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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Apple - Trailers - Horton Hears a Who - HD
Awesome! I love love the design and the animation treatment. Freshest thing I have seen in a long long time. Have really high hopes for this.
Apple - Trailers - Horton Hears a Who - HD
Apple - Trailers - Horton Hears a Who - HD
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
all kinds of stuff
all kinds of stuff
My new most favourite place in the world. Imagine what a treat it is to find so much matter all in one place. It like being in a class, having many hot cups of coffee at a cafe and a detailed telphatic session with one of the greatest cartoonists of all time - John K.
I know what i am doing this weekend. Do you?
My new most favourite place in the world. Imagine what a treat it is to find so much matter all in one place. It like being in a class, having many hot cups of coffee at a cafe and a detailed telphatic session with one of the greatest cartoonists of all time - John K.
I know what i am doing this weekend. Do you?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
Scientists recreate out-of-body experiences (no drugs) - Yahoo! News
One of the most amazing things I have ever read.
Scientists recreate out-of-body experiences (no drugs) - Yahoo! News:
QUOTE :
"Using virtual reality goggles to mix up the sensory signals reaching the brain, they induced the volunteers into projecting their awareness into a virtual body. Participants confirmed they had experienced sitting behind their physical body and looking at it. The illusion was so strong that the volunteers reacted with a palpable sense of fear when their virtual selves were threatened with physical force."
Scientists recreate out-of-body experiences (no drugs) - Yahoo! News:
QUOTE :
"Using virtual reality goggles to mix up the sensory signals reaching the brain, they induced the volunteers into projecting their awareness into a virtual body. Participants confirmed they had experienced sitting behind their physical body and looking at it. The illusion was so strong that the volunteers reacted with a palpable sense of fear when their virtual selves were threatened with physical force."
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Fantasia 2000
A pencil test is probably the most beautiful thing ever.
Check out this cool one from Fantasia 2000
amazing!
Animated Views � Phil Nibbelink: Sealed With A Kiss
Click on the link above to read a crazy story. Ex Disney Animator Nibbelink animated an entire feature film all by himself! What an astounding acomplishment. Definitly getting the DVD to check it out.
Here is a review of the film itself
http://animated-views.com/2007/sealed-with-a-kiss-dvd-review/
Click on the link above to read a crazy story. Ex Disney Animator Nibbelink animated an entire feature film all by himself! What an astounding acomplishment. Definitly getting the DVD to check it out.
Here is a review of the film itself
http://animated-views.com/2007/sealed-with-a-kiss-dvd-review/
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
work life balancen humor .. confused ramblings
This is an ongoing issue that I am sure everyone faces. How does one balance work and life?
For the art to be authentic it has to come from life. Art as such is a way of life. But to be really honest one has to experience it in life. How does one portray it in the movie if one has not experienced it oneself? Great comedians take personal experience and then from that extract humor. Humor as such is merely a point of view.
Classically speaking the only thing that exists is tragedy and humor is merely a way of looking at tragedy.
I used to really laugh and Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But not anymore! Its not like I don't like it anymore. I still LOVE watching them. Its just that i cant laugh at it anymore. I understand where the humor comes from. It comes from a place of so much pain that I find it hard to not try and analyze what experiences led to that bit in the movie.
Come back to work life balance. It is important to go out and live life and experience everything and from that experience create something if it demands to be created. Nothing is more boring or pretentious than forced art.
For the art to be authentic it has to come from life. Art as such is a way of life. But to be really honest one has to experience it in life. How does one portray it in the movie if one has not experienced it oneself? Great comedians take personal experience and then from that extract humor. Humor as such is merely a point of view.
Classically speaking the only thing that exists is tragedy and humor is merely a way of looking at tragedy.
I used to really laugh and Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But not anymore! Its not like I don't like it anymore. I still LOVE watching them. Its just that i cant laugh at it anymore. I understand where the humor comes from. It comes from a place of so much pain that I find it hard to not try and analyze what experiences led to that bit in the movie.
Come back to work life balance. It is important to go out and live life and experience everything and from that experience create something if it demands to be created. Nothing is more boring or pretentious than forced art.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
teaching
So i have been teaching a few hours a week for the last almost one year. Last semester at Takshaa i started teaching basic animation acting. I have to say I was kinda nervous about teaching classes but since i have been doing it I have started to really look forward to it.
Teaching something.. or in my case trying to teach something forces you to look at the subject in a very different manner than you normally would in a work environment. You are forced to come up with reasons why shots dont work or the physics doesnt look right. A lot of this stuff becomes instinct over time. And also over time a lot of this instinct can be forgetten. Everytime my shot doesnt look right is because i have forgotten to put something utterly basic in it. Or i have not planned it right.
Teaching forces you to come up with an ideal way of working for animation. It makes it obivious to you and the students why things dont work.
And you know what surpirsing it is always the basic stuff. Animation is a really really complex art but at the heart of it is made up of really really itterly simple common sense concepts. Infact we owe a lot to the animators of the past who were able to boild animation down to such simple elegance. Mess ups happen not because some major intricate concept was forgotten but because some simple principle was not applied!
This has happened so many times in class that I was completely taken aback.
Next week is the finals for my students. If the students are ok I will post some of the best work out here.
Teaching something.. or in my case trying to teach something forces you to look at the subject in a very different manner than you normally would in a work environment. You are forced to come up with reasons why shots dont work or the physics doesnt look right. A lot of this stuff becomes instinct over time. And also over time a lot of this instinct can be forgetten. Everytime my shot doesnt look right is because i have forgotten to put something utterly basic in it. Or i have not planned it right.
Teaching forces you to come up with an ideal way of working for animation. It makes it obivious to you and the students why things dont work.
And you know what surpirsing it is always the basic stuff. Animation is a really really complex art but at the heart of it is made up of really really itterly simple common sense concepts. Infact we owe a lot to the animators of the past who were able to boild animation down to such simple elegance. Mess ups happen not because some major intricate concept was forgotten but because some simple principle was not applied!
This has happened so many times in class that I was completely taken aback.
Next week is the finals for my students. If the students are ok I will post some of the best work out here.
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