tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214531512012-01-23T17:36:41.360-08:00Running commentary on anything that moves or gives the illusion of movementericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-68683779480035003572011-08-25T19:09:00.000-07:002011-08-25T19:09:27.417-07:00

Traditionally each wedding anniversary has a material associated with it (i.e. 1st - Paper, 2nd - cotton, 25th - silver, 50th - gold) and for our 3rd year it was "leather."  Well, I'm no good working with leather, but I had an idea of what I could do for this year's gift.  Tommy loves baseball, and baseballs are made of leather!  So I managed to sneak down to the gift shop during an Angels/

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-4051908319389080732011-08-09T23:42:00.000-07:002011-08-09T23:42:28.497-07:00

I was talking with Michelle this evening about "style" - that is, an artist's means of expressing themselves in a unique way that is instantly recognizable to others.  The illustrators I like to keep an eye on all have very strong styles that distinguish themselves from other artists.  I told Michi that I didn't feel I had a style all my own.  I believe it's probably because I don't draw often

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-25369903201456372212011-06-25T15:33:00.000-07:002011-06-25T15:35:52.681-07:00

Soooo, it's been a while.  I've moved on to Sony Santa Monica to work on an unannounced game project and it's a little slow going.  In the meantime I tried another short project at home similar to the 11-Second Club entry from last October.  This time it was a contest hosted by Kevin Freeman who runs the AnimationRigs.com website.  We had a choice of 5 audio clips this time, and the only rule was

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-61090219129402028162010-11-15T00:34:00.000-08:002010-11-15T00:34:59.090-08:00

This is a short abstract film I created as part of the "Bored Animators Club" challenge at work!  After we were done with Medal of Honor we were sitting around thinking of stuff to do, so we came up with the idea of 24 hour animation challenges.  Take that, 11 Second Club.  Who needs a month to make a short film? Hehe. Anyway, I figured it would be a fun opportunity to finally get around to

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-84662445949461863892010-11-06T19:39:00.000-07:002010-11-06T19:39:45.371-07:00

I found myself with some free time last month so I tried out the 11 Second Club competition for the first time.  I've always found the competition inspiring but never quite worked up the nerve to enter myself.  I earned a respectable 5th place out of 256 entries, not bad! Here's my piece: You can check out the other entries here: http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/october10/ I went

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-24707414465343898342010-09-23T17:22:00.000-07:002010-09-23T17:22:20.219-07:00

Kind of piggy-backing off of my last animation assignment, I decided to do a little concept work for my characters on the short film brewing in my head to nail them down a bit better.  Hopefully the more I can visualize them on "paper," the easier it will be to model them in Maya.

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-80248376441546735432010-09-21T23:52:00.000-07:002010-09-21T23:53:00.094-07:00

Wow, 12 weeks went by fast! This last assignment features two characters I'm thinking of developing a short film for. Not sure I've nailed down the design yet. I was mainly considering the contrast between the two personalities for this test. I'll probably end up animating the short in 3D since that's the medium I'm most comfortable with. I wish I didn't have to go through the trouble of creating

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-63789370268496012262010-08-01T22:53:00.000-07:002010-08-01T22:55:51.830-07:00

This time the line of dialogue is from a movie called "Sling Blade" starring Billy Bob Thornton. The audio quality for the dialogue wasn't great, but I had fun working with it. I also wanted to try my hand at more exaggerated takes like they did on the Looney Tunes. I studied "Dripalong Daffy," in particular the scene where Daffy takes a drink from the bar. It's amazing what the animators

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-8715991417463540362010-07-04T18:50:00.000-07:002010-07-04T18:59:09.094-07:00

I signed up for a traditional animation class with the Local 839 Guild up in Burbank on Monday nights!  It's a lot of fun getting to pick up paper and pencil again.  Here's the latest assignment pencil test: My professor Alex Topete gave us model sheets for Darla Dimple from Cats Don't Dance (an excellent movie if you haven't seen it) and an audio file from "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"  I

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-87675761620780211332010-04-28T01:02:00.000-07:002010-04-28T01:02:59.939-07:00

For my sister, she's a big Johnny Depp fan. :)

