Done with my second term at Animation Mentor and I love this school! I had a great mentor who was spot on when it came to critiques. He told me where I need work: push the cartoony-ness, improve my timing, start thinking in terms of lead and follow for actions. I wish film school was this good.
I’m taking a term off to get married (honeymoons, weddings, tuition and homework don’t mix), but I’ll be back in the summer to finish up. This school is amazing…
Went to check out the Mary Blair and Edward Gorey stuff at the Cartoon Art Museum. And in the back there is an amazing collection of cells and frames from some of the most important work ever done! I was impressed with Mary Blair, but then… I was blown away. There’s even a frame from “Gertie the Dinosaur” by Windsor McKay. All of the most amazing items at that museum come from a collection by a guy named Mike Glad…This guy needs to be thanked a thousand times for his generosity and awesome collection. But there is a downside…. The Cartoon Art Museum gift shop is the worst gift shop ever. There’s nothing remotely worthwhile in there. I was saddened by that. It might lose tons of revenue because no one with any love of cartoons will find anything worth buying in there. You can’t even find a copy of “The Illusion of Life” in there. pretty sad.
A guy named Magnus, also a student at Animation Mentor, had this in is blog. I shamelessly have propagated it in the name of animated historical education.
It’s called “Tex Avery, King of Cartoons” by John Needham. I’m trying to find it on DVD, but it looks like it’ll never happen:
I thought this would be kind of funny. I made this while I was laid off years ago right after I finished Gnomon’s Fast Track:
Since I’m going to AnimationMentor now I thought I’d use it to remind myself to be humble. Because at the time I thought this was the best animation ever. Then a guy at Pixar crushed me with valid, valuable, accurate feedback. Back then I wasn’t ready for that kind of feedback. now… I am.
Several of the animations I did with Eric Keller for Stylus Visuals (SRP, Bustamante, and Wrigley) will be part of an exhibit in Sunderland England starting on my birthday!
The Design4Science Symposium Friday 21st September & 22nd September 2007.
The exhibit is part of the Design For Scienceproject sponsored by the Wellcome Trust. It will ne moving on at some point to th Nobel museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
I’m too young to be in a museum! Special thanks to Michael Dalby for making Stylus Visuals a reality.
This is the most amazing rigging innovation I’ve seen in years!
I’m astonished. The future is… NO JOINTS at all. But the future is now. Pixar is already using this. It was used in Ratatouille and The Incredibles.
Everything can and will be animated using a control cage mesh:
I just finished my first week at ImageMovers Digital. I love this studio! Lot’s of great talented people. Very challenging and lots of good rigging to be done.
