Mass Animation?

While stumbling around on the internet, I found a press release from Intel about a “Mass Animation” project being sponsored by Face Book, Reel FX, and Aniboom.  The concept seems interesting enough.  Animators will be able to use Maya to animate shots for a short.  The director Yair Landau will (I’m assuming) select the best [...]

Carl Fredricksen

Carl is a character in the upcoming Pixar film “Up”. It appears that someone at Pixar saw my short and copied my character Harold for their movie! Right down to the bowtie!! Where’s my lawyer?

Making CG look like stop motion

I’ve been asked to create a CG character and make it look like stop motion. It is quite a unique challenge. Something I’ve never done before, but very interested to successfully pull off!
Pepper Films asked me to come up with a story, supervise the modeling, do the rigging, and finally perform the layout [...]

Spammers Taking Over

Boy, if you don’t keep on top of things, these spammers will ruin your virtual life.  It seems that one or more were able to hack into my blog and upload html pages advertising their crap.  I didn’t even notice what was going on until I did a Google search on my own site.
I’ve since [...]

Interview with Brad Bird

On Mark Mayerson’s great blog, he points us towards an interview of Brad Bird (use the username of “pjs@mailinator.net” and password of “142″).  Now, this isn’t your standard interview about animation, but it contains a ton of juicy information.  Especially for those of us interested in more of how various people/companies approach management and how [...]



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