Find of the day: Pencil Test Depot

A friend told me about this blog today at work. It's a good collection of pencil tests both old and new. Enjoy!

http://penciltestdepot.blogspot.com/

'A Christmas Carol' trailer!

This was just posted yesterday over on Yahoo. I've got a few shots in there -- enjoy!

A Christmas Carol Trailer

Creature: Bat Running and Walking

I just thought these vids ROCKED!! How creepy is it to see these bats run and walk! Talk about some sweeeeet creature reference eh?!! Enjoy!

Bat Running:

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Bat Walking:

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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."

The Making Of Dr. Strangelove

Here's a special on the making of 'Dr. Stangelove' -- awesome!!

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4



Part 5