Saturday, April 20, 2024
Character Designing by Torsten Schrank
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
"I'm Hip" with John Musker
I just realised the above video was labelled Part 1, in Part 2, John mentioned he was starting to work on his own animated short film and was trying to figure out how he was going to do it.
Four years later, "I'm Hip" premiered at Annecy, one of the most well known animation festivals in Europe and the film managed to make the Short List for this year's Oscars. Unfortunately, the film was not nominated.
I caught up with John Musker at an ASIFA screening of "I'm Hip" and here is the interview below along with some stills from the film.. Enjoy!
This is Dan Dinello and John's sister Mimi, Dan Dinello was my Film Tech 2 teacher at Columbia College in 1983-1984.
A movie theater of famous hip movie goers.
Can you name these two Hip guys? Add your answer to the comments below.
That's Marlon West on drums and the head of effects at Disney, I went to school with him at Columbia College and he was hip even back then.
The guy snipping coffee is John's son.
"I'm Hip" will be coming to a theater near you as part of the 23rd Animation Show of Show. Contact www.animationshowofshows.com to find out when and where.
If you enjoyed this post, leave a comment below or on the YouTube channel Animateducated.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Animating Stuff in 2024
This year I've started a Live Stream show called "Animating Stuff" on my YouTube channel, Animateducated. It's a live format where I will either bring in a topic to talk about or show and the audience can text their feedback or questions.
Well, that's the theory. So far I've been starting this on Wednesdays @ 7pm PST and am working on finding that sweet spot when an audience might turn up to watch. So far, the audience have been pretty small and often times, I feel like I'm just talking to myself, which I usually am.
So, please help me find the best time to do this live stream. Below is a recent live stream which I edited down to include the most interesting bits. You let me know if I'm right or not.
Any suggestions for topics or things to animated or solutions to problems, please send an email at animateducated@gmail.com.
Character designs by Nikolas Ilic
Character Designs by Ben Tong