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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Big Animation Events coming in September!
If you want to learn more about the history of animation and live in the Los Angeles area, there are a lot of Animation events happening in September.
On September 13th!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting 3 animation events starting at 5pm:
McCay drew 10,000 drawings to create Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914 which were all drawn on one level, no cels were used.
Then at 7:30pm
You will learn about THE LOST NOTEBOOK: HERMAN SCHULTHEIS AND THE SECRETS OF WALT DISNEY'S MOVIE MAGIC
And Finally at 8:45pm
A Screening of Walt Disney's Fantasia!
For tickets and info, click the link below...
Animation Masters: John Canemaker Celebrates Winsor McCay and Walt Disney | Events Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Sept 21: Chuck Jones 102gether! held at the Alex Theater in Glendale at 3pm.
Then on September 13th!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting 3 animation events starting at 5pm:
And if you are an animation student wishing you could be apart of an animation production, here's a the 24 HOUR Animation Contest. There may be time to enter your school, so check it out!
If you know of any future animation events, please let me know.
On September 13th!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting 3 animation events starting at 5pm:
GERTIE THE DINOSAUR AND THE BIRTH OF PERSONALITY ANIMATION!
John Canemaker will present a lecture about Winsor McCay, creator of Gertie the Dinosaur and the making of his 1914 classic, Gertie the Dinosaur. Then at 7:30pm
You will learn about THE LOST NOTEBOOK: HERMAN SCHULTHEIS AND THE SECRETS OF WALT DISNEY'S MOVIE MAGIC
And Finally at 8:45pm
A Screening of Walt Disney's Fantasia!
For tickets and info, click the link below...
Animation Masters: John Canemaker Celebrates Winsor McCay and Walt Disney | Events Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Sept 21: Chuck Jones 102gether! held at the Alex Theater in Glendale at 3pm.
Then on September 13th!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting 3 animation events starting at 5pm:
Aubry Mintz has been running a 24 hour animation contest for the past 7
years and has had excellent results and responses from our industry
sponsors, including CTNX, Disney, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, ToonBoom,
DigiCel
and more!
Last year with 50 teams (250 students) from 11
schools participating it was the largest one yet! This contest teaches students about working together,
meeting deadlines and making creative decisions under pressure.
Although it is quite a bit to do in such a short time, every year we
always have completed, colored films!!! AND they all have a lot of fun
and return for more each year!
Please send
these attached fliers out to your student/clubs and please let me know
if we can expect participation from your school and I will add your
schools name to our list and email group.
Follow the contest on FB
https://www.facebook.com/
This year the contest will take place on Friday September 26th at 5pm PST to Saturday
September 27th at 5pm. At Friday at 5pm, the theme of the contest is announced and each group takes some time to come up with an short animated idea based on the theme.
I will be there from the beginning and attempt to document some of the productions which will be coming out of Woodbury University's Animation Teams. Check back to see what happens and view the final student films!
I will be there from the beginning and attempt to document some of the productions which will be coming out of Woodbury University's Animation Teams. Check back to see what happens and view the final student films!
If you know of any future animation events, please let me know.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
"Meet the Patels" Character designs
Sometimes when you work in the world of freelance, you'll work on a project that will never see the light of day. Hopefully, you are paid for your time and have a sample of your hard work, but for some unknown reason, the project is never completed.
Luckily this time, a project I worked on is finally finished and here's a link to "Meet the Patels." This film took 6 years to make, but the filmmakers stuck to their goal and it premiered at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto where it was voted #2 favorite audience choice. I recently saw the film at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was happy to hear the response of the audience. Here's a clip of the animation from the film.
My involvement with the project was to create character designs of the real family members as animated characters for the documentary. It took some time to design each character and to find a way to make a style that related to one another. I think the best way to do this is to start with the main character and draw a lot of different designs based on that character. I first did a lot of drawings, trying out different styles and trying to find a fun cartoon style. These were usually done to find the style that I liked and could refine.
Then I took a batch of designs and labeled each one A, B, C, etc. to show Ravi and Geeta. From their comments, I would be able to refine the character designs to fit the style of the film. Here are the final character designs.
Luckily this time, a project I worked on is finally finished and here's a link to "Meet the Patels." This film took 6 years to make, but the filmmakers stuck to their goal and it premiered at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto where it was voted #2 favorite audience choice. I recently saw the film at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was happy to hear the response of the audience. Here's a clip of the animation from the film.
My involvement with the project was to create character designs of the real family members as animated characters for the documentary. It took some time to design each character and to find a way to make a style that related to one another. I think the best way to do this is to start with the main character and draw a lot of different designs based on that character. I first did a lot of drawings, trying out different styles and trying to find a fun cartoon style. These were usually done to find the style that I liked and could refine.
I learned a lot about character designing during this project and I think I did the best I could to do doing my part of the job. If you get a chance to see this film, its a very good film and if I hear more about it, I will add to this post.
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