August 31, 2015
Animator's Guide to Health and Wellness - Part 2: Back Pain & Posture
Here's a good little video for exercises to help with your back and posture.
Here are exercises for preventing tendinitis and carpal tunnel, and they apply very well for animators, VFX artists and CGI artists & technicians of all kinds doing long days of work gripping that stylus pen.
In this clip, the focus is on a few hand stretching exercises that are essential to every guitarist's warm-up routine, of course these stretches apply very well to animators as well. These types of exercises can really go a long way to keeping your hands healthy and in good condition.
Reminding animators and artists to sit up straight, pull their shoulders back, pull their necks straight usually isn't too effective or long-lasting. We all sit for long periods of time, deeply focused on our work, not thinking about our postures or the grip on the pen. Eventually we all slouch down, our heads and necks stick out in front of us, whether we work with a tablet-and-monitor, or looking down at an angle on a Cintiq or some other graphic monitor system, or down on a flat table using good 'ol paper and markers.
So the big thing is to take breaks, get up and walk around, because the main cause of your neck sticking out, your shoulders rolling in, your eyes getting dry & sore, and your back curving forward is from many, many hours of sitting motionless at your work station.
So get up and stretch your hands, arms and back, walk around, give your eyes a rest, just for a few minutes, a couple times a day. Don't forget to do some of the exercises shown above, at a minimum of once every evening. It will help with blood circulation, prevent some strain on your back and neck, and help correct your spine from buckling.
From the book DRAW STRONGER:
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Animator's Guide to Health and Wellness: Part 1
Animator's Guide to Health and Wellness: Part 1
August 29, 2015
Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit
Wesley Louis drew 'Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit' as a comic when he was 13. It was time to realise the dreams of a geeky kid by animating the intro to the best TV-series that never was. 'Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit' A love letter to Saturday morning cartoons from the 80’s and 90’s.
Check out the awesome VHS version:
The making of this amazing intro to a mock 90s animated series:
Once upon a time in 1991, a young Wesley Louis sat down with some colouring pencils, and started drawing a comic book about an armored rabbit with superpowers and a sword. Little did he know he had taken his first step on a journey that he wouldn’t see completed for another 24 years.
He brought the comic into work and there was something about it that he and the crew couldn’t put down. Yes it was nostalgic, but more than that, it was a fully realized world, of heroes villains, and monkey sidekicks with guns.
Wes started to imagine what it’d be like if it were a real cartoon from the 90’s and before he knew it he had storyboarded the intro sequence. Rina May and Box of Toys Audio put together a rock solid theme song, and pretty soon everyone was hooked.
See more behind-the-scenes and shot breakdowns here.
Credits:
Created and Directed
WESLEY LOUIS
Executive Producers
LEE PAVEY
JAMES SINDLE
DANIEL MARUM
GILES CHEETHAM
Storyboards
WESLEY LOUIS
Additional Storyboards
TIMOTHY McCOURT
Character Design
WESLEY LOUIS
JONATHAN DJOB NKONDO
Graphic Design
MAX TAYLOR
Animation
PETER DODD
JONATHAN DJOB NKONDO
DUNCAN GIST
WESLEY LOUIS
Effects Animation
MATT TIMMS
Clean Up Lead
DENISE DEAN
Additional Clean Up
DUNCAN GIST
AMIX FILM STUDIO
Background Artist
CALLUM STRACHAN
Additional Backgrounds
BJORN ERIK-ASCHIM
KRISTIAN ANTONELLI
Layout
BJORN ERIK-ASCHIM
JONATHAN DJOB NKONDO
Colour
DUNCAN GIST
HELENE LEROUX
MAX TAYLOR
TIMOTHY McCOURT
Compositing
MAX TAYLOR
Music and Sound
“SUPER TURBO ATOMIC NINJA RABBIT THEME ”
Written, Composed and Performed by
RINA MAY
Music Production and Sound Design
BOX OF TOYS AUDIO
CHRIS DIDLICK
MAGNUS ARWENHED
BEN LAVER
“WTL Productions” Voiceover
ASHAN LOUIS-PHILLIP
SAMAYA ALEXANDER
JOSHUA FONTAINE
Special Thanks
AUDREY LOUIS, ANTOINE JAMES, LOUIS NATALIE PLATT, CHRIS KING, SAM TAYLOR LAURENT, ROSSI GABRIELLA, CERENZIA ELECTRIC, THEATRE COLLECTIVE, NO GHOST COLLECTIVE, HANAE SEIDA, AZIZ KOCANAOGULLARI, JENNY WELLS MERVIN, LOUIS NANOU, BLAIR GOULD, TOM SHEARING, DAN JESSOP, ROSA NUSSBAUM
August 28, 2015
Reels from Old School Classic Animators - Part 2
Robert McKimson
Bill Littlejohn
Grim Natwick
Manny Gould
Bill Tytla
Don Patterson
Ken Muse
Fred Moore
Preston Blair
Irv Spence
(version 2)
See Part 1 here.
