Here are the new Gobelins Shorts:
Andrew Gordon has another interesting article on Spline Doctors about Acting Ideas.
Throughout my animation career, good ideas will always win me over as opposed to fancy animation. For me, seeing animation that is fresh and new always reinvigorates me. When I would come out of a lecture, or a dailies review or anything where I saw or heard about an exciting idea, it would make me say: Why didn’t I think of that? It almost makes you frustrated and keeps you trying to think about a different way of doing something. Yes, there are scenes that don’t always require some sort of brilliant idea, but they call for something fresh.
I remember attending an animation master class in Madrid with Carlos Baena where he said something similar. It is indeed important to have great animation skills but it is also important to have something to say with it.
I think that we all have seen shorts where the animation was ok but the story blew own minds.
Check Andrew Gordon‘s full article HERE
Andrew Gordon has an article on the five successful traits that an animator should have:
- Attitude
- Good Choices
- Entertainment Value
- Physicality
- Caricature
In the original article, he breaks down each of those traits. Click HERE to read the original article at Spline Doctors.
Also, check the audio clip where Brad Bird talks about caricature HERE.
Check out “The Monk & The Monkey“. A short film done by students of Ringling College of Art + Design:
© 2010 Brendan Carroll & Francesco Giroldini. Music by Erez Koskas.
I have found a few videos about Puppeteering by Kate Brehm:
It is interesting to see how many concepts can be applied to animation as well. From my point of view, that demonstrates how importance things like balance and timing are in order to convey believable characters and performances.
Make sure to check her website as well.
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