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Linetesting, Linetesting, Linetesting!

Fantasia 2000, The Firebird Suite, Effect Pencil Tests from Peter Nagy on Vimeo.

At least we're not doing THIS much linetesting (yet)

Bean design

He looked better with facial hair...

Design

Another Potter Post... Whut?

Hokays.

So when I thought back to when we all first met and we were asked to talk about animations that we enjoyed/inspired us someone (sorry I forget who, all I know is I had to turn my head to the right to see you) mentioned the short animated feature in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. The segment was the "Tale of Three Brothers" which explained The Deathly Hallows -- anyway, let's not get into that or i'll be here all night teaching you every single fact about Harry Potter.

THE POINT

(Finally, we arrive) 

I found concept art for the three brothers, it was animated in 3D but I always appreciate a good bit of concept art, don't you?

Quiz thing

1. Which studio produced the two short animated films featured today?

-Warner Brothers

2. Who directed the two films?

-Charles Jones

3. What were the names and dates of production of the two films?

-'The Case of the Missing Hare' (1942). 'The Aristo Cat' (1943)

4. Many of this director’s films in the 1930’s and 1940’s tried to imitate the

style of which famous studio?

-Walt Disney Studio

5. Did he ever work at that studio? (The studio that was the answer to the

previous question)

-Yes he did, he worked on Sleeping Beauty.

6. After directing a film in 1942 he broke away into a new style of animation

humour and design. From the late 1940’s and into the 1950’s the animation

style and design in his films and characters were a leading influence in

animation history. What features of his style of animation and design made

his work stand out?

-Less realistic and more snappy/cartoony.

7. Remember that Brad Bird, director of

Giant’

animated feature film

which cartoon by the animator you are researching today? (Film title and

year please)

- 1952, "Feed the Kitty"

8. Is that cartoon, the one you answered in the previous question, one of

Frank’s favourite cartoons?‘The Incredibles’ and ‘The Iron, paid homage to Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston… In the Pixar‘Monsters Inc’ (2001), the directors paid homage to-Yes

He who must not be drawn!

Yeah...

That's all.

-rolls out-

'Inspiration'

Quick thing here...

Has anyone ever noticed how random Inspiration is?

The fact that you could have a million awesome ideas, and the time.

But nothing comes from it... Then, on a whim you go off and create

something out of thin air because you were randomly inspired to do 

so?

Result:

RAVENCLAW SNOBBERY

Have a comic.

A gift from me - to you.

and you.

and you.

and you.

But not you, you're just vain.

(I bet you think this song is about you)

....

Okay

It's time for bed....

[PKMN]

PKMN TRAINER MOJO WISHES TO BATTLE

So, Nick - I DID say I'd re-do mine with a bit of effort =P

Quagsire

Umbreon

Ampharos

Dragonair

Scizor

Haunter

Bring. It. On.

I AM PREPARED!

Blinking

Forgot to post this, sorry!

Tools: Photoshop CS5

Done with a handful of frames and around 20 odd layers, it's not so much that the animaton was dificult - just tedious to modify the timing between the frames and the use of layers to change the image instead of the flash system that allows you to edit the frames each time.

Time: Around 30 minutes, 20 of which was doing frames.

Outcome:

I prefer to use flash for animation that spans over a few seconds, because photoshop would be ... horrible for animating anything you may need to alter in the future. Layers, layers, layers, layers, layers....



Animation History & Seedy Cubes

Subject: Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen works in special effects animation (or Stop Motion Animation) on several films including [1933] King Kong and his first colour film [1958] The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.

Additional Question:

"Why Monsters?"

I believe that monsters are used because of their anthromorphic qualities allowing the animators to both humanize their emotions and movements as well as de-humanize and villanize them in other projects - a good example of this would be using real world conflict (eg: World War Two) and then represting a monster threat to the world of your animation that is clearly a representation of the Nazi Party of germany, but by not using humans to portray them they're utilizing a form of propaganda in the sense of de-humanizing them and their actions further and the audience in response feeling more intense emotion (be that positive or negative) towards the characters.

BONUS FEATURE: SEEDY CUBES

You're looking for the part just after 25 seconds.
Don't you think these cubes are acting a little too excited to see each other?

Assuming all of the square patterns are animate cubes, i feel sorry for those between the offenders of this questionable 'seedy' glance.

Desired connotation: "Oh hey."
Actual connotation: "Oh heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy." *wink*

Dedicated to Sasha and Nick

blob

Made this in class randomly, Frank made me post it.
He's watching me....

Bonus: Ditto Trainer

Oh come on, you should have seen this one coming. :)

Jane asked me today to work more on putting in additional colours besides the flats in these quick-chibi's I've been doing, took a little bit longer but not that much really in the grand scheme of things.

Off to sleep now.
~He who is known as MoJo

DC Universe Online

Most of you don't know it - yet - but I am a pretty big fan of the whole superhero/villain concept, so naturally I'd be drawn towards DC Universe Online. However I'm sure a few of you have not seen the AMAZING 3D work in these videos before and you should. =)

I can confidently say this is some of, if not the best, work in 3D i've ever seen.

Lawl & Order

See people, don't make me laugh at lunch.... I'll create things like this!

Witty First Post Title

Hello,

My name is Tom and I am a first year animation student.

Generally I find that i am drawn to the weirder type of animations and artists, this ranges from Tim Burtons ability to make perfectly innocent stories morbid and dark to very strange and ranom animations such as Superjail (as seen below)

I tend to lean towards anime style art and animations, such as "The girl who leapt through time" and "spirited away"

I also enjoy a lot of the pixar animated films, with my recent obession being "Despicable Me" as well as some less famous creations as the "Dead Fantasy" series my Montyoum as linked below.

I like to watch 2D and 3D animation films as well as stop motion projects, etc. My deviantART account is linked above as an RSS feed.

Examples of animation I admire: