Jeffrey Katzenberg Plans on Living Happily Ever After | Fast Company.
This is a nice interview with JK, our main head honcho at Dreamworks Animation.
The first time I ever spoke to Jeffrey was when I was applying for a job at Dreamworks. I was actually still living in New Zealand finishing up on The Lord of [...]
As our production has begun, I’ve been talking to our animators about my goals in running the animation department for the show. It’s been an interesting process, one in which I’ve learned a lot about myself, my values, and how I feel our department can be most sucessful.
I’m not going to get into specific [...]
A few weeks ago my friend Eric Scheur asked if he could re-post one of my posts about the Fear of Moving Past Blocking to the awesome website http://11secondclub.com.
You can see the repost here:
http://www.11secondclub.com/helpful_hints/the_fear_of_moving_past_blocking/
I thought it was a great idea. I hadn’t actually re-read my post in a while, but was very happy [...]
Huge congrats to everyone at Dreamworks who worked on Kung fu panda.. It cleaned up at the annie awards Friday night!
11 for 11 I believe!
Congrats all!!!!!
Animation Tips & Tricks.
My good buddy Kevan Shorey posted some great content on the http://animatinotipsandtricks.com website today. It’s about using contrast in animation.
For me, contrast is best used when trying to heighten an emotional beat. For example.. if I’m trying to animate someone being “sad”, what do I do? How sad do I go? Does [...]
Oh wow.. talk about a great book that every animator should get.
Amazon.com: Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes, Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures: Walt Stanchfield, Don Hahn: Books.
As a 3d animator, I’ve had many people ask me what software they should learn, or what school they should go to, or [...]
Originally posted: Tuesday, 05 June 2007
So after finishing recording of the videos, I decided to record myself creating a walk-cycle with the AFR rig.
Enjoy!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zrObqm4Fm0
Originally Posted: Monday, 12 June 2006
We’re making the most rediculous video of all time.. it’ll either be great, or.. well.. stupid.
Edit: I finished shooting the video & editing it together. It’s available on youtube.. and if you purchased the Animator Friendly Rigging DVD series, you’ve seen it. Enjoy!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvHG0OkCWJ4
Orignally posted: Monday, 16 October 2006
Ah, I love it when articles come out touting the awesomeness of new technology and get the facts so wonky that it makes it seem like anything would be possible, if it weren’t for those darn pesky artists!
The New York Times has a new article about Image Metrics, [...]
One of the things I get asked about quite often from new animators is “how do you come up with good acting ideas”.
My answer, of course, is “you think my acting ideas are good? aww, shucks!”
Actually, coming up with ideas is one of my favorite parts of the animation process. It’s something I [...]
