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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
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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 [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Movies, Reviews, Work on Mar 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
On this weeks show I am joined by Dave Rogers. (@deddoc) Dave is a freelance artist who is helping to create some of the more complex effects on the film. He joins me to discuss the merits of Wall-E and Kung-Fu Panda. Listen as I awkwardly fumble for the words to explain why I [...]
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Feb 23rd, 2009 6 Comments »
Ambient Occlusion, Specular Pass, Final Gathering, Global Illumination.
If you understand any of these terms, you know the hell I am experiencing right now. I kid of course, but lighting and rendering can certainly be a tedious process and I have yet to land on a “right way” of doing it. Certainly I [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, General, Iona.LABS, Reviews, Work on Feb 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Hello all,
In this weeks installment of the Annabelle’s Bistro Podcast, the class gathers to discuss Coraline. What does this have to do with Annabelle’s Bistro? Absolutely nothing!
Enjoy!
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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