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!
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS, Movies on Apr 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Via: Poe News
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Be sure to check out this weeks episode of the Annabelle’s Bistro Podcast. It’s Spring Break! Time to get crazy and key some frames! This week is a special spring break edition of the podcast. We are joined by Anron Wang, Josh Mcarthy, Bob Wiese and Maggie the basset hound. Insanity [...]
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Well Spring Break has begun. And you know what that means! It’s time to buckle down and get some work done! WHOOOOOO!
We have been working diligently to stay ahead of schedule on the film. Nearly all of my students have volunteered to give up their spring breaks to do so and [...]
Posted in Animation, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 11th, 2009 No Comments »
I just discovered an awesome web series called “Black and White” by Jon Izen. It is very funny. The comedic timing on display is simply awesome. One of my personal favorites is Episode 13: The End of Friendship
Why aren’t more people doing this kind of thing?
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 Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Work on Mar 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
I think my students are having a bit to much fun working on this film…
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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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