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2014-03-02T20:58:00.001-08:00

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Daily update ⋅ 2 March 2014

NEWS

Oscars animation affair a riot per John C. Reilly

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Leave it to John C. Reilly to turn a question and answer session with this year's animated feature Oscar nominees into ...

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The Nation

Frozen leads red-hot animation field

The Nation

LOS ANGELES -The first Academy Award for an animated feature film was a special honour given to Walt Disney in 1939 for the innovation of “Snow ...

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Kashmiri duo spinning success stories in animation industry

GreaterKashmir.com

The downright professionalism that Khan and Kubravi over the years have gained has made them unparalleled in animation skills, graphics and ...

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Animation Magazine

WIA Assembles Director's Panel Event

Animation Magazine

Women In Animation has set a Director's Club panel featuring the industry's top female directors as its March tent-pole event at Cinefamily. Sponsored ...

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PEI students using videography, digital animation and more to share their stories

The Guardian Charlottetown

In creating a composition in any medium they chose, whether it be video, comic books or clay animation, they were mentored by local culture experts, ...

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Disney's “Frozen” favorite for animation Oscar

TCPalm

“Despicable Me 2” is up against “Frozen,” “The Croods,” “Ernest and Celestine” and “The Wind Rises” for best animated feature at this year's 86th ...

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'The Order 1886' PS4 animation, environment and lighting graphics discussed

Examiner.com

Aron Cender thinks that the animation, environment and lighting in the third-person shooting game “stands out” when compared to other titles. You can ...

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'Ernest & Celestine' Review: Oscar Got It Right, Nominating This Animated Delight

TheWrap

George Clooney Gets Super Animated to Voice His Character in Wes ... capable of infinite wonders when it comes to animated movies, but every so ...

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Will Mr. Peabody & Sherman Be a Hit for DreamWorks Animation?

Motley Fool

DreamWorks Animation (NASDAQ: DWA ) has delivered massive hits in the past that include How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek, Rise ...

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Animation Domination High-Def

Timesonline.com

Fox Tonight's episode of Animation Domination High-Def, the programming block of animated comedies, features the season finales of Lucas Bros.

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Animation NEWS

2014-03-02T20:57:00.002-08:00

animation

Daily update ⋅ 1 March 2014

NEWS

BU Today

Oscar favorite 'Frozen' leads red-hot animation field

Reuters India

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The first Academy Award for an animated feature film was a special honor given to Walt Disney in 1939 for the innovation ...

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Animation Business in Scandinavia Entices Distributors Looking for Alternatives to US Fare

Variety

All you need to do to measure the success of European animators is look at this year's Oscar race: “Despicable Me 2,” co-directed by French toonsmith ...

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Dreamworks Animation Skg Lowered to Underweight at Piper Jaffray (DWA)

WKRB News

Dreamworks Animation Skg Inc logo Dreamworks Animation Skg (NYSE:DWA) was downgraded by Piper Jaffray from a “neutral” rating to an ...

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The GIF animation is now officially an art form, thanks to first Motion Photography Prize

imaging resource

Back in the day when the internet was young, when websites consisted mostly of text and hyperlinks, and when so-called 'modems' made funny ...

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Sectoral Capsule-Indian Animation & VFX Industry Gathers Force

MENAFN.COM

The animation and visual effects (VFX) segment within the M&E industry is looking quite positive. VFX has shown tremendous growth from doing ...

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Oscar favourite 'Frozen' leads red-hot animation field

New Straits Times

The studio founded by the animation pioneer, Walt Disney Animation Studios, has never won the Oscar for best animated feature, a category created ...

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Tech Times

Earth vs the solar system: Amazing animation reveals how massive - and tiny - our planet is ...

Daily Mail

This animation, created by a former astronomer, reveals the comparative masses of planets in the solar system as they cascade down onto Earth.

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Oscars favourite 'Frozen' leads animation field

Eyewitness News

LOS ANGELES - The first Academy Award for an animated feature film was a special honour given to Walt Disney in 1939 for the innovation of Snow ...

