Q reads 'The Raven'

'Tis the season for a good reading of Poe's "The Raven"! Also a great opportunity to study the subtleties of facial motion!

via/QmX

'Coyote Falls '

This is a great attempt at the Warner style of animation in 3d. I believe Reel FX in Dallas, TX finished three of these shorts for WB. I'm looking forward to seeing the other two! Thanks Oz for the heads up!

Watch 'Legend Of The BoneKnapper Dragon'

Clip from Dean Wellins short ‘Tick Tock Tale’

This is a fantastic clip from Dean Wellins short! Love all the pantomime acting!

here: ‘Tick Tock Tale’ via /flim

Mark Andrews On Story

Awesome clip from a story lecture Mark Andrews gave at CalArts.




Spline Doctors On Story

Also, just reminding you of an older SplineCast with Mark Andrews and Ted Mathot! It's great!

here: Story Spline Cast with Mark Andrews and Ted Mathot (2007)

Amazing Dog Reference

Amazing dog reference here! Never thought I'd see a 'free running' dog lol love it!! Thanks Catherine Hicks for the heads up - you can follow her on Twitter here: @Cathicks

"Animation Nation" - BBC Documentary (2005)

A bit of interesting trivia here - according to this BBC documentary the oldest existing animation in the world is British?! It's a stop motion advertisement made by film pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper called 'Matches Appeal'.

March To Save 'The Hobbit'

So there's a good possibility that 'The Hobbit' will be filmed in England or Ireland?!

Latest news info here: Hobbit looks headed overseas

More images from the protest here: Wellington Film Protest

Pencil Tests from 'Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon'

David Martinez' pencil tests for the short 'The Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon' featured on the 'How To Train Your Dragon' DVD. Really nice stuff here!

Making of Disney's 'Alice In Wonderland' (1951)

Agile Robot Demonstration

This is just amazing stuff! The motion on these robots is getting pretty impressive! Now George can afford to build a REAL Droid army at $305,000 a pop!

More info here: NIKKEI and AIST

Longer Version here: Agile Robot Extended Demonstration

Time Warp = Cool Reference

I love this stuff! High speed footage is just awesome!

Gobelins

Some excellent shorts here from Gobelins 2010 and a few from 2009.

HOLLERADO - AMERICANARAMA

Cool stuff of the day -- The "Human 8-bit Video" by Hollerado.



thanks for the heads up Matt!

Tom Wilson - Stand-up Mastery talk

Tom Wilson gives a serious lecture here about his life as a comedian and an actor. The real meat of the talk is in part 2 but there's some interesting bits in part 1 as well.

part1




part2

Big Animal Reference from 'Out Of Africa Park' in AZ

Here's some pretty incredible big animal reference from 'Out Of Africa Park' in AZ. The leopard's off the wall gainer is just crazy! I want to go this place!

Roy Disney Interview (2007)

Here's a fantastic interview with Roy Disney. It's pretty long at 2.5hrs but it's worth a listen! 



part 1


part 2


part 3


part 4


part 5


part 6

Weekend Discoveries

Well another week is upon us. So why not start it off with two cool projects by Renaud Hallée?! The focus on music and rhythm in these pieces rock!!

Gravité from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.

Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.