Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Wall-e: Sound Design

I really love quality sounds design in films. It adds an important layer of realism and connects characters and objects to their environment. Below is a great featurette on how Ben Burt (sound designer for R2D2, all 6 Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones, ext.) created the sounds for Wall-e.



Friday, July 04, 2008

New Sketches

here are some sketches I've scratched out while waiting on playblasts at work-




Thursday, April 24, 2008

Chuck Interview

This is a great interview with Chuck Jones. He talks a lot about his life and career at Warner Bros. There are a ton of nuggets of wisdom in this interview.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sketches

Some sketches from "downtime" at work:

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I just stumbled upon this film today and I'm wondering why I haven't heard of it before. I really like the character and environment designs. The animation in the trailer looks pretty good as well. I'm still trying to scrounge up some more info on this film so I'll post more later. Until then check out the film's website and trailer (unfortunately it's all in Spanish):

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