Funny Animation Scraps

Spaceman Stu from Kompost on Vimeo. adorbz...

New Auto Retopology Routine (1of 2): Stink Dragon from Don Nash on Vimeo.

New Auto_Retopo Feature: the Orc from Don Nash on Vimeo.

...could this mean no more bad topology - ever?

The Pixar: 25 Years of Animation exhibition is at the

Oakland Museum of California from July 31st to January 9, 2011.

This is the cutest thing ever...

you must watch til the end.

I think it's because the costume actually blinks...

well, that and the guy inside can really dance.

It started out with a duel between friends. Guy Francis challenged fellow illustrator, Stacy Curtis, to a duel of banjo playing pigs. Now, other illustrators have joined the fun with banjo pigs of their own!

Here are some of my favs from the blog...

The Night Of all Fears, CGsociety challenge. from Corallo Cyril on Vimeo.

you had me at zombie robots

Elk Hair Caddis from peter smith on Vimeo.

PURE AWESOMENESS...

Graduation film from The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark,
which also proudly presents "Vegeterrible",
"Out of a Forest" and "Stop Motherfucker".

The main creators are:
Peter Smith (Directing, Rigging, Storyboard
and animatic, Animation, BG-shoot, Compositing)
petersmith-portfolio.blogspot.com

Magnus I. Møller (Directing, Character design,
3d models and textures, Animation, BG-shoot, Compositing)
magnusim.blogspot.com

Alice Holme (CG-backgrounds,
Character development, Storyboard, Animation)
aliceholme.blogspot.com

Anders Jepsen (Matte-painting,
Vehicles design, Sets building, Animation)
andersbrogaard.blogspot.com

Visit elkhaircaddis.com for extra material and info.

Joel Trussell

I love this guy's work

I am so happy to hear it's finally happening. This is my all time favorite book from my childhood. Probably because I was sent to bed many times with no supper - angel that I was and wished I had Wild Things to be my friends. I have been on the fence with Jonze's choice to have men in suits on this movie rather than make them CG, but his explanation in the choice in USA Today might have me thinking different now.

“I wanted them to actually be there, I think as a kid I wouldn’t imagine it as a cartoon. I would imagine they were in my world. There’s a danger with Max being there on a real location. Dangerous and exciting.”
“I never thought of it as a children’s movie. My intention was to be true to how it felt to be 9 years old. Maurice’s whole thing is to be honest. You can say anything to kids as long as you are respectful and not pandering.”

– Spike Jonze

This movie has had quite the history in the making and a 3-minute long preview will play in front of the new animated Dreamworks animated feature, Monsters vs. Aliens, Friday March 27th. From the WTWTA Blog:

-Not a teaser, full 3-min trailer, scored to ‘Wake Up’ by Arcade Fire (it fits beautifully, and is either the 3rd or 4th time the band has agreed to license their music, won’t be in the actual film obviously)

-Try as I might, I can’t verbalize how I felt about the trailer beyond the most grandiose superlatives: ‘beautiful’ and ‘gorgeous’ and ‘breathtaking’, making me sound like Pete Hammond. The environments in particular (there’s a sequence of cutting between 4 shots of Max running through different environments that is absolutely magical) are a work of incredible vision, especially in light of the production methods Spike opted for. It does feel like a ‘kids movie’ (not pejorative): the trailer repeatedly made me about eight years old, over and over again. Unless I’m an idiot, and you’ll see yourself in a week or two, the finalized monsters are some kind of incredible technical achievement.

-Much of the VFX work went to detailed facial animations on the monster’s eyes and faces to give them a functional expressive palette. That remains the only post work left before release. They look nothing short of real and feel very alive and very, very huggable.

Watch Batman Logo Evolution

More:
History of the Batman logo

from 1939 to present by Todd Klein

Something about the modern version for Nightfall 1993 is really interesting to me...

Which one is YOUR favorite!

