Sunday 26 May 2013
Thursday 23 May 2013
How to animate a fast cat
Even though the animation in this video is somewhat bad (probably done in a hurry), the slow-motion footage of the cheetah and explanation of how they can run so fast is a wonderful reference!
Sadly I can't find a way to post the video itself here, so you'll just have to follow the link to the Smithsonian webpage:
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Sunday 19 May 2013
Away for the weekend
Spending some time with my parents, so the GIF of the week will have to wait until tomorrow!
Friday 17 May 2013
Sunday 12 May 2013
Wednesday 8 May 2013
Jesse Baumgartner
I've been meaning to post about this guy for a while. He just won the 11 second club competition for April with the video above (congrats!), so I figured that it was time to do so!
The video does not show the fully finished animation though. I just think it's cool to see how developed a work-in-progress can be, even if there's not a a lot of keys. It feels like the animation is all there already, you only need to fill in the blanks.
You should read his blog!
Monday 6 May 2013
Let it rip!
Found this old flash animation I did for a friend, showing how you can exaggerate anticipation! It's really quick and dirty, but hopefully it gets the point across.
Had a really interesting discussion tonight with another friend about giving character conflicts... that may be the topic for a blog post, in the near future.
Had a really interesting discussion tonight with another friend about giving character conflicts... that may be the topic for a blog post, in the near future.
Sunday 5 May 2013
Wednesday 1 May 2013
Benjamin Zander - On music and passion
I showed a talk by Benjamin Zander to a fellow animator today, as a reference for how an excited person would gesture while talking. And boy, is Benjamin Zander excited! His passion for classical music is infectuous enough that anyone would go home and listen to some Chopin after watching this talk!
I love this talk, as it holds a lot of points that are true for animation as well. I've written about this once before on the 11 second club blog, but I think it's important enough to be written about again!
During the talk, Zander shows how a young child might progress year by year as they play the piano. The first year there is an impulse on every single note, as the child struggles to find where to put their fiddly fingers.
As the years go by though, the impulses are reduced. Now the child can play with an impulse on every 4th note, then on every 8th note. Until finally, there are no impulses left. What is left however is a story, where the music goes on a travel. It might hit ups and downs, take unexpected turns, hit the grand finale, and then come home.
I try to apply the same thinking to animation. It's not just about animating movement after movement, as if it was an assembly line. It's about making those movements work together, to crescendo into a dramatic sforzando movement, until it calms down into a nice lento tempo...
You'll just have to google those last terms. ;)
Here's the talk! It's amazing, just watch it!
I love this talk, as it holds a lot of points that are true for animation as well. I've written about this once before on the 11 second club blog, but I think it's important enough to be written about again!
During the talk, Zander shows how a young child might progress year by year as they play the piano. The first year there is an impulse on every single note, as the child struggles to find where to put their fiddly fingers.
As the years go by though, the impulses are reduced. Now the child can play with an impulse on every 4th note, then on every 8th note. Until finally, there are no impulses left. What is left however is a story, where the music goes on a travel. It might hit ups and downs, take unexpected turns, hit the grand finale, and then come home.
I try to apply the same thinking to animation. It's not just about animating movement after movement, as if it was an assembly line. It's about making those movements work together, to crescendo into a dramatic sforzando movement, until it calms down into a nice lento tempo...
You'll just have to google those last terms. ;)
Here's the talk! It's amazing, just watch it!
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