Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Slashfilm has some very lovely concept art from The Princess and the Frog. I gotta say that I love the more traditional feel that this film brings to the increasingly tired genre of animated features. It’s very refreshing.
Be sure to check out their site for more images.
Posted in Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS, Movies on Aug 8th, 2008 No Comments »
A while back, BoingBoingTV interviewed Syd Mead. Syd is a brilliant futurist artist with a long and distinguished career. He is probably best known for his work as the lead concept designer on the film Blade Runner. In this three part interview, Syd talks about the evolution of conceptual design, the creative [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, General, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Jul 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Interested in working with a great group of people? We have the job for you!
Job description and details are available after the jump.
Posted in Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Jul 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Despite my best efforts, I am starting to go green. Recycling, carpooling, CF bulbs, etc. I have concerns about carbon emissions, and ground water contamination. But most importantly, I am concerned with the effects of deforestation.
We only have so much land on this earth, and we are quickly using it all [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Jul 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Josh Burton points us to a fantastic video with Glen Keane. Glen is an amazing artist who supervised animation on classic films such as Aladdin, Tarzan, and Beauty and the Beast. He also contributed to The Little Mermaid, The Great Mouse Detective, and The Fox and the Hound (To name a few).
In this video, [...]
Posted in Community, General, Illustration, Strange Tales on Jul 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
As I started writing this post I was preparing to scream out HOAX! I mean, come on, the picture depicts an elephant “painting” a very serviceable picture of another elephant complete with a blanket on its back and everything. Yeah sure. Some dude painted that and they stuck the elephant in the [...]
Posted in Community, Illustration on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Chad Udell points us to a cool little mashup that generates a “tag cloud” from a collection of text or an R.S.S. feed or Del.icio.us bookmarks.
I used it on The House of Move website. Its a neat little waste of five minutes.
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, General, Illustration, Iona.LABS, LEGO on Jun 30th, 2008 No Comments »
(It’s rare that animation and LEGO come together so nicely, so this post has me excited!)
If your looking for a slightly different take on WALL-E, The Brothers Brick (one of my favorite sites on the net) has a nice interview with Pixar animator and LEGO fan Angus MacLane.
Mostly I build with LEGO [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, General, Illustration on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Yahoo! has the new Clone Wars trailer in HD. Looking at it now, I think I have decided that I don’t think I like the visuals all that well. Some characters, like Yoda, look great. However, I think Dooku is extremely stylized in comparison to everyone else in the film and [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
So a few weeks ago I added a link to The Process Diary on my sidebar but never bothered to explain why.
The Process Diary is a blog and podcast which chronicles the creation of Paul Caggegi’s short film: Character Development. Much like Moon Town, this site is full of fantastic information for anyone [...]
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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