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WPTZ The Champlain Valley

Dartmouth hosts conference on comics, animation

MiamiHerald.com

HANOVER, N.H. -- Scholars from multiple countries who specialize in comics, graphic novels and animated films are heading to Dartmouth College for ...

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Upcoming WIA Event to Spotlight Female Animation Directors

World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Next month, Women in Animation (WIA) is slated to host Directors' Club, an event featuring a panel and screenings, at The Cinefamily ...

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DreamWorks Animation to bring Shrek show to London

2014-02-25T01:06:00.001-08:00

animation

Daily update ⋅ 25 February 2014

NEWS

DreamWorks Animation to bring Shrek show to London

Los Angeles Times

DreamWorks Animation said it was teaming up with Merlin Entertainments, based in Poole, Britain, to create a Shrek-themed attraction on London's ...

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Animation Pioneer Jimmy Murakami Dies at 80

The Rafu Shimpo

DUBLIN, Ireland — Jimmy Teruaki Murakami, one of the fathers of the Irish animation industry, passed away peacefully on the morning of Feb.

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Tech City News

Canuck animation delegation seeks UK copro opportunities

TBI Vision

A delegation of Canadian animators and broadcasters is in the UK this week seeking to forge relationships with the local industry and capitalise on the ...

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DreamWorks Animation SKG (DWA) Scheduled to Post Earnings on Tuesday

Zolmax

DreamWorks Animation SKG logo DreamWorks Animation SKG (NYSE:DWA) will be releasing its Q413 earnings data on Tuesday, February 25th.

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Merlin, DreamWorks Animation to Open 'Shrek' Visitor Attraction in London

Variety

LONDON — Merlin Entertainments has teamed up with DreamWorks Animation to launch a “Shrek” themed visitor attraction, to be called Shrek's Far ...

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Yahoo Movies UK

Comedian's flip-book animation will become a movie

Yahoo Movies UK

COMMENT | Originally aired on Japanese TV in 2012, comedian Tekken had had his flip-book style animation 'Pendulum' picked up for a live-action ...

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Joe Hisaishi & Hayao Miyazaki Animation Symphony Concert in May

What's on Xiamen

Joe Hisaishi, famous Japanese movie soundtrack composer, and Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animation film leader, are two big names in animation ...

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Purim meets 'Back to the Future' in new Pixar-esque animation

Haaretz

With Purim only a few weeks away, a new full-length feature animation takes the Book of Esther, “Megillat Esther,” and gives it a “Back to the ...

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Animation Magazine

Cartoon Movie Reveals Tribute 2014 Finalists

Animation Magazine

Also vying for the award is Swedish-Danish co-production Beyond Beyond by Esben Toft Jacobsen (see our feature story in Animation Magazine ...

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Hollywood Reporter

Shout! Distributing 'Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart'

Animation Magazine

Shout! Factory will distribute the animated film Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (Jack et la Mécanique du Coeur) in the United States and Canada ...

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Facial Expressions

2013-04-30T04:56:00.002-07:00

1) Try to display the emotions a character might go through while waiting for a bus that's late. Pay close attention to facial expressions, body language, and detail.

2) Have a character try to open something (i.e. a present) that refuses to open. The character can only use body parts for the first minute, but may resort to other measures (i.e. tools and explosives) thereafter. Note, the character will be affected by the tools used (i.e. blast of an explosion). After you've mastered this, try to do the same thing with a normally inanimate object (i.e. lamp) as your lead character.

3a) Animate someone riding a pogo stick or some other 'fun' object (i.e. using a hoola hoop).

3b) Have your character use a weighted object, such as a hammer or a shovel. Demonstrate how the weight of the object affects the stance and demeanor of the character using it.

4) Create a walk cycle, then vary it to accommodate different attitudes and 'character'. For example: Angry, happy, sneaky, limping, carrying a heavy object, sleep walking, etc.

