For all your Pencil test needs 

http://www.penciltestdepot.com/

The Ballad of G.I. Joe

The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

Nugget: Milt Kahl - Have a Banana

The only Walt Disney film with a sex scene

at abt 1:55 its starts :)

Shane Acker Talks 9 and Beyond

i think shane Ackers 9 is one of the most important happenings in animation in a long time.. few animators have ever had the chance to take there short and make it a movie!!!! right now i cant think of anyone who has done this... Richard Williams is still trying to get his movie made,
this post is dedicated to "9" ..will be putting up vids and other stuff... very inspiring to take you short idea make and make a movie... its a dream come true...

LINK to the Awn interview... must read

VIds:

ShortFilm: DIX

produced and made by the Mill

Gold: Chuck Jones Extremes & Inbetweens, A life in animation

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7/9-embed disabled :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnbdzONWJy8

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9/9

Nugget: Ken Harris Dance Animation Pencil Test

Animator Breakdown: Brave Little Tailor

a breakdown of who animated what...  must check out all the others...hit up this youtube channel LINK

Gold: Milt Carl.. more Pencil tests

Gold: Pencil Tests

Nugget: Life cycle walk cycle 

Gold: Hand Drawn Straight Ahead Animation

Gold:Glen Keane

Gold: John k has some brilliant additions and lessons to Preston Blair for his students...

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/09/preston-blair-lessons.html

Ref: Every Animated Movie & TV series...

http://www.animated-divots.com/


http://animation-movies-list.blogspot.com/

Ivan Zacharias makes an Awesome Hindi short Film: Mulit

same guy who directed stunt city


makes a super duper funny short abt two dueling barbers in bombay.. i am sooo glad indian directors have no talent :D

iGOTtoWATCH: Jonathan Nix’s THE MISSING KEY

CARGO swiss scyFi

i got to watch this.. looks good

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS

i love all things terry Gilliam... and this looks like an opus

Steampunk Animated film WAR OF THE WORLDS: GOLIATH

trailer link: http://www.wotw-goliath.com/video_trailer.html

 ooo me gad!! sweet steam-punk goodness.. part of my childhood dreams are finally real :)

Trailer For EVIL IN THE TIME OF HEROES (TO KAKO II)!

looks fun ...  :)

Tools: 30 sec warm up Drawing Tool


                                  



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Awesomeness: Robo Gesha

this is the bomb!! i laughed so hard...*sniff

Glen Keane Ties Down A Drawing

rough rough rough and ...aaahhhhh

Gold: Don Bluth... is awesomeness!!

WannaWatchAnime: Assault Girls

WannaWatchAnime: Goemon

It looks like Kaz Kiriya, the director of the very CGI heavy Japanese movie, Casshern, is coming out with his newest flick


via loyalkng

WannaWatchAnime: YatterMan

maverick director Takashi Miike's latest installment.... looks like jap madness.. and i like it



via Twitch

WannaWatchAnime: Barton

Baton employs a mix of traditional and rotoscoped animation. And it is, of course, a scifi-action story


trailer one


trailer 2

via twitch

WannaWatchAnime: new starblazers trailer

space battles! Explosions!oooo the sweeeeet geekness


the original English intro to the series
what kinda i say... awesomeness

Richard Purdum - Tate Gallery Liverpool , Modern Art

Richard Purdum - Tate Gallery Liverpool , Modern Art

 Amazing animated commercial for the Tate Gallery Liverpool, by Richard Purdum. (from 1988)

Nugget: Two minute itch



best short ever!!!!!

Terp (animation Short)

This is a short that is made by second years animation students from the HKU in The Netherlands.
We made it with four people, Sander Kamermans, Nanda van Dijk, Percy Tienhooven and Jasper van Nieuwenhuizen, in about 8 mounths in MAYA

via 11secClub

Saturday morning Watchmen



the nonsense....

She without arm, he without leg - ballet

what do you really need to dance ? its just amazing to watch him.. the way he keeps balance and walks so gracefully

learn something everyday

Link:  http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk/

Dara was the first man on the moon!!! 

 yes he was yes he was.. anyways head over here to take a look and other pics and a full write up on that amazing event

Link: http://teleport-city.com/wordpress/?p=4890

i also found a super amusing vid on you tube:) haha.... what does this have to do with animation.. well groundbreaking VFX i say.. this created India ScyFi!!! Love Story 2050 would not have happened if this did not first set the stage up... love the cheeze

Tool: ZV Parent Master ..Constraint Salvation

Check out this maya plugin - ZV Parent Master. It makes constraining a breeze ! I've been using it for a while and its useful especially if you want to detach a constrained object and attach it to something else.