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-57500503137234005202010-04-06T00:32:00.000-07:002010-04-06T00:32:06.415-07:00

So one of the online games I play has these drawing contests on their forums every few months or so.  Figured I'd give it a shot for some in-game currency.  Mostly it was an excuse to keep drawing and trying out new stuff. This time I tried a technique that one of the panelists at last year's Comic-Con demonstrated when coloring in Photoshop.  Basically they start out "flatting" dark shadowy

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-15363469856772533582010-03-18T02:00:00.000-07:002010-03-18T02:00:40.761-07:00

Yet another card design, this time a thank-you for some members of the Angeles Chorale who have been working tirelessly to put together our concert taking place this Saturday!  I was inspired by one of the songs we're singing entitled "The Promise of Living" by Aaron Copland.  Had a little fun with custom Photoshop brushes to make the field, and heavily modified an old photo I snapped along

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-69293025557188726432010-01-17T00:14:00.000-08:002010-01-17T00:19:29.940-08:00

I discovered a cheap, simple art program called "ArtRage" that tries to simulate real-world tools such as paint brushes, pencil, marker, etc. They have a 30-day demo so I tried it out. Overall it feels really nice! You can control how much paint is loaded onto the brush, add thinners, easily control the rotation of the canvas and the drawing implement (very useful!) and all sorts of intuitive

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-31504423468713024852009-12-30T01:12:00.000-08:002009-12-30T01:12:35.735-08:00

Ah well, so it's a little late... but the 12 days of Christmas go until January 6th, right? So there's still time to squeeze this in! Everybody knows and loves the Peanuts holiday special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas." That goes without saying. And who could forget "How the Grinch Stole Christmas?" But I figure, as an animation afficionado I should point to some other cartoon Christmas

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-621646975875098082009-12-30T00:03:00.001-08:002009-12-30T00:04:57.963-08:00

How time flies! Work has been busy, and a side project has been keeping me busy in my free time as well (as any YouTube followers may have noticed). We finally released a trailer for the game I'm working on, which you can see here: My main contribution to the trailer was the ATV shots (a few other random things as well). There will be lots more to see later! I'm really hoping this latest

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-71197146164294671022009-05-11T14:31:00.000-07:002009-05-11T14:46:54.998-07:00

Every once in a while I do a little sculpting with Sculpey polymer clay, just for fun! This latest project was a gift for my sister's birthday, very much in the style of Tim Cotteril's bronze frog sculptures (which I can't afford :P)Here's a couple pics, sorry the first one is kind of dark:He's got an inner skeleton made of tin foil and 1/8" armature wire to add stability and help it bake faster

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-88708640149004263932009-03-24T00:57:00.000-07:002009-03-26T21:47:27.935-07:00

I thought I'd make a birthday card for my grandma, and this is how it turned out:My grandparents are big fans of Mah-Jongg, and often host games at their house. The hand I put on the birthday card is one of the highest scoring hands you can get in the game, due to the difficulty of drawing the right tiles. My grandparents actually have pictures of their lucky hands in photo albums to show off to

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-11699718677748977222009-02-01T00:03:00.000-08:002009-02-01T00:09:44.104-08:00

So I took a chunk of the animation I'm working on and weaned it off of stepped keys, finally. I hadn't touched this for a while since things got busy with my choir's concert and work stuff.I always dread the transition between stepped and spline, because it's so hard to keep that snap and spark to the animation once you start in-betweening. It's also when I start noticing that the cheats I did

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-32141551045306871862009-01-12T13:41:00.001-08:002009-01-12T13:45:26.377-08:00

"If you can turn down the sound and tell what's going on, it's animation. If you can turn down the picture and tell what's going on, that's radio." ~Chuck JonesNot sure if the quote is exact, Eric Goldberg quoted it in the Animation Podcast. Regardless, I think it's worth thinking about!

