types of drawins all day
week ten 071209

we drew that guy I forget his name then at the end of the day we did tonal volumetric type drawings using the side of a graphite stick, i think
week eleven 141209

The day the nudity died

I THINK thats how it went please correct me if im wrong

Does anyone know what the date was that we did hand studies in lifedrawin class? i think it was either the 2nd or the 9th of november, not sure though....

oh and heres my Santa :D