Video Link: http://www.paolodominici.com/vid/parent.php
DownLoad Link: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/zv-parent-master

Awesomeness: 

http://www.incredibox.fr/

beat-boxing site... so much fun!! :D... i hope one can get the compositions that we make.. will make adding some background sound to stuff so easy and so "hip"

Notes: Squash and Stretch & Anticipation...The Subtle knife

smugbuddha: one of the basics.. animators tend to go crazy with squash and stretch...a lot of the time its that little bit extra that we like to add, to feel like we are doing some thing cartoony.
but used right, subtle, it moves away from being cartoony and adds to acting and emotion.. even on the simple shapes.

Elliot Roberts: " Even if those accents are small, the contrast will make a huge difference in how your scene feels, and will take your animation to a new level of appeal. "

Notes: Why Animate from the root?



Elliot Roberts " The hips, or root of a character can have so much influence over the appealing and believable motions of a character. Like the rubber pencil trick, the hips can influence the rest of the body so much that it can even appear to give flexibility to parts of the body that aren't necessarily animated."

Gold: 1981 Disney Animation Special! - The Illusion of Life

 

got to check this out, has some great moments in there must see 

also check out the other parts:

 
 bobby "boom" beck actually sent this like out on the AM forums he recommended 6:00 onward

 

last part much joy...

To see the the point of the pic click here its my 11 sec competition stuff that i manged to get done before my Animation Mentor started!! it was an awesome rush to be competing, commenting, voting.. losing hehe.. but so worth it.. i know i did improve and got relatively better... i know i can do more...i will revisit this competition again and again.. to see how much better i have gotten
This post is just to catch up with all the time since the last one!! much time has passes and now i am in the thick on week8 at AM.. and as i go tho AM the stuff that i have to bookmark, keep track off and look at is getting too much!!! AM is a massive site and you can spend days in there forums digging around, meeting people, watching vids, getting nuggets of anim gold... so i have decided that i am gonna be using this blog to keep track of all that stuff... my resources need to go online and be availabe to me and anyone else who comes across this blog!! so keep coming back ... cause there is gonna be lot up soon :)

yeah!!! so my entry came in 94!! am still pretty happy did not expect to win or even finish... but i did kinda finish... i wish i could have done some more polishing on it!! :( but i am still pretty syked... this is the fist finished** thing i have pumped out of maya after a break of over 5 years... there was a hell of a lot of head scratching.. blank staring at monitor.. calling up someone who knows maya!! screaming help!!! i struggled with really simple stuff how.. to put an image behind.. how to change the back ground colour.. blah blah.... so all things considered i am still happy.. i have gotten more used to maya and am starting to feel a bit comfy :)
am also pretty happy i got some decent comments.. thank you all who commented and voted!! ok to more details.. took abt 2 weeks after office hrs, on and off, working on this.. did a bit of re-rigging of moom to get all that had changing stuff to work fine.. and then it was just a blast to go all out and crazy animating mad poses.... fun stuff like explosions..and other insanity... really felt alive while doing that :)

11Sec Club Blocking April Competition from Michael Nair on Vimeo.

I am half way into blocking the 11Sec Club April competition.. and i am having a lot of fun!!  most day i cant wait to get back home and work with this guy! me likes insane characters...hehe  ..still got to break up the timing in parts.. hummm... back to work..

That Guy!!!!!!... this month's 11 second club is a fun one.. and i hope to get this guy, who volunteered! To enter into the rank and file.. this soldier begging to see some action.. bring it on he said..

Rig Test from Michael Nair on Vimeo.
so as part of the ramp up to AM, i just gots to get back to getting good at animating and producing good looking stuff in maya. To get started i downloaded a couple of rigs from highend3d.com. modified them, i had to make the meca more anim friendly, so i re-rigged it to move more like a hip joint would, also made the the rig scalable so as to match up with the andy kid rig... slapped some animation on and it looks like a decent start.. have spent the last couple of days trying to get the rendered look... but so far nothing to show.. very very rusty when it comes to lighting and rendering!!
btw... the project is called startup... gonna abt a kid running amok with the meca... hehe good fun..ahead

purpose finally!!!!!! have been aimlessly getting too comfortable at my current job, time to kick start a new phase.. and part of that is to join animation mentor!! was really happy when i got accepted!! Time to get my ninja suit on... :)