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-46446232211907374142009-01-12T00:15:00.000-08:002009-01-12T00:48:36.028-08:00

I've added keyframes to try to define the scene more clearly and work on anticipation etc. Unfortunately this rig is very rudimentary so it doesn't have any fancy controls like squash and stretch (dammit Jim, I'm an animator not a rigger :P). I'll just have to make due with what I've got! Hey, Toy Story didn't have squash & stretch, did it?I tried to capture some of the frantic excitement as he

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-15109835859789756062009-01-08T14:01:00.001-08:002009-01-08T14:25:26.409-08:00

Some interesting quotes I found relating to my question on blocking/posing:"My approach tends to be feeling first, anatomy second. In other words, I like to draw everything that has a sense of give to it, and a sense of life and everything that will support the idea of a pose, and then build the anatomy on top. I think part of the difficulty with CG these days is that you're already starting

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-48713384445722331862009-01-07T18:05:00.000-08:002009-01-07T18:14:55.119-08:00

This was a birthday card for my mom (her bday's on December 22nd):Had a little fun creating a confetti brush for Photoshop. :) And some fanart for Dragonfable:

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-26948554689529811082009-01-04T12:35:00.001-08:002009-01-04T16:23:45.717-08:00

So I've started up a short piece of animation (about 13 seconds, just shy of a 181A film) to practice acting and dialogue, something I don't often get to do at my job. I suppose if it turns out well I could put it on my demo reel, but I'd like feedback from other animators along the way to get it up to a good quality. I'm in the layout/blocking stage on the primary character:The camera operator

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-76616131994887093382008-10-22T10:53:00.001-07:002008-10-22T11:00:48.964-07:00

Whew, finally some more stuff to post! Alina and I went to the Getty on Sunday to check out some Bernini sculptures. I was completely blown away by how much detail he was able to carve into the marble; I mean, he had 5-o'clock shadows on faces, lace and buttons and embroidery on clothes... it was amazing. There were a LOT of people there; we had to kind of push our way around to find good

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-48174376420906890782008-08-14T11:00:00.000-07:002008-08-14T11:27:09.751-07:00

I was driving back to work after picking up my wedding dress from David's Bridal, and saw the most amazing sunset taking place... I knew I had to go watch it. I wanted my camera so badly right then, it was spectacular - misty pinks and purples in the mountains, a bright orange glow where the sun was sinking behind them, brilliant yellows and whites in the clouds, and the clouds, my God, no words

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-53256900347400994802008-08-07T12:30:00.000-07:002008-08-07T12:36:52.991-07:00

Still doodling around on my DS, I like that I can pick it up whenever I want to; it's helped me get back into sketching, even if it's not my best work.This one was done from imagination... yeah. I guess I need to work on being more imaginative. :)The smog in LA makes for some interesting colors at sunset. Drew this while Tommy was driving us to a friend's house up in the hills to the north.

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-31284222668445555672008-07-20T17:25:00.000-07:002008-12-10T12:05:22.713-08:00

As promised, here's a few of the sketches I've managed to crank out on my Nintendo DS using "Colors!" It's been tricky getting used to the controls and drawing on a tiny screen, but I guess they came out alright.This first one I drew on the bus; the fires were still burning over the hills which is why the sun was all red.The second one I started sketching out while we were waiting in line for

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-81120615396522862102008-07-08T17:22:00.000-07:002008-07-08T17:26:04.149-07:00

So I just got my hands on a homebrew program for my Nintendo DS called "Colors!" (yes, the exclamation point is part of the name). It's a pretty basic paint program, but it's nice that it's pressure sensitive with the DS touchscreen. Pretty cool having sort of a miniature Cintique in my pocket that I can bring on trips! It'll take some getting used to, though. Not quite ready to show any

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-73204634944183050622008-04-08T12:26:00.001-07:002008-04-08T12:33:36.343-07:00

I was inspired by some other artist blogs to try a style without concrete outlines. I think I only managed a half-success on that front, and the color turned out kinda messy... but there was something freeing about working mainly on one layer in Photoshop. Normally I end up with 10-20 layers all with different colors or shadows or whatever. But this time I think I ended up with 2, and mainly

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1225442122798233322008-02-08T10:28:00.000-08:002008-12-10T12:05:23.788-08:00

This isn't really a drawing per se, but I did have some Photoshop fun. This is what's going to turn into the splash page for our wedding website! Too bad TheKnot.com doesn't let us upload our own templates, so we're stuck with a silly default one for all our info. But we wanted to have something theme-related for our guests to see first since we got engaged on the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland.

