denise hippler

Industrial Light & Magic Creating The Impossible

2011-05-20T06:36:00.000-07:00

It's always good to be informed about the industry and this doesn't only apply to what's currently happening or the projects that are coming out in the future but also what's happened in the past....

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30 second drawing

2011-03-30T14:21:00.000-07:00

taken from posemaniacs I've already mentioned the site posemaniacs here, but I think it's time to bring it up again, since I've been using it a lot lately. Observing people and drawing...

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Animation Blindness

2010-11-29T17:03:00.000-08:00

After working on one shot for a long time, it's not difficult to become blind about that particular animation. The best thing to do is ask for feedback from people with fresh eyes and rest your...

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Shot sizes and cutting

2010-10-26T12:35:00.000-07:00

I've been meaning to come back to this topic for a while, so here we are talking about cuts once more :-) I'll go through the different shot sizes and some advice for cutting between them. Basic...

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Playing with 3D Studio Max

2010-09-29T15:01:00.000-07:00

Last week was the break week in AM and I used the time to rest and to play a little with 3D Studio Max. Before Maya I had done a small animation in Blender, but it's been a few years and I think it's...

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Good book for improving Maya skills

2010-09-03T14:35:00.000-07:00

I recently started reading the book "How to cheat in Maya 2010 - Tool and techniques for the Maya Animator". It gives you a lot of "cheats" for working better with Maya. Actually, it mostly talks...

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Playing with the Norman Rig

2010-08-27T07:27:00.000-07:00

It's been a some time since I started using the characters given by AM. They're great, supereasy to control and the models are flexible so we can customize them to look taller/smaller, more feminine,...

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Masterclass with Guilherme Marcondes (2)

2010-08-23T11:54:00.000-07:00

Guilherme directed several commercials and it was interesting to hear how sometimes one of his works influences another. He told us he directed a promo for BBC2 in which it was required that the...

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Masterclass with Guilherme Marcondes (1)

2010-08-19T10:57:00.000-07:00

I was lucky to watch the Masterclass given by Guilherme Marcondes at the Anima Mundi Festival in São Paulo. For those who don't know him, a quick presentation: he graduated in architecture in São...

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Planning the mouth shapes

2010-08-16T14:56:00.000-07:00

Back to the dialogue shot! There are basically two ways of setting mouth shapes...one is very simple and actually doesn't demand planning another that is a little bit more complicated but more...

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Intro to dialogue

2010-08-10T07:11:00.000-07:00

This is my first dialogue shot! Started working on it in the end of class 4 and ended it in the first few weeks of class 5. Lots of work and it can be improved still :-)It's a big step moving to a...

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cool video - How to break into animation

2010-07-16T19:24:00.000-07:00

This is a great video from a speech by Steve Hickner - Dreamworks Director/Producer. Here are a few things he talks about: you may not be the smartest/talented, but if you're disciplined and...

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Camera cuts

2010-07-14T09:57:00.000-07:00

This week in AM we learned some basics about camera cuts. I found it very interesting, so I thought I'd just share a few things I learned. The idea in a video is giving the audience the „best seat...

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tip for those who stay long hours at the computer

2010-06-20T08:14:00.000-07:00

I love free software...recently I found out about a very healthy one: www.workrave.org/ "Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The...

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Personality

2010-06-19T07:06:00.000-07:00

After discussing body mechanics for so long, I guess it's time to move on to acting. I'm just starting to learn more about it, so this will be a brief text about a few of the things I found...

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tip for practising sketches

2010-06-09T06:09:00.000-07:00

It's always nice to practice sketching. It heps improve planning the animations, gives new ideas and also helps train the eyes for some details that may usually go unnoticed. In...

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new Pixar short!

2010-06-08T17:27:00.000-07:00

This is just for fun...soon Toy Story 3 is coming out and the short they're releasing with it looks really, really great! It's a very cool concept mixing 2D and 3D very creatively...so here's a...

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Blocking to Final

2010-05-24T16:04:00.000-07:00

This is the last animation of the magician. All three of them were done during advanced body mechanics class (that's term 3 in AM) so the idea was to make the character do things that demand working...

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Polishing and Final

2010-04-22T07:09:00.000-07:00

Now it's time to start polishing! The main comments I got on it were: the movement in the beginning, when he's preparing to roll on the floor is too linear, track the tip of his hat to see the...

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Re-Block

2010-04-13T11:22:00.000-07:00

In order to start this second pass, first I addressed the changes suggested by my mentor: mainly pushing some poses and changing the timing at some places...but the biggest change my mentor commented...

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Blocking

2010-03-11T09:10:00.000-08:00

After giving an overview of the animation process last post, let's see those steps in more detail. The animation we'll be going through now is a sequel to the last one. So Stewie (that's our...

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a simple introduction to the animation process...

2010-02-23T19:12:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I've written a lot about poses and how important they are and haven't been discussing animation directly. So let's break this inertia and get started! :-) This will be a short post to...

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Planning Poses

2009-12-07T09:57:00.000-08:00

As mentioned in an earlier post, strong poses are very important for the audience to read what's going on with the character. Planning usually plays a fundamental role there. “Usually“ because I...

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2009-11-13T09:57:00.000-08:00

I realized the posts in this blog were getting too crowded with text in two languages. I couldn't place images/videos in the middle of the text, so it wasn't so nice to read. The one in English will...

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First steps / Primeiros passos

2009-10-04T14:50:00.000-07:00

Everyone has a unique walk, so there are always particularities that depend on the factors like personality, physical characteristics and mood of the walker. This is not what I'm going to talk about...

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