Bats Improv info
Wanted to share a source for improv in the San Francisco city: Bats Improv I highly recommend to look into improv groups you can get involved with in your area. Improv is excellent practice for quick thinking and creativity. I found that I’m also becoming more aware of poses, stances, and space (which, of course, [...]
Source and Receptors of Emotion
When it comes to tones/emotion, keep two aspects in mind: 1) source (agent, cause) of feeling or emotion (-ing) 2) receiver of feeling or emotion (-ed) Example: 1) The soothing music was calming the crowd. 2) The crowd was calmed by the soothing music. The following reference demonstrates this concept well: http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/passive3a.html It is important [...]
Adding to the Tone of a Shot
Drew gave an awesome suggestion last night: Add a twist to your shot by tacking on an adjective to an emotion or tone. For example: rather than creating an idea with a tone of joy, put an adjective on that tone such as confused joy or uncontrollable joy. By putting on those adjectives, you just [...]
Beauty of One Second
Ben Fischler shared this link. The Beauty Of a Second – 3rd round compilation (Instant Bliss) from The Beauty Of A Second on Vimeo. This is wonderful as a stand-alone. We can learn from this as animators. The power of one second — think about how much information can be told with proper staging. Capturing [...]
Cartoony Blocking Techniques
Recently I’ve been playing with the Malcolm rig (provided by AnimSchool for free). A friend of mine pointed me to some great tutorials by Kevin (KJax on YouTube) which use and push a female version of the Malcolm rig of how to block a cartoony style animation. I dig the style of his shots and [...]
Glen Keane Resources
Glen Keane is an incredible artist/animator (that’s such an understatement). Drew shared these links with us and I wanted to pass them along as well! SO inspiring. Drawing: Animation Demo: Tying down a drawing: Beast Shot: Ratigan Shot: Fagin Shot: Transformation of the Beast: Aladdin Scene: Young Jim Hawkins Scene From Treasure Planet (one of [...]
Texting distraction (new shot planning)
I wanted to do a body mechanics shot that is short with one action that still has commentary. That way I can nail the action, and play around with pushing the timing and poses. So…this reflects our common distraction with technology. texting, texting, texting… Video reference: sketches:
Multiples and Shmears
Digging into resources and examples for cartoony techniques in 3D. Found some awesome references in 2D as well…I want to learn how to translate that to 3D. Here’s a couple… Animation Smear Examples Sylvester and Tweety, Looney Tunes preview Looney Tunes Rigs (Josh Carey)
Dynamic surfaces – soft bodies
(This is for me as I come across solutions for snow). Sharing it here too, for whoever is interested in dynamics. Creating dynamic mud effect using soft body Autodesk Maya Online Help: Snow
Heavy Push Animation – Snowball
We we’re given the Stewie rig with arms. I changed the rig to make it a kid and did some simple models for the snow scene. We’re working with showing force, so I decided to do a pushing animation. I’ve seen a lot of push/pull animations with cars, boxes, furniture, doors, etc…So I decided to [...]