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!

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.