Posted in General, Iona.LABS, LEGO on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
James over at LAML Radio is attempting to bring us one interview with a LEGO builder each day for the month of August. To lend a hand, I am interviewing a few of my favorite builders this month. My first builder interview is now up at the LAML Radio website.
UPDATE: I [...]
Posted in General, Iona.LABS, Work on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
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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 Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Aug 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
After the flop that was the 2004 film: Home on the Range, Disney announced that it would be dropping 2-D animated films in favor of 3-D. The thinking internally was that Disney’s recent string of flops could be attributed to the audiences general dislike of the “old techniques”. Animation fans around the world [...]
Posted in General, Iona.LABS, Work on Jul 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
I will be busy the next 2 weeks with several video shoots in Kentucky, Ukraine, and Romania. I will not be posting during that time, but fear not friends. You can peek in on the action by following me on Twitter. I will be sure to provide updates often.
-Matt
(Oh, and if my [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, General, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Jul 18th, 2008 No Comments »
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Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Jul 16th, 2008 No Comments »
NPR has a nice, long audio interview with Director Andrew Stanton. About half way through the interview he speaks on the brilliant use of the song Put On Your Sunday Clothes as the introduction to WALL-E. He also mentions that his original concept for the humans of the future was that we would [...]
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, [...]
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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