Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Be sure to check out this weeks episode of the Annabelle’s Bistro Podcast. It’s Spring Break! Time to get crazy and key some frames! This week is a special spring break edition of the podcast. We are joined by Anron Wang, Josh Mcarthy, Bob Wiese and Maggie the basset hound. Insanity ensues, but thankfully Matt [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Movies on Mar 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
A fantastic video mashup for those who like their Wall-E films with a little more drama.
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Well Spring Break has begun. And you know what that means! It’s time to buckle down and get some work done! WHOOOOOO! We have been working diligently to stay ahead of schedule on the film. Nearly all of my students have volunteered to give up their spring breaks to do so and have been putting [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 11th, 2009 No Comments »
I just discovered an awesome web series called “Black and White” by Jon Izen. It is very funny. The comedic timing on display is simply awesome. One of my personal favorites is Episode 13: The End of Friendship Why aren’t more people doing this kind of thing?
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Movies on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Pixar released a new trailer for UP! and it is fantastic. The “Squirrel Moment” had my wife and I laughing so hard and apparently it is a re-occurring joke in the film. The first trailer did little to get people excited for this movie. Apparently an old guy floating around in the sky wasn’t cutting [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
CGSociety has a great article which describes the unique process the filmmakers under took to create the beautiful film Coraline. Perhaps one of the most interesting innovations was that the replacement heads for each character were created on a 3-D printer. It is actually a very odd yet wonderful concept. A characters head is created [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, General, Movies on Mar 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Now I would watch this show!
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
I think my students are having a bit to much fun working on this film… Oh and please be sure to update your RSS feeds for this site, Feedburner went and changed them in the last couple of days, sorry.
Posted in Animation, Community on Mar 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Here is an awesome little piece about the dangers of coffee by the band Oldelaf & Monsieur D. Animation by Stephanie Marguerite and Emilie Tarascou. le Café – Oldelaf (english subtitles)by Boebis Via: Cartoon Brew
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
In a recent blog post, Micheal Sporn talks about the decline of the dope sheet, and why everyone should absolutely use them as a tool to aid in animation. With the advent of the computer, and as you mention programs such as Toon Boom (which employs its own version of an X-sheet,) studios presumably have [...]
Matt Forcum
Currently employed as a Motion Graphics Artist at The Iona Group and as an Instructor in Character Animation at Bradley University
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