Glen Keane Rapunzel

Tangled was fabulous animation, Glen was involved in the whole process from creation and rigging of models to animating it. In the Tangled chat they talked about how his drawings was the lantern finding the path for them. Anyway, I was hoping to find some of the drawings he did to help the animators get closer to his look but I haven't seen any yet (art of tangled didn't have mhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifuch I don't think.) Glen's drawings are just so rich, he put it great speaking of another animator "feels like high calorie drawings, like you could get fat just looking at them" uggh so awesome

*Got these from Flooby Noob, he has more.

*12/2/11 as does Living Lines

Angry Men (mostly)

*found on FloobyNooby

Animation Scout

Ugur Yetiskin has a series of solid videos on face stuff.

AnimationScout - Blinks from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout - Mouth Corners from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout - Head Direction from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout - Eyelids from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout - Eye Direction from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

the whole looking in certain directions thing I don't think I buy, I think the first time it was an example of 1 subjects directions, and everyone took that up as the definitive, and I'm not sure it was proven anyway. Anyone know some real research. *added July 31 Check out wiki on neuro linguistic programming see where my hesitation on this comes from, so you can decide for yourself.

Kevin Koch still has best work up on blinks I've seen. Ugur's got some decent formula's here, but formula's without back ground information always seem dangerous to me.

eyelids, I think individuals have different neutral positions, which I'm getting from that Facial expressions book, but the stuff on the lower lid I agreed with, (lower lid can only get tightened up to close lid, going down only because bulge of cornea pushes it)

the mouth corner thing seemed solid, especially the arc part

head position seemed good too, wonder where he got the info.


* found on animation

Kaeloo

don't know why this is hitting now, but kaeloo's been on all the sites. I put it up because it's such a great example of crazy stretchy cartoony animation in CG, it feels more authentic CG then the nostalgically overweighted Coyote RoadRunners a few months back.

funny, Olivier had posted about it back in 2010, and for some reason I'm feeling like it's one of those shorts from before youtube days. Anyway

Kaeloo - Prince charming - Si on jouait au Prince charmant... from Cube Creative on Vimeo.

Kaeloo Pilote English Version from Cube Creative on Vimeo.

Kaeloo - La Quête du Greul - Extrait from Cube Creative on Vimeo.

Lighting - Francesco Giroldini

Olivier found this awesome dude: Francesco Giroldini who has some solid lighting chops, stuff looks like Daisuke “dice” Tsutsumi paintings in CG. And fortunately for us, also has a generous side and has thrown up a ton of lighting tuts.

He mentions this lighting thing.

reminds me that Lucas Martel has some decent lighting walk thru's also.