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-58849667345920419362008-02-08T09:55:00.000-08:002008-12-10T12:05:23.881-08:00

I was mulling over my life (as I often do when Lent rolls around), and decided I needed to try to find some joy in my artwork again. I want to regain the inspiration and excitement I've felt before whenever putting pencil to paper. I feel as though my creativity is such a big part of my life, that to reflect on myself and find it lacking means I need to do some serious overhauling. What good

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-59522708131898926982007-11-13T13:50:00.000-08:002007-11-13T14:03:34.950-08:00

I was analyzing a video of a cheetah running (to study quadrupedal locomotion), and noticed something strange. Sometimes it would put its left paw down before its right... but sometimes it would put the right one down first! And vice versa for the hind legs. Is this a common trait for all quadrupeds? Or maybe just cats? Or just cheetahs? Or perhaps this particular cheetah happened to be

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-75950081827523261432007-06-25T13:14:00.000-07:002007-06-25T13:21:18.614-07:00

Well... I don't have a legitimate excuse for not posting an update in forever. I would say I had no time to draw during crunch time, but that's not true as I did do a few pieces of fanart for some online games I play called Adventure Quest and DragonFable. I could also say I didn't have time to work on my film... but that's not true either as I managed to finish all the animation/textures/

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1154303583602145332006-07-30T16:44:00.000-07:002006-07-30T17:05:56.716-07:00

We were fortunate to have relatively mild weather for our trip to San Diego's Wild Animal Park yesterday! It's not exactly the best place for zoo drawing, since most of the animals are pretty far away. But it's incredible to see entire HERDS of animals roaming the hundreds of acres of land. It's a lot different from traditional zoos, and the animals seem pretty happy there. They're really

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1150186342691216162006-06-13T01:05:00.000-07:002006-06-13T01:12:22.703-07:00

I finally went on a trip to the LA Zoo with Alina on Sunday morning. The weather was cool so the animals were pretty active. There were some baby animals wandering around as well! I tried Vilppu's technique of creating "scenes" by drawing various subjects in one drawing regardless of whether they were all there at the same time. This little group of gerenuks was alternating between attacking

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1149831934570232042006-06-08T22:35:00.000-07:002006-06-08T22:50:20.583-07:00

*phew*Finally finished off the secondary motion! Here's the finished product:Had a heck of a time with the tail, as usual. I kinda wish I had made the rig with global tail controls instead of local ones, that way the tail wouldn't swing around wildly all the time. Or some kind of nifty local/global switch like we have on the rigs at work. But I'm not that smart. :)In other news, I've been

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1149148167937364082006-06-01T00:42:00.000-07:002006-06-01T00:49:27.950-07:00

So here's that shot a week later, unfortunately it's going slow because of work deadlines and such, I don't have much time to work on it. But I moved the center character out of breakdowns and into cleanup. You can see I haven't gotten to the fingers, ears, or tail yet, but the important part was getting the torso, head, and limbs moving naturally before getting into details.It's funny,

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1148450992666263832006-05-23T22:24:00.000-07:002006-05-23T23:11:21.636-07:00

I'm working on the last character for "Shot 24" in my student film, Swing. This thing has taken quite a long time as I've been trying to work on it while also working fulltime at EALA. I'm lucky if I get to work on it for a few hours each day. But slowly it's getting finished! After this shot, I'll have about 5 more to go. Two of them are quite long, though, and involve all 3 characters, so

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1145932887000946082006-04-24T19:33:00.000-07:002006-04-24T19:59:50.836-07:00

Tommy and I visited the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits this past weekend; he brought along his camera and I hauled out the dusty sketchbook. It's been a terribly long time since I went to the Page Museum to sketch skeletons, and I'm afraid I'm rather rusty. I used to be able to scribble out a sabertooth cat or the famous mammoth in pen, but this time I found myself erasing and re-erasing

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1143096892603479872006-03-22T22:38:00.000-08:002006-03-22T23:01:22.883-08:00

So... it's been a while since I posted stuff, so I'll try to make it up to my 2 readers by posting double in a day! This is a sketch from a recent trip to NorCal via the Greyhound bus. It was done while on the bus... not an easy task since it was bumpy! But I'm rather happy with how it turned out. I had seen a nifty looking tree on the way up that had a big hole in the bottom, and I wanted to