5) Animate two characters sawing a log. The first character is a big, muscular brute. Animate him pose-to-pose first and cycle his animation. The second character is a scrawny little guy who gets yanked around, grabbing onto the saw for dear life.

6) Have a character bend down, pick up something heavy, and throw it. This exercise can help you with timing, emphasizing weight, and anticipation.

7) Put a short character in a tall room with one window, one door, one light (and switch) and a hanging ceiling fan (with hanging switch). The room contains 3 boxes, a ball, and a board. Imagine the different ways your character could figure out how to reach the hanging switch and then animate the most outrageous. Next, subtract two boxes and add a skateboard and try again.

ANTICIPATION

2013-04-30T04:54:00.003-07:00

What folks in the industry want to see is...character animation. THINKING, BREATHING CHARACTERS! Do 15-30 seconds of GREAT CHARACTER ANIMATION with one or two characters which show the following:

WEIGHT - show weight by squashing the feet and in the quads of the upper legs (on the front side) and in the hips/butt area. In 3D - use a lattice when structuring your character. WHEN IN DOUBT EXAGGERATE THE WEIGHT.

Posing with exaggeration

ACTIONS - LEADING AND FOLLOWING actions are easy - example: when a character land one foot makes contact and then the other...or if you lift the arms - one arm goes up and then the other.

OVERLAPPING ACTIONS - example the character comes to a halt and her hair and dress continue to flow and settle into place. To be effective the overlapping has to use "S" curves to change direction.

DRAG ACTION - is where you show a drag on a form as it moves through space. This usually occurs at the ends of the form. If a rubber raft is falling, the middle edge will be intact - the other edges will bend or drag back.

MOTIVATIONAL FORCES - what makes thing move - 80% or more of all actions happen because of the hips and legs. If a character throws a ball the action starts with the extension (unfolding) of the front leg which rotates the hips and create toque with the torso and allows the unwinding of the torso to lead the shoulder and the rest of the arm through a throwing motion. Another example: a character can't turn unless he pushes off on the outside foot - then he can change direction.

Thinking time (a character ALWAYS thinks before it does anything).

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACTIONS - easy example in a walk - the legs are the primary action - then arms are the secondary action.

ANTICIPATION - (or ANTIC) In a grab, the hand comes up and backward before it goes forward.

COMPENSATION - If a character is running and stops - you have to compensate for the forward momentum (usually by driving the forces up - or down and then up.)

REVERSALS - try to work as many reversals into the spine as possible (as long as it makes sense to the action). The spine is curved forward - then curves back during an antic and then curves forward when the character picks up a stone. HINT: My next lesson at the Toon Institute will have this information.

A CUSHION OR SETTLE is where you move passed a key frame into an extreme/extreme and then cushion back into the original key frame.

A MOVING HOLD is a very, very slow slow-out of an action - to where the movement is coming to a creeping halt.

Staging (how the action is composed within the frame)

Character Design - the ability to caricature a person utilizing good design skills and have appeal

Create a walk cycle Animation

2013-04-30T04:52:00.002-07:00

1. Character on the phone, but not talking, listening to a person on the other end talk about something: important, sad, happy and/or "fill in the blank". Choose the subject matter to really express how the receiver of that information reacts. The exercise is designed to help people develop a character's thinking through eye movement, subtle facial expression and pantomime with body language.

2. Display the feelings a character would experience while waiting for something or someone. Gender specific reactions can be really revealing here. How a man would react vs. a woman? This is a good exercise because it demands pure acting outside of dialogue. Much like Tom Hanks for most of castaway, your character will need to show lots of emotion through psychological gesture.

3. Create a walk cycle. Now make 4 variations on the same character to illustrate an emotion. For example: Angry Stomp, Happy Run, Sad Shuffle, Cocky Strut, Questioning Tiptoe, etc. Be sure to refer to the bouncing ball for your arcs and paths on this one.

