Gaston the TV series
Posted on January 13, 2010
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Gaston
Gaston, my all time favourite comic by Franquin is finally airing on french TV. I wasn’t too excited when I heard they would be using After Effect rigs to give life to the useless intern but Normaal did a really nice job I must admit.
http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/anime/serie/
I would also like to mention an other one of my favourite comics, Leonard. That one has been given the 3d treatment by Ellipsanime and is looking very cool!
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Gaston Lagaffe by Franquin
“There is no such thing as a Gruffalo”
Posted on December 20, 2009
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Gruffalo
Some of the best European Animation Mentor graduates worked on that great looking Christmas short film done for the BBC by Studio Soi in Germany. The Gruffalo is a very charming child story books created by Julia Donaldson.
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“Lost and found” Amandine Pecharman
Posted on December 3, 2009
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Amandine Pecharman
Amandine Pecharman, production designer on Studio AKA “lost and found” posted some really cool concept designs on her blog. Check it out it is really really nice. I must admit that the style is very similar to her classmate Sylvain Marc but I can’t get enough of it.
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Double Duck, Topolino
Posted on November 20, 2009
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Double Duck
During my summer in Angouleme, I met a lot of very cool people and one of them was an italian artist that kept talking about his time at Disney which I found really intriguing as Disney doesn’t have an animation studio in Italy but the Disney he was referring to was … a very different one.
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“Paperwalker” Florian Satzinger
Posted on November 20, 2009
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Paperwalker
Thanks to Jean Denis Haas at Spungella, I rediscovered the work of incredible Austrian character designer Florian Satzinger. I got acquainted with his work through an interview on Character design blogspot few years ago.
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“Creature box” blog
Posted on November 5, 2009
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I just found that great blog from some Insomniac concept artist. Too bad most of their sketchbooks are sold out.
I would love to model some of their characters one day.
[edit] well I just started ;-) Proportion are off, it is a very rough pass.
Fongoid
“Despicable” new trailer
Posted on November 5, 2009
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Despicable me
I am frustrated by the lack of cartoony games those days but in contrast it is such a treat to see so many cartoony movies coming out.
Here is the new “Despicable me” trailer.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/despicableme/
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Mark Kennedy on Character design
Posted on October 31, 2009
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Disney Aracuan
Mark Kennedy from the “Temple of the Seven Golden Camels” wrote a nice post about Character design some time ago. This will inaugurate the creation of a new Character Design category on my blog. Character design is something I would like to focus on one day but this is not my priority right now. In the meantime I will collect articles that could prove useful.
Confessions of a Lazy Character Designer
His post made me realise that there are potentially two approaches to character design:
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AKA Marc Craste Pictoplasma talk
Posted on October 27, 2009
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Thanks Keith for the heads up, with Philip Hunt, Marc Craste is also one of my favourite directors. I guess that video was shot during Berlin’s Pictoplasma exhibition earlier this year.
Modern Martin has a blog!
Posted on October 6, 2009
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Modern Martin
hehe, Modern Martin now has a blog so you can see some of the preparation work that went into the making of that great short film
“Modern Martin” is very Modern!
Bobby Chiu Video interview
Posted on September 6, 2009
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Bobby Chiu
CG talk just released a short video interview with Bobby Chiu during ComicCon2009. Check it out.
“Walt Stanchfield”, Don Hahn Webinar
Posted on July 22, 2009
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Animation Mentor just posted a great conversation between Disney producer Don Hahn and Bobby Beck about the life of Disney’s life drawing teacher Walt Stanchfield. Walt Stanchfield was a keen tennis player but more than anything an immense inspiration for everyone at Disney. His family also released his famous notes if you didn’t get the previous pdfs
http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240810961
Check it out
Drawn to life
“Monstre à Paris” short clip
Posted on July 5, 2009
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Un Monstre a Paris
Curious about “Monstre à Paris”? Max Vallon, one of the animators just posted a short video clip from the teaser that was shown in Annecy last year. The animation is 3d and the backgrounds are matte painted/camera mapped. For having seen the whole sequence, I can tell you that the rest is even better.
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Un monstre a Paris
Gaston Lagaffe by Franquin
Posted on May 23, 2009
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Gaston Lagaffe
Listening to the Ken Duncan’s interview on the Animation Podcast I remembered those great comic strips from Begian author Franquin. I still can’t believe Gaston Lagaffe is more than 50 years old! No wonder Gaston’s car was a 1925 Fiat 509. [...] Read more
Harald Siepermann interview
Posted on May 23, 2009
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Here is a very interesting interview of german character designer Harald Siepermann. Harald was animator then character designer on Roger Rabbit, Mulan, Tarzan, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Space Chimps and plenty of other great features. [...] Read more
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