Posted in Animation, Community, General, Iona.LABS, Work on Nov 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
CGTantra has an interview with Apurva Shah, effects supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios. We don’t often see interesting interviews with effects guys who work in animation, so this is a real treat.
On Ratatouille we worked on several different problems at this early stage – quadruped rig for the rats, organic modeling and edge displacement [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, General on Oct 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Whenever I get too big for my britches, I watch this video. It puts me back in my place pretty quick.
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Oct 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Hello all,
The third installment of our little podcast is up and available now. This week we discuss the Proof of Concept for Annabelle’s Bistro. The show is now enhanced with awesome new music and a brand new microphone! Professionalism better look out, cause we are coming!
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Posted in Animation, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Work on Oct 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The Legendary filmmaker Ralph Bakshi gives some great advice to us animators…kinda…
I actually really love this video. My favorite quote:
You animators have these machines that let you do anything you want, and what do you do? You try to join some asshole studio.
-Ralph Bakshi
The man has a way with words. Although, as many [...]
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Iona.LABS, Work on Oct 22nd, 2008 5 Comments »
Last night I completed my first Proof of Concept test for Annabelle’s Bistro. My goal was to model, texture, rig, animate, render and finish an entire shot from scratch in less than 4 hours. I did it in 5.
Annabelle’s Bistro: early proof of concept test #1 from Matt Forcum on Vimeo.
The words of [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, General on Oct 16th, 2008 No Comments »
The studio wants pants!? Do they know how long that will take!?
We have all had moments like this in our professional careers.
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, LEGO, Work on Oct 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Hello gang!
The second episode of the Annabelle’s Bistro Podcast is up and available now. This week we kick back and discuss some of our favorite animated films from our childhood, and I let slip just how little I know about release dates. (I also speak up a little louder this time.)
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Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS, Work on Oct 8th, 2008 5 Comments »
Many of you have been asking how Annabelle’s Bistro has been going and unfortunately, I have been unable to let a lot of information out of the bag in recent months. Now that all the details have been worked out, and production is in full swing, I can reassure everyone that the film [...]
Posted in Animation, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS on Oct 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
I have been into animation all of my life. However, as a child I lived a pretty sheltered existence. I did not see Creature Comforts until I was well into my college years, yet it quickly became one of my favorite animated shorts.
What immediately struck me about the film was how natural the [...]
Posted in Animation, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS on Sep 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
In animation, careful attention to detail is essential to giving a character life and to making them feel as if they really exist on screen. It’s important to remember when animating a human face, is not simply a matter of moving the eyes, and mouth. There are a large number of factors to consider in [...]
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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