Thursday, April 19, 2012

Shin's Rifle's Spiral

Director Jamie Caliri


The Shins: The Rifle’s Spiral on Nowness.com.



animated at 15fps

Stop Mo Nick

Nick Helligloss who does awesome shorts in stop motion has some fantastic tutorials up as well.

Build Up Bodies


Build up Heads


Slush Casting


Silicone Head


there's a few others on his youtube page as well

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Apocolypse Panda

Wastelander Panda Prologue from Epic Films on Vimeo.



more and more stuff is popping up in kickstarter type things. This is what it looks like when there's not gatekeepers? Creator's go straight to audience for funding? Going straight out to the audience instead of winding through theaters or tv.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Loopers

sorry not film related at all, but got my hands on a looper recently so was checking what's possible out









Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Glen Keane Interview in French

english transcript here


Rencontre avec Glen Keane by cloneweb


Would you consider going back to directing?

GK: Possibly… but I developed this idea mostly to create a character.
For me, I really think of the heart of the character… Ariel or Beast… and afterwards I start to develop a story. So I’m a different kind of director perhaps.
I started developing Rapunzel so I could animate her.
If there’s another character that interests me, maybe – and no one else is going to direct the film

Many directors used to be animators. They had to stop animating when they took the role of director. John Lasseter, for example.

GK: That’s not me.

But for me, the best moment of the creative process is the moment where I draw at my table, with the light… That is the magic moment for me. Not necessarily the moment the film is projected on the big screen.
I feel like a line is like a kind of seismograph… of emotions.

when you animate with the computer it’s always trying to seduce the animator into accepting something other than what they envisioned, to accept something less

So I encouraged the animators on Tangled to have something really personal to say. This is important. If we don’t have something that comes from inside the soul, we’ll be tempted to accept something much easier.

If you reduced Pixar to a phrase it would be: « Wouldn’t it be cool if? »
Like if a kid was looking at their toy: What if the toy could talk? All their films are like this.
If you reduced the Disney films it would be: « Once upon a time… »
There is big difference. « Once upon a time » it’s make believe. It’s the atmosphere we breathe in the two studios