one more thing

oh yeah

are there any films i should check out? gav mentioned grave of the fireflies and darragh was talking about pan's labyrinth, is there anything else? i could look at them over christmas.

cooooooooooooooooooool animation

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple_getamac_holiday_640x360.mov

christmas gifs, well they're jpegs but anyway!

hey lads, i'm pretty happy with these. some are very gorillazy or too cute or moody or whatever but it's still early days i suppose :) in the mean time have a good christmas and i'll see you in january or february, sure send me a mail or post here if you've any ideas or anything. see ya!

very basic tests

what's the story?

hey lads, i know we're all hectic with assignments but when will we meet up next? it'd be nice to have our concept as clear as possible for tuesday and some work to back it up. i haven't done much myself to be honest. i'd like to be working on visuals and stuff now but i have to get the best practice thing out of the way. will do lots at the weekend. talk soon!

Another good animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS6LEUR879w&NR=1
nice media mix in this

House render

Story lads, I found a really good tutorial for building a house in Cinema 4d. I read through it and have spent the last hour or so trying to get past step 2. It mentions all sorts about, changing settings and what not before actually starting. Shows how rusty I am at this whole thing. Anyways, if any of you know how to solve this problem get back to me cause I want to construct a house before the presentation on tuesday (to show that we have some work done). Cheers.

Heres the link

software

i didn't get as much done today as planned but i did some research. flash, toon boom studio and animo seem to be the industry standard software for 2d digital animation, often mixed with after effects for special effects. i love the brazilian animation darragh posted the link to, perhaps we could incorporate its visible puppeteer idea by having a human hand set the opening scene, ie have a live action hand arrange the 2d stuff in the frame? the hand would go when the animation starts. kinda like the spar ads on tv i suppose. just an idea anyway....i'm going to bed, i'm wrecked. see you tomorrow. ps here are some rough faces, the one in the top right is my favourite.

Little Dude

Somethin like this for the kid character?

Good example of 2d 3d mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpaKWVl7Da4
It's called the Game. They use photoshopped pics of real people made sketchie, seems to work quite well.

A stunning short By a fella called Eb Hu
http://www.hybworks.co.uk/lalaland.htm

Another film short, with etchy styles of 2d in 3d planes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avHPWiwMpR8&eurl=http://toolfarm.com/labels/Film%20Short.html

A brazilian 2d 3d short
http://guilherme.tv/tyger/highquality.htm

A load of good shorts on this page
http://toolfarm.com/labels/Film%20Short.html

words of wisdom

i came across this and it struck a chord with me :) still concerned about story and animation style though but we should make a good bit of progress this week.

stuff i like for one reason or another

here's some stuff i've been looking at for inspiration and references and what not....

the pixar process
http://www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html

cool animator
http://www.adambizanski.com/#top

the yellow submarine film
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1444637107417806305&q=the+yellow+submarine&total=2067&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

a site about animation history, techniques and filmmakers
http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/index.php

cool cartoonist and animator, some great stories
http://www.grickle.com/

nice dreamy vector animated music video
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=FlOGE66wWO8

amazing 3d short
http://www.dailymotion.com/us/cluster/creation/featured/video/x1gizl_bed-boy-long-version_creation

grave of the fireflies trailer
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=9_KCRIDbEXM

irish 3d short fifty percent grey
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=FoyxuCVJCwI

paranoid android video
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=szdWPWnnNls

and, i know, some of this stuff is depressingly good!

ps it's hard to find 2d 3d mixes so if you come across any let me know :)

2d mixed with 3d

"Usavich is a bizarre series of animated shorts created for MTV Japan featuring some rabbits trapped in a Russian prison. In addition to its pute wckiness, I absolutely love the fusion of 3D animation and traditional 2D illustration. You can catch all the episodes and a small word game at usavich.tv"
www.drawn.ca

some doodles

Just a few funny lines I found!

One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking
her small boy into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked
with a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"
The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I can't, dear," she
said. "I have to sleep in Daddy's room."
A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice: "The big
sissy."

A new neighbor asked the little girl next door if she had any brothers and
sisters. She replied, "No, I'm the lonely child."

nice story

i came across this a while ago and liked the story. it's about family too so it's worth a look.

animation

here are two loops of mine

hurray!

hey lads,

it's deadly to have the blog sorted (thanks gav). i thought today was pretty productive, would be great if we made some progress with the story tomorrow. i'm liking the family idea.

i'm just back from dinner with my parents and my brother, it was nice but i eat too much...i feel a bit ill.

talk soon

john

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