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Animation Monday

Posted in Animation Artists, Animation Monday, You Tube, animated short, animation art on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »

An interesting short from Russian animator Ivan Maximov. It’s surreal in that Eastern European surreal way.

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The Thing with No Head

Posted in The Thing with No Head, animated short, animation, animation art, tagged on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »

Here’s the trailer for The Thing with No Head via YouTube. It will also be playing at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival annual “What’s Up Docs?” children’s film festival. Which also features short narrative films, thus The Thing with No Head will not be considered a documentary!

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Animation Monday, Canada

Posted in Animation Monday, You Tube, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, tagged , on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »

An inspired short from Canada. You Tube gives us a chance to see so much. When you consider that even with cable TV, you get material that is for the most part, complient with a bigger agenda (improve ratings against such-and-such network) or it has to be family oriented, or it’s material an agent can [...]

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Animation Development

Posted in Animation Artists, Work in progress, animation, animation art, character design, quick sketch on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »

Misc. air force pilots for an animated pilot.

Kids and dog. Can’t ya tell.
Here are two sketches from some development drawings I did for an animated show. It was headed towards pilot, I don’t know if it made it or not.
The characters involved changed a lot. probably 6 major revisions, and I mean major. Size [...]

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Animation Monday, Mary and her Little Lamb

Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Monday, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I finally finished this animated short-short. It took me forever.I think I had the sound track done a year ago. Just been too busy to get all the pieces together. As with every project, I think it could be better, but at some point I need to execute it and move on. I’d like to [...]

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Animation Monday

Posted in Animation Artists, Animation Monday, animated features, animated short, animation, animation art on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »

 
Keyframe is a good resource for all things animation. It features a list of online shorts, TV series, even direct to video animated releases. The Coming Soon section is helpful to see what animated features are floating around out there. The usual mix of ‘can’t wait to see’ and titles that no one is sure [...]

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The Thing with No Head

Posted in Animation Artists, The Thing with No Head, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »

Yeah, I’m writing about that animated short again. Looks like it will be playing a few new festivals this year, so I dug out the old website and reposted it.
For those of you who need to know, the Thing with No Head is an animated short I made when enrolled at UCLA. I have [...]

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Animation Monday, Monday, Monday. Triplets.

Posted in Animation Monday, Triplets of Bellville, animated features, animation, animation art, animation background art, tagged , on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Animation Monday can’t get much better than this.
A clip on Youtube from the amazing Triplets of Belleville. One of my favorite sequences. The ship crossing the ocean as the grandmother follows behind.
I watched this film twice the past month while working. Draw a little, watch a little, draw a little, watch a little… My [...]

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New Painting

Posted in Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Perspective, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, animation art, animation background art, illustration, picture books, tagged , , , on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »

Above is a close up and below is a low res, small size of a new digital painting I’m working on. The original piece is over 26 inches long, and I think it will be a great looking digital print.

Oddly enough I love to paint buildings…and I say oddly enough because much [...]

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Food Fight the movie!

Posted in Adobe After Effects, Digital painting, Documentary, Food Fight, November Films, Photoshop Painting, animated features, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »

I had the pleasure of creating a few minutes of traditional animation for a documentary made by Chris Taylor in association with November Films. It’s called Food Fight, and it shines a spotlight on American eating habits. They just launched a new website for the film and you can visit!
It’s one of those important [...]

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