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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

2nd "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Trailer

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Family Guy's 8th Season Premiere Episode

Cartoon Brew has a great post with full episode of Family Guy. Particularly interesting is the comment section where the episode director and lead animator share their production info.
In the episode Brian and Stewie travel between alternate universes. There are segments shown in different styles and it's awesome (especially the Disney and Robot Chicken one). So make sure to head over there.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Cloudy With A Chance Of Eyeballs

Great post by David Anthony Gibson (thanks Eric for the heads-up!). He discusses his working method via a sequence of 5 shots he animated:

Head over to the post in order to check out the whole analysis. Very cool!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

It's all in the Eyes.

Ok, maybe not ALL, but you shouldn't underestimate the fact that the audience will be focused on the face of your character, especially the eyes/eyebrow part. You could have Muppet style lipsync but fantastic emotion in the eyes and eyebrow and it would still work. Of course there are exceptions, but people focus on eyes, so don't neglect that area in your animation.

I got reminded of that while working on a clip at home. The beginning of the first shot has three guys peeking above a sand hill and two characters only have their eye area visible and the third one a bit more of the face. It's a lot of fun to concentrate just on the eyes.

That reminded me of a movie called Baraka. At the beginning of the movie you have two great shots of a Japanase snow monkey. With nothing moving except his head you really focus on his eyes.

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