French Roast

Go and watch French Roast by Fabrice O. Joubert! Sweet design and animation! (Thanks Ting for the tip!)

New Workshop Dates and Schedules

Head over to Spungella On-Site for all the information regarding start/end dates. In short, first 2010 workshop starts February 2nd, the second one starts March 25th. 16 sessions as always.

Cheers
Jean-Denis

Critique - jump, fire, collapse

My 2 cents:

- I wouldn't add that camera move at the beginning of the last shot. It
happens right at the beginning of the shot and gets lost because it's
over so quickly. Either take it out or add a slower version of it. No
dealbreaker though.
- The dart seems odd. When you step frame through it you have a very
blurred frame pointing down, the a slightly less blurred one, then the
hit with no blur. And the spacing gets smaller as it approaches the arm.
Something a bit off. No dealbreaker except that blurry pointing down
first frame.
- anim wise the biggest thing to me is the guy's pose and expression in
the last shot. He feels a bit curious, surprised, but that's it. For
someone who's on the run I miss an intensity and urgency and even slight
panic.

Looking good!!

For more work of this animator, check out www.azizk.com

AAU Animation Festival guest speaker Nik Ranieri from Disney

David Nethery sent me a reminder that Disney supervising animator Nik Ranieri will be at the annual AAU School of Animation Fall Animation Festival today (sorry for the late notice!!) Head over to David's blog for more details.

Peek inside the Pixar Studios

John Lasseter has a lot of toys, holy moly! - found via twitter.com/scott_p_clark

The Passenger by Chris Jones

Completed in 2006, The Passenger was created in its entirety by Chris Jones over an eight year period. Find out how and why at: http://www.chrisj.com.au . Note: this is a low res, monophonic, compression drenched, generally fairly appalling version - for an idea of the DVD quality, download the hi-res trailer at www.chrisj.com.au/thepassenger

Very cool!! Make sure to check out the main site and the making-of!

2009 Annie Award Nominees

Full list at Cartoon Brew:

Character Animation in a Television Production

Kevan Shorey “Merry Madagascar” – DreamWorks Animation
Mark Donald “B.O.B.’s Big Break” – DreamWorks Animation
Mark Mitchell “Prep and Landing” – Walt Disney Animation Studio
Phillip To “Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space” – DreamWorks Animation
Tony Smeed “Prep and Landing” – Walt Disney Animation Studios

Character Animation in a Feature Production

Andreas Deja “The Princess and the Frog” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Eric Goldberg “The Princess and the Frog” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Travis Knight “Coraline” – Laika
Daniel Nguyen “Up” – Pixar Animation Studios
Bruce Smith “The Princess and the Frog” – Walt Disney Animation Studios