Many moons ago.. waaay back in 2006, I was interviewed by a website called Strut Your Reel. Unfortunately, that site has since gone *poof*. Thanks to the Internet Archive, I was able to find the original interview, and have reposted it here for your enjoyment. :)
Lots of people have been interested in the results of the “Pay What You Want” sale I’m having on my older rigging dvds, so I thought I’d go ahead and post some of the results! The news has been all over this idea lately.. especially with folks like Louis CK being so incredibly successful with […]
Steve Jobs was famous for his “One More Thing” line during Apple announcement events. We would wait eagerly as he was impressing us with the latest quarter’s sales results.. demonstrating a new product that we suddenly would decide was the most important thing ever.. talking about how the latest iMac was the most beautifully designed […]
Attempting to try "Pay What You Want" system for older DVD training material!
I just found out that the site that I was selling “Integrating a Creature Rig” and “Fast Animation Rigs” (http://lulu.com) no longer allows downloadable dvds to be sold. Thus, I’m going to have to move the content to fastspring.com, the place that I currently sell Animator Friendly Rigging, and probably the best online sales site […]
So after looking at a number of different forum options for this site, I’ve decided to go with Google Groups instead of an integrated forum solution. It seems to be the easiest solution, and I won’t have to worry about updating plugins, managing hackers, etc. Please check it out and join in.. Animator Friendly Rigging […]
for some reason the forums were.. I don’t know.. deleted? I’m not quite sure what happened, so I’m looking into it and will hopefully add them back again soon! Sorry for any inconvenience!!
So that’s the big question.. How do you find the intent for your shot? We know how important this is.. how necessary it is for you to understand why your shot is in the film, and how it relates to your character’s arc and the story’s progression. We know that without this information you will […]
One of my favorite blogs for helping me become a better professional artist is the Accidental Creative. They do a really great job of coaching on how to maintain creative excellence and deliver a product on time. As someone who has been in the industry for a long time, I’m very used to seeing artists […]
In the last post I spoke about achieving quality in our work. We separated the idea of a “quality” animation into two main things – great movement & technique (arcs, spacing, timing, rhythm, etc), and great acting. Through an exercise with sticky notes, I broke acting up into two areas – character and intent. Character […]