Posted in Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Sep 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Ok, So I fully admit that I missed out on some amazing stuff with Samurai Jack. It was the best designed cartoon ever to exist. I’ve seen like, three episodes. I suck.
But you can watch this and not suck:
Samurai Jack Cutout (Cartoon Network Promo) from Bent Image Lab on Vimeo.
via: drawn!
Posted in Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Iona.LABS, Work on Aug 24th, 2009 3 Comments »
It has been a long while since I have posted about Annabelle’s Bistro. I do apoligise for that. I can tell you that it is now complete and I am very excited for that! All I need at this point is to work out licensing for the music and then decide [...]
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 Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Jun 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
When I was in college I had stumbled across a short film on the web that just left me in awe. The film was called More and it really served to shape my feelings of what great animation could be.
I was thrilled to find that Dan Trachtenberg and someone over at slashfilm feels the [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub under-produced a four part series about the making of PVP: The Series, an animated series based on the webcomic by Scott….series.
The videos are a bit on the amateur side of things, but I think it adds to the charm. The rest of the videos can be found here.
Posted in Bradley Multimedia, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on May 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
Some advice for young artists:
Learn how to draw at the table with good posture.
Y’know, sit up straight and don’t lean over the artwork, like Mom used to tell ya…
…Think about the amount of wear and tear that your back will have to endure if you have bad posture and you become a successful comic [...]
Posted in Iona.LABS, Movies on May 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
This Video pretty well sums up my feelings about the overuse of lens flares and shakey cam in the new Star Trek movie.
Jim Ferolo pointed me to an article about the hot lens flare action.
Also, this was found in the comment seciton of slashfilm.com:
Kirk: Bridge to Engineering
Scotty (off camera): Ay, Cap’n
Kirk: Mr. Scott. I need…those [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on May 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
Man, his style translates so beautifully into animation doesn’t it?
The song in this video is “Eugene” by Andrew Bird. Animation by John Kuramoto. Written and Drawn by Chris Ware.
The video was deleted from teh internets. If I find it again, I’ll be sure to update this post. Sorry! IT’S BACK!
Thanks [...]
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Apr 27th, 2009 3 Comments »
I have been very quite for a while now. Podcasts have slowed down to a trickle. Blog posts have been pretty much non-existent. It is as if there is nothing new worth talking about with the film. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. We have been engrossed with so much work, [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Apr 17th, 2009 No Comments »
So much charm and life from something so darn simple. This is where it’s at folks.
Love the outakes at the end.
Thanks Steve!
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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