Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, General, Illustration, Iona.LABS, Movies on Jan 22nd, 2010 1 Comment »
The cartooning and animation communities recently banned together to help the family of Tim Hodge, a former Disney animator and a writer and director on the very popular Veggie Tales series. I don’t know Tim personally, but being a big fan of animation, and a HUGE Veggie Tales fan, his work has influenced me [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
There are few relationships as scary as that of a Sonic the Hedgehog fan and his Sega Genesis. As proof of this, a devoted sonic fan is attempting to create a feature-length fan film. The following is a trailer developed to raise capital for the film:
Some choice quotes about the film:
I’m planning [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Aug 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
Brad Bird speaks on Fostering Innovation and stimulating creativity.
I said, “Give us the black sheep. I want artists who are frustrated. I want the ones who have another way of doing things that nobody’s listening to. Give us all the guys who are probably headed out the door.”
What are you still doing here? Go [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community on Jul 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
Disney is soon to be releasing a new film entitled: The Princess and The Frog. It is a gorgeous looking film which marks Disney’s triumphant return to traditional animation. And while that should be the focus of media attention, it appears that more and more stories are popping up around the topic [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS, Movies on Apr 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Via: Poe News
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 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 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 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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