Massive Black and Concept Art.org have put on an amazing
Art Workshop for the past three years.

It all started with

INSOMANIA - 2006 - San Franciso
http://www.conceptart.org/insomania

then came...

REVELATIONS - 2007 - Seattle

And next,

PHOTO THANKS TO PHIL FX

Marama 2008 - Wellington

There is no video from this show yet,
but then again it just happened in November.

My excitement is the new announcement from
Jason Manley about the next workshop on conceptart.org!!!
It's in Dallas! I can afford to make that and am planning and saving already!
I just have to let the folks at Zoic know I will be gone a few days...
But it's my birthday weekend anyways soo Happy Birthday to me!!!

Read ON my friends!!!

ConceptArt.Org International Art and Design Workshop: DALLAS TEXAS - March 28-31 2009

The next workshop is coming hard and fast. Are you ready? We are.

Conceptart.org and Massive Black have put together a stellar list of instructors, great sponsors, and a fresh program covering aspects from the games, toy, film, and fine art industries. The venue is beautiful. We are right next door to a gorgeous museum full of world class art, and have more planned than ever before. When I say we have more planned, I am saying we are pulling out all the stops. Art, jobs, culture, music, performers, training, and even more will be happening. We have a great list of sponsors including Google, SMU, the Guildhall, ReelFX, the prestigious AFI film festival, Corel and many others. This is going to be a big show with more art than ever before.

Time is short. Much to do. The official announcement will come this week and all info will be released then.

Tuition is 600 bucks and we will have an early bird offer which includes free downloads, cheaper tuition, and more. All the info will come this next week. Start getting ready folks...we are going to Dallas and will be shaking the art world from the top to bottom.

We chose Dallas as it is central to everyone here in the US and is a very affordable city to travel to. Of course, the local sponsors are world class too. This is going to be a great show.

The Shanghai show is still in the works but has been moved to late 2009 in order for us to find addtional sponsors. Dallas will be the only workshop we do in North America in 2009.

See you all soon!!

Jason Manley

The Olympics 08.08.08 http://www.bbc.co.uk/monkeyolympics
BBC Sport's marketing campaign and titles for the forthcoming Olympic Games are based upon the traditional Chinese folklore 'Journey to the West'. The animation and music were specially produced by Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn.

I know this isn't exactly new, but it was new to me...and it's pretty damn awesome! Apologies for the lack of posting lately...I am crazy busy on a spot at Brand New School right now. I can take a breather come December 20th and have much to post.

This guy is just so awesome...I have no words. All of his observations are the same thing animators look at before making a character move and emote. Sorry bout the ads - it's worth the wait. Youtube has version of these but you cannot embed them.

John Kascht is an amazing talent.

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.

They even have a fun blog!

Kudos to The Legged Legs!

This was my favorite spot of theirs on the site,
but there are many others in their repertoire.

Imagination At Work

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

I have been pushed more and more at work to think outside of the box of what CG can be, how it can look, and how it should move. Below, is a collection of artists who's work would translate so well in CG, and frankly...be the most fun every to texture, light, animate...check them out!
~Angie

The Art of Travis Louie

Norman And Jenkins
8 x 10 acrylic on board

Norman lived in a small cottage outside of London that he shared with his pet Weta, Jenkins,( a large cricket-like insect native to islands in and around New Zealand) Unlike ordinary insects, Jenkins had the ability to control people’s minds. Did he use that ability for good or evil?, . . .no one knew for certain, . . .but Norman lived happily with his “pet”, He did find it curious that the local townspeople often addressed him as “King Norman” or “Your Majesty”, and when the town tax collector arrived at his home to make an assessment, he cried out that his eyes were on fire and leaped into the pond.

I love how he has little stories about his characters added to the paintings specs.

Jason Chan

Shawn Alan Peters

Willie Real

Scott Musgrove

Nathan Ota

His sketch book is amazing!

Amy Sol