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!

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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 ensues, but thankfully Matt [...]

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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 have been putting [...]

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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?

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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 created [...]

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I think my students are having a bit to much fun working on this film… Oh and please be sure to update your RSS feeds for this site, Feedburner went and changed them in the last couple of days, sorry.

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In a recent blog post, Micheal Sporn talks about the decline of the dope sheet, and why everyone should absolutely use them as a tool to aid in animation. With the advent of the computer, and as you mention programs such as Toon Boom (which employs its own version of an X-sheet,) studios presumably have [...]

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On this weeks show I am joined by Dave Rogers. (@deddoc) Dave is a freelance artist who is helping to create some of the more complex effects on the film. He joins me to discuss the merits of Wall-E and Kung-Fu Panda. Listen as I awkwardly fumble for the words to explain why I feel [...]

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Ambient Occlusion, Specular Pass, Final Gathering, Global Illumination. If you understand any of these terms, you know the hell I am experiencing right now. I kid of course, but lighting and rendering can certainly be a tedious process and I have yet to land on a “right way” of doing it. Certainly I have yet [...]

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