Bill Littlejohn
Grim Natwick
Manny Gould
Bill Tytla
Don Patterson
Ken Muse
Fred Moore
Preston Blair
Irv Spence
(version 2)
See Part 1 here.
August 27, 2015
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August 25, 2015
Swap Meet
Collaborative short film by Caleb Wood, Charles Huettner, David Prosser, Elli Vuorinen, Grace Nayoon Rhee, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Kyle Mowat, Lee Kyu-tae, Lilli Carre, Loup Blaster, Nicolas Menard, Nelson Boles, Shin Hashimoto, Shen Jie.
August 24, 2015
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August 17, 2015
Podcasts @ Studio352
Victor Ens and Nic Debray are creating an extensive series of animation podcasts, each focusing on a different part of the culture of our industry. Both artists are seasoned traditional animators and have worked on films like The Illusionist, The Congress, Le Jour des Corneilles, and Song of the Sea. Topics covered so far include Talent, Starting a Scene, How and Why of Becoming an Animator, Beauty in Animation, Weight, Digital vs Paper, Tiedowns, and Realistic Animation.
Via OnAnimation
Via OnAnimation
August 16, 2015
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August 05, 2015
Over The Garden Wall - The Mini-Series
Online links to many of the people who worked on the show:
Show Creator
Story
Art Director
BG design
BG paint
Character design
Prop design
Design Clean-up
Storyboards
Storyboard Revisions
Production Coordinator
Hidden elements found in the episodes - spoilers, make sure you've watched the entire series before viewing:
A step-by-step process video of the Highwayman dance from Chapter 4:
August 04, 2015
August 03, 2015
Teasers for "DOFUS Book 1" – Julith
Animated feature film directed by Anthony Roux & Jean-Jacques Denis, and produced by Ankama Animations.
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
Director: Alasdair + Jock
Producer: Richard Barnett
Production Company: Trunk Animation
Creative Director: Aubrey Powell @ Hipgnosis
Producer for Hipgnosis: Fiz Oliver
Associate Producer: Daniel Negret
2D Animation: Layla Atkinson, Alasdair Brotherston, Stuart Doig, Carlos De Faria, Alex Potts
3D Animation: Clélia Leroux, Rok Predin
Art Workers: Rachel Callinan, Ana Garcia, Théo Gremillet, Laura Ireland, Reina Shibahara
Illustration: Jock Mooney
Compositing: Alasdair Brotherston, Andy Hague
Audio Post Production: Fonic
Sound Editor: Marty O’Brien
Sound Design and Mix: Barnaby Templer
Grade: Matt Hare @ Glassworks
Producer for Glassworks: Paul Schleicher
Music: David Gilmour/ Michaël Boumendil / Lyrics: Polly Samson
August 02, 2015
Coda
In this animated short by Alan Holly, a drunk man dies, and then Death finds his soul in the park. Refusing to let him just wander, Death takes him on a journey to see “many things.”