4. Create a walk cycle with a four legged character. Do the same thing as above, but now illustrate you ability to translate it into four legs or even an insect and go to six or eight legs. Always refer to real life and then translate that into your own work. It is great when you can create a connection between an animal and human nature, but if you keep the integrity of the animal's basic essence, then the animation will be much richer. Of course a dog would not have the emotional range of a human, but you still know when a dog is happy. Think to yourself, not only how a human might react to the situation, but also how "insert animal/creature here" would react to it also.

5. Character encounters something that he wants to open. Perhaps it has difficulty opening it. Perhaps it reacts to whatever it opens (but you don't see what it in it). The character can only use body parts for the first 30 seconds, but may pursue some other means (i.e. tools and explosives) thereafter. This one is really open ended and can test your ability to show many storytelling ideas in the body language and facial expressions, without one line of dialogue.

6. A similar test to the one above is to have a witch attempt to ride a broom that keeps bucking her off. Andreas Deja (animated--Jafar in Aladdin, Scar in Lion King, Gaston in B & B, etc.) spoke of this test at a talk I attended in LA. He referred to it as what Disney asked him to do before he was officially brought into the animation department.

7. Animate two characters sawing a log. The first character is a big, macho man. Animate him pose-to-pose first holding one side of the saw and cycle his animation. The second character is a scrawny little guy who gets yanked around, grabbing onto the saw for dear life. This idea would be even better if there was some kind of big finish where the little guy gets the best of the big guy.

8. A character lifts something heavy. This is hard enough to show shifts in weight throughout the body to get leverage, but if you wanted to make the test even more complicated you can make the character do something else, while continuing to hold the heavy object. Great example of weight and timing. Again, Chapter 3 in The Illusion of Life covers this concept thoroughly.

9. A character is doing something and needs to get someone's attention. Lots of eye movement and subtle mouth stuff, as well as body language on an exercise like this.

10. The flour sack. A great test that forces understanding of the principles in its most basic form. Make a four sack move and react to show emotions and character. Be sure to remember the volume of the sack and how it would move between contact with the ground and being airborne. This test is a favorite among animators, since there is very little character design and development and you really have to pay attention to what you are trying to communicate.

Bouncing ball (rubber, wood, lead, glass, beach, bowling, tennis, cannon, etc.)

2013-04-30T04:50:00.000-07:00

Bouncing ball (rubber, wood, lead, glass, beach, bowling, tennis, cannon, etc.)

Egg dropping/rolling

Brick dropping

Walk, run, jump (show character from one into the next ? realistic, character, 4-legged)

Lift-carry-put down weight

Climb

Dialogue/monologue where the character starts off feeling one emotion and changes into another

Different weights of characters/ vary the size and shape of the character doing above tasks

Four-legged character (cat, dog, etc.) walking, jumping, climbing, stretching, yawning, scratching, etc.

Juicebox: a juice box enters frame from left has an emotion change throughout the animation and leaves from right (200 frame limit)

Character jumping over object

Character interaction with a ball

Character interaction with a box (push, pull, lift, etc.)

Bring an inanimate object to life

Leaf falling in arcs and the timing

Egg drop / brick drop

Character pushing a box / picking up box

Ringing bell tower bell

Interaction with a box, interaction with a ball

A short dialogue (very short), putting physical accents on the significant beats of dialogue

Two character dialogue - introduces more staging and interaction
Standing or sitting, character doing nothing, body language should suggest thought process without any interaction with an object

A bunch of people waiting for a bus, all with different ages/professions

A character walks to a mailbox, deposits an envelope, and walks away. Now, how is that action different if the envelope contains (1) a heartfelt love letter, sent without knowing whether the recipient feels the same way about the sender, or (2) this year's tax return, which includes a big fat check made payable to Uncle Sam, or (3) the last mortgage payment on a house, or the last alimony check to an ex? The basic goals are the same (approach mailbox, etc), but the motivation behind them and the mood expressed will be dramatically different for each one.
Character goes to pick up an object they think is light but it?s heavy, and vice versa

3 legged character - two legs cannot move in unison

First you come up with something very minor - say, a guy picking up a flower.

