Tangents are something I struggled with a lot in my early days of drawing. I didn’t know what they were called, but I found them a lot—especially when my drawn elbows met up with an edge in the picture, or the way I cropped an image visually and it just looked awkward. Iย originally discovered this…
“Students! You have just under a month to get your applications in for theย Jay Kennedy cartooning scholarship. This is a great opportunity to not only help pay for your education, but to meet and be celebrated by the NCS at their annual Reuben Awards party weekend.” -Reposted from Drawn
[youtube=http://youtu.be/B4cC3Q4dhNM] The trailer forย ParaNormanย is out and it looksย good. “Made in Oregon, frame by frame” byย Laika, the animation company who made the acclaimedย Coralineย in 2009,ParaNormanย is about “A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead takes on ghosts, zombies and, worst of all, grown-ups, in order to save his town from a centuries-old curse.” (Coming August 2012)…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPAjyj1spQ&feature=player_embedded] “1991. 16mm film. This was shot before video assist technology was available. You carefully planned the animation and went for it. But you had to wait to get the film processed to see the shot for the first time.” Five years later, Tim Hittle made Canhead: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWSQcaWoNk&feature=channel_video_title] “1996. 35mm film. This was shot with…
CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE IT IN ACTION! I made this little animation to conjure an incredible weekend and I hope it works. See you all on the other side of tomorrow! (Here’s a teeny-tiny version)
[vimeoย http://vimeo.com/27003856] This little gem has been getting passed around websites like crazy! Don’t Hug Me I’m Scaredย comes from Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling of This Is Itย and is well worth the three and a half minutes it takes to watch.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/22894261] Nelson Boles is the hands and brains behind this beautiful little animation.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sRO5sipTKY&feature=channel_video_title] This is a video I made for an IT company that will be launching soon. They wanted something simple and direct that would describe their services in a way that was fun and easy-to-understand. This is the first in a series of several animations I’ll be making for their clients, as well as their…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/17448270] I came across this beautiful animation this morning by Aaron Wendel, and was struck by its stunning narrative in such confounding simplicity. If you have a spare couple of minutes, I can’t recommend enough watching this short.