Hi all,
Stumbled on some wicked awesome work of other artists in the world. The 'blogosphere' rules.
Erwin Madrid
Willard
Starchie Spudnoggen
John Watkiss
Bill Cone
Bookmark all of these and/or add them to your feed readers.
More to come as I find the time.
Friend of friends Justin Coffee has just put his book together of some lovely ladies.
Definitely swing by his blog and check out his stuff (and his book!)
First off, I'm sorry that almost all that I'm posting is life drawing. I still go regularly so it's the easiest thing for me to throw up on here. I really need to get more design and stuff from the film up, but that will come in time. I'm sorry too if the posting gets sporadic from here on in - the film's into its last few weeks of production so it will be a bumpy ride.
I don't really do that much nude life drawing anymore, and especially not short nude life drawing. My addiction has progressed into the pure crack that is costumed life drawing, so it's rare that I step back to nudes. I think there's probably something wrong with me.
Check out this great talk by renowned film editor Walter Murch about Film and Sound editing.
I had a chance not too long ago to check out his book, In The Blink of An Eye, which I highly recommend checking out as well.
Animator Kevin Koch has posted several linetests of James Baxter's work on Sinbad. Check it out here.
The teaser for Laika's Coraline has appeared here. Enjoy!
[Update] The video was taken down off Cineplex it seems. It's shown up again on MovieWeb, so I've changed the links above and embedded below:
A possible clip from the live-action Where the Wild Things Are, directed by Spike Jonze.
[Update] According to Ain't It Cool News the clip is "a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work. The clip doesn’t look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype, and the boy is a friend of ours Griffin who we had used in a Yeah Yeah Yeahs video we shot a few weeks before. We love him, but he is not in the actually film...Oh and that is not a wolf suit, its a lamb suit we bought on the internet."
A healthy blend of design and life....
Also, found this drawing in my sketchbook from before.
Our spiritual guidance once per week.
True quote, by the by. The only one better was "He looked into the face of God, and saw a bitch."
Good times.
Wow three posts in a row!
You've got to see Michel Gagne's Prelude to Eden. Also embedded at left.
A lot of you probably saw The Big Story, a stop-mo animated short film featuring Kirk Douglas...
If not, here is the film:
What's even more interesting is this this "animatic" (looks more like a linetest to me) of the entire film, traditionally animated. I presume this was done for planning purposes.
Worth a watch!
Thanks much to Matt J for the heads-up.
Animator Rune Bennicke has been posting some straight-ahead animation to his blog. There's some great stuff there and it's really nifty to see a blog comprised of almost all moving work.
Here's one of the tests:
The wonderful Character Design blog has been posting a series of concept images from various Disney Features, outlining the development that goes into famous characters. Make sure to check it out.
From Concept to Final 1
From Concept to Final 2
You guys might have seen Alex Hirsch's films in the past. If you haven't, I recommend checking them out. He's got a YouTube channel here with a smackload of videos worth perusing through.
But more importantly...
He has started a blog! Check out this image to confirm this:
Make sure to swing by and check out the sweepingly majestic inspirational animation that will inevitably be posted there. Also make sure to give a comment - he tends to need encouragement in the form of love.
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