Now you start developing context...ask yourselves questions and try to come up with interesting answers

A two legged character walk on all fours

An old man kneeling down to pray, then rising

Pendulum swing (using arcs)

Simple head turn (using arcs)

Water drop falling from a leaf

One-shape character design

Complex character design

Emotional character walk in profile (anticipate - walk two strides and compensate to a stop)

Flour sack walkcycle

Flour sack falling off a ledge

Character waiting for something

Character sitting on object, interacting with object

Circus/Sideshow accidents (character walking on a tightrope gets distracted by a sound off screen, and just loses control; character stuck in a cannon, trying desperately to get out before the fuse burns out, but of course doesn't quite make it; carnie tries to impress onlookers with a "talent" but it goes horribly wrong)

Confrontation between two characters. One is losing but makes a spectacular comeback, just when you thought all hope was lost. This is that huge fight between the Boss and the Hero, or the dramatic clash that has led up to your dramatic quest Hero/villain attempts to execute their strange and unfamiliar powers. Suddenly something goes horribly wrong and their power backfires

Character tries to access a bank machine and it misbehaves

Character tries to use a restroom and can't

Character takes on a profession as a mover and has to move an awkward object

Character entering a dark corridor/cave with weapon drawn awaiting a surprise from the dark

Character finding the ?one ring? and reacting to his discovery

Show a feat of elven dexterity (ie. Legolas jumping on the horse or walking on snow, etc., but be original)

Character meeting death from an attack

Character thinks they're going to sneeze, then not sneeze and then finally sneezing

Character trying to swat a fly or catch a bug

Character trying to stay awake, finally falls asleep (maybe something really loud wakes him up at the end its up to you)

Character sneaking up on another character to scare them

Character leaning against the wall, chewing gum or a toothpick, hands in his pockets or maybe flipping a coin, waiting for something to happen

Character lifting their leg in front of them (perhaps ballet). Study the balance of body.

ANIMATION EXCERCISES

2013-04-30T04:46:00.004-07:00

tsunami

2013-02-10T20:26:00.002-08:00

tsunami warning effect for world

tsunami warning

2013-02-07T05:08:00.000-08:00

tsunami warning

June month 11secondclub Animation Competition

2012-06-26T23:48:00.003-07:00

3D maya 2013

2012-05-25T01:56:00.000-07:00

Dichu Beta Version here

2012-04-13T03:29:00.000-07:00

Dichu Beta Version

Dichu Rigging Characater

Features:

FK/IK switching arms and legs

Clavicle controls

Elbow and knee pole vector controls

Full Finger Controls

Basic facial controls

Spin FK/IK Controls

Arms and Legs FK/IK Controls

Stretchy arms and legs

Stretchy Spin

Spin Rig

Spin Controls FK IK is there click (Spin1_FK_Ctrl, Spin2_FK_Ctrl,Spin_IK_Ctrl) and see the attributes settings like blow image

Hand Rig

Hand Controls FK IK is there click "S" symbol and see the attributes settings like blow image

Right side Hand Switch Controls

Left side Hand Switch Controls

Legs Rig

Legs Controls FK IK is there click "S" symbol and see the attributes settings like blow image

Left side LEG Switch Controls

Right side LEG Switch Controls

Face Controls

Basic Face Controls is there click Head_Ctrl and see the attributes Face Controls on and off like blow image, and eyelid controls and eye controls

Download Dichu Beta Version here

Download

3D Car

2012-04-04T23:58:00.003-07:00

Animation and reference

2012-04-04T04:38:00.000-07:00

www.tracblade.com

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3Ds Max MAYA Aftereffect, Photpshop, Cinama4D - Software

Cartoons - most ettect

Pixer Animation - one of the best best Animation studio

Dream works Animation - one of the best best Animation studio

Animated cartoons - take a reference to animate cartoons

Animation Drawing poses - for Animators

AWN

Animation World Networks - World wide animation news

Freelance Animation Works - jobs

Animals animation

Walt Disney Animation Studios - one of the best best Animation studio

11secondclub - Animation competition Site

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