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1143048448101020332006-03-22T09:15:00.000-08:002006-03-22T22:59:47.823-08:00

From this article in the New York Times:Walt Disney often made his artists prepare their storyboards with only pictures; dialogue was added at the end of the process, when they determined how few words were actually needed to tell the story. In 2001, Joe Grant, who did key story work on "Snow White, "Pinnochio" and other Disney features, said in an interview: "Walt was a great advocate of

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1140927466230829072006-02-25T20:06:00.000-08:002006-02-25T20:17:46.253-08:00

Don Knotts passed away this Friday. In addition to his famous role as Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith Show, he did a lot of animation voiceover work, including T.W. Turtle from Cats Don't Dance (one of my favorite movies!). He had such a distinct voice that you could always recognize him in any animated film he was in.On top of that he was always just a funny guy to watch on screen in

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1140919270042265062006-02-25T17:28:00.000-08:002006-02-25T18:03:28.510-08:00

I have come to the conclusion that the difficulty of animation is exponentially proportional to the number of legs your character has. It's funny, you'd think the difference between a character with two legs and two arms versus a character with four legs would be less than it really is. I mean, after all, it's still 4 appendages each. I suppose it is because as bipeds ourselves we are used to

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1140597695660977622006-02-22T00:28:00.000-08:002006-02-22T00:41:35.676-08:00

So I've been working on a little piece to practice quadruped animation. It's in very early stages right now, just barely working out breakdowns and such. There was a discussion a while ago about which works better for blocking an animation, splines vs. linear. Well... I use "stepped." I find it's the most like traditional animation and gives you the most control, as opposed to having the

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1139910736719820122006-02-14T01:51:00.000-08:002006-02-14T01:52:55.670-08:00

For those of you who aren't adamantly opposed to it... Happy Valentine's Day!

ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387605190002948203noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21453151.post-1139891559410136552006-02-13T20:25:00.000-08:002006-02-13T20:32:39.423-08:00

Okay, so this isn't directly related to animation, but I saw this new piece of technology on Slashdot this morning and thought of all the possible ways we as artists could take advantage of it! Check it out:I, for one, have encountered many instances where I would have liked to have, say, two mouse pointers on the screen for accomplishing two tasks at once (color picking vs. drawing, etc.). I

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Well! I thought he had been lost to the sands of time, buried underneath years of history. But here he is, back from the dead, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit has been "traded" to Disney in exchange for Monday Night Football sportscaster Al Michaels. Perhaps it is only a business move to capitalize on the small burst of popularity Oswald enjoyed overseas...But then again, perhaps this is a sign that

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Gosh, I just barely started this blog and already people are asking me to put artwork on it. I guess I have to start drawing more, because I don't have any new work for you to see! Haha ok, so here are some random sketches I drew during a meeting at work today:Some little kid bein' all happy. Yeah, happy he didn't have to go to the all-hands meeting later that day... ;)I dunno, some type of

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Andrew Gordon from Spline Doctors raised some interesting questions today about the future of animation and its relationship with high definition formats. Does animation need to get more detailed as hi-def becomes the standard?After thinking about it, I guess I'd have to say that it depends on the animation. The amazing thing about cartoons has always been the range of styles, the freedom of

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Okay, so I've heard the reasons for why Chicken Little is considered Disney's first "all CG animated feature." Dinosaur used "digitally enhanced" live-action photography for the backgrounds instead of creating everything from scratch. But is that any reason to snub it? The ad campaign for Chicken Little made it seem as though Disney had never ventured into the realm of CG before. The

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My friend Gloria and I were chatting late last night about The Incredibles and how she saw Edna Mode as a "flamboyantly gay man." It became a long discussion about the idea of gender in animation and how there is a disjunct between image and voice in a character, and how it is easily exploited because of style and exaggeration in the medium of animation that is not so effective in live-action

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So I got myself a Blogger account mainly so I could comment on other people's blogs, but figured I could use this as a journal to post things that I find interesting about the animation field or anything related to animation. Considering the definition of animation that I used for my blog title, this presents a world of opportunities! I don't claim to be any sort of regular news blog like Luxo

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