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Saturday, April 20, 2024

Character Designing by Torsten Schrank

Torsten Schrank was learning to be an animator while in University, but eventually got more into character designing. Below is a recent interview of him explaining how he designs characters.

Here are some of his concept art and character designs.

Here are a collection of model sheets of caharacter designs from "Klaus".

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

"I'm Hip" with John Musker

I first found out about this film when I did an interview with John Musker and Ron Clements when Covid was on the rise. Here's the interview, feel free to watch the whole thing.

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.

The beginning of the film so Musker and his wife walking under the Live Jazz sign...

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.

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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.