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!

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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.

Little Dude

Somethin like this for the kid character?

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

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

Hello

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