'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' - Animal Football Sequence

I hadn't seen this in years! Talk about gags on top of gags! Love the goalie gorilla! A couple of the nine old men worked on this as well.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

TIME: Hollywood's VFX Sweatshops

Article from TIME about the VFX industry...

"But in the past 15 months, companies including Disney's ImageMovers Digital in Novato, Calif.; C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures in Toronto; and the Orphanage in San Francisco have shuttered. "It's pretty much an open secret in the business that you do feature-film visual effects for prestige — to get a great reel, to keep your artists happy — but they don't make money," says David Cohen, an associate features editor at Variety who covers the VFX industry. "If you're lucky, you break even on them. If you're not lucky, you're out of business."

read more: Hollywood's VFX Sweatshops

"The Illusion of Life" - 1981 Disney Animation Special

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JohnKCurriculum: Online Animation Courses

John Kricfalusi has started posting online animation courses on his blog JohnKCurriculum. There's a ton of great material to dig through! Enjoy!


JohnKCurriculum

Today's Inspiration - NZ Book Council 'Going West'

NZ Book Council - Going West

Don't Replace the Actor - Replace the Animator?!

The article posted below is very troubling -- I'm about to go on vacation so I can't write much more but I'll update this post when I get back from the UK!!

read the article here:
The "Avatar" Effect: Don't Replace the Actor - Replace the Animator


Here are some bits to chew on:

"To me, it's the exact opposite," Landau says. "Our goal on this movie was not to replace the actor, it was to replace the animator. If you think about it, what a great actor does and what a great animator does are antithetical to one another.

"A great actor withholds information. Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men can sit there and do nothing. No animator would ever allow that, they would put in a twitch. So our objective was to preserve Sam Worthington's performance and have that be what you see in those characters."

Animating 4 legged animals

I found this basic animation breakdown for 4 legged animals over on Animation Meat a while back. Cool stuff -- nice reminders for line of action, anatomy and simplicity of form.

Animating and Drawing 4-Legged Animals.PDF -- via